THE OFFICIAL AFTER HOURS RECCESION THREAD

hollywoodhoppy · 28-09-2008 03:36PM

TheDude2008 wrote: »

I certainly would not work for 8.65 a hour of course this is what it nearly has been driven down to now by the race to the bottom on building sites.
Question say your a young person who got layed off as lets say a engineer and you were earbing 50,000 a year, do u think that person would work for 8.65 a hour , who would as heck as like, but it seems ok for some people to suggest that people who have worked in building sites should work for that.

Dude,I am a young engineer, the money is good (not 50k good but still good) and I am flat out busy at the moment, but in six months time i will have lost my job (i am pretty sure about that), when that happens i will have no problem working for 8.65 an hour (if i can get a job) and i will do anything to earn that money, i will do so contently but different strokes for different folks, fair play to you for being ambitious/optimistic. For the rest of us, we take what we can get.

cson · 28-09-2008 03:44PM

hollywoodhoppy wrote: »

Dude,I am a young engineer, the money is good (not 50k good but still good) and I am flat out busy at the moment, but in six months time i will have lost my job (i am pretty sure about that), when that happens i will have no problem working for 8.65 an hour (if i can get a job) and i will do anything to earn that money, i will do so contently but different strokes for different folks, fair play to you for being ambitious/optimistic. For the rest of us, we take what we can get.

I know if I was an employer and was hiring again after we come through this recession and saw someone like yourself who was in a graduate job, lost it but had in the interim worked in McDonalds or somewhere and saw someone that had a more qualified graduate job but survived on social welfare in the interim, I know who I'd be hiring. :cool:

TheDude2008 · 28-09-2008 03:46PM

there centainly is not a lot of jobs around , take where i live last month there was a incresase of 1300 on the dole and this month i think its worse as ive heard that there was 865 new people signed on mon-thursday last week , it was the bigest on record. Now since i came back to ireland i could not get work at the buildings, ive applied for other jobs such as 2 factories you should of seen the amount of people going for that hundreds, i applied for 4 diffrent hotels never got it as it appears they only want to hire immigrants which i can verify beacuse when i rang to apply they said the job was gone yet it was in the paper for the next 2 weeks, applied to dunnes tesco and the rest never got it so dont tell me thers loads of jobs there cause they aint, if there was they wud not be on average of 20,000 a month going on the dole and increasing, this time next year we will have close to 600,000 on the dole.

hollywoodhoppy · 28-09-2008 04:07PM

TheDude2008 wrote: »

there centainly is not a lot of jobs around , take where i live last month there was a incresase of 1300 on the dole and this month i think its worse as ive heard that there was 865 new people signed on mon-thursday last week , it was the bigest on record. Now since i came back to ireland i could not get work at the buildings, ive applied for other jobs such as 2 factories you should of seen the amount of people going for that hundreds, i applied for 4 diffrent hotels never got it as it appears they only want to hire immigrants which i can verify beacuse when i rang to apply they said the job was gone yet it was in the paper for the next 2 weeks, applied to dunnes tesco and the rest never got it so dont tell me thers loads of jobs there cause they aint, if there was they wud not be on average of 20,000 a month going on the dole and increasing, this time next year we will have close to 600,000 on the dole.

You are right about the jobs situation, there is less and less work out there, i've a very good friend who is a bit of a 'jack of all trades' and generally very likeable person, extremely diligent etc. who was looking for work recently, he left no stone unturned but was unable to find anything, fortunately, there was a temporary position going where i work and its keeping him going. Fair play for trying and i hope it works out for you

TomCo · 28-09-2008 04:35PM

If we stop talking about recession it might go away. Its only doing it for attention.

Oshare Bones · 28-09-2008 04:45PM

TheDude2008 wrote: »

i applied for 4 diffrent hotels never got it as it appears they only want to hire immigrants which i can verify beacuse when i rang to apply they said the job was gone yet it was in the paper for the next 2 weeks

That sure is 100% verification they only hire immigrants.

marcsignal · 29-09-2008 12:27AM

Darragh29 wrote: »

I'm delighted we are in recession. The craziness that has been going over the last few years just was starting to make me want to throw up. People going around in Range Rovers and X5's looking down their noses at everyone aroudn them, buying up houses here there and everywhere pricing people out of the market who couldn't afford one home, now stuck living out in the back arse of nowhere facing 2 hour commutes to work and home every day...

