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What company would you buy, just to sack everybody working there ?

  • 10-05-2004 01:09AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,075 ✭✭✭


    If you got a squillion quid in the morning , what company would you buy , just so that you could close it down - eradicating it from the face of the earth forever ?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,456 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    well the first company that springs to mind is

    Eircom.

    then i suppose any record company that has manufactured pop on the employee list.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,313 ✭✭✭bus77


    EIRCON!!!!:mad:

    Id bankrupt the company first tho, to make sure they got no golden handshakes or pensions;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭Chinafoot


    POWERCITY

    just cos i hate that idiot on the ad!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,532 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    Originally posted by peachypants
    POWERCITY

    just cos i hate that idiot on the ad!

    Does he actually work in Powercity or, is he an actor?

    suprised no one's said microsoft yet :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭billy the squid


    1. eircom

    But it might take several days for them to actually leave. you know what those eircom people behave. well do it but only in a couple of days when we feel like it

    and i would use the rest of the money to buy and shut down any other venture that tony o reily is involved in just so he could not get back on his feet again.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,532 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    Originally posted by Superman
    i still got a uniform (fleece and all) and a panic beeper!

    what good will they do you? other than looking cool and having something press when you panic...what good are they?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,330 ✭✭✭jetsonx


    Eircom - the company that does not give a **** about any of its customers, if they
    come across any difficulty you have whether it be a phone line or a internet prob.,
    they just fob you off by saying they will phone you back. had a job once doing
    research on this company. I would say at least 60% of their customers who dealt
    with them were pissed off with them. SHAME ON YOU EIRCOM.


    (another candidate)

    Dunnes Stores- why is everything in their St Bernard food range taste
    so **** ? ( and they are not cheap)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,136 ✭✭✭Superman


    Originally posted by RobertFoster
    what good will they do you? other than looking cool and having something press when you panic...what good are they?

    It means I get a free fleece, shirt and trousers and about a dozen ties, I'm blinged out in the best !

    The beeper is an emergency thing and when pressed near a station the garda head straigh there! great fun and a good distraction


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,136 ✭✭✭Superman


    hate to burst your bubble but eircom and the goverment have alot more impotant feckin things to worry about than making sure a couple of lab rats who sit in front pc's all day get a low ping!!!

    (ho ho! didn't i open a can of worms :))


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,532 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    Originally posted by Superman
    The beeper is an emergency thing and when pressed near a station the garda head straigh there! great fun and a good distraction

    I'm sure they'd notice you standing there laughing...especially if wearing 12 ties...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,136 ✭✭✭Superman


    Originally posted by RobertFoster
    I'm sure they'd notice you standing there laughing...especially if wearing 12 ties...

    thats the beuty can be done from 100yrds! and they gave me ties cause i kept on "loosing" them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭Tommy Vercetti


    PC World. They are all stupid liars!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,333 ✭✭✭Celt


    Originally posted by Superman
    thats the beuty can be done from 100yrds! and they gave me ties cause i kept on "loosing" them.
    You have a strange strange fetish...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 358 ✭✭Philbert


    Dublin Bus.

    For always being late and often never arriving. :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    ho ho! didn't i open a can of worms

    Not, not really.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,100 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    General Electric. Because bringing down the world's biggest corporation, and all its subsidary investments, will collapse the world economy and bring about a new world order.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭halkar


    I buy the government and sack them all :D will need more than squillion quid maybe :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭gobby


    suprised no one has mentioned.....

    MICROSOFT


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    the samaritans


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    Superman - sing it brother! ;)

    I used work for poxy statoil, everything he says is true. and the panic beepers are fun, drive by at night and set the alarm off to punish the bastards. When the alarm goes off they have to call one of the managers out of bed to go in and check on the place.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 590 ✭✭✭herbie747


    NTL.
    Hands down.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,162 ✭✭✭BKtje


    A research laboratory that is doing research into finding alternatives to oil.
    Id buy it and the sack em all cos they are taking too feckin long. Tho i guess thats more down to lack of funding so i guess id buy it and just give em a **** load of money, hire a load more scientists and errr put the rest on a warning. Gimme a cheap alternative or be sacked :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,143 ✭✭✭spongebob


    Eircom for their greed , ineptitude , perennial rudeness and unhelpfulness .

    Statoil are not a monopoly , at least I can drive past them no matter how bad they are.

    M


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,891 ✭✭✭Kersh


    Harvey Norman..cos those ads wreck my head.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,628 ✭✭✭Asok


    Cura for not advocating the

    "Black & Decker Cordless drill and clotheshanger" solution to their callers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 25,000 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Eircom so I could sell the guts to a decent telecoms company and get broadband rolled out properly in this country.

    Does Dail Eireann count as a company? No? Ok, just Fianna Fail head office then... should set them back enough to lose the next election ;)


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭Red Alert


    Compu Store - no where else are the staff so dense!

    Have any of them actually ever looked "into" a computer?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,985 ✭✭✭✭zAbbo


    Originally posted by Red Alert
    Compu Store - no where else are the staff so dense!

    Have any of them actually ever looked "into" a computer?
    There are Sales staff, and Tech staff.

    Oh and id buy out Coke Cola, and replace it with Pepsi, but in the familar Coke package. Just to watch millions of people go "bleehehhwhewwewew tis shat"


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,698 Mod ✭✭✭✭Silverfish


    Earcom.


    After three calls to their tech support yesterday, I eventually hung up and fixed it myself.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    Chorus

    hate the bastards


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