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Pole On the Dole In a Hole Plays the Troll

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 315 ✭✭travelledpengy


    My girffriend worked in a hotel during college..

    An Asian guy hadn't been in for weeks..

    Gf asks his friend where is her..

    He said he has found the dole and given up work!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    My girffriend worked in a hotel during college..

    An Asian guy hadn't been in for weeks..

    Gf asks his friend where is her..

    He said he has found the dole and given up work!
    Worst. Joke. Evaar.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    My girffriend worked in a hotel during college..

    An Asian guy hadn't been in for weeks..

    Gf asks his friend where is her..

    He said he has found the dole and given up work!

    My girlfriend when to college an an Asian guy stole the hotel:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,510 ✭✭✭Ellis Dee


    At the end of the day, all things are relative, and Magda's life is not all that luxurious. It certainly is a lot better than she is probably used to in Poland, but she is still getting only about €1,000 a month. She is fortunate to be able to live relatively inexpensively and has nice beaches to walk along. Just a pity the fresh air, clean environment and attractive scenery do not inspire some noble thoughts in her.:rolleyes:

    And yet her life can't be all that wonderful if she has to go on living in a place she considers a shithole. Or does that mean she is just passing through?:rolleyes::D:D

    As to the question in the OP, yes, unfortunately, this is the price we have to pay to ensure that many families in genuine need do not suffer unnecessarily.:cool:

    There are people like Magda everywhere, and if a leech like her wasn't sponging off the system here, she'd probably be doing it at home in Poland - where there is even less fat on the bone for her to gnaw on and where her greed would impact even harder on people who are worse off than any in Ireland.

    I wonder does she have any idea - or care at all - how much prejudice she is stirring up against all those Poles who are working hard here, paying their taxes and generally making a positive contribution to Irish society? Now they will have to take a slagging, and perhaps face even more unpleasant consequences, and I fear the kind of Irish people who will seize on Magda's idiotic boasting to reinforce their own xenophobia and envy will not get it when the hard-working Poles point out that she - like some Irish people as well - will act like leeches no matter what country they are in.:)

    I also find it irresponsible that Polish media give publicity to this one fool who brings shame on her compatriots.:eek:

    I hope the Polish community soon find out who she is and treat her to a large Cracow salami - rammed into her rotten pizda!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Excellent thread title - must thank the guy that pointed it out!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Would somebody please think of the Daily Mail!

    How did it miss this story!!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Can't seem to quote it properly but this is my favourite line of the whole article
    with one Labour senator last night offering to pay for her flight home.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    "How do I live? Wonderfully. I get an allowance of €188 a week plus €59 for the flat. In the winter I get an extra €20 for fuel. It's €267 a week," she said.


    I admire her spirit though. She is happy with the amount the government gives her, says its a fortune, even goes to the national newspapers about her good fortune.

    She does not moan she is not getting more


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭Volthar


    I have tried to leave a comment under the article on Independent.ie to clarify the situation. No abusive language... just the plain translation from the original article in the polish newspaper. 1 hour later... my comment still not published.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,037 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    Shouldn't be that hard to track her down, afaik all SW Claims are coded when set up e.g. what was claimant doing prior to signing on - Working (35) : occupation - Waiter/Waitress (72). I'm sure a scan of all claims by the Local Offices in Donegal (if they choose to do so) could show what Female Polish claimant fits these codes and mobilise the inspectors.

    Sure it smacks of racial profiling and will be a mjor inconvenience to other genuine polish claimants who are lieuing to work but hey, she started it.

    Has to be Buncrana, that's a wild auld hole of a place :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,152 ✭✭✭Morrisseeee


    Senator Jimmy Harte told the Irish Independent: "This woman is doing an enormous disservice to the Polish community in Co Donegal and to other hard-working non-nationals.

    "She has clearly taken advantage of Irish hospitality. I would like to see her go back to Poland and if we can find out who she is, I'd gladly pay for her flight home."

