Big Trouble Brewing in the Passport Office.

Jesus Wept · 22-03-2010 03:41PM

SomeFool wrote: »

You can get your passport through the post office, think it's about €5 extra, but no queing involved, just send off your details in an envelope.

I'm pretty certain they are processed in the same place and there is a backlog of 40k passports at the moment.

Noopti · 22-03-2010 03:41PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

It's still processed by the passport office.

Yes, but at least you can then hunger stike in the comfort of your own home.

mawk · 22-03-2010 03:41PM

glad I got my passport just recently. I found the staff to be fast happy and helpful. cork btw.

I say that if the public sector want better pay they should nominate 10% of their fellow staff to be canned and the pay redistributed. same with taxis, they could vote for licenses to be revoked

22-03-2010 03:41PM

Makes a change, it's usually just tea!

ejmaztec · 22-03-2010 03:42PM

kippy wrote: »

The whole 300000 or so of us?

No you're ok, he just wants shot of the 299,999.

Degsy · 22-03-2010 03:42PM

jhegarty wrote: »

You have a choice of nightclub , but not of passport office.

Don't go to the nightclub it will shut down and those people will be out of a job. The same doesn't apply to the passport office.

The passport office arent alloweed to hire anymore staff when it gets busy...its busier than ever with fewer staff and they're making less money to boot.
If a niteclub had more customers,thier profits would increase and they'd get more staff.

Ostrom · 22-03-2010 03:43PM

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

I must admit listening to the stories the poor people had to tell i was so :mad:, theres a revolution brewing people, people are not going to be pushed around and treated like crap anymore by lazy imcomptent overpaid public servants.

You think its easy for the rest of us to watch? Many of us want nothing to do with these tactics

Stark · 22-03-2010 03:47PM

Degsy wrote: »

The passport office arent alloweed to hire anymore staff when it gets busy...its busier than ever with fewer staff and they're making less money to boot.
If a niteclub had more customers,thier profits would increase and they'd get more staff.

Fecking off home early doesn't help. I'd like to see nightclub staff trying to shut a place down at 12am and then expect to still get paid for the hours they didn't work.

miju · 22-03-2010 03:50PM

murf313 wrote: »

yeah those filthy public servants, how dare they strike. i bet they're eating babies on all their tea breaks as well.......

ah now we're scum but we wouldn't be eating babies..........not without a bit of jam or something on them anyways

starbelgrade · 22-03-2010 03:50PM

Degsy wrote: »

The passport office arent alloweed to hire anymore staff when it gets busy...its busier than ever with fewer staff and they're making less money to boot.
If a niteclub had more customers,thier profits would increase and they'd get more staff.

If a nightclub member stopped working because the club was "too busy", they'd be out the door pretty sharpish. That's the difference with the public sector - when they have to get the finger out, they throw a strop because they know they'll get away with it.

Itsdacraic · 22-03-2010 03:50PM

This is what they get for showing Some Mothers Son on TG4 last night. I suppose the passport staff can be lucky they didn't show Falling Down.

mike65 · 22-03-2010 03:50PM

Liveline is rising up! Cracking radio.

I suppose the passport staff can be lucky they didn't show Falling Down.

ITV4 on Thursday.

Stinicker · 22-03-2010 03:51PM

Could the people in Dublin who urgently need a passport get one in the Cork passport office? You can drive down there is about three hours.

JONJO THE MISER · 22-03-2010 03:52PM

mike65 wrote: »

Liveline is rising up! Cracking radio.

ITV4 on Thursday.

That union guy is being laid into right now by a caller, fair play to her.

starbelgrade · 22-03-2010 03:52PM

Stinicker wrote: »

Could the people in Dublin who urgently need a passport get one in the Cork passport office? You can drive down there is about three hours.

Do the Dubs not need a passport to get into Cork?

super_furry · 22-03-2010 03:53PM

Hunger strike? Muppet.

Carolyyn · 22-03-2010 03:53PM

Stinicker wrote: »

The Public sector and unions are nothing but scum, everyone of them should be sacked and not be given any dole either.

What an uninformed ignorant opinion. Does your world view also cover firefighters, nurses, doctors, teachers, social workers, etc?
You'd be much smarter to direct your energy and anger at your local politicans who represent the government that are setting all workers up to fight each other based on a public / private sector divide. The "divide and conquer" tactic is working spectacularly well for them serving as a convenient distraction from their own failings to do anything about unemployment
Most of the people working in the Passport Office are lowly paid clerical workers earning under €30,000 a year, many rearing families and paying Dublin price mortgages. They are very angry at being scapgoated in the last budget with a whopping 5% levy while no such penalty was applied to the private sector.
Finally be very careful about dismissing unions and referring to them as "scum". Unless you are an employer yourself you may very well need them as you stand your ground against an abusive or bullying boss in the future.

