IBM in Ballycoolin

garthv · 03-01-2005 3:36pm #1

Im starting a new job in IBM out in Ballycoolin Industrial estate in DUblin 15. Doing technical support for Zurich Financial services,i was just wondering if anyone on boards.ie is working out there too?

D!ve^Bomb! · 03-01-2005 5:41pm

guess not..

Agent Smith · 03-01-2005 5:43pm

Good luck in the New Job man, i'm sure it will be a blast

Evilution · 03-01-2005 5:45pm

GaRtH_V wrote:

Im starting a new job in IBM out in Ballycoolin Industrial estate in DUblin 15. Doing technical support for Zurich Financial services,i was just wondering if anyone on boards.ie is working out there too?

Used to work next door to it in Xerox. Hell on earth man, hell on earth. That place is in the middle of nowhere.

D!ve^Bomb! · 03-01-2005 5:47pm

is this park the one by the NAC?

Evilution · 03-01-2005 5:48pm

D!ve^Bomb! wrote:

is this park the one by the NAC?

No, further up at the top of the snugborough road, at the T-junction.

garthv · 03-01-2005 5:54pm

Evilution wrote:

Used to work next door to it in Xerox. Hell on earth man, hell on earth. That place is in the middle of nowhere.

ahh its only 20 minutes walk down the road for me so its ok:)

D!ve^Bomb! · 03-01-2005 5:55pm

i pass there everymoring!! maybe i'll see ya......... or not:D

if you have a car then you're only 2 mins away from Blanch center!

Evilution · 03-01-2005 5:58pm

GaRtH_V wrote:

ahh its only 20 minutes walk down the road for me so its ok:)

Lucky you, but I find living too close to where I work unbearable. Everywhere you look you're reminded of work.

Evilution · 03-01-2005 5:59pm

D!ve^Bomb! wrote:

if you have a car then you're only 2 mins away from Blanch center!

And a handy taxi for anyone from work who wants to go on the beer there.

garthv · 03-01-2005 5:59pm

its 20 minutes down the road,but down a road i wouldnt go near unless i worked there:)

Evilution · 03-01-2005 6:01pm

GaRtH_V wrote:

its 20 minutes down the road,but down a road i wouldnt go near unless i worked there:)

Regarding the job, how was the interview etc.? Are they tough recuiters there?

Nevyn · 03-01-2005 6:07pm

I very much doubt you would have people who work for big blue coming out and saying it here. Esp if they have logged into boards.ie from work. Big blue frowns on such things and have a very hard policy of you only talk about work and your job to other ibm employees. And yes they have a media section in ireland that
colletes all the metions of Ibm Ireland ltd in all public media scources.

Good luck in the job, you may see some of your new co workers at a boards beer or know a few of your co workers from a boards beer.

Kur4mA · 03-01-2005 7:12pm

I worked there for almost 3 years on their CSC Helpdesk supporting IBM employees all over EMEA... and all i've got to say is if the management is still the same, then good luck...

The Real B-man · 03-01-2005 9:30pm

i hear in ibm all the salespersons where the same suit?

sharkman · 03-01-2005 9:35pm

Rid wrote:

I worked there for almost 3 years on their CSC Helpdesk supporting IBM employees all over EMEA... and all i've got to say is if the management is still the same, then good luck...

Likewise ! Best of Luck

rmacm · 03-01-2005 9:40pm

Sorry for hijacking the thread...I'm going on work placement with Symantec at the end of Jan. Whats the Ballycoolin area like? I'm thinking about living in Tyrellstown while I'm working there anybody know the area and what its like?

Cheers
Rory

Kevin_rc_ie · 03-01-2005 9:46pm

i hate the whole ballycoolin, damastown ibm areas. hate them. hate them.

samo · 03-01-2005 10:21pm

I bet your glad you asked this question now! :eek:

garthv · 04-01-2005 12:06am

..........
nice one folks! ;p
cant wait to bloody start now

Nevyn · 04-01-2005 12:15am

at this rate we may as well have D15 boards beer gods know there seeems to be enouhg of us out here.

Evilution · 04-01-2005 12:54am

rmacm wrote:

Sorry for hijacking the thread...I'm going on work placement with Symantec at the end of Jan. Whats the Ballycoolin area like?

Shyte, basically. Sorry about that. On one side you have finglas, one the other corduff and on the other blanchardstown. Could there be a worse place in ireland??

SantaHoe · 04-01-2005 1:39am

GaRtH_V wrote:

Im starting a new job in IBM out in Ballycoolin Industrial estate in DUblin 15. Doing technical support for Zurich Financial services,i was just wondering if anyone on boards.ie is working out there too?

Yeah about 5 years ago... 1st level grunt on US lines... I still wake up screaming. :eek:

Hobbes · 04-01-2005 5:53am

Thaed wrote:

I very much doubt you would have people who work for big blue coming out and saying it here. Esp if they have logged into boards.ie from work. Big blue frowns on such things and have a very hard policy of you only talk about work and your job to other ibm employees. And yes they have a media section in ireland that
colletes all the metions of Ibm Ireland ltd in all public media scources.

What Thaed said. There are a large number of IBM posters on boards, they just don't make themselves known for that reason. Heh, even past employees who come on here complaining tend not to mention IBM.

i hear in ibm all the salespersons where the same suit?

