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I really want Ireland to be 'fixed'.We live in a great country,its not right.

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  • #62
    dotsman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,636 ✭✭✭dotsman


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Market rates set your wage
    Unfortunately, the labour market was greatly distorted by the unions and the property bubble funding their party.
    mikemac1 wrote: »
    And you don't last long labouring on a site sweating and freezing and drenched outside hauling around bricks and digging trenches if you don't have a work ethic.
    From what I witnessed, and from what I heard, and now see, that was simply not true.

    The state of some of the buildings constructed just a few years ago is testament to that.
    mikemac1 wrote: »
    It was well paid and anyone could have worked it, you had your summers free didn't you.
    Yes, anybody could work it - and that was the problem! Far too many people did. Instead of learning the skills needed in the medium/long term, far too many were tempted by the fast buck.

    I haven't had any free summers since I was a child. I'm not quite sure what you are on about:confused:
    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Just because you have a piece of paper does not make you more hard working or mean others lack ambition
    By "piece of paper" are you referring to an education/qualification? If so, you are partially correct, it doesn't necessarily mean you are more hard-working. However, I think it does generally show ambition - the desire to self-improve and learn new/better skills.


  • #63
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    dotsman wrote: »
    ...the usual socialist guff. Any chance of examples (I mean; an example of someone who has been prevented from getting an education? From doing a FAS course? From working hard and impressing their boss to be promoted to a better position, from learning an economically useful skill in their own time etc)?).

    And again - if you were promoted and earning feck all, you're still being underpaid for even more work and responsibility.

    How many people with kids and a mortgage - particularily during a recession - are going to trade a known steady poor quantity for an unknown one?
    dotsman wrote: »

    The fact that in 2006, a young unskilled worker with little motivation or work ethic, providing no economic output (in fact, very much driving the bubble) was being paid a lot more than a young highly skilled, hard-working, ambitious worker

    What bizzare planet did you come from....Rand World?


  • #64
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    I think a lot of our problems are down to how bitter and cycnical we as a people have become, and how unwillinging some of us are to acknowledge that they did 'party hard' in the Boom years.

    Of course the the bankers/developers/politicians didn't help at all.

    We are a great little country though and I truely believe that we can find our way back to prosperity if we pull together rather than resorting to this 'us-and-them' mentality.


  • #65
    dotsman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,636 ✭✭✭dotsman


    Nodin wrote: »
    And again - if you were promoted and earning feck all, you're still being underpaid for even more work and responsibility.
    Well then, it wasn't much of a promotion. If you believe you are worth more, why don't you work for an employer who values your skills?
    Nodin wrote: »
    How many people with kids and a mortgage - particularily during a recession - are going to trade a known steady poor quantity for an unknown one?
    I thought we were talking about the boom years????
    Nodin wrote: »
    What bizzare planet did you come from....Rand World?
    Me, I'm from earth. I assumed everybody who posts on Boards is also from earth. In fact, it would be pretty ****in shocking if there was an alien life-form posting on boards (and worthy of its own thread!) I'm not quite sure what you are talking about here...


  • #66
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    dotsman wrote: »
    From what I witnessed, and from what I heard, and now see, that was simply not true.

    The state of some of the buildings constructed just a few years ago is testament to that.

    Your post was about young unskilled workers.
    They were labourers on sites

    If the construction is shoddy it's not the labourers fault, it's the builders and tradesmen who are in charge of construction who were to blame. And they are not young and unskilled
    Tradesman is a skilled job

    If a wall is badly built you blame the brickie who is in charge and is qualified for that job, not the young lad who helps them


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  • #67
    gerryo777
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,210 ✭✭✭gerryo777


    swingking wrote: »
    Well I can't believe that snake Ahern showed up at the ff ard dheis. He should be strung by the balls :mad:

    He doesn't have any balls, that's the reason we are where we are, no balls to take on the vested interests in our society!
    Give them what they want, turn a blind eye, nudge nudge, wink wink, sure it'll be grand.
    A pimple on the arsehole of humanity.


  • #68
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »
    I think a lot of our problems are down to how bitter and cycnical we as a people have become, and how unwillinging some of us are to acknowledge that they did 'party hard' in the Boom years.

    Interesting duplicity of phrasing......I have no problem acknowledging the facts - that (as you said) THEY did 'party hard'.

    Did a subconscious conscience prevent you from wording the second part as per the usual government spin and lies ?


  • #69
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Your post was about young unskilled workers.
    They were labourers on sites

    If the construction is shoddy it's not the labourers fault, it's the builders and tradesmen who are in charge of construction who were to blame. And they are not young and unskilled
    Tradesman is a skilled job

    If a wall is badly built you blame the brickie who is in charge and is qualified for that job, not the young lad who helps them


    ...in fact, dubious quality has become far more common since the way buildings were inspected was changed. The old way was "red tape holding up business" apparently.


  • #70
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    dotsman wrote: »
    Well then, it wasn't much of a promotion. If you believe you are worth more, why don't you work for an employer who values your skills?
    ...


    ....covered under 'unknown quantity/pressure' alluded to earlier.
    dotsman wrote: »
    I thought we were talking about the boom years????...

    ...even during the "boom" years. Older people often had the mentality that if you had a job, you hung onto it for dear life. Younger folk coming into the job market had the advantage of not giving a crap, and not having any great obligations hanging over them, so were far more likely to move along.


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