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Dole office no privacy

  • 01-06-2013 05:19PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 11


    Why is there no privacy in the dole office ?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭Spunge


    who cares, free money woooooooooooooo


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭Hownowcow


    Because it's a public office.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,139 ✭✭✭Red Crow


    Get a job then

    *Hides*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,401 ✭✭✭Royal Irish


    It should be food stamps those scroungers get.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    futtyman wrote: »
    Why is there no privacy in the dole office ?

    There is.

    If you're called in for a meeting you go into an office for it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,971 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    Get a job then

    *Hides*

    If only the social welfare office did more than helping the unemployed. Oh wait


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 904 ✭✭✭Drakares


    futtyman wrote: »
    Why is there no privacy in the dole office ?

    If you don't like it, no one is forcing you to claim it.


  • Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,318 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Plenty of privacy, sure everyone there is out of a job. Not like you have to whisper.

    You're not wearing your jammies, are you? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭Surveyor11


    Was always asked to identify my self by my PPS no, great privacy (never mind the dehumanising part)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    And Paddy O'Gorman hanging around wanting your story

    Trying Nenagh dole office OP. It's so small people queue in the lane outside while 600 students from the CBS walk past at lunchtime :(

    The offices in Dublin and Galway I've seen you can queue inside


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Think consciously or unconsciously that may be the idea of it to make most people hate the idea of being there and encourage them to find work. Unfortunatly does not seem to work for the career unemployed.

    I was going there once a month at one point for up to a year. Hated every moment of it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 133 ✭✭Marzipan85


    Was in Nutgrove dole office and heard a guy saying he's now resident in John of God's. Is that fair? That I know he's a psychiatric patient? I don't think so. There needs to be more privacy. All this crap about data protection, and yet people are forced to explain sensitive information about themselves within earshot of 10 or 20 randomers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Drakares wrote: »
    If you don't like it, no one is forcing you to claim it.

    Others funny, you shaddup.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 731 ✭✭✭inmyday


    This evening has to be the weirdest in ages on After Hours.

    Some of the threads are more funny/insane/crazy/fudged up than watching bananas in pyjamas while on a cocktail of drugs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭Miseryguts


    Them offices are basically set up that way to humiliate and make it as uncomfortable as possible.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    So your worried that all the other people with no job are going to find out that you have no job too?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,284 ✭✭✭StewartGriffin


    irish-stew wrote: »
    Think consciously or unconsciously that may be the idea of it to make most people hate the idea of being there and encourage them to find work..

    This would imply that an iota of logical thought went into the setting up of such a system. I very much doubt it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,007 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    This would imply that an iota of logical thought went into the setting up of such a system. I very much doubt it.

    It has, they spend all their time trying to make it as horrible as possible an experience in the hope people won't turn up.


  • Posts: 3,539 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Marzipan85 wrote: »
    All this crap about data protection, and yet people are forced to explain sensitive information about themselves within earshot of 10 or 20 randomers.

    Data protection is about protecting your important official identifying information and other details, not about protecting your ability to keep details you find admitting uncomfortable from people. In addition data protection applies to data held on things like paper, computers, pictures. Not people's ears and memories.

    Your address should be data protected, but because it can identify you, not because you might find it embarrassing.

    There are plenty of things that people know about me that I wish they didn't. I don't like having my banking details on the internet (granted, bank websites are secure, but I don't feel comfortable with it), or that people in my community know about my past, or having to give my details in order to apply for/register for certain things, or having to bring my passport to the pub sometimes, or having to identify myself and my doctor when I'm in the waiting room of my health centre, but that's life. My college has a particular day/time of the week when STD tests are run - did I like having to go in at that time, and sitting in a waiting room where people knew I was probably having an STD test? Of course not, but what am I going to do, sneak in the back entrance?

    Unless you're a hermit, there's only a limited amount of privacy you can realistically expect.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 133 ✭✭Marzipan85


    Data protection is about protecting your important official identifying information and other details, not about protecting your ability to keep details you find admitting uncomfortable from people. In addition data protection applies to data held on things like paper, computers, pictures. Not people's ears and memories.

    Your address should be data protected, but because it can identify you, not because you might find it embarrassing.

    Fair enough. It's just ironic I suppose.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,284 ✭✭✭StewartGriffin


    thebman wrote: »
    It has, they spend all their time trying to make it as horrible as possible an experience in the hope people won't turn up.

    And they applied the same logic to the health service (and every other service if you think about it).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,494 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    What kind of privacy are looking for? =/

    SW offices are just as 'private' as motor tax, or post offices. Unless they're filling in forms for you then there should be no reason to divulge any personal info... let alone worry about people overhearing you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 131 ✭✭Cd_doe


    I think people should have to sign on weekly, it would annoy the career dole folk...

    Besides its not like they won't have the time to do it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Do you mean privacy as in you don't want to be seen claiming the dole?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Never have I been in a dole office.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Ciderswigger


    biko wrote: »
    Never have I been in a dole office.

    *takes a shot*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    People on the dole should have electronic tracking and behaviour modification devices implanted in them. The device could administer a little shock every time the scrounger does something undesirable like buy a pouch of tobacco or a few cans.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,639 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    biko wrote: »
    Never have I been in a dole office.

    I've been a couple of times. Sure it was grand, no shame in it.

    Nowhere to wee though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭yore


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Trying Nenagh dole office OP. It's so small people queue in the lane outside while 600 students from the CBS walk past at lunchtime :(

    The offices in Dublin and Galway I've seen you can queue inside

    Aw jaysus. ya poor creatur. I'd have a few alternative suggestions for you

    1) Tell them to build you a nice climate-controlled and private waiting area
    2) Force the school to keep their kids inside at lunchtime
    or
    3) Get up ta fuck out of your leaba a bit earlier. Unless you're otherwise too busy with your daily schedule

    :P
    Marzipan85 wrote: »
    Was in Nutgrove dole office and heard a guy saying he's now resident in John of God's. Is that fair? That I know he's a psychiatric patient? I don't think so. There needs to be more privacy. All this crap about data protection, and yet people are forced to explain sensitive information about themselves within earshot of 10 or 20 randomers.

    Ah well, look at it this way. At least you were decent enough to keep it to yourself and not tell anyone else about it. Oh, wait....... oh oh, now the interweb knows!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11 futtyman


    biko wrote: »
    Never have I been in a dole office.

    Good for you bro


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