Where are the locals?

Kent Brockman

Was in a big toy store today.

The guy working behind the games counter was Scottish, the girl on the till was eastern European, and the security guard was african.

All the Irish must be too busy:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

The_Minister

Maybe they got those jobs before the recession, and have kept them?

Or they were the best candidates?

Pittens

IBTTOJ.

Coriolanus

Kent Brockman wrote: »

Was in a big toy store today.

The guy working behind the games counter was Scottish, the girl on the till was eastern European, and the security guard was african.

All the Irish must be too busy:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

They thought menial work was beneath them during the boom, so all the crap jobs are done by foreigners.

caseyann

The_Minister wrote: »

Maybe they got those jobs before the recession, and have kept them?

Or their day off or lunch break or in the stores.

caseyann

Nevore wrote: »

They thought menial work was beneath them during the boom, so all the crap jobs are done by foreigners.

Did you think that also

Coriolanus

caseyann wrote: »

Did you think that also

Nope, I do a pretty menial job at least some of the time.

Barr

The Irish wouldn't have touched those jobs during the boom - how things have changed.

Mr Benevolent

Kent Brockman wrote: »

Was in a big toy store today.

The guy working behind the games counter was Scottish, the girl on the till was eastern European, and the security guard was african.

All the Irish must be too busy:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Translation: Dey tuk ar jawbs!

Pittens

Confab wrote: »

Translation: Dey tuk ar jawbs!

told ya.

fonecrusher1

They took our......?????

caseyann

Barr wrote: »

The Irish wouldn't have touched those jobs during the boom - how things have changed.

Ofc they would this stuff is really starting to bug me :mad:

Pauleta

I cant believe it. These people coming in here and tukin our jerbs

tolosenc

I have seen the future: This thread ends well.

Sharpshooter

Kent Brockman wrote: »

Was in a big toy store today.

The guy working behind the games counter was Scottish, the girl on the till was eastern European, and the security guard was african.

All the Irish must be too busy:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

I suppose it makes a change from, The Irishman, The Englishman and The Scotsman.

starbelgrade

I have only one question about this - where the f*ck has the OP been for the last 5-10 years?

fonecrusher1

Oh no more rascist ranting.

caseyann

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Oh no more rascist ranting.

No i think its a Irish hate thread tbh

johnmcdnl

Barr wrote: »

The Irish wouldn't have touched those jobs during the boom - how things have changed.

you say this - perhaps it's true.. but someone in college to become an engineer isn't going to decide to work in a toy store when they leave college if they have a job lined up in an engineers office... same goes for every profession affected by the recession...

this talk of jobs being below us is pure and utter sh*te... people didn't do these jobs because they had better paying jobs - but these better paying jobs are now gone so we should be focusing on trying to get Irish people employed again rather than allowing people who can't get jobs in their own countries and come here knowing we have to give them a job or be labelled racist...

I'm sure there's plenty of Irish people who would have taken a job like this a few years ago if they didn't have any other job... but if your qualified to be a "XXXX" and you have a job in "XXXX" then obviously your not going to go to work in a toy store..

times have changed now so people with qualifications are now looking at these jobs because there are no jobs in their own sectors...

it's not some kind of snobbery that we had in the past.. but we had other jobs available to us in the sectors we studied for...

simple as that

PS - when i was growing up pre celtic tiger as a young buck all the jobs in every shop where I live were taken by Irish people.. It's since the enlarging of the EU that the shift has occured and employers just seem to employ the foreigners over Irish people in my experience anyways

caseyann

johnmcdnl wrote: »

you say this - perhaps it's true.. but someone in college to become an engineer isn't going to decide to work in a toy store when they leave college if they have a job lined up in an engineers office... same goes for every profession affected by the recession...

this talk of jobs being below us is pure and utter sh*te... people didn't do these jobs because they had better paying jobs - but these better paying jobs are now gone so we should be focusing on trying to get Irish people employed again rather than allowing people who can't get jobs in their own countries and come here knowing we have to give them a job or be labelled racist...