    He added: "Apart from her clear intent to take advantage of our social welfare system, to describe her home as a s***hole just adds insult to injury."

    But....................why wouldn't she take advantage, she'd be fairly stupid not to, I can't understand his reasoning, she's claiming what's rightfully hers. What does the senator think of all of the Irish people taking advantage of the 'system', what does he think about the ESB guy who retired recently with a party in a 5 star hotel with the biggest payout in the state ??!! fcekin gobshiite.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 221 ✭✭anto2


    She probably earns extra giving massage at home with happy endings '-) It just proves how over paid single people on the Dole are in Ireland .When i was last in Ireland in 2008 i lived quite well myself on 100 euros a week from savings .I did not want to go on the Dole .


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    YFlyer wrote: »
    Wonder what his handicap is?

    Probably playing off about 17. Those links courses can be a pain.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,644 ✭✭✭theg81der


    I would be very suspicious of anything thats feed to the Indo. Tony Reilly is the Governments bitch, the Indo only ever says what the Government wants.

    And back to work allowance hasn`t existed since 2009 so not factually correct anyway.

    And Magda`s not a dumb ass look at the number of massage places that have closed and people don`t have money for it anyway. She would be offering this service at home I`m sure if the business was there to be had in which case she`s earning extra income.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭Volthar


    Plazaman wrote: »
    Shouldn't be that hard to track her down, afaik all SW Claims are coded when set up e.g. what was claimant doing prior to signing on - Working (35) : occupation - Waiter/Waitress (72). I'm sure a scan of all claims by the Local Offices in Donegal (if they choose to do so) could show what Female Polish claimant fits these codes and mobilise the inspectors.

    Sure it smacks of racial profiling and will be a mjor inconvenience to other genuine polish claimants who are lieuing to work but hey, she started it.

    Has to be Buncrana, that's a wild auld hole of a place :D

    Apparently she was not a waitress. She worked in a Hostel for couple of years.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    Plazaman wrote: »
    Shouldn't be that hard to track her down, afaik all SW Claims are coded when set up e.g. what was claimant doing prior to signing on - Working (35) : occupation - Waiter/Waitress (72). I'm sure a scan of all claims by the Local Offices in Donegal (if they choose to do so) could show what Female Polish claimant fits these codes and mobilise the inspectors.

    Sure it smacks of racial profiling and will be a mjor inconvenience to other genuine polish claimants who are lieuing to work but hey, she started it.

    Has to be Buncrana, that's a wild auld hole of a place :D



    Does this mean its open season on anyone who starts?

    *Rubs hands


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    But....................why wouldn't she take advantage, she'd be fairly stupid not to, I can't understand his reasoning, she's claiming what's rightfully hers. What does the senator think of all of the Irish people taking advantage of the 'system', what does he think about the ESB guy who retired recently with a party in a 5 star hotel with the biggest payout in the state ??!! fcekin gobshiite.

    Its ok for the Irish to take advantage of the system, but no foreigners, didn't ya know?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,474 ✭✭✭Crazy Horse 6


    Look the Irish dole heads are just as bad but i've met countless eastern europeans who can't believe their luck getting money for nothing here more than twice the wage they would get at home for doing a weeks work. The system is a sham of the highest order.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    anto2 wrote: »
    She probably earns extra giving massage at home with happy endings '-) It just proves how over paid single people on the Dole are in Ireland .When i was last in Ireland in 2008 i lived quite well myself on 100 euros a week from savings .I did not want to go on the Dole .

    SSSHhhhh, you could get lynched for that type of talk around here


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,474 ✭✭✭Crazy Horse 6


    micropig wrote: »
    Its ok for the Irish to take advantage of the system, but no foreigners, didn't ya know?

    It is not okay for the Irish to take advantage at all, that does'nt mean we should ignore the foreigners who take the piss also.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Motorist


    Last night a Labour senator based in Donegal said the claims were 'outrageous'.