The only problem with this recession is that it look so long in coming....

Darragh29 for Fuhrer

ShellBell1 · 29-09-2008 01:37AM

We're all FÙCKED, I'd say! :eek:

willie joe · 29-09-2008 10:14AM

I was a self employed plasterer up until last year. I was out of work for about three months and finally got a really crap job making 8.65 an hour. When I was plastering, i wouldn't have dreamed of working for this money.
Although I really, really, really detest this job and the really crap money, I have a family to support and i have to work. It makes me sick thinking of the lazy scummy leeches that are draining the system just because they wont lower themselves to look for and accept these sh**ty jobs. Its us minimum wage people that should be rewarded instead of those lazy brutes. Rant over. (for now)

projectmayhem · 29-09-2008 03:05PM

During this new recession I've gone from minimum wage lackey to managerial position at just under 30K/yr, all while doing part-time college work, which when I graduate I'm told my pay will probably go up by 60%, if not more. All of this within 8 months or so.

There is work out there, you just have to be willing to get on the ladder first.

Nolanger · 29-09-2008 05:37PM

Minimum weekly wage job is €8.65 * 40 = €346
Social Welfare for couple with 1 child is €197.80 + €131.30 + €24 = €353.10

thelordofcheese · 29-09-2008 05:49PM

cson wrote: »

I know if I was an employer and was hiring again after we come through this recession and saw someone like yourself who was in a graduate job, lost it but had in the interim worked in McDonalds or somewhere and saw someone that had a more qualified graduate job but survived on social welfare in the interim, I know who I'd be hiring. :cool:

Is it the guy who was on the dole?
It is, isn't it.

javaboy · 29-09-2008 06:16PM

thelordofcheese wrote: »

Is it the guy who was on the dole?
It is, isn't it.

Yeah cos he'd be well rested and ready to work. You don't want your new recruit to be knackered and angry with the world from working in fast food.

Nehaxak · 29-09-2008 06:24PM

Nolanger wrote: »

Minimum weekly wage job is €8.65 * 40 = €346
Social Welfare for couple with 1 child is €197.80 + €131.30 + €24 = €353.10

Also bare in mind that if you happen to be renting in council accomodation, your rent will drastically lower to take into account your unemployed status.
That plus the medical card and the other (actually very small) benefits of fuel and back to school allowances - you would actually be better off on the dole than working in a minimum wage job if you had a child.
Could also setup a little internet business on the side I suppose and keep it secret, make a little extra to get yourself on your feet and sure who knows, might even make enough from the interwebs to set yourself up with a comfortable income and not need the dole at all.

If I was out of work myself and found it hard getting another job here, I'd just emigrate sooner than what I'm expecting to do.

copacetic · 29-09-2008 06:47PM

projectmayhem wrote: »

During this new recession I've gone from minimum wage lackey to managerial position at just under 30K/yr, all while doing part-time college work, which when I graduate I'm told my pay will probably go up by 60%, if not more. All of this within 8 months or so.

There is work out there, you just have to be willing to get on the ladder first.

well done:rolleyes:, you're great.

It all depends what sector you are in. I know of 3 people on at least double your wages who have been let go in the last week. A mechanical engineer working in industry, a quantity surveyor and a sales director for an IT company. They have all been on the 'ladder' a long time, but their companies are in serious trouble and have had to cut to the bone in the hopes of survival.

They could all see this coming and have been looking around for a while and there is absolutely nothing for them here at the moment, all the companies that they may have gone to are struggling themselves and looking at letting people go, not take them on.

They're options look to be abroad or take something lower skilled here. One way Ireland loses a tax income, the other someone less qualified doesn't get that lower skilled job. Things are difficult out there, random posts about how you are ok so it must be easy to get work just aren't true.

05-11-2008 02:05PM

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Varkov · 05-11-2008 03:34PM

I'm making more money now than ever.

**** all y'all.

SimpleSam06 · 05-11-2008 03:54PM

Hmm, lets do the maths here. Quarter of a million unemployed, quarter of a million in government employ, around half a million economic migrants, leaving around a million to support everyone else, equals...

Yes indeed, we are fcuked.

ScumLord · 05-11-2008 04:24PM

Varkov wrote: »

I'm making more money now than ever.

**** all y'all.

Scab.

Gekko · 05-11-2008 05:36PM

can ye not spell: Recession?

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