I'm sure there's plenty of Irish people who would have taken a job like this a few years ago if they didn't have any other job... but if your qualified to be a "XXXX" and you have a job in "XXXX" then obviously your not going to go to work in a toy store..

times have changed now so people with qualifications are now looking at these jobs because there are no jobs in their own sectors...

it's not some kind of snobbery that we had in the past.. but we had other jobs available to us in the sectors we studied for...

simple as that

PS - when i was growing up pre celtic tiger as a young buck all the jobs in every shop where I live were taken by Irish people.. It's since the enlarging of the EU that the shift has occured and employers just seem to employ the foreigners over Irish people in my experience anyways

i bashed my head off these comments already,and no matter how much sense you make,i am afraid it will fly over heads.

pa990

Pittens wrote: »

IBTTOJ.

www.ibtta.org/

ElaElaElano

johnmcdnl wrote: »

this talk of jobs being below us is pure and utter sh*te... people didn't do these jobs because they had better paying jobs - but these better paying jobs are now gone so we should be focusing on trying to get Irish people employed again rather than allowing people who can't get jobs in their own countries and come here knowing we have to give them a job or be labelled racist...

I'm sure there's plenty of Irish people who would have taken a job like this a few years ago if they didn't have any other job... but if your qualified to be a "XXXX" and you have a job in "XXXX" then obviously your not going to go to work in a toy store..

times have changed now so people with qualifications are now looking at these jobs because there are no jobs in their own sectors...

it's not some kind of snobbery that we had in the past.. but we had other jobs available to us in the sectors we studied for...

That's fine, but there were plenty of people who chose not to work at all- either riding along on their parents' celtic tiger gravy train or claiming the social during that time, who didn't have the luxury of being picky about their line of work, they just didn't want to do it. And so the 'foreigners' filled those gaps and worked exceptionally hard, sometimes doing two or three jobs to help their families abroad.

Sharpshooter

Kent Brockman wrote: »

Was in a big toy store today.

The guy working behind the games counter was Scottish, the girl on the till was eastern European, and the security guard was african.

All the Irish must be too busy:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

OP, you started this thread twenty minutes ago and we have heard nothing from you since then.

Please reply in the next ten minutes or I will close your thread.

sligopark

Is it a crime to say we are full up and only allow those skills required to be considered worthy of immigration?

Is the aussie government racist?

Why should the taxpayer continue to pay the dole etc and allow those in that take jobs from those in need of such and force us to compensate?

realism should not be described as racism by do gooders with less intellect and roused by bull sh1tter liberals and politicians with an agenda of citizen enslavement and national factory establishment to try and out do the chinese on lower wage establishment

the smart economy needs to start now with some intelligence and forward national and societal planning

Donkey Oaty

sligopark wrote: »

Is it a crime to say we are full up and only allow those skills required to be considered worthy of immigration?

Is the aussie government racist?

Why should the taxpayer continue to pay the dole etc and allow those in that take jobs from those in need of such and force us to compensate?

realism should not be described as racism by do gooders with less intellect and roused by bull sh1tter liberals and politicians with an agenda of citizen enslavement and national factory establishment to try and out do the chinese on lower wage establishment

the smart economy needs to start now with some intelligence and forward national and societal planning

I doubt that you'd fit in well in a toy shop.

OPENROAD

johnmcdnl wrote: »

you say this - perhaps it's true.. but someone in college to become an engineer isn't going to decide to work in a toy store when they leave college if they have a job lined up in an engineers office... same goes for every profession affected by the recession...

this talk of jobs being below us is pure and utter sh*te... people didn't do these jobs because they had better paying jobs - but these better paying jobs are now gone so we should be focusing on trying to get Irish people employed again rather than allowing people who can't get jobs in their own countries and come here knowing we have to give them a job or be labelled racist...

I'm sure there's plenty of Irish people who would have taken a job like this a few years ago if they didn't have any other job... but if your qualified to be a "XXXX" and you have a job in "XXXX" then obviously your not going to go to work in a toy store..

times have changed now so people with qualifications are now looking at these jobs because there are no jobs in their own sectors...

it's not some kind of snobbery that we had in the past.. but we had other jobs available to us in the sectors we studied for...

simple as that

PS - when i was growing up pre celtic tiger as a young buck all the jobs in every shop where I live were taken by Irish people.. It's since the enlarging of the EU that the shift has occured and employers just seem to employ the foreigners over Irish people in my experience anyways

Well even during the celtic tiger, even those with no other qualifications saw certain jobs beneath them, all very well giving an example of someone with a specific qualification but believe it or not, not everyone even during the celtic tiger went on to further education and certain retail jobs were extremely hard to fill

Sharpshooter

Sharpshooter wrote: »

OP, you started this thread twenty minutes ago and we have heard nothing from you since then.

Please reply in the next ten minutes or I will close your thread.

No reply OP, now if you want your thread unlocked and you actually have something to add to it, Pm me and I will reopen it.