    Yes the claims are outrageous, but they are very true. Welfare rates are far too high here. Far too many parasites choose it as a lifestyle and expect the State to pay for everything.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 287 ✭✭rambutman


    Well if she's going to be getting the cash anyway..............she's probably better off doing something healthy with her days than spending it on beers, fags (and drugs) which QUITE A FEW (but not all of course) people i know on the dole are doing...............getting fat, fecking up their liver and lungs and potentially in the long run costing us more through the health care system.
    I don't sign on (and haven't for about 15 years just after I came out of college) and come from a little village in the west of Ireland (only up the road from the one you're thinking off)....................MOST people I know are on the dole..................a hell of a lot of them party the money away and never bother to even try and find a job........its a real kick in the teeth for working people and unemployed people who are finding it tough financially and to find a job.............in MY area/age group (30's) these are at a minimum - i'd say even less in the 20's.
    During the good times however my bro worked as a foreman on a construction site and regularly had to let cash in hand workers off during the week to go and sign on..................people from all nationalities irish and foreign............................there's shag all incentive to go get a job when life (for a lot of people) is so good on the dole.............i'd get it myself if it weren't for family committments (maintenance) and the fact i'm not entitled as I'm self employed and have been for 10 years, pay my taxes, PRSI and pass on the VAT i get paid from my clients.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,044 ✭✭✭gcgirl


    Volthar wrote: »
    I have tried to leave a comment under the article on Independent.ie to clarify the situation. No abusive language... just the plain translation from the original article in the polish newspaper. 1 hour later... my comment still not published.
    Lol they print what they want
    You never heard bout certain things o Reilly jr done though did yah double life springs to mind


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7 colin2012


    I am desperate for work....i dont claim anything from the state and live on my savings...can i ask anyone out there who is unhappy with this story to do something about it and help me. this is my background.

    Qualified Gardener *Lawn treatment expert* from 1999-2008
    2008 retrained when the economy went south retrained in building Apple and Android APPs.
    2011 Spent 6 months in Berlin learning social media inc Facebook business pages etc.

    I am based in Dublin and would love any kind of work please email me at

    sm4uDUBLIN (at) googlemail.com

    thank you.

    I am scottish not polish by the way....


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Motorist


    gcgirl wrote: »
    Lol they print what they want
    You never heard bout certain things o Reilly jr done though did yah double life springs to mind

    It's true. I find it's only when you see them write pieces on a topic you are fully familiar with that you realise how much they distort the truth to push OReilly's agenda. All of his publications are complete rags.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    micropig wrote: »
    Probably seen a significant amount of Irish doing it and assumed it was a cultural norm?

    something along the lines of "thanks pennies",

    hope she isn't wearing pjs on her beach walks too trying to blend in


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,644 ✭✭✭theg81der


    More inaccuracies :

    -If Magda was living with her boyfriend as she said they would be assessed jointly and would only be getting €312 a week in social welfare so she could not be in receipt of €188 as stated.

    -Her rent is only allowed to be a maximum of €350 per month for a couple in Donegal with a minimum contribution for a couple of €35. Therefore the maximum they would be in recipt of would be €70 per month in rent supplement so where is the €59 figure coming from?

    -Also a quick look on daft shows me that there are no properties by the sea to walk on the beach at this price point.

    -And just in case no one saw that earlier back to work allowance was cancelled in 2009 so it is not possible for her to have been advised to apply for something which doesn`t exist.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    I wonder does she have budgetting tips for people who are "on the breadline" only getting €500/week


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭micropig


    danniemcq wrote: »
    something along the lines of "thanks pennies",

    hope she isn't wearing pjs on her beach walks too trying to blend in

    this is how she went undetected for so long


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,644 ✭✭✭theg81der


    micropig wrote: »
    I wonder does she have budgetting tips for people who are "on the breadline" only getting €500/week

    Are you trying to insinuate there is not people on the breadline earning €500 a week because thats not true. I personally know a family of 4 who have €80 after bills (morgage etc) to live on. I`m lost as to how they are managing, they can`t affort to go to the doctor, go for a coffee etc that sounds like the breadline to me.


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