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Bulgarian workers/Keelings - read OP (threadbans listed)

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  • #32
    Kermit.de.frog
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    Quite a few here seem to believe the fruit picks itself.

    Bizarre.


  • #33
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,442 ✭✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    mulbot wrote: »
    The whole thing is unravelling.

    peoples sanity? yeah


  • #34
    plodder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,756 ✭✭✭plodder


    mulbot wrote: »
    You've done well to try twist the point, didn't quite work.
    What is your point then?

    “The opposite of 'good' is 'good intentions'”



  • #35
    D.Q
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,054 ✭✭✭D.Q


    plodder wrote: »
    What is your point then?

    Strange that someone would design a bot and actually call it a bot


  • #36
    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,661 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    Notdeco wrote: »
    Maybe you, but I'd rather travel and work than sit on my arse!
    And so would many others like to get out of the house and feel like they are doing something.
    But I am still working, if I wasn't and saw people being brought in to work. When there is a work force here, wanting to work. Why the **** would I not be pissed off?!
    It's people like you I hate, always putting down our own.
    When most of us are hard working.

    So many are out of jobs.
    Yet we get dickhead posts like this!

    Shame on you!
    Really. Shame on you.

    Faux outrage.


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  • #37
    Plumbthedepths
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    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Quite a few here seem to believe the fruit picks itself.

    Bizarre.

    How did you arrive at that. You are the only one who has suggested fruit picks itself. You are making an argument to have with yourself.


  • #38
    ricero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    Would love to know if these workers were tested for covid 19 ?

    I would say they more than likely were not.


  • #39
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,572 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    I wonder what other companies are doing the same thing?

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • #40
    mulbot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,604 ✭✭✭mulbot


    plodder wrote: »
    What is your point then?

    I think you know.


  • #41
    declanflynn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭declanflynn


    mulbot wrote: »
    I'm sure we could've found 200 though who would.
    would they be fast enough, between smoking and the phone I'd say a lot of the strawberries would rot


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  • #42
    mgn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,898 ✭✭✭mgn


    plodder wrote: »
    What's your point? You are being done out of a job, or you just don't want immigrants?

    My point has nothing to do with the job the are doing or immigrants,

    In case you have being living under a rock for the past few weeks, we are in the middle of pandemic and people being brought into the country without being tested.
    Ask any health care worker what the think of it before you start trying to play the race card sh*t with me.


  • #43
    Easy Rod
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    This is like the perfect storm of racists, social welfare haters and covid-19 conspiracy theorists all arriving into one thread.


  • #44
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,076 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    mulbot wrote: »
    The government will come out now with some bull s11t statement. The whole scam is unravelling.

    The scam being the global pandemic!

    Orchestrated by a North Dublin fruit farm?

    Amazing.


  • #45
    Jurgen Klopp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Jurgen Klopp


    Blue in the face from trying to explain this.

    These employers here and in the UK do not want locals because they would have to pay the minimum wage along with various other cover.

    They bring in loads of people from poor places such as Romania through agencies and pay them what is considered ok in their country.

    They get shoved dozens to a shed and get the pleasure of paying back their employer 50% if not more of their wage for "room and board"

    It works for them as the take home pay that would see them homeless here would be handy enough when they go back home.

    Look at the UK, the various agencies and that have been moaning for weeks and yet they keep telling locals the positions have been filled only to go public moaning again about shortages and how "they need special dispensation" to bring in migrant workers

    It's slave labour they want and I mean it, be lucky come out with €5 an hour after you've paid your "generous employer" back for the room and board

    Be some crack maintaining social distancing in lodgings more crammed than an army barracks

    However in saying that if lads want their own citizens get these jobs without having to still pay loads welfare like a dole top up to €203 then we'll have to expect to pay at least 2/3/4 times what we pay for picked fruit and veg now.


  • #46
    Cody montana
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    Great news.
    Keeping the food chain going.
    Fresh fruit for all!


  • #47
    TheBeach
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    It's not slave labour the wages are quite good 400-500 work per week and they live in site. HOWEVER I don't know how many hours they do per week for that salary. The same workers come back year after year, so it mustn't be too bad. I'd love to know who keelings chose this recruitment route though. I certainly wouldn't consider them an Irish food producer.


