Thank you ESB workers!

ronnie3585

I'm in the arse end of west county Clare and after a day and a half without electricity, is just after coming back on.

Given the horrendous and very dangerous conditions here for the last two days it's a credit to ESB workers that they have it back on so soon.

Fair play lads!

Femme_Fatale

In before the bitterness. And yeh, they were just doing their job, but it's still a hard and dangerous job.

Tzardine

I agree. I was without power most of yesterday and it came back at about 0130 last night.

The lads were obviously out all night.

Fair play.:)

kneemos

Going up and down on a pole must be exhausting.

Micky Dolenz

More power to ya, OP.

GoldenLight

I think they did a brilliant job, fair play to them they make it work.

Tokyo

Indeed. Didn't lose power here, but plenty in the area did. Big thank you to the Council workers and telecom guys who have also been out in the horrendous weather getting road cleared and lines up again.

Tzardine

kneemos wrote: »

Going up and down on a pole must be exhausting.

Your ma seems to manage it pretty well .











:pac: Somebody had to say it FFS. Its AH. No offence .

Layinghen

Thank you ESB workers from the Kingdom of Kerry. The conditions that you had to face in some parts here were horrendous but you carried on.

irish bloke

kneemos wrote: »

Going up and down on a pole must be exhausting.

Did your missus tell you that. .:)

sawdoubters

give them a pay raise

Femme_Fatale

Tzardine wrote: »

Your ma seems to manage it pretty well .











:pac: Somebody had to say it FFS. Its AH. No offence .

Absolutely. Sometimes "Yore ma" should be allowed. It's still a classic.

Sir Arthur Daley

Never knew west Clare had even electricity, i know they have sheep and rocks.

maringo

ESB doing stupendous work in often dangerous situations. Fair play to them - public service at its best. Was lucky enough not to lose power in the storm myself.

Femme_Fatale

sawdoubters wrote: »

give them a pay raise

No need. Good salaries and allowances. And well deserved.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Again, well done ESB Networks. Going out repairing lines in that weather for the past weeks was tremendous.

Micky Dolenz

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

No need. Good salaries and allowances. And well deserved.

Climb a few poles? You could train monkeys to do that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOwHeRAOnCI

Courtesy Flush

Dont think people will have too much concern when they get their next ESB bill. Seems a price hike has been made

Rightwing

The council workers too and gardai were out, blocking roads and cutting trees very late last night in Limerick. Big well done to all of them...apart from........



Met Eireann - no more Orange alerts please when probably the biggest storm in at least 50 years devastates half the country.

vicwatson

Too right I'm bitter - average salary € 75,000.00 per annum per worker

Meh

Femme_Fatale

Courtesy Flush wrote: »

Dont think people will have too much concern when they get their next ESB bill. Seems a price hike has been made

Billing is separate to network maintenance. If your electricity goes out due to damaged lines, it doesn't matter whether your supplier is Electric Ireland, Bord Gáis or Airtricity; your power goes out.
There were price hikes for all suppliers a few months ago, yeh. It's a balls, but they're not going to add huge sums to their bills. Winter usage is what will do that. But it's never consumption of course, "it's the price hikes Joe!"

Femme_Fatale

vicwatson wrote: »

Too right I'm bitter - average salary € 75,000.00 per annum per worker

Meh

Sorry you didn't make the grade at the assessment.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

vicwatson wrote: »

Too right I'm bitter - average salary € 75,000.00 per annum per worker

Meh

Sweet Jeez! Here we go with this bull again! :rolleyes:

Femme_Fatale

Theo Creamy Thanks wrote: »

Sweet Jeez! Here we go with this bull again! :rolleyes:

I wouldn't even mind so much if these jobs were relatively unskilled and unqualified.

P_1

Certainly a big thank you is in order to them, no easy task being out in those conditions working on downed lines and the like.

vicwatson

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Sorry you didn't make the grade at the assessment.

Theo Creamy Thanks wrote: »

Sweet Jeez! Here we go with this bull again! :rolleyes:

So what's it like to earn 2.5 times the average industrial wage lads

Femme_Fatale

vicwatson wrote: »

So what's it like to earn 2.5 times the average industrial wage lads

I'm not an ESB engineer. I didn't study electrical engineering at all, let alone get the amount of qualifications in it that you'd need to be an ESB engineer.
So yeh, the "average industrial wage" thing is completely irrelevant. People in other jobs who have those kind of qualifications and earn that kind of money (and more) are not constantly questioned in relation to their earnings, nor do they disingenuously get the "average industrial wage" line directed at them.

jimboblep

vicwatson wrote: »

