How many nationalities do you work with ???

Dublin8

just wanted to know is every where its getting multicultural

or its only me office

nationalities in my office :eek:

Irish <Off course>
Polish
French
German
Chec Republic
Pakistan
Canada
India
Sweedish
Israel
Nigeria
South Africa
Norway
russia
moldovia

one girl from latin america just left :eek:


these are the only ones i think of

and its lovely its like world in the building

ionapaul

I'm with a small-ish IT company but we have:

Irish
Polish
South African
Australian
English
Swedish

Last year we found it extremely hard to find suitable IT support desk employees and three of four new employees in a three month period were foreign.

Kristok

i think it all depends what type of job, i used to work in a call centre and there was a good few forign guys (more if you count cork people) and ive a friend whos a manager in a warehouse and works with just people from russia and the other former soviet block countries. I know another guy working in a college and he only works with irish people so it really all depends but in general its getting more multi cultural and as long as they are here legally then fair play to them ads a bit of needed culture to boring ireland. (in saying that I cant stand the spanish students who stand around in busy areas in town etc in groups of like 20 its so annoying and they seem to shout all the time)

Half-Bicycle

Kristok wrote:

the spanish students who stand around in busy areas in town etc in groups of like 20 its so annoying and they seem to shout all the time)

I find that the Spaniards are a very demonstrative lot who aren't afraid to express themselves in public. They've been visiting our shores for over 20 years and are usually well-behaved. How do others see us? My Spanish colleague once remarked to me that Irish people on holiday in her country always seemed to get drunk, vomit and shout a lot too..! Not true, I said, there's always a few eejits who don't know how to behave out of their own country but we're not all like that.

Kristok

I can really never understand why spanish people hang around in such large groups i heard this talked about on the radio before im defo not the only person to have noticed it. Dont get me wrong not saying anything bad about spanish people just seems to be a thing they do in ireland that no other nationality do, oh yea and the shouting that can be off putting if you walking past someone and they yell at the person 2 feet away. But hey its a free country just a small cultural oddity (and irish people in spain generally do get drunk all the time we will even admit that)

Half-Bicycle

Safety in numbers? Maybe they're all mates. I must ask! It's been the way for donkey's years though. I know we tend to hang out together when we (collective we, not you and I!) are abroad, especially when we're younger and this travel lark (away from parents) is a new experience...

Branoic

I work for a rather large internet search company, and in the Dublin office we've got

Irish
English
French
Italian
Spanish
German
Portuguese
Dutch
Danish
Belgian
Austrian
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Polish
Turkish
Slovenian
Canadian
American
Russian
Chinese
Hungarian
Israeli
....and I'm sure there's more I've forgotten. Its a very cool atmosphere.

TerrorFirmer

Currently, I work with Latvians, Luthuanins, Poles, Irish, Russians and Ukrainians

Joys. But A great group of people tbh.

QualderWahl

I also work in a large multi-national I.T. environmment with about 10/15 different nationalities represented. I would estimate that 75% of the staff are Irish with the remainder being from all over continental Europe and a smattering from the US, Australia, NZ and China.

Although everyone gets on reasonably well in the work environment, I have noticed that the Irish people are generally closest friends with other Irish people. I'm not implying any inherent racism or anything, but I do not think the internationalising of the work force necessarily increases integration between Irish people and foreigners. Sure the superficial interaction is polite but real friendships and bonds only seem to exist between people of shared identity. Birds of a feather and all that I suppose...

Just my 2 cents.

iceman_2001_ie

My 9-5

Irish
British
French

My bar job

Irish
British
American
Liberian
Polish
Italian
South African

Of all the people I work with, the American is the funniest.

Goodshape

Czech's, Slovak's, English and German at the minute. I'm the only paddy-spud-eater in the office.

seamus

Em. We have one guy from Réunion and another from Holland (or maybe Denmark, actually I think it's Denmark).

Apart from that, the most foreign are English or Northern Irish.

simu

Irish, American, German, Italian, Swedish, Welsh - that's it afaik.

HeadOfTheManor

Irish, American, English, Scottish, Welsh (myself) and Polish

frodi

two from Crumlin now relocated to Rathfarnham & Kimmage and one from Perrystown now relkocated to Rathgar. That's three of us. All of us born within a year of each other!