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Old Boy Network

  • 05-10-2005 3:03pm
    #1
    davidian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭


    Hi,

    I'm doing a bit of research into public/private schools in Ireland and I'm trying to find out to what extent, if any, the Old Boy Network continues to operate in this modern Ireland. Have any of you on these boards had first-hand experience of getting passed over for a job, heard of shady deals done or just witnessed the general fat-cattery associated with former public/private schoolboys? What about politicians?

    As a former public/private schoolboy, it always amazed me the level of inter-connectedness of my classmates and their parents both socially and in business. Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is bang on about the public/private school system here!

    D


Comments

  • #2
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    The old boy network operates in every walk of life. I've gotten my previous two jobs through knowing someone working for the company. Not old boys from school, just people I've gotten to know.


  • #3
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    God Bless your innocence.

    Could I interest you in a bag of magic beans?


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