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23-10-2020 02:59PM

This could actually be, or have been a valuable public service, in pointing the spotlight on the process to become a contract tracer.

When does he introduce it? At 2.50pm, after spending half an hour on Aileen and Jimmy.

golondrinas · 23-10-2020 02:59PM

I hope this wan doesn’t succeed. When someone ,unknown , rings me up while out of breath I fear the worst.

2smiggy · 23-10-2020 02:59PM

hurry up caller FFS , the Jag is running

jojofizzio · 23-10-2020 02:59PM

Ten Pin wrote: »

"Please explain the 2 year gap in employment"

"Oh that's how long it took to fill out the contact tracing application form"

:D:D

thecretinhop · 23-10-2020 02:59PM

telling ye its jobs for de boys

PauloMN · 23-10-2020 02:59PM

Joe was hoping for a quicker story at 2.59pm lol

Dan Jaman · 23-10-2020 03:00PM

3pm and time to go, Joe.
Another show in the can / bin
Another wedge in the tin
Montrose waves goodbye in the mirrors.

23-10-2020 03:00PM

You've 20 seconds missus HURRY

Denny61 · 23-10-2020 03:00PM

Who ever produces this show..shud be sacked ..very important items get 5 min at the end. A love story gets 20 min .go now

thecretinhop · 23-10-2020 03:00PM

anyone know where it is tracer might give it a whirl

SEPT 23 1989 · 23-10-2020 03:01PM

battling your ego?

TheHomeService · 23-10-2020 03:01PM

Pure Duffy.

Talk utter shoyte for 45 minutes about The Rare Oul Times, shoehorn something useful into last 4 minutes.

jojofizzio · 23-10-2020 03:01PM

Deleted User wrote: »

That's in a file, no problem to supply it.

I hope you’ve applied caller.....you should be in post by the time the next pandemic swings around,if I know Irish public service recruitment

23-10-2020 03:01PM

"Never missed a day"

JOE.............

bottlebrush · 23-10-2020 03:01PM

All its short of asking is 'where do you see yourself in 5 years'. I'm thinking of people who answered that question in interviews 5 years ago!

23-10-2020 03:02PM

Surely if she's got verified substantial work experience that has brought her up to the level of good skills the leaving cert should not be necessary. It is possible to achieve a PhD without ever having done a Leaving Cert.

PauloMN · 23-10-2020 03:04PM

State jobs almost always require a LC. I really admire people who have made a career without one and appreciate that school is not for everyone.

However the moaning and entitlement from some people who have either not done the LC or who lost their results is hilarious. It's all but but but me me me.

jam_mac_jam · 23-10-2020 03:06PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Surely if she's got verified substantial work experience that has brought her up to the level of good skills the leaving cert should not be necessary. It is possible to achieve a PhD without ever having done a Leaving Cert.

exactly. Its completely irrelevant to anyone that hasn't just left school. I have never used my results in any job

23-10-2020 03:06PM

thecretinhop wrote: »

telling ye its jobs for de boys

I can verify that there very much ARE jobs for the boys in the public service, it happens in DCC Libraries for temp jobs. Children of the staff are invariably offered the temp positions (summer/evening/weekend shifts) before any outsiders.

jam_mac_jam · 23-10-2020 03:10PM

PauloMN wrote: »

State jobs almost always require a LC. I really admire people who have made a career without one and appreciate that school is not for everyone.

However the moaning and entitlement from some people who have either not done the LC or who lost their results is hilarious. It's all but but but me me me.

They should be making it easy for people to apply when the system is about to collapse. Your leaving doesn't matter if you have twenty years work experience, it doesn't in the real world so there is no need for it to in a state job.

Your last two jobs, references is enough. Who cares what anyone got in their leaving cert a million years ago.

but no we must have the bureaucracy because we always have that and changing it to be like any other job would just be wrong.

Lets just let the system collapse.

ShamNNspace · 23-10-2020 03:11PM

Ten Pin wrote: »

Michael Ring on news getting all excited about the 5k limit being terrible but still won't vote against it.....because he wants to stay in FG.....he can't even be bothered to hide the hypocrisy any more

Heard this but not the show today, believe me Ring is one of the wiliest politicians on the go, he runs with the hare and hunts with the hounds all the time, mark my words he'll top the poll again the next time out

23-10-2020 03:13PM

Denny61 wrote: »

Who ever produces this show..shud be sacked ..very important items get 5 min at the end. A love story gets 20 min .go now

To be honest, I'm actually fuming. Perhaps to the point of writing to someone. We had yer one from Lancashire who can't visit her mother in a nursing home, after ironically enough yesterdays show. Then the life history of Aileen and Jimmy, then I forget who else, and then yer one from Bray who's biggest complaint in her free accomodation was she waited an hour for butter and the TV has no remote, and then a story that might actually have value to the nation gets wedged in in the last 5 minutes of the programme.

jam_mac_jam · 23-10-2020 03:16PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

To be honest, I'm actually fuming. Perhaps to the point of writing to someone. We had yer one from Lancashire who can't visit her mother in a nursing home, after ironically enough yesterdays show. Then the life history of Aileen and Jimmy, then I forget who else, and then yer one from Bray who's biggest complaint in her free accomodation was she waited an hour for butter and the TV has no remote, and then a story that might actually have value to the nation gets wedged in in the last 5 minutes of the programme.

