Interesting job ad ...

Mrs OBumble

From the FAS website today:


Source: Employer / Job created on :- 20100914 / Job Updated on :- 20100914 Chauffeur - B Licence

Job Reference: JB567519 Description:
You will be required to drive to various location throughout the country 3 night per week. Previous similar driving experience is essential. Applicants must be fluent in English and hold a full clean driving licence. You must be honest, trustworthy and used to dealing with cash. 1 overnight per week.

Contract type: Permanent / Part Time Days per week: 3 Hours per week: 24 Daily Hours: 8 Start date: To be advised Requirements Experience Required: Fully Experienced. Transport :Transport is required for this position Salary: 10 ph Euro Other Benefits: Expenses paid. Open interviews this Sunday Western Hotel , Prospect Hill, Galway City. 3pm -9pm




What do you think it is - drug courier???

GerardKeating

JustMary wrote: »

From the FAS website today:


Source: Employer / Job created on :- 20100914 / Job Updated on :- 20100914 Chauffeur - B Licence

Job Reference: JB567519 Description:
You will be required to drive to various location throughout the country 3 night per week. Previous similar driving experience is essential. Applicants must be fluent in English and hold a full clean driving licence. You must be honest, trustworthy and used to dealing with cash. 1 overnight per week.

Contract type: Permanent / Part Time Days per week: 3 Hours per week: 24 Daily Hours: 8 Start date: To be advised Requirements Experience Required: Fully Experienced. Transport :Transport is required for this position Salary: 10 ph Euro Other Benefits: Expenses paid. Open interviews this Sunday Western Hotel , Prospect Hill, Galway City. 3pm -9pm




What do you think it is - drug courier???

Do you not remember the movie Mona Lisa ?

Xiney

Chauffeur, huh? Are there any big shots left?

Clemon

Drug Courier.. HAHAHAHAH

LadyMayBelle

Reckon we nominate a boardsie to go for this and go under cover..

It's sounds dodge to me

the keen edge

Only €10 per hour for Drug Trafficking? You need to talk to your union rep about that, the going rate is €18.60 per hour, plus time and a half on Sunday's.

biko

Have Jason Statham already applied?
If so I'm ****ed.

apoeiguq3094y

JustMary wrote: »

From the FAS website today:


Source: Employer / Job created on :- 20100914 / Job Updated on :- 20100914 Chauffeur - B Licence

Job Reference: JB567519 Description:
You will be required to drive to various location throughout the country 3 night per week. Previous similar driving experience is essential. Applicants must be fluent in English and hold a full clean driving licence. You must be honest, trustworthy and used to dealing with cash. 1 overnight per week.

Contract type: Permanent / Part Time Days per week: 3 Hours per week: 24 Daily Hours: 8 Start date: To be advised Requirements Experience Required: Fully Experienced. Transport :Transport is required for this position Salary: 10 ph Euro Other Benefits: Expenses paid. Open interviews this Sunday Western Hotel , Prospect Hill, Galway City. 3pm -9pm




What do you think it is - drug courier???

Used to dealing with cash???????? definitely something suspicious

biko wrote: »

Have Jason Statham already applied?
If so I'm ****ed.

Rule #1 : The deal is the deal.
Rule #2 : No names.
Rule #3 : Never open the package.

UrbanSea

That job sounds class :pac:

Das Kitty

This seems familiar. I think I remember hearing something about sa guy going for a chauffeur job trial. It was for someone who was making personal appearances around the country. Iirc the guy was a nightmare. It's the "one overnight per week" thing that reminded me.

I wish I could remember where I heard / Read it!

Xiney

oh maybe it's for that hypnotist guy who's always advertising in the papers.

tribesman78

A mate of mine used to chauffeur for Eamon Cunnis(don't know the spelling but if your from Galway you know him) Used to drive him around 3 nights a week while he was giving dance lessons all over the country. The odd overnight stay too. He also frequents the western bar fairly often. Don't think I could handle the job myself:rolleyes:

geekychick

Eamon's dance lessons are gas!

