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Paypal to announce about new 1000 jobs?

  • 19-02-2012 11:05AM
    #1
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭


    A bit of good news (for Dublin one assumes) Paypal are being strongly rumoured for a big jobs announcement in the next week. Anyone at pp got any inside information?


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  • #2
    Villa05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,028 ✭✭✭Villa05


    It would appear that Limerick lost out to Dundalk on these jobs from the Limerick thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=75630691


  • #3
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    Hopefully its is true. Thats a lot of jobs.


  • #4
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,891 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Thats great news.

    But Sky announced 800 recently and it was nothing but doom and gloom on here.

    I wonder why holes they will pick in these jobs?


  • #5
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,787 ✭✭✭touts


    While great news if true the next local and general elections will be a bloodbath for Fine Gael and Labour in Limerick Clare and Tipp if that region is bypassed in favour of greater dublin for these jobs. The likes of Kieran O'Donnell and Tom Hayes are already facing an uphill struggle to be re-elected and this would finish their none too stellar political careers.


  • #6
    ongarite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,812 ✭✭✭ongarite


    touts wrote: »
    While great news if true the next local and general elections will be a bloodbath for Fine Gael and Labour in Limerick Clare and Tipp if that region is bypassed in favour of greater dublin for these jobs. The likes of Kieran O'Donnell and Tom Hayes are already facing an uphill struggle to be re-elected and this would finish their none too stellar political careers.

    You cant force a company to setup where you want. Paypal looked at both locations and determined that Dundalk meet their buildings, infrastructure and future workforce needs.


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  • #7
    femur61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,588 ✭✭✭femur61


    touts wrote: »
    While great news if true the next local and general elections will be a bloodbath for Fine Gael and Labour in Limerick Clare and Tipp if that region is bypassed in favour of greater dublin for these jobs. The likes of Kieran O'Donnell and Tom Hayes are already facing an uphill struggle to be re-elected and this would finish their none too stellar political careers.

    Paypal are not going to be influenced by parish pump politics.


  • #8
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,787 ✭✭✭touts


    ongarite wrote: »
    You cant force a company to setup where you want. Paypal looked at both locations and determined that Dundalk meet their buildings, infrastructure and future workforce needs.

    You can't force them but you can put the infrastructure (physical and financial) in place to encourage investment in a town/city. This is great news for Dundalk but it is yet another sign that the government are doing nothing to encourage investment in the Limerick region. This will play extremely badly in the Limerick Commuter belt (Limerick city and county, Clare, Tipperary, North Kerry, North Cork) and government TDs in these areas already look like losers come the next election.

    But fair play to Dundalk and the Greater Dublin Region. These jobs will do a lot of good up there.


  • #9
    yosser hughes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,031 ✭✭✭yosser hughes


    Doesn't Willie O'Dea top the poll with two quotas down there every election?
    He was in government for how many years? What did he do for jobs in Limerick?


  • #10
    Jaffusmaximus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 304 ✭✭Jaffusmaximus


    These will be be jobs for the North East Not for Dublin, I am from Dundalk and lost my job when BOSI pulled out, Vodafone are pulling out so are Diageo we are devasted for a town for our size. People come to Dundalk from Monaghan, Cavan and Meath and have been affected too.


  • #11
    sarumite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,889 ✭✭✭sarumite


    touts wrote: »
    You can't force them but you can put the infrastructure (physical and financial) in place to encourage investment in a town/city. This is great news for Dundalk but it is yet another sign that the government are doing nothing to encourage investment in the Limerick region. This will play extremely badly in the Limerick Commuter belt (Limerick city and county, Clare, Tipperary, North Kerry, North Cork) and government TDs in these areas already look like losers come the next election.

    But fair play to Dundalk and the Greater Dublin Region. These jobs will do a lot of good up there.

    According to todays indo, the state is subsidising the N18 tunnel in Limerick, with €4.45m spent in 2011. I am not saying that they couldn't do more, merely that it's not fair to say that they aren't doing anything


    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/state-pays-120000-a-week-to-subsidise-road-toll-operators-3024587.html


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  • #12
    Sesshoumaru
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,897 ✭✭✭Sesshoumaru


    This is great news! What's good for one part of the country is good for the whole of the country overall.


  • #13
    bamboozle
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    femur61 wrote: »
    Paypal are not going to be influenced by parish pump politics.

    nor should they be, great news whereever these jobs land.


  • #14
    niallers1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 798 ✭✭✭niallers1


    So where are those Jobs Going?

    Does anybody know for sure or is it all rumour abot Dundalk getting them

    Limerick/Mid west could do with the jobs after losing approx. 10,000 jobs when Dell ceased manufacturing there. (Direct Jobs and Indirect Jobs)


  • #15
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    NIMAN wrote: »
    I wonder why holes they will pick in these jobs?