Do it while you are angry. It will help.

ButtersSuki · 23-10-2020 03:16PM

PauloMN wrote: »

Oh use a bit of initiative ffs. Attach a letter explaining you did the LC in 79 and that you have requested the doc. Jesus wept....

Enough of you and your common sense and cop on!

TheHomeService wrote: »

I’m surprised Matt Rass Mick hasn’t been on with a new telly for Levi (+3)‘s Ma.

because he's Matt Tress Mick and not TV Tony.

jojofizzio wrote: »

I hope you’ve applied caller.....you should be in post by the time the next pandemic swings around,if I know Irish public service recruitment

or Phase 3 in January, because it's coming.

Deleted User wrote: »

To be honest, I'm actually fuming. Perhaps to the point of writing to someone. We had yer one from Lancashire who can't visit her mother in a nursing home, after ironically enough yesterdays show. Then the life history of Aileen and Jimmy, then I forget who else, and then yer one from Bray who's biggest complaint in her free accomodation was she waited an hour for butter and the TV has no remote, and then a story that might actually have value to the nation gets wedged in in the last 5 minutes of the programme.

I half-caught that. Did she mean someone from the HSE went out and got a pound of butter and delivered it to her?

23-10-2020 03:23PM

ButterSuki wrote:

I half-caught that. Did she mean someone from the HSE went out and got a pound of butter and delivered it to her?

She was in emergency accomodation and her 1 year old tested positive. She was told she was being moved to alternative accomodation for people who are close contacts of someone who have tested positive. She said it's basically a hotel just not up to her standards. She rang down to reception to get butter delivered up to her and it took them an hour to deliver it, and on top of that, there's no remote for the TV.

Clearly a matter of national importance.

ButtersSuki · 23-10-2020 03:29PM

Deleted User wrote: »

She was in emergency accomodation and her 1 year old tested positive. She was told she was being moved to alternative accomodation for people who are close contacts of someone who have tested positive. She said it's basically a hotel just not up to her standards. She rang down to reception to get butter delivered up to her and it took them an hour to deliver it, and on top of that, there's no remote for the TV.

Clearly a matter of national importance.

FFS.:rolleyes:

23-10-2020 03:46PM

On a very trivial note got my official Christmas cruise cancellation email just now

; however apart from a full refund on offer I have the option of them keeping the money and adding 10% credit into it for a cruise within next two years or when a COVID situation allows cruising again.

That's better than having it in any bank! Plus I get full double loyalty bonus points which means an extra big discount! Think I will book a few cruises as a means of savings!

PauloMN · 23-10-2020 04:17PM

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

They should be making it easy for people to apply when the system is about to collapse. Your leaving doesn't matter if you have twenty years work experience, it doesn't in the real world so there is no need for it to in a state job.

Your last two jobs, references is enough. Who cares what anyone got in their leaving cert a million years ago.

but no we must have the bureaucracy because we always have that and changing it to be like any other job would just be wrong.

Lets just let the system collapse.

The system is not struggling because of the admittedly poor application system. They'll have no shortage of applicants who DO actually have a LC. Nothing to do with the moaners who rang in to complain about it on LL today.

Spanish Eyes · 23-10-2020 04:32PM

Deleted User wrote: »

She was in emergency accomodation and her 1 year old tested positive. She was told she was being moved to alternative accomodation for people who are close contacts of someone who have tested positive. She said it's basically a hotel just not up to her standards. She rang down to reception to get butter delivered up to her and it took them an hour to deliver it, and on top of that, there's no remote for the TV.

Clearly a matter of national importance.

How is the poor crathur going to get her "wages" on payday jaysis, if she and the kids are in 14 day quarantine. She must have it paid into the bank otherwise the remote control and butter delivery is the least of her worries. Crackpot stuff.

thecretinhop · 23-10-2020 05:09PM

aha census interviews years ago not a sausage.
years ago mad women in a fiat uno blowing de horn i went out ur census form I hate dogs threw papers at me and drove off lol.
also polling days same faces

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