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Concern workers

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  • 13-04-2016 11:21pm
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    Melisandre121
    Registered Users Posts: 1,117 ✭✭✭


    Those Concern workers on the road are not in the least bit charitable.

    I know this isn't exactly a newsflash, but I received some bad news the other week and was walking through town to get home crying my eyes out and one sarcastically said to me "Aw, bad news?" I was horrified. The irony that someone working for a charity would say something so cruel shocked me. All they want is to get their commission.

    Anyway, it really pissed me off and I just wanted to have a rant about it.


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    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    All you have to do is look at the people who were in charge of Rehab, and see the example they have set.


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    Dawn Rider
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    What about the head of Barnardo's bleating on about having to close some services last year because of a funding shortfall and how it is the children who would suffer the most.
    I wonder how many he could have helped by taking a (temporary) pay cut?


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    HamsterFace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 832 ✭✭✭HamsterFace


    *****


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    XR3i
    Site Banned Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭XR3i


    the rich must help the poor


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    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    I'd be horrid awkward if I saw someone walk through town bawling their eyes out.
    http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnmkkrHbN91qfu47lo1_500.gif
    That'd be me.
    I'd probably have ignored you if I worked for concern :(

    Also, they drive me mad ever since one of them made me take my earphones out. Now I ignore them all


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    Senna
    Registered Users Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    Melisandre121 wrote: »
    sarcastically said to me "Aw, bad news?" I was horrified.

    Really, you were horrified that someone opened their mouth to you when you were balling your eyes out walking through town?
    Bit of a self indulgent thread.


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    Annasopra
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    Dawn Rider wrote: »
    What about the head of Barnardo's bleating on about having to close some services last year because of a funding shortfall and how it is the children who would suffer the most.
    I wonder how many he could have helped by taking a (temporary) pay cut?

    Huh? His salary was cut from 113k a good few years ago to 88k now. Cutting his salary won't make a substantial difference

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    Lady is a tramp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭Lady is a tramp


    Are you sure it was said sarcastically? I'm no fan of chuggers, but if you were that upset maybe you misinterpreted their tone?


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    AtomicHorror
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    Dawn Rider wrote: »
    What about the head of Barnardo's bleating on about having to close some services last year because of a funding shortfall and how it is the children who would suffer the most.
    I wonder how many he could have helped by taking a (temporary) pay cut?

    So if someone works for a charity, they have an obligation to take a (temporary) pay cut every time there's a shortfall in donations?

    Why would anyone, least of all competent people, work under such conditions?


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    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    I'd be horrid awkward if I saw someone walk through town bawling their eyes out.
    http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnmkkrHbN91qfu47lo1_500.gif
    That'd be me.
    I'd probably have ignored you if I worked for concern :(

    Also, they drive me mad ever since one of them made me take my earphones out. Now I ignore them all

    sorry for going off topic, but are you from the Navan direction?


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    biko
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    Stop bawling, think of the starving babies.


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    The Randy Riverbeast
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭The Randy Riverbeast


    Jobs like chugging, door to door sales and ruling nazi Germany make you abandon a part of your humanity.


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    topper75
    Registered Users Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Dawn Rider wrote: »
    What about the head of Barnardo's bleating on about having to close some services last year because of a funding shortfall and how it is the children who would suffer the most.
    I wonder how many he could have helped by taking a (temporary) pay cut?

    As they say, if you can fake sincerity - you've got it made.


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