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300 apply for job in Donegal filling station

  • 13-08-2010 01:18PM
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭Gaz


    There is a place called Muff ? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,639 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Who wouldn't want a job filling in muff?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 710 ✭✭✭TheReverend


    TH1_138201019the_world_1185118380_001-muff-sign.jpg

    That is hilarious :P. In all seriousness how much would you make working at the filling station, unless it was over €250 a week not many people would bother from down here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,639 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    8.65 and lets say 30 hours a week = 259.50 less tax etc


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭loobylou


    Who wouldn't want a job filling in muff?

    Sounds like a great place to work, plenty of after work activities. http://www.muffdivingclub.ie/


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭D-Generate


    I call bluff on this. Remember there was another story similar enough recently about a chipper which received a massive amount of applications too, I think it was in Donegal also. It is merely a way to get in to the papers and handy free advertising.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,121 ✭✭✭RichardAnd


    D-Generate wrote: »
    I call bluff on this. Remember there was another story similar enough recently about a chipper which received a massive amount of applications too, I think it was in Donegal also. It is merely a way to get in to the papers and handy free advertising.


    I've seen it with a cinema in Gort, or somewhere in Galway anyway. 300 might be exaggerated but I wouldn't call bluff at all. Jobs are scarce and as my grandmother put it "everyone is going for everything now".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,235 ✭✭✭The_Honeybadger


    loobylou wrote: »
    Sounds like a great place to work, plenty of after work activities. http://www.muffdivingclub.ie/
    LOL :D!! But seriously 259 euro for a 30 hour week and the dole is 196, also bear in mind it could effect other entitlements like rents supplement etc. Why would anybody bother, it's crazy. It may make sense for some young fella living at home who can only claim 100 euro to take this job, or somebody who's partner is already working and is not entitled to claim though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,235 ✭✭✭The_Honeybadger


    RichardAnd wrote: »
    I've seen it with a cinema in Gort, or somewhere in Galway anyway. 300 might be exaggerated but I wouldn't call bluff at all. Jobs are scarce and as my grandmother put it "everyone is going for everything now".
    An old job of mine was advertised about 4 months ago, pretty good job but nothing special. I still have friends within the company and one of them told me that they stopped taking applications after the first two days as they were totally overwhelmed with CV's. Granted this job paid alot more than min wage but still I'd have no trouble believing 300 applied.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    The retailer i work for opened a new store at the end of last year. They received 3500 applications for 80 positions.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    The central bank got 1500 applications for 60 graduate positions.

    http://www.rte.ie/business/2010/0812/presswatch.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,227 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    Sergeant wrote: »
    The central bank got 1500 applications for 60 graduate positions.

    http://www.rte.ie/business/2010/0812/presswatch.html

    What the hell is our central bank doing with 60 graduate positions ?

    I can't wait for the CB/IFSRA fans to educate me :rolleyes:
    Of course somebody is going to tell me that they are self funded by levying the banks, etc.
    Oh wait a minute who now owns most of the banks :rolleyes:

    I am not allowed discuss …



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,639 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    jmayo wrote: »
    What the hell is our central bank doing with 60 graduate positions ?

    I can't wait for the CB/IFSRA fans to educate me :rolleyes:
    Of course somebody is going to tell me that they are self funded by levying the banks, etc.
    Oh wait a minute who now owns most of the banks :rolleyes:

    to increase staff level so that they can actually enforce rules and turnover more stones on all the shady practices ala Quinn Direct. Advertising them as graduate positions allows for much lower pay levels and since everyone will apply anyway it makes no difference to them


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    jmayo wrote: »
    What the hell is our central bank doing with 60 graduate positions ?

    I can't wait for the CB/IFSRA fans to educate me :rolleyes:
    Of course somebody is going to tell me that they are self funded by levying the banks, etc.
    Oh wait a minute who now owns most of the banks :rolleyes:


    To improve the level of regulation of our financial institutions. Closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.


    In fairness Matthew Elderfield said he needed more staff, younger, less institutionalised. And he doesn't strike me as a PS lackie.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 63 ✭✭hoyanto


    SeaFields wrote: »
    The retailer i work for opened a new store at the end of last year. They received 3500 applications for 80 positions.

    No no now, stop trying to paint a picture against the agreed narrative here on the Boards.ie Irish Economy forum. Don't you know there are thousands of jobs out there and the simple fact is that everyone here knows that the 450,000 unemployed people (more like 650,000 if you include emigrants and those not entitled to any dole etc) simply do not want to work because our luxurious social welfare system stops people from taking up work.

    I thought everyone got the memo?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,639 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    hoyanto wrote: »

    I thought everyone got the memo?

    they still have to apply for job to show "they're trying" to the dole office though ;)


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,568 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    I know that petrol station, it's called "TOP MUFF"!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,227 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    to increase staff level so that they can actually enforce rules and turnover more stones on all the shady practices ala Quinn Direct. Advertising them as graduate positions allows for much lower pay levels and since everyone will apply anyway it makes no difference to them


    Hang on are these jobs in IFSRA or CB ?

    Isn't ISFRA meant to be the regulatory arm (well at least it appears to at long last fulfill that objective regarding financial institutions since Elderfield took over) and the CB ehh does...
    Oh yeah it looks after our currency...oh wait the ECB does most of that now...ehh wait got it, it prints the notes out in Sandyford.