  • #48
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers, Paid Member Posts: 44,833 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    I hope revenue are all over Keelings after this


  • #49
    Cody montana
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    ricero wrote: »
    Absolutely vile stuff. Will be boycotting keelings from now on.

    More yummy fresh fruit for us!


  • #50
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    Some people were calling for Michael O leary as minister for health here a few weeks ago!!


    Same people now outraged.


  • #51
    Dravokivich
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    Duke of Url wrote: »
    :)

    lol . Are you saying Irish people would get off there arse to pick fruit?

    People who lost there jobs are getting paid 350 a week to sit on the couch.

    Some of them didn't even lose their jobs!


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  • #52
    lawrencesummers
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    I picked strawberries in a fruit farm up the road when in was a kid.
    5am starts.
    Back breaking work.
    Small pay.




    I’d stay home and take my €350 any day of the week.


    And so would the rest of you virtue signalling hypocrites.


  • #53
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Keelings Facebook page has some interesting comments. The most stark are those from Health care workers who have described Keelings behaviour as a kick in the teeth to frontline health care staff.
    Major PR disaster for Keelings. My last comment , night all.


  • #54
    Notdeco
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    declanflynn wrote: »
    A lot of Irish wouldn't do that type of work

    There is even more that would, the type that would like to work and feel good after doing a good day's work, rather than taking money for nothing off the government.
    Yet we get these idiot posts that's all about the money.

    So many sad posters coming on here saying Irish won't do it for the money. It's about a lot more than that.

    I'd feel proud for doing a hard day's work rather than sitting on my arse, and I'm sure 90% of those that have lost their jobs would agree.


  • #55
    Alrigghtythen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭Alrigghtythen


    People panic buying probably increased demand, only to throw them in the bin.

    I wonder how many people complaining either applied for the job themselves or what they are doing personally to keep food on the shelves.


  • #56
    declanflynn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭declanflynn


    plodder wrote: »
    I'm still wondering what the point of this is, if the poster didn't want the job themself, or they weren't complaining about immigrants generally.
    Hes like most people, wants employers to pay their staff huge wages and the government to pump money into everything but when food prices and income tax go up hes out on the streets protesting, braindead


  • #57
    Scotty #
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    ricero wrote: »
    Absolutely vile stuff. Will be boycotting keelings from now on.
    What's vile exactly? Keelings have been bringing in seasonal staff for decades. They are absolutely essential to the fruit and veg production in this country.

    Most of those coming in will have spent several summers in St.Margarets before and are highly productive. This is not simply 'picking strawberries' for pocket money. Most of these pickers are extremely efficient and highly experienced. Some can earn a serious living over the summer. You think Keelings want to recruit 200 'hairdressers' or whatever and have to train every one of them from scratch??

    Keeling put them up so there's very little interaction with the outside community anyway.
    ricero wrote: »
    Will be boycotting keelings from now on.
    Good luck with that. Almost all fruit AND veg in this country both imported and home grown passes through either Keelings or one of it's subsidiaries at one stage or another. They supply EVERY supermarket chain in this country.


  • #58
    Donald Trump
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    The OP wouldn't last a day doing the work. Although would do him no harm to try it for a day.

    And would likely be shite at it anyway.


  • #59
    declanflynn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭declanflynn


    Notdeco wrote: »
    There is even more that would, the type that would like to work and feel good after doing a good day's work, rather than taking money for nothing off the government.
    Yet we get these idiot posts that's all about the money.

    So many sad posters coming on here saying Irish won't do it for the money. It's about a lot more than that.

    I'd feel proud for doing a hard day's work rather than sitting on my arse, and I'm sure 90% of those that have lost their jobs would agree.
    Are you Dinny or Miley


  • #60
    noodler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,683 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    leavingirl wrote: »
    Do you get it, yet? Do you get it?

    The lockdown is not for your safety.
    I think this story is finally going to wake a lot of people up.

    I couldn't attend a family funeral. But 200 Eastern Europeans are allowed to come into Irleand with no questions asked.

    The Police State is disgusting and an attack on Irish people. People will have to be held accountable for this.

    Lol


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  • #61
    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,661 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Some of them didn't even lose their jobs!

    I would love to see the honest job description of what the job requires and pay + benefits.

    Irish people would be climbing over each other to get one of the jobs according to notdeco.


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