Have Amazon got no shame? I just seen one of there delivery drivers delivering a package today.

AMKC

Disgraceful. They should have had the day of.

Amazon is a terrible Company.

I will never buy from Amazon.

They should be ashamed.

What does everyone else think?

odyssey06

And they weren't even wearing green!

StreetLight

The world doesn't stop just because it's Saint Patrick's Day.

eggy81

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058288685/have-amazon-got-no-shame-i-just-seen-one-of-there-delivery-drivers-delivering-a-package-today

Was delighted to get my package off them today. Very unexpected. Great service I suppose you could say. But yeah you’d think they’d have the day off alright. But then lots of people work bank holidays

BabysCoffee

I'd be of the opinion that deliveries should be made 7 days a week.

OP, why do you think they shouldn't be delivering today?

drogon.

None of their drivers are employees, all are contractors and self employed. I would assume this means that they get to pick when they want to work.

Terrible work practice none the less. I once had a parcel delivered on a Sunday at 8pm. Personally I would prefer if they had an option not to deliver during stupid times like that.

Also no different to how Centra or Spar are now opened during Christmas Day. But then again, people who want to work take those shifts.

amacca

As if a massive company experiences shame

Basically the game is do whatever it takes to make profits and attempt to increase profits doing whatever you get away with only until the backlash from any **** practices you engage in threatens those profits

That's the only real "emotion" a company/organism/collective at that scale might experience.......

It's a runaway train at scale

Have you been in to a shop today OP? Maybe you went to a petrol station to fill the tank? Or into a supermarket for groceries? Amazon aren't the only company operating today.

Pawwed Rig

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370139#Comment_120370139

I passed a church earlier and the poor priest wasn't given the day off. I am outraged.

Absolute disgrace OP.

We should also give our nurses, gardai, soldiers, fire and prison service staff the day off as well. The country has absolutely no shame making them work. 😂

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370097#Comment_120370097

You can set days \ times when you can 'accept' deliveries as a delivery instruction on your address via your Amazon profile e.g. delivery monday-friday only.

Not sure how well honoured those instructions are though :)

growleaves

The driver might have asked for that shift and taken a day off on a different day.

hayrabit

i agree OP - fk em coming on a BH

every now and then one hopes it's a day when they can have a S&S (or other fings 😂) in comfort, w/o worrying about callers coming to t'door 😒

on a bank holiday ! the baxtards !!

Gregor Samsa

I bought stuff in two separate shops today.

HeidiHeidi

I'm working today.

How come nobody has started a thread for me???

In other news, is this the first thread started by the OP that doesn't start with "So, "?

AxleAddict

Maybe they should turn the boards.ie servers off for the day - surely all those poor wee electrons deserve a wee rest every now and then....

Addmagnet

I was once told by a Tesco delivery driver that he prefers making deliveries at the weekend because the traffic is lighter (we were just chatting casually about such things, so it was unprompted on both sides).

As others have mentioned, couriers/delivery drivers etc. can be self-employed and it may suit them better to work on holidays, weekends, or in the evenings.

How about we all mind our own beeswax and let people live their own lives without being judgemental?

SEPT 23 1989

hijack the van at gunpoint and burn it 1980’s Belfast style

that will learn him to never disregard our sacred celebrations

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370139#Comment_120370139

No I have not been to any of them places today and if I ran the Country St Patrick's day would be a national holiday. The only people working would be health staff because well you can not stop stupid and they would be paid extra for the day. Firefighters would be on standby and Garda only as needed.

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370283#Comment_120370283

So there'd be no parade then? Or pubs open? Or music \ sports venues?

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370205#Comment_120370205

Worse than hitler!

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370193#Comment_120370193

I was rudely interupted last Sunday by an Amazon van. I was still in my pajamas with no makeup on or hair done as I was literally only up so I waited till he was gone and opened the door to take the package but he then came back for some reason but sorry I was not opening that door even if the Earth ended. So after a while he got the message and went on his merry way. The jist of the story do not deliver to my house on a Sunday.

hayrabit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370300#Comment_120370300

modern life is rubbish !!

narys the day off nowadays from the bs - even for da workshy like me what just wants to left tf alone 😁 😪 😒

HeidiHeidi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370300#Comment_120370300

Do you think that the Amazon driver gives the shiniest shite if you're in your pjs, a ballgown or stark staring nude, or if you're done up fit to go on RuPaul or have a nuclear-green facepack on????

The man was just trying to do a job.

You weren't "rudely interested" (or "rudely interrupted", even) - you had ordered something for delivery, and it was being delivered.

FFS 🙄

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370283#Comment_120370283

It is.

I do understand there was an ever so slight a drizzle out. Could catch their death.

I'll cancel my wedding if it was a day like today. Horrendous expectations to work on such an important day. Animal employers.

If off licences have to close until 16:00 in dcc(voluntarily of course), then damn them vintners not jumping in a van and not delivering something you ordered!