So what's it like to earn 2.5 times the average industrial wage lads

they certainly earned it last night

Rightwing

jimboblep wrote: »

they certainly earned it last night

I suspect the people out last night are on the lower end of the scales, and the CEO/CFO on the €400K+ etc hardly knew there was a crisis.

jimboblep

Rightwing wrote: »

I suspect the people out last night are on the lower end of the scales, and the CEO/CFO on the €400K+ etc hardly knew there was a crisis.

its the ones out last night who im talking about, thought that was pretty obvious as thats what the threads about.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

vicwatson wrote: »

So what's it like to earn 2.5 times the average industrial wage lads

To be honest my pension is higher than that but I did not work in ESB nor as an electrician.

Rest assured the guy up the poles and masts last night were not the ones on 75k.

And it might look less foolish if you think before you assume next time.

Rightwing

jimboblep wrote: »

its the ones out last night who im talking about, thought that was pretty obvious as thats what the threads about.

Indeed, but go a little bit beyond that and we see someone talking about 2.5 times avg industrial salary. This is factually incorrect.

jimboblep

Rightwing wrote: »

Indeed, but go a little bit beyond that and we see someone talking about 2.5 times avg industrial salary. This is factually incorrect.

its a simple thread to thank workers who did a great job in horrendous conditions
no need to drag an agenda into it

Rightwing

jimboblep wrote: »

its a simple thread to thank workers who did a great job in horrendous conditions
no need to drag an agenda into it

Oh dear.


I give up.

jimboblep

Rightwing wrote: »

Oh dear.


I give up.

good

GoldenLight

Rightwing wrote: »

The council workers too and gardai were out, blocking roads and cutting trees very late last night in Limerick. Big well done to all of them...apart from........



Met Eireann - no more Orange alerts please when probably the biggest storm in at least 50 years devastates half the country.

So on average, we are saying well done to the lads, getting power sorted (fair play to them). And their is still the mein feiners looking for something to complain about. (I Love you guys, you make Ireland, Ireland, your so bitter sweet, I'm prity sure you would find a problem with where a hedgehog hibernates)

Sir Arthur Daley

Fair play to MacDonalds who stayed open to feed the ESB workers.

Rightwing

GoldenLight wrote: »

So on average, we are saying well done to the lads, getting power sorted (fair play to them). And their is still the mein feiners looking for something to complain about. (I Love you guys, you make Ireland, Ireland, your so bitter sweet, I'm prity sure you would find a problem with where a hedgehog hibernates)

I praised all the workers out last night. What I said was they aren't on €75,000. They did a great job in most difficult conditions. The guys at the top boost the average salary up massively.

Hope this helps.

Femme_Fatale

jimboblep wrote: »

they certainly earned it last night

Rightwing wrote: »

I suspect the people out last night are on the lower end of the scales, and the CEO/CFO on the €400K+ etc hardly knew there was a crisis.

jimboblep wrote: »

its the ones out last night who im talking about, thought that was pretty obvious as thats what the threads about.

Rightwing wrote: »

Indeed, but go a little bit beyond that and we see someone talking about 2.5 times avg industrial salary. This is factually incorrect.

jimboblep wrote: »

its a simple thread to thank workers who did a great job in horrendous conditions
no need to drag an agenda into it

I'm not sure what Rightwing did wrong. Saying those last night wouldn't be earning anything like senior management was just an observation, not a contradiction. And a well warranted STFU to idiotic comments about "Hur durrrrrrr average wage of 2 million, even the cleaning lady."

Rightwing

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

I'm not sure what Rightwing did wrong. Saying those last night wouldn't be earning anything like senior management was just an observation, not a contradiction. And a well warranted STFU to idiotic comments about "Hur durrrrrrr average wage of 2 million, even the cleaning lady."

That's the maths bit, probably catches most people out.

2 workers in a company, 1 guy on a million, other on 20K. The punter thinks average salary in that company massive.

GoldenLight

Rightwing wrote: »

I praised all the workers out last night. What I said was they aren't on €75,000. They did a great job in most difficult conditions. The guys at the top boost the average salary up massively.

Hope this helps.

When did you think I was talking about you, really I wasn't, I stated a observation that people, will actually, try to play down something good, particularly when not effected by the good, to be a lesser action. I see that happen alot in Ireland, we actually invented the bitter sweet emotion, but that is cool.

As I said Fair play to the guys, in fact in the earn less than €60,000 as a person (eg knowledge based on our electricity network), I would worry about this country.

Femme_Fatale

Rightwing wrote: »

That's the maths bit, probably catches most people out.