Yes, but not all at the same time.

WhiteWashMan · 04-01-2005 9:43am

i worked there about 5 years ago.
left after 7 months.

Dr. Loon · 04-01-2005 10:06am

WhiteWashMan wrote:

i worked there about 5 years ago.
left after 7 months.

Ye were probably there around the same time as me so. It was shíte.

logistic · 04-01-2005 10:23am

I worked there last year for 8mths on the csc english line. Was good experience and 8mths was long enough.

Civilian_Target · 04-01-2005 10:57am

Thaed wrote:

I very much doubt you would have people who work for big blue coming out and saying it here. Esp if they have logged into boards.ie from work. Big blue frowns on such things and have a very hard policy of you only talk about work and your job to other ibm employees. And yes they have a media section in ireland that
colletes all the metions of Ibm Ireland ltd in all public media scources.

What? I work for IBM in Dublin - not in Ballycoolin though...

ToxicPaddy · 04-01-2005 2:29pm

SantaHoe wrote:

Yeah about 5 years ago... 1st level grunt on US lines... I still wake up screaming. :eek:

Ahh ya get over it.. 9 months on the US lines too left, 5.5 years ago.. the waking up in a cold sweat and screaming faded with me after about 3 years..
I guess it differs with different people..

Tox

Evilution · 04-01-2005 2:33pm

logistic wrote:

I worked there last year for 8mths on the csc english line. Was good experience...

Yeah, and I find that there are always plenty of women available in call centres too and they're usually of a pretty high quality. In fact I think thats about the only redeeming feature of call-centres, the amount of good looking members of the opposite sex in them.
When I worked out in Xerox in Ballycoolin about 3 years ago, one of my friends from back home worked there too. We used to make up nicknames for as many people as possible - the best was Scooter and Skeeter, a pair of foxy sisters who worked in xerox in the training department.

RicardoSmith · 04-01-2005 2:53pm

Evilution wrote:

Shyte, basically. Sorry about that. On one side you have finglas, one the other corduff and on the other blanchardstown. Could there be a worse place in ireland??

Its not called Corduff anymore. Its Snugsborough.

Hobbes · 04-01-2005 4:04pm

Evilution wrote:

Yeah, and I find that there are always plenty of women available in call centres too and they're usually of a pretty high quality.

I believe you are suffering from what is called "Cute Office Girl Syndrome" (COGS).

Evilution · 04-01-2005 6:16pm

Hobbes wrote:

I believe you are suffering from what is called "Cute Office Girl Syndrome" (COGS).

Cute would've been an understatement for some of the girls I've known and worked with. Don't work there anymore.....THANK GOD.

boo4842 · 04-01-2005 10:19pm

I worked in Ballycoolin in Xerox for a whopping 2 months in Finance before I left.

Took me an hour and a half to get in from Lucan, had no car. It is in the middle of no-where. I hate working in a place where you can't go anywhere on your lunch or after work. I prefer at least walking somewhere to get your lunch some days or being able to go to a restaurant or do some window shopping. Only so much of canteen food I could take.

Must say that Xerox was pretty good to work for, a lot of politics though!

RicardoSmith · 04-01-2005 10:22pm

boo4842 wrote:

I worked in Ballycoolin in Xerox for a whopping 2 months in Finance before I left.

Took me an hour and a half to get in from Lucan, had no car. It is in the middle of no-where. I hate working in a place where you can't go anywhere on your lunch or after work. I prefer at least walking somewhere to get your lunch some days or being able to go to a restaurant or do some window shopping. Only so much of canteen food I could take.

Must say that Xerox was pretty good to work for, a lot of politics though!

To honest theres a lot of places in Dublin like that for a lot of people. Most industrial estates are like that. If you live in D.15 and some of it is very nice, its nice not to have to commute. Besides if you have a car you're minutes away from loads of places. Blanchardstown shopping center for one.

Evilution · 05-01-2005 12:57am

boo4842 wrote:

Must say that Xerox was pretty good to work for, a lot of politics though!

Yeah, there was a serious machiavellian streak in a lot of people there. Very cloak and dagger. Even applying for a promotion was crushing; it all came down to who you knew and who you were sleeping with. I got turned down for one but was never given any reason or anything.
The amount of bedhopping in that place was mad, too.

tony 2 tone · 05-01-2005 7:59pm

At least the bus stops near to work for ye in Ballycoolin, I work in the ****ty industrial estate beside that, Rosemount. Its a bloody long walk down to where I am.

Evilution · 05-01-2005 8:04pm

tony 2 tone wrote:

At least the bus stops near to work for ye in Ballycoolin, I work in the ****ty industrial estate beside that, Rosemount. Its a bloody long walk down to where I am.

Count your blessings. At least you get a little stroll in the morn. Its never pleasant being on a bus playing sardines.

tony 2 tone · 06-01-2005 12:08am

Evilution wrote:

Count your blessings. At least you get a little stroll in the morn. Its never pleasant being on a bus playing sardines.

Long walk after bus,

Nermal · 06-01-2005 7:36pm

Is it all helpdesk stuff in Ballycoolin? I've been developing on the iSeries for nearly a year and have been rather impressed. Were I to move IBM would be near the top of my list.

IBM in Ballycoolin

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