Super-Rush · 22-03-2010 03:53PM

Stinicker wrote: »

The Public sector and unions are nothing but scum, everyone of them should be sacked and not be given any dole either.

Don't troll in here again.

6ix · 22-03-2010 03:54PM

Degsy wrote: »

The passport office arent alloweed to hire anymore staff when it gets busy...its busier than ever with fewer staff and they're making less money to boot.
If a niteclub had more customers,thier profits would increase and they'd get more staff.

Like many jobs, there have been layoffs where I work. I have to do more work, and I'm paid 10% less for it. The difference is that I can't throw a strop and not do my job. If I don't get on with it, I'll be fired. The passport office people have the luxury of knowing their job is safe.

Stinicker · 22-03-2010 03:57PM

super-rush wrote: »

Don't troll in here again.

How can anyone defend overpaid workers in our public service? Our Public and civil service is split between the lazy useless PS elite who get far too much pay the guys on the coal face, like nurses etc. Trade Unions only ever cause trouble and listening to Joe and to hear they have decided to only give passports to those who have a death in the family.

I think one thing this raises is why we need both National ID cards and why we should join schengen.

Degsy · 22-03-2010 03:58PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

If a nightclub member stopped working because the club was "too busy", they'd be out the door pretty sharpish. That's the difference with the public sector - when they have to get the finger out, they throw a strop because they know they'll get away with it.

No,its because thier workload has gone up and thier wages have come down to bail out the corrupt bastards in the private sector such as bankers and property developers.

Slydice · 22-03-2010 04:00PM

Trouble?

Big Trouble?

In Ireland?

Are ye féicin jokin me?

Ireland wouldn't shift it's arse when it priests were becoming really familiar with it or bankers were having a good ole time with it.

Trouble... Nah

There'll be féic all trouble.

This is Ireland after all.

We're all Irish.

We wouldn't lift a finger.

ixoy · 22-03-2010 04:00PM

Carolyyn wrote: »

Most of the people working in the Passport Office are lowly paid clerical workers earning under €30,000 a year, many rearing families and paying Dublin price mortgages.

30k is actually a good wage for the workload and benefits for a clerical officer. It's not lowly paid.

They are very angry at being scapgoated in the last budget with a whopping 5% levy while no such penalty was applied to the private sector.

5% whopping? Also it wasn't a levy - it was a pay cut. The budget before was the levy...

There seems to be the notion at times that the PS/CS are the only people who've had a pay cut in any shape or form! Very frustrating.

Finally be very careful about dismissing unions and referring to them as "scum". Unless you are an employer yourself you may very well need them as you stand your ground against an abusive or bullying boss in the future.

I think you'll find most private sector employees aren't a member of a union and so won't be using them at any time in the near future.

ScumLord · 22-03-2010 04:03PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

Do the Dubs not need a passport to get into Cork?

No they just need to be drugged, bound and gagged like everyone else that needs to go to Cork

starbelgrade · 22-03-2010 04:04PM

Degsy wrote: »

No,its because thier workload has gone up and thier wages have come down to bail out the corrupt bastards in the private sector such as bankers and property developers.

I think you'll find that most people are working harder these days for less money, but most don't have the luxury of working to rule.

eirmail · 22-03-2010 04:04PM

I bet you all the union leaders have valid passports, they might have got in and renewed them a couple of months ago if they had something coming up.

Rest assured though, of the 40,000 waiting to be processed there will be nurses and teachers amongst them. If some nurse misses her honeymoney this easter do you think the union leaders would care? not a chance.

22-03-2010 04:05PM

eirmail wrote: »

I bet you all the union leaders have valid passports, they might have got in and renewed them a couple of months ago if they had something coming up.

Rest assured though, of the 40,000 waiting to be processed there will be nurses and teachers amongst them. If some nurse misses her honeymoney this easter do you think the union leaders would care? not a chance.

Whats going on here then?

Super-Rush · 22-03-2010 04:05PM

Stinicker wrote: »

How can anyone defend overpaid workers in our public service? Our Public and civil service is split between the lazy useless PS elite who get far too much pay the guys on the coal face, like nurses etc. Trade Unions only ever cause trouble and listening to Joe and to hear they have decided to only give passports to those who have a death in the family.

I think one thing this raises is why we need both National ID cards and why we should join schengen.

There are ways of getting your point across without calling people scum.

22-03-2010 04:07PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

I think you'll find that most people are working harder these days for less money, but most don't have the luxury of working to rule.

most being more than 50 percent?

So more than 50 percent of the working population have taken pay cuts have they?

meditraitor · 22-03-2010 04:08PM

Fianna f***ing fail must be busting their hole laughing, Joe bloggs v Joe bloggs and not a word about the devious malcontents who set all this in motion:mad:

Big Trouble Brewing in the Passport Office.

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