    You'll need languages.

    http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/paypal-to-announce-creation-of-1000-call-centre-jobs-3024630.html
    PayPal will be looking for call centre workers with English and other languages to help customers with accounts, to check documentation from retailers from around the world who want to open accounts and to review transactions for suspicious activity.


  • #16
    Max Power1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    mike65 wrote: »
    A bit of good news (for Dublin one assumes) Paypal are being strongly rumoured for a big jobs announcement in the next week. Anyone at pp got any inside information?
    Nothing confirmed to PP Staff either yet.

    However it is strongly rumoured that the new site will be in Dundalk.


  • #17
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    The existing PP staff should be informed soon enough

    A lot of them might be able to apply for team leader and management jobs and deal with the new hires. Could be some good opportunities for those who are willing to move to Dundalk

    touts wrote: »
    While great news if true the next local and general elections will be a bloodbath for Fine Gael and Labour in Limerick Clare and Tipp if that region is bypassed in favour of greater dublin for these jobs.

    The North East have suffered too.
    There were hundred of redundancies from Xerox and the brewery and there were other companies too

    As for the Mid West have a read of the Nenagh Guardian
    New green energy firm with hopes for 80 jobs and that's not just a story, it's a joint venture with a German company.
    And a new medical technology firm which has started operations and hopes for two hundred staff over the next few years
    Both Irish startups, not multinationals

    A lot of that is lobbying too, Alan Kelly in Tipp and Jan O'Sullivan in Limerick trying to get the jobs in their area and arguing between themselves
    Alan Kelly has claimed credit for securing up to 200 hi-tech jobs for his hometown of Nenagh, Co Tipperary -- at the expense of the employment blackspot of Limerick.

    "It is great that they came to Nenagh because other agencies wanted them to go to Limerick," he told the 'Nenagh Guardian'.

    Masterful ;)


  • #18
    Atilathehun
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    We have turned the corner:cool:


  • #19
    niallers1
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    mikemac1 wrote: »


    The North East have suffered too.
    There were hundred of redundancies from Xerox and the brewery and there were other companies too



    Has the N.East suffered the loss of Circa 10,000 jobs (Direct and indirect jobs) over the last 3 years. Limerick/Midwest didi when Dell up and went to Poland.

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0108/dell.html


  • #20
    MagicMarker
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    Well it's PayPal so most of these jobs probably won't go to Irish people due to the likelihood of needing to be bilingual. Not that that's a bad thing or anything, but still.


  • #21
    liammur
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    yosser hughes wrote: »
    Doesn't Willie O'Dea top the poll with two quotas down there every election?
    He was in government for how many years? What did he do for jobs in Limerick?


    This is true. Limerick has lost thousands of jobs, and got practically none in over the last 15 years. The city is in terminal decline.

    Munster rugby have done more for the region than the government over the last 15 years, and I would challenge anyone politician to prove this incorrect.


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
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    liammur wrote: »
    This is true. Limerick has lost thousands of jobs, and got practically none in over the last 15 years. The city is in terminal decline.

    Munster rugby have done more for the region than the government over the last 15 years, and I would challenge anyone politician to prove this incorrect.

    Why did people keep voting in Willie O Dea with massive quotas down there, Unions strife appears to be more embedded in that region shannon etc which is bound to put off large multinationals.


  • #23
    liammur
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,457 ✭✭✭liammur


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Why did people keep voting in Willie O Dea with massive quotas down there, Unions strife appears to be more embedded in that region shannon etc which is bound to put off large multinationals.


    Huge working class vote. They are moving people out of run down areas into middle class areas all over munster. That was always going to get you a few votes. FF style of running a region/country.


  • #24
    niallers1
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    It's Dundalk





    http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0221/paypal.html


  • #25
    murphaph
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    niallers1 wrote: »
    It's Dundalk





    http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0221/paypal.html
    It's Ireland ;)


  • #26
    liammur
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,457 ✭✭✭liammur


    murphaph wrote: »
    It's Ireland ;)

    True, but if you are a small business owner on the verge of going bust, it's dundalk first and foremost.


  • #27
    niallers1
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    murphaph wrote: »
    It's Ireland ;)

    Just about:)


  • #28
    Dymo
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    According to the one of clock news

    Its 1000 jobs over 4 years
    At least 50% will need languages
    300 over by the end of this year.

    Although great for Dundalk it's not as if 1000 people more will be employed from the local area or even off the live register and who knows what's going to happen in the next 4 years.


  • #29
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,808 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    A lot of them will be graduate positions, great news for those doing sensible courses at the moment who'll be entering the workforce in the coming years.

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  • #30
    gurramok
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    Sleepy wrote: »
    A lot of them will be graduate positions, great news for those doing sensible courses at the moment who'll be entering the workforce in the coming years.

    Whats sensible? Having a technical fluency in a foreign language?


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  • #31
    Godge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,717 ✭✭✭✭Godge


    Isn't this great news?


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