Does anyone else find sod-turning ceremonies cringeworthy?

Ubbquittious · 04-08-2021 01:18PM #1

Office lads who clearly enjoyed too many chicken dinners in the Shelbourne standing around with big cheesy grins on their faces

Clad in brand spanking new hi-vis jacket and a hard hat straight out of the plastic wrapper.

Barely knows by which end to catch the shovel

As soon as they fcuk off back to their plush Dublin offices a horde of Polish workers on 300 a week are sent in to do the actual work.

Why do they still have these ceremonies? Purely to allow the fat sedentary office crowd take even more credit for the work they don't do?

Collie D · 04-08-2021 01:22PM

Maybe

Allinall · 04-08-2021 01:24PM

€300 a week? hahahahahahahaha

Feisar · 04-08-2021 02:00PM

As someone somewhere between the lad at the coal face and the wanker in the suit I can say it's pure tripe.

A load of power laughing and back clapping etc. And then back to trying to stab each other in the back/rip someone off/get the job done as cheaply as possible.

Gregor Samsa · 04-08-2021 07:26PM

On a point of information: You wouldn’t use a shovel for breaking ground. You’d use a spade.

05-08-2021 10:59AM

Yeah the shining new hard hat and yellow jacket with the big well fed belly sticking out through the suit is the universal set up for these occasions. There is normally a politician along too to get their face in the photo for the local paper.