Worlds gone mad I tells you!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370300#Comment_120370300

How does someone get rudely interested??

If it was up to you, every pub in the country would be closed on one of its busiest days. I think we are safe from having you in power, as the vintners lobby wouldn't allow you get elected.

drogon.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370168#Comment_120370168

Yeah those delivery instruction isn't going to prevent the automated scheduling system from marking them to be shipped out. They are pretty much useless I can tell you, during Covid I had it marked for them to ring the bell and leave it in the porch, but they always ran the bell anyway.

BabysCoffee

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370300#Comment_120370300

Yes I understand adulting can be hard sometimes

The DayDream

If you work in a supermarket, pub, hotel, convenience store, takeaway, petrol station or bookies you had to work today. If I had a job I'd happily work it as I no longer drink.

Some fella who owns a strip of businesses near my house is digging up the land around it to build onto it, and has been jackhammering and running a digger every day the past two weeks starting at 8 am.

And he was at the same craic today. That was taking the wee IMO but they did knock off early it seems unlike the other days it went on til half 6

martingriff

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370245#Comment_120370245

Do you not remember the outrage the last time it was turned off. Poor Beasty would not survive

eggy81

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370283#Comment_120370283

You’d shut the pubs??

eggy81

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370300#Comment_120370300

You may get on to that bro to tone down the Amazon shite.

Tippman24

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370442#Comment_120370442

Are you really Tony Holohan?

eggy81

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370508#Comment_120370508

Quite the opposite

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370442#Comment_120370442

Well apparently...

Before the drinking ban was repealed, there was only one place in Ireland where one could buy a drink on March 17: The Royal Dublin Dog Show. The Dog Show would see a wide attendance, with not just dog lovers attending but also writers and politicians and anybody else who wanted to do more than eat chocolate and sweets on this one cheat day during Lent. As Maeve Binchy wrote in a 2001 article for the New York Times, “Dublin was the dullest place on earth to spend St. Patrick's Day.”

https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/pubs-ireland-closed-st-patricks-day

CramCycle

I worked today, and happy to do it. Would you be arsed going anywhere today with all the Muppets out at once. Shite if your a teetotaler and shite if your a regular drinker. Worst day of the year for any craic.

I do miss the old school good Friday, great if you were a teetotaler and great if you were a drinker

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370537#Comment_120370537

Muppets? Take that back.

https://youtu.be/OCbuRA_D3KU

Ubbquittious

Blast em with piss!

Mister Vain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058288685/have-amazon-got-no-shame-i-just-seen-one-of-there-delivery-drivers-delivering-a-package-today

There's nothing disgraceful about working on Paddy's day. It's disgraceful when the drivers have to piss into a bottle because they don't have time to go to the toilet.

evolvingtipperary101

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058288685/have-amazon-got-no-shame-i-just-seen-one-of-there-delivery-drivers-delivering-a-package-today

I saw sheets of glass being delivered today. Driving lessons being given. Block layers. In fact, just about any job going I'd see on a regular day. I don't see what the problem is?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370283#Comment_120370283

Good thing you're not running the country so. Any other sh!t ideas for when you become Taoiseach?

walterking

DPD were delivering today too.

But their Saturday delivery service tomorrow has been cancelled.

Staff got double pay for today and no-one was forced to work.

walterking

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370673#Comment_120370673

That's made up bullsh1t - most likely urged to say stuff like this by union heads in a dispute with a company.

Sensationalist journalists then use it as click bait in a story and a few people actually think it's true.

walshb

Most pointless thread ever! Welcome to capitalism 101, OP

CramCycle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370708#Comment_120370708

Only company I've actually known this to happen with was Dublin Bus, who fired an employee who couldn't piss in a bottle so ran into a shop toilet on the quays. It was still taught up until recently, two friends were drivers, doubtful it still is though, but they were told to stand on the stairs so they couldn't be seen doing it

SCOOP 64

I seen DPD making a delivery today.

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370313#Comment_120370313

You weren't "rudely interested" (or "rudely interrupted", even) - you had ordered something for delivery, and it was being delivered.

FFS 🙄

Lol rudely interested. What us that even? lol. Cannot believe I missed that. Yes I meant interrupted.

They might not care but I sure do.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370335#Comment_120370335

How does someone get rudely interested?

I have no idea lol. Typing mistake. It should have been interrupted.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370442#Comment_120370442

Dam right I would

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370750#Comment_120370750

Pics etc.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120370746#Comment_120370746

I hope Dublin bus, DART and Luas weren't running today. OP wouldn't be at all pleased with those drivers having to work.

PropJoe10

Plenty of people work on bank holidays. I personally worked every single Sunday for 2.5 years. I don't see an issue with this, the person delivering will have a day in lieu anyway.

Leg End Reject

What do you work at @AMKC, and do you get to dictate when you will and won't work?