    Oh here we are from the Financial Regulators website :
    The Central Bank’s responsibilties include surveillance of the strengths and vulnerabilities of the overall economy and financial system.
    The Financial Regulator’s remit includes monitoring the financial soundness of individual institutions, in addition to wide-ranging consumer protection powers.

    Didn't they do a fine job. :rolleyes:

    FFS they should be sued for false advertising.

    Can anyone provide figures for how many are now employed in CB & IFSRA in comparison to the days when we had our very own currency ?

    Remember IFSRA were another qaungoe of sorts created during the Great Age of Quangoe Creation ala bertie's tenure in office.
    It was spawned out of the CB back in 2003.

    Sergeant wrote: »
    To improve the level of regulation of our financial institutions. Closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.

    In fairness Matthew Elderfield said he needed more staff, younger, less institutionalised. And he doesn't strike me as a PS lackie.

    True enough Elderfield has been a breath of fresh air God bless him.

    Also has added entertainment value of getting up the noses of gombeen gobdaws like "jack" neddy o'keefe. :rolleyes:

    I am not allowed discuss …



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,914 ✭✭✭danbohan


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    i dont think a single poster has agreed with you that benfits need to be cut , which just shows that the great disease of the tiger ie denial is alive and well .intersting times ahead me thinks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,227 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    danbohan wrote: »
    i dont think a single poster has agreed with you that benfits need to be cut , which just shows that the great disease of the tiger ie denial is alive and well .intersting times ahead me thinks

    The only time I want to hear that word "denial" used is when some guest presenter on No Frontiers is visit Egypt.

    Benefits and the minimum wage will have to be slashed.

    I am not allowed discuss …



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 39,019 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,849 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


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    If you didn't want the emphasis to be on the number of applicants for a minimum wage job then you shouldn't have named the thread '300 apply for job in Donegal filling station'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,476 ✭✭✭ardmacha


    The point of the thread, which appears to have been lost, is that the ratio of Northern to Southern applicants was 9:1, even though the filling station is in Co. Donegal.


    If you draw a 10km radius around the location of the job, about 90% of the people would be in the North.

    The welfare rates are relevant, but many people interested in this would be on the lower rate for young people.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,968 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


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    The benefits are a factor of course.
    But look at population centres.
    Muff is in Donegal but just about. Not far from Derry, hell it's almost a suburb of Derry!

    University of Ulster is nearby, this sort of job are ideal for students as late evenings and weekends are available.

    If you advertise a job and around 90% of the locals are in Derry then of course you'll have 90% of applicants from there.

    But this article went for the benefits angle instead.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,568 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


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    A much more plausible explanation is that Derry is about 2km away from Muff and has a population of about 100k. Buncrana is the nearest reasonable sized town in Donegal with a few thousand, and Letterkenny is about 20 miles away with about 15k people. So not surprising that a lot of applications came from the North.

    Moreover, there have been a number of other articles like this where most of the applicants were presumably based in ROI, I think there were about 900 applications for a few jobs in centra that formed a queue all the way down grafton street a few years ago.

    To prove your point you should show some minimum wage jobs that havent been filled in the South. That would certainly suggest that no one wants to do that work because the social welfare is too good. But just because some people feel that way doesn't mean that it is true for the whole country.

    Finally, even if 1 in 10 applicants are from the north, that still means 30 or so applicants for 1 job from the ROI. Surely that if anything shows that despite high social welfare payments
    danbohan wrote: »
    i dont think a single poster has agreed with you that benfits need to be cut , which just shows that the great disease of the tiger ie denial is alive and well .intersting times ahead me thinks

    Care to explain your logic there? No one has said that they shouldn't be cut either. Do you infer from that that Donegalfella is the only poster on the entire website who believes that social welfare should be cut, and that everyone else is living in tiger denial?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,121 ✭✭✭RichardAnd


    I think there were about 900 applications for a few jobs in centra that formed a queue all the way down grafton street a few years ago.


    It was a Londis and 99% of them were foreigners, not Irish.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,568 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    RichardAnd wrote: »
    It was a Londis and 99% of them were foreigners, not Irish.

    That's a pretty specific percentage. How many of those 99% foreigners were not eligible for social welfare?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,121 ✭✭✭RichardAnd


    That's a pretty specific percentage. How many of those 99% foreigners were not eligible for social welfare?


    Well maybe I just counted them all and came up with that figure ;)

    No you're right, the reason they were all foreign was precisely because they weren't entitled to social welfare. I was merely stating a fact.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 692 ✭✭✭gleep


    I know someone who applied for this job YESTERDAY! The guy in Top Muff(:) )told him the closing date was the 5th but to get his CV in today and he'll consider him. So....

    This is a publicity stunt, but I wouldn't doubt the figures. And I have to agree with previous posters, about 90% of the population in a 5k radius of the station live in Derry. There are no major Southern towns nearby but thousands of Derry people living not far from the station.


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  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,568 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    RichardAnd wrote: »
    Well maybe I just counted them all and came up with that figure ;)

    No you're right, the reason they were all foreign was precisely because they weren't entitled to social welfare. I was merely stating a fact.

    I don't think that is a fair assumption. It's not just Irish citizens who can get social welfare. Besides, even if there are more or even a lot more non nationals who want to work than Irish citizens who want to work, that doesn't mean that there aren't Irish citizens who do want to work.


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