Paddy power bookmaker reputation getting from bad to worse.

Boooourns

Another article where they're behaving dreadfully towards their staff. They announced shop closures last month and the shops are due to close a month before Christmas which is spectacular timing in itself but I was flabbergasted to read the redundancy package they have offered to the long serving staff.

Broken down it's basically 2 weeks statutory and then another 2 weeks for every year BUT and it's a big BUT it's capped at a years wages, so if anyone has given in and around 20years service they basically are only getting their statutory redundancy because of the cap. They recently announced huge profits and they have broken America. It's a dreadful package with the timing and also in the midst of a cost if living crisis

It's certainly a company with 2 faces, the social media side which is so well run but behind it a ruthless belittling nature towards their staff.

Here's the article anyway...

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2023/10/27/departing-paddy-power-staff-with-long-service-say-redundancy-amounts-to-just-one-years-pay/

Boooourns

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297587#Comment_121297587

Hard to disagree with any of that tbf. Advertising badly needs to be stopped at this stage and it's clearly aimed at the young adult generation.

Being an Irish company or at least they were before Flutter took over I'd have thought they would have at least kept their reputation with the staff respectable especially seeing as it's been damaged over the years with the Postman story and then workers having to go all the way to the WRC over unpaid rest breaks. Seems like they have no human relations side to their workers, they have really turned into a horrible company. They can't even sort out their long serving staff with a couple of quid out of their own deep pockets, instead they're forcing people out if a job before Christmas with a shyte package.

Fr Tod Umptious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121297587#Comment_121297587

Their advertising is very much targeted at teen and twenty something "lads" who eat and drink that type of s**te.

orourkeda1

Bookmakers are a very small step up from Bankers.

ancapailldorcha

Bookmakers are scum. All of them. They're opportunistic vermin who contribute nothing whatsoever. I used to work for one who's sole redeeming feature was their miserly attitude to investing in the company so they took a while to adopt the latest in exploitative techniques. We'd all be better off if they went bust tomorrow.

NIMAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121299976#Comment_121299976

There was a 3 or 4 year period there when guys much older in work places would have regularly said, "have you seen the new PP advert" .

They were very successful in their marketing.

With the crowd who read Joe.ie etc.

Personally I don't gamble, but it is so much intertwined with society now its worrying. If you watch sport, or listen to sports radio especially the UK ones, it's wall to wall betting companies.

K-9

https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2021/0708/1233948-paddy-power-founder-stewart-kenny-online-gambling/

Paddy Power founder says sorrrrrreeeeeee.

A bit too f*cking late mate.

Boooourns

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121302165#Comment_121302165

The only redeeming thing I'd have for the previous owners was how well they treated their staff, they were known for looking after them. Since Paddy power was sold to Flutter it's an absolute disgrace to them and I still cannot get my head around that redundancy deal, it's possibly the worst I've ever heard about from a major company who is still making millions. For some reason I never thought an Irish company would do that to its own especially one so successful on the global scale now. Yep absolute scum.

Grayson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121304347#Comment_121304347

I knew someone who worked in their call centre about 10-15 years ago. The shifts for the next week were put out on a friday night. That included when they had their days off. They never had two days off together. They could be scheduled for their 40 hours in any random jumble. Starting at 6am one day but the next day they finish at midnight.

So every Friday the employees would wait to see what hours they were working and what days they had off. It was impossible top plan any sort of social life. The place had a reputation for being a hellhole to work in.

Slightly Kwackers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121300171#Comment_121300171

I notice that in the UK the bonus is back.

UK bankers must have quite an edge getting to choose what their UK punters gamble on.

They must love their austerity, they just don't seem to want to let go. :-)

Boooourns

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121304398#Comment_121304398

Jesus that's shocking, I'd imagine it's huge numbers in turnaround staff there.