LadyMayBelle

tribesman78 wrote: »

A mate of mine used to chauffeur for Eamon Cunnis(don't know the spelling but if your from Galway you know him) Used to drive him around 3 nights a week while he was giving dance lessons all over the country. The odd overnight stay too. He also frequents the western bar fairly often. Don't think I could handle the job myself:rolleyes:

That's the chap who was on Eddie Hobbs' show a few years back, broke. Think Eddie suggested cutting back on the being chauffered.

Still think someone ought to apply and head to the Western!!

Mrs OBumble

I would have applied if I had a car.

Just to find out what the story was if for no other reason.

Ruby_Woo

tribesman78 wrote: »

A mate of mine used to chauffeur for Eamon Cunnis(don't know the spelling but if your from Galway you know him) Used to drive him around 3 nights a week while he was giving dance lessons all over the country. The odd overnight stay too. He also frequents the western bar fairly often. Don't think I could handle the job myself:rolleyes:

Spot on!

I know someone who went to the "interviews" today - Eamon wasn't even at the appointed hotel today - but yeah, that's exactly what the advertised job is!

Miose

There is an ad that appears regularly in the advertiser looking for a PA, but more of a frienship, to suit a college student and pays reallt well. Its caught my eye because it appears so often! Wonder what the "catch" is?

JohnCleary

Miose wrote: »

There is an ad that appears regularly in the advertiser looking for a PA, but more of a frienship, to suit a college student and pays reallt well. Its caught my eye because it appears so often! Wonder what the "catch" is?

Handjobs?

Mrs OBumble

Miose wrote: »

There is an ad that appears regularly in the advertiser looking for a PA, but more of a frienship, to suit a college student and pays reallt well. Its caught my eye because it appears so often! Wonder what the "catch" is?

I think that one's legit: a person with some fairly major disabilities, who effectively needs a fair bit of physical assistance so it's quite full-on and in-your-face. Also the rate that's quoted is for Sundays, halve it for other days of the week.

(No, I haven't applied, I'm too old to realistically be hanging out with a young college student.)

moonflower

Miose wrote: »

There is an ad that appears regularly in the advertiser looking for a PA, but more of a frienship, to suit a college student and pays reallt well. Its caught my eye because it appears so often! Wonder what the "catch" is?

I don't know what the job is, but someone I know rang the person and was told it was only available to a girl. There's definitely something weird about it, it's been in the paper for a good 2 years now.

Xiney

moonflower wrote: »

I don't know what the job is, but someone I know rang the person and was told it was only available to a girl. There's definitely something weird about it, it's been in the paper for a good 2 years now.

Yeah, it's definitely been in there since Sept 2008 at least.

I got desperate sometime around Feb 2009 and sent a text to the number, they asked how old I was (at the time I was 23) and I never got a reply.

So it seems they want a VERY young girl for some kind of "friendship" masked as a job.



ehhhhhh...

inisboffin

Xiney, don't think you'd qualify as past it at 23:p:p:p

I'm guessing the college student themselves maybe is female, and they either need someone over 30 or very close to her(?) age.

Trying to see the non creepy possibilities here folks:D

Xiney

I don't think I'm past it! I think THEY thought I was past it. They're looking for a college student, they don't say anything about the person you'd be working with being a college student.

It is POSSIBLE they're trying to pass it off as a female friend instead of a helper to the disabled individual, but I find it difficult to come to any non creepy conclusions considering who they seem to want to fill the position.

LadyMayBelle

I used to work in the disability sector, and can guarantee that job has been in the paper since 2006, as that was when I started looking around for work after coming back from OZ. My cousin text the person about it last year, and got the same question another poster here said, asked what age they were.

*OT I know, but in case anyone here is considering applying, I say don't not just because it is weird, but because you have no cover/insurance etc for lone working/manual handling. Just a warning.

Havermeyer

apoeiguq3094y wrote: »

Used to dealing with cash???????? definitely something suspicious

Probably be a typo.

I reckon they meant hash.

