Back in the late 2000's and early 2010's Bill Cullen use to be on the TV all the time but now you never see him on TV anymore.
It's like hes been "cancelled".
I didn't like him. He was a bluffer. He made the assumption that a lot of wealthy people make, their superior intellect/work ethic/character, is what made them wealthy. In reality it's usually down to family wealth (not Bill's case) or luck (Bill's case).
Listening to him telling young people to work for free "to get a foot in the door" was so out of touch with reality.
Yes, while working for himself. Not working for other people.
Not really. if they were just out of college, no jobs available for unexperienced employees, living at home. Were they not better off work for free for a year and get experience? or sit at home twiddling their thumbs?
I meant him working for other people, when he was young starting out.
Ive read Penny Apples and I couldn't stop laughing about how he wrote about himself in the third person. Some self aggrandizing rubbish. I cannot remember if I thought it was ghost written or not. I assume it was ghost written.
To be fair to Bill, he was is a great networker and sales man. But he isn't exactly Phil Knight or Bill Gates.
But he didn't.
You are being very selective on the quote.
The concept was that if you were out of a job, then rather than be sitting doing nothing, offer yourself to places for free.
The idea was that if you are working it is easier to get a new job than if you are unemployed.
My brother in law was a senior manager in finance. He worked for me in 2010 in a warehouse packing boxes. He was paid minimum wage.
No, if you are working for someone you deserve payment for your labour.
Kevin Myers, Olivia Treacy and Gerald Keane all seemed to be all over RTE the Indo etc. onetime but aren't heard from anymore. Seems to happen to some for whatever reason.
The employer might not have the money to pay you. this was in a bad recession.
Where you there? The Gleneagle Hotel Oct 2004? Did you hear him say something different ? Because if you were not and didn't hear what he did or did not say. Then you have no idea how seletive I am being with a quote.
Fine, give me equity. No one should work for free. And Bill said this in 2004, not during a ressesion.
Dr. Bill first went into space when he was 17 year old
Don't forget your space-coddle
ok, so its not in a recession and im fresh out of college, need experience but cant get any, the employers all want guys with a few years experience. they take me on but for no payment. we both benefit from the deal.
This thread is a great excuse to post this.
Please don't chastise me because it's still only November.
Thats correct, last I heard he isn't in good shape with it either. Horrible disease, knew him through the motor trade but wouldn't be a big fan of his but hopefully he isn't suffering
Do you think there is any type of work a car dealership can offer. That is so speciallised that paid work can not be found somewhere else. It is not like he runs NASA.
I didn’t like him. A pain in the arse. I know plenty of successful people that don’t go on with his shite- holidays and breaks are great for people and mean they come back fresher with better ideas and energy. He was stuck in that Victorian mindset. What exactly was innovative about him? The engineers and designers that built the cars he sold did all the real heavy lifting, he was shuffling around bank credit until the deck of cards collapsed
his missus Jackie is on Twitter, weirdly her only contributions are every few weeks retweeting stuff, social / political…
Going back a bit and no mention of the Bill fella anywhere.
I saw him in the distance at a local function a few weeks back with the misses ,she still looks well and he seems to have aged quiet a bit but he still is out and about anyway
I wasnt talking about working in a car dealership. But during the recession a lot of graduates couldnt get work, so why not work for free for a while to get experience.
Why wouldn't companies pay if they needed labour? People didn't work for free in the 80's.
Hope he remembered to cancel that 100th birthday party booking before it really took hold.
I think he got caught believing he had the golden touch but the crash showed it's a lot to do with luck and timing too, he was fierce bitter as expected when it all went south
Why have a lot of threads become so snarky, he came across as a bit folksy but other thant harmless.
People seem to forget that until relatively recently the Irish Irish media was a club you never heard a working class accent and the Irish media definition of an enturpner was a property developer.
The late-Ma used to go out with him in the early 60's. I couldn't believe how he wrote about himself in the third-person, really cringe-worthy.
In fairness though, he was self-made and was very ambitious at a time when the country was on its knees economically. But we don't like those types of people though, don't we though?
He also gave all the money from the book to a charity.
I love self made entrepreneurs but not ones like Cullen. They grate on me
Around 2016 sales company I worked for booked him to give a motivational talk to the sales staff over the phone one morning.
Around 9 am We all sitting around the desk with the phone on speaker, Bill nattering away about how he had got up at 3 am that morning and had a whole day’s work done already, better than any of us sitting listening to him. Lot of “I’m great - yiz are sh1t” type stories.
He mentioned he was going into space soon. Not sure if that ever happened?
1 thing that stuck with me is he said he would regularly go in to work secretly early on a Sunday to sweep the yard and have the place looking immaculate for Monday. The line dropped a few times and then we would have the distorted sound of Bill droning on cutting in and out telling us why we were crap sales staff. I was told afterward the reason it was over the phone was Management went with the cheapest option.
The skits of him on The Last Word used to be hilarious.
Doctor Bill.
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