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Modern Day Slavery

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    #62
    Barna77
    Registered Users Posts: 3,272 ✭✭✭Barna77


    Currently reduced to a 3 day week, I'm overloaded with work. As a result my boss has asked me a few times to stay a few extra hours to cope with the workload .... Pretty unfair and slaverish...


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    #63
    du Maurier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭du Maurier


    becost wrote: »
    That's what I'm doing now and averaging a grand a week for less than 1 hour a day. And I regularly work drunk/in my underwear/puffing away on e cigarettes/unwashed/unshaven/farting like mad/etc,etc. :D It was 10 years ago that I was in that situation.



    Your surviving not living.

    What is it you do now?


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    #64
    becost
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 328 ✭✭becost


    du Maurier wrote: »
    What is it you do now?

    Online marketing. But you have to think outside the box to make money from it. Most people that try it can't make a living from it.


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    #65
    Frank Lee Midere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭Frank Lee Midere


    becost wrote: »
    Online marketing. But you have to think outside the box to make money from it. Most people that try it can't make a living from it.

    Yeah. I've seen those adds.


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    #66
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    du Maurier wrote: »
    What is it you do now?

    IBEC Ministry of information by any chance?. - always appears to be the same politburo infiltration to workers discussions ... ;-].


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    #67
    GTDolanator
    Registered Users Posts: 772 ✭✭✭GTDolanator


    They say slavery has been abolished except for the convicted fellon


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    #68
    Frank Lee Midere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭Frank Lee Midere


    GTDolanator wrote: »
    They say slavery has been abolished except for the convicted fellon

    Yeah those lads are worked to the bone.


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    #69
    wicklowstevo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 919 ✭✭✭wicklowstevo


    in the end any thread here seems to revert to travellers are evil, I agree by the way but sometimes the journey is entertaining :-)


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    #70
    rustedtrumpet
    Registered Users Posts: 339 ✭✭rustedtrumpet


    Give it a rest Kanye West.


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    #71
    TheLastMohican
    Registered Users Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭TheLastMohican


    du Maurier wrote: »
    No, his name is Toby:)

    Is that you Daphne?


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    #72
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Ah shure it's me culture to keep slaves boss.

    No. You're just a greedy bastard.


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    #73
    du Maurier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭du Maurier


    gozunda wrote: »
    IBEC Ministry of information by any chance?. - always appears to be the same politburo infiltration to workers discussions ... ;-].

    No, was just wondering what that person did.


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    #74
    du Maurier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭du Maurier


    TheLastMohican wrote: »
    Is that you Daphne?

    Is that you, Daniel? :)


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    #75
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    du Maurier wrote: »
    No, was just wondering what that person did.


    Ok grand so....


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    #76
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    du Maurier wrote: »
    No, was just wondering what that person did.


    Ok grand so...


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    #77
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    the hellish proposed new ts&cs that Dublin bus workers are being asked to accept, outlined below, equate to modern day slavery!
    Stabshauptmann wrote: »
    What are the proposed changes the bus drivers are striking over:

    Labour Court recommendations
    • No proposal to reduce core or basic pay
    • Reductions in rest day and overtime pay on Sunday to double time from 2.5
    • Rest day rate on Monday to Saturday to be paid at a time and a quarter, down from time and a half
    • Monday to Saturday overtime to be paid at time and a quarter for the first two hours and time and a half thereafter, rather than time and a half every hour
    • Public holidays on a normal day to be paid at time and one quarter plus statutory entitlement
    • Public rest day rate and overtime to be paid at time and one quarter plus statutory entitlement
    • The court also recommended that a total of four days self-certified sick leave should be permitted in a calendar year with no more than two such days allowed in a six-month period. This is a change from the seven days a year that drivers currently have.


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    #78
    bumper234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    Lack78 wrote: »
    As the saying goes, "Working is the blackmail of survival". It's true, we are largely forced to spend 8+ hours of our day going through an arbitrary process to put food on the tablet and working with people we may not necessarily like. The work can be boring, the hours unsociable, the commutes time consuming and the stress and anxiety can be dangerous to our health.

    Employers don't care about your health unless it directly affects their bottom line, we are treated like drones and forced to sit at a desk all day and potentially micromanaged, bullied and intimidated into submission.

    I actually made a video in response to this thread:


    No one is "forcing" any of us to work 8 hours a day and yes sometimes work can be hard/boring/stressful but no one MAKES us do it. Any one of us could quit tomorrow and go on the dole but then no mortgage no holidays no beers at the weekends no cars no nice clothes. We force ourselves to work these jobs so we can have the nice things we want but the choice is there to not have them.


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    #79
    Blisterman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,452 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    bumper234 wrote: »
    No one is "forcing" any of us to work 8 hours a day and yes sometimes work can be hard/boring/stressful but no one MAKES us do it. Any one of us could quit tomorrow and go on the dole but then no mortgage no holidays no beers at the weekends no cars no nice clothes. We force ourselves to work these jobs so we can have the nice things we want but the choice is there to not have them.

    Fair point. Even the lowest paid worker in Ireland today has an infinitely easier life than the majority of people throughout history. Comparing it to slavery is ridiculous. Especially when slavery still exists in the world today.

    http://www.amnesty.org.uk/uploads/documents/doc_18561.pdf


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    #80
    smurfjed
    Registered Users Posts: 10,096 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    Funnily enough I was reading about S. Arabia and its getting rid of slavery only recently.
    They didnt get rid of it, they just changed the name.....


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