Bazzo

Haha yeah that friend/helper for the disabled person, where college students are perfect has been around a while. I applied for it a couple years ago when I was desperate and got no reply at all, I may have mentioned that I was male somewhere in there. =P

Head The Wall

Could be a social experiment/research to see what sort or how many people respond. All ye people and your dirty minds, tut tut

Ruby_Woo

I may as well add, that that advert got the curiosity of me too going back about 2 years ago - I sent a text with my details, and the same as the rest of you, got a reply back looking for my age, I responded, and not a peep after!

I'm not that flippin' old! Sorta!

Something very dodge about that ad alright! Strange, vaaay strange...!

ollieo

I know the person involved in the PA ad, and it is legitimate. I know this because he is my friends brother, when I applied for the job my friend told me that she knew I had applied for it.

I don't know why it is advertised so often it reappears quite often but it is legit I see the person in question in town a good bit with different pa's.

Mrs OBumble

LadyMayBelle wrote: »

... because you have no cover/insurance etc for lone working/manual handling. Just a warning.

Surely as it's an employee situation, THEY have to pay your stamps, and provide any applicable insurance?

Or is this a nasty little catch that applies to homecare workers, no matter who they're through?

Mrs OBumble

inisboffin wrote: »

Xiney, don't think you'd qualify as past it at 23:p:p:p

I'm guessing the college student themselves maybe is female, and they either need someone over 30 or very close to her(?) age.

Trying to see the non creepy possibilities here folks:D

I'm pretty sure I've seen the person concerned: male who uses a wheelchair, maybe mid 20s, always accompanied by a very young (late teens) woman girl. Seen very frequently around the Eyre Square area - though now I think of it, I haven't seen the lad (or the ad) for some months now.

Not necessarily creepy: he may just prefer female company. I believe that gender discrimination is legal for work performed in domestic situations, don't know about age though.

LadyMayBelle

I'm curious to know who it actually is. I have worked as a PA for pretty much all of the disability service providers in Galway over the past few years, and even the folks themselves using PA's had no idea who this person was, and often PA's would get more hours based on recommednations so it was common a lot of wheelchair users/walking aide users got to know each other.

AFAIK, it was a cash in hand job, no?? Even still, who is gonna pay the fees for manual handling/first aid/ basic medication skills etc courses, especially when the tunrover is high?

Xiney

I don't know if the job is creepy but it's coming across as such:

- no experience is preferred (I don't know if the ads still state this but they used to)
- they want a girl, and 23 is too old.
- they can't seem to fill the position or keep it filled (generally not a sign of good/normal working conditions)


It just sounds like they're looking for someone vulnerable, to me.

LadyMayBelle

Pulled this off the Advertiser archive, you get the gist:

PART TIME job (hours 6pm-9pm), 3-4 evenings per week. Suitable for young fun person, particularly college students, personal assistant for disabled person. Having no experience whatsoever is preferred! Duties: light housework & social outings. This job is more of a friendship (no personal care required). Applicants must reside in city. Exceptional pay! Closing date: 27/08/08 (text only please!!!) your name, age, and location to 085 ......

Xiney

ah, now they're specifying to send in your age. They never used to - which I guess is why I got the first text back (until they found out how ancient I was :P)

biko

Xiney wrote: »

I don't know if the job is creepy but it's coming across as such:

- no experience is preferred (I don't know if the ads still state this but they used to)
- they want a girl, and 23 is too old.
- they can't seem to fill the position or keep it filled (generally not a sign of good/normal working conditions)


It just sounds like they're looking for someone vulnerable, to me.

We don't know that. Perhaps they just need a support person for a 17 year old disabled girl? Some sort of au pair?

Anyway, discussing and commenting on ads for jobs we know nothing about may actually cause problem for the people placing the ads.
I'm not comfortable with that so lock.

Xiney

like I said, it's not about what the job actually IS, it comes across as creepy regardless.

and actually, why isn't discussing an ad that's been in the paper for nigh on four years not on, exactly? It's a local paper...

biko

Time span isn't an issue here. It's the naming ads and pointing the finger saying "creepy" about what may well be perfectly fine.
I'm the one who has to mop up when/if offended parties approach boards because posters have pointed them out somehow.