Does anyone else find sod-turning ceremonies cringeworthy?

Ubbquittious

Office lads who clearly enjoyed too many chicken dinners in the Shelbourne standing around with big cheesy grins on their faces

Clad in brand spanking new hi-vis jacket and a hard hat straight out of the plastic wrapper.

Barely knows by which end to catch the shovel

As soon as they fcuk off back to their plush Dublin offices a horde of Polish workers on 300 a week are sent in to do the actual work.

Why do they still have these ceremonies? Purely to allow the fat sedentary office crowd take even more credit for the work they don't do?

Collie D

Maybe

Allinall

€300 a week? hahahahahahahaha

Feisar

As someone somewhere between the lad at the coal face and the wanker in the suit I can say it's pure tripe.

A load of power laughing and back clapping etc. And then back to trying to stab each other in the back/rip someone off/get the job done as cheaply as possible.

Gregor Samsa

On a point of information: You wouldn’t use a shovel for breaking ground. You’d use a spade.

Yeah the shining new hard hat and yellow jacket with the big well fed belly sticking out through the suit is the universal set up for these occasions. There is normally a politician along too to get their face in the photo for the local paper.

whisky_galore

...great fake laughter craic.

Quantum Erasure

sod...

https://i.imgur.com/3cxRfxW.gif

off

ofcork

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117709298#Comment_117709298

Still not built 5 years later!!!

I don’t think they invite random office workers to these things, do they?

You’d assume a politician, a businessman, maybe the head of some agency involved.

BuboBubo

It's a bit like the tree planting ceremonies, I'll bet the VIP roped in to do the planting never sowed anything in their lives.

Some other mug dug the hole and buried the roots properly after Micky Dee (or whoever) gets driven back to the big smoke.

Montage of Feck

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117709298#Comment_117709298

Ya wouldn't dig much with those shovels ffs.

fryup

best sod turning ever.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS5pTyUgfxo