2 workers in a company, 1 guy on a million, other on 20K. The punter thinks average salary in that company massive.

Average is a completely useless gauge in this case, because it fails to illustrate how so many e.g. admin people earn well less than 30k (not that that's a terrible salary, but it's hardly high) and there are senior execs and senior technical people on six-figure salaries (arguably too high). However that doesn't stop the bitter brigade anyway.
"Der all earnin' 70k Joe" (it can veer between 70 and 95, depending on who's a more blatant liar) "and der all in charge of electricity to the old people's homes".

jimboblep

Rightwing wrote: »

That's the maths bit, probably catches most people out.

2 workers in a company, 1 guy on a million, other on 20K. The punter thinks average salary in that company massive.

I understand the maths thank you very much
my initial post was a response to someone complaining about 75k to which i replied they earned it last night
you then jumped in with the ceo is on 400k i dont care what they are on they earned it last night is my point

Rightwing

jimboblep wrote: »

I understand the maths thank you very much
my initial post was a response to someone complaining about 75k to which i replied they earned it last night
you then jumped in with the ceo is on 400k i dont care what they are on they earned it last night is my point

It may have escaped you, but I was in fact agreeing with you.

Hope this helps.

jimboblep

Rightwing wrote: »

It may have escaped you, but I was in fact agreeing with you.

Hope this helps.

No your just being condescending< good bye

RonnieRocket

What makes ESB workers so special? Are we going to make a special thread for the postman too who must deliver letters in "terrible conditions"?
Ironic that most Irish people hold soldiers in disdain. Now there's a profession where the brave lads really do put their life on the line.

GoldenLight

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Average is a completely useless gauge in this case, because it fails to illustrate how so many e.g. admin people earn well less than 30k (not that that's a terrible salary, but it's hardly high) and there are senior execs and senior technical people on six-figure salaries (arguably too high). However that doesn't stop the bitter brigade anyway.
"Der all earnin' 70k Joe" (it can veer between 70 and 95, depending on who's a more blatant liar) "and der all in charge of electricity to the old people's homes".

See this is an example of what would come ahead, of my last post, it was a very simple OP, "Thanking you for working all night to turn back on my electricity", I mentioned "Fair play to the guys".

AH it appears needs to earth itself , bizarrest form of discussion I have ever heard.

Rightwing

RonnieRocket wrote: »

What makes ESB workers so special? Are we going to make a special thread for the postman too who must deliver letters in "terrible conditions"?
Ironic that most Irish people hold soldiers in disdain. Now there's a profession where the brave lads really do put their life on the line.

Well it doesn't cost anyone to say 'well done'. I think most private sector workers in society aren't appreciated enough either.

The problem with soldiers is, is there any great need for them in this day and age. The 9,000/10,000 of them at any rate.

Femme_Fatale

RonnieRocket wrote: »

What makes ESB workers so special? Are we going to make a special thread for the postman too who must deliver letters in "terrible conditions"?

At least compare like with like. Such idiocy.

Ironic that most Irish people hold soldiers in disdain.

"Most"? On what do you base that? I'm guessing... an idea in your head.

GoldenLight wrote: »

See this is an example of what would come ahead, of my last post, it was a very simple OP, "Thanking you for working all night to turn back on my electricity", I mentioned "Fair play to the guys".

AH it appears needs to earth itself , bizarrest form of discussion I have ever heard.

Blame the Vic person, who can't see beyond what people earn.

RonnieRocket

Rightwing wrote: »

Well it doesn't cost anyone to say 'well done'. I think most private sector workers in society aren't appreciated enough either.
The problem with soldiers is, is there any great need for them in this day and age. The 9,000/10,000 of them at any rate.

Yes we certainly do need our soldiers. The army is a great outlet for lads who are from disadvantaged areas and are a bit rough around the edges and could do with some hard discipline. Warm fuzzy hugs from softy lefties won't do them any good.

Sorry it just annoys me when nutters like Margaretta D'arcy enjoy support for obstructing allied military forces in the country. She is a criminal found guilty in a court of law and we have radical politicians tripping over themselves to visit her.

Rightwing

RonnieRocket wrote: »

Yes we certainly do need our soldiers. The army is a great outlet for lads who are from disadvantaged areas and are a bit rough around the edges and could do with some hard discipline. Warm fuzzy hugs from softy lefties won't do them any good.

Sorry it just annoys me when nutters like Margaretta D'arcy enjoy support for obstructing allied military forces in the country. She is a criminal found guilty in a court of law and we have radical politicians tripping over themselves to visit her.

You've stumbled on the wrong thread.

But I certainly disagree with the first point, and probably the second one as well.