Aul biddies manning the polling stations....

fro9etb8j5qsl2 · 31-05-2012 11:39AM #1

Was just down at the local polling station. The usual 2 auld gossipmongers were manning the station and as I collected my ballot paper and went into the booth to vote, a loud conversation began between said biddies about who I was, who my family are, where I work etc etc. This continued for the 2-3 minutes I stood at the booth, reading the idle graffiti and adding my own to the wooden bench. Only to stop abruptly as I emerged from behind said bench. is it just me or do these wans only put themselves forward for this so that they can read the whole parish to their hearts content???

Ps- a 3 foot piece of plywood is NOT soundproof!!!!

Duggy747 · 31-05-2012 11:40AM

Easy money and good gossip

Jester252 · 31-05-2012 11:41AM

What else are they meant to do?

mikom · 31-05-2012 11:42AM

Cristian Howling Mail wrote: »

Ps- a 3 foot piece of plywood is NOT soundproof!!!!

Makes a good bludgeoning weapon though...

helen1 · 31-05-2012 11:42AM

Presume they get paid handy job

chin_grin · 31-05-2012 11:42AM

So instead of 'manning' they're Granning? <chuckles>

Abi · 31-05-2012 11:42AM

Cristian Howling Mail wrote: »

Was just down at the local polling station. The usual 2 auld gossipmongers were manning the station and as I collected my ballot paper and went into the booth to vote, a loud conversation began between said biddies about who I was, who my family are, where I work etc etc. This continued for the 2-3 minutes I stood at the booth, reading the idle graffiti and adding my own to the wooden bench. Only to stop abruptly as I emerged from behind said bench. is it just me or do these wans only put themselves forward for this so that they can read the whole parish to their hearts content???

Ps- a 3 foot piece of plywood is NOT soundproof!!!!

They've fúck all else to be doing with themselves I'd imagine.

fro9etb8j5qsl2 · 31-05-2012 11:54AM

Abi wrote: »

They've fúck all else to be doing with themselves I'd imagine.

They could wait until people had left the building until they commence their dissection of the persons life! Or at least try and be a bit more subtle about it. It's their belief that they can't be heard that makes me laugh :pac: Tactless aul witches! I was half tempted to start talking really loudly about them to myself, that would've given em something to think about....

hondasam · 31-05-2012 11:56AM

Postmen are the worst for gossiping about people, just saying mrspostman.

ejmaztec · 31-05-2012 11:56AM

Their children probably work for the local council and their cousins man the doors. Cushy number for low-grade members of the Irish Nepotism Club.

copeyhagen · 31-05-2012 11:57AM

cool story bro

dibkins · 31-05-2012 12:00PM

My mum is a poll clerk. She is a woman of integrity thouhg, and will at least wait till you are out the door before talking about you.

JohnMarston · 31-05-2012 12:02PM

Yelling 'I can hear you!' would have shut them up

Plazaman · 31-05-2012 12:09PM

Sure what else can they do sitting there for 15 hours. I doubt they'd be handy at the old Nintendo DS Lite.

I Poll Clerked on several occasions when it was a 10 hours day and was bored to tears. I don't know why the Government think that if people don't vote within a 10 or 12 hour window, that 15 will make a difference.

When I went in at around 8am this morning there were two young guys running the polling station and looked as if they hated each other. The first guy called out my number and the second guy was looking through the register to cross me off but said nothing. First fella calls out the number again and second fella snipes back "I heard ya the first time". I gonna to listen to the news every hour on the hours to see if there's any stories about two fellas kicking the shíte outta of each other at a polling booth.

Plazaman · 31-05-2012 12:12PM

hunter10 wrote: »

maybe they were gay lovers

Coulda been. Not really the time or the place to make that inquiry off them though.

conorhal · 31-05-2012 12:16PM

What a petty moan you are. It's important to know the people in your community. Bring them a flask of tea and some Mr. Kipling’s and have a chat!
Or are you one of those faceless neighbors that prefers to blithely strolls by as bills and flyers begin to form a small mountain inside your elderly neighbors front door, cause, you know, you don't like to get 'involved'..

kfallon · 31-05-2012 12:17PM

Remember what Oscar Wilde said (besides "Ah you'll get another finger in there easy!!"

):

"There's only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about!"

Happyman42 · 31-05-2012 12:17PM

You must be an awful hoor OP

fro9etb8j5qsl2 · 31-05-2012 12:23PM

hunter10 wrote: »

did they have an old people smell??

mmmm smelly old women

Mmmmmmm mothballs, p1ss and that indescribable odour of sweat congealing and turning yellow between rolls of fat....

Lumbo · 31-05-2012 12:27PM

Cristian Howling Mail wrote: »

Mmmmmmm mothballs, p1ss and that indescribable odour of sweat congealing and turning yellow between rolls of fat....

You don't sound like a Mrs to me.

Dudess · 31-05-2012 12:29PM

conorhal wrote: »

What a petty moan you are. It's important to know the people in your community. Bring them a flask of tea and some Mr. Kipling’s and have a chat!
Or are you one of those faceless neighbors that prefers to blithely strolls by as bills and flyers begin to form a small mountain inside your elderly neighbors front door, cause, you know, you don't like to get 'involved'..

Ah there's a difference between getting involved in your community and just being an auld nosey-hole...

conorhal · 31-05-2012 12:55PM

Dudess wrote: »

Ah there's a difference between getting involved in your community and just being an auld nosey-hole...

It didn't sound particularly nosey to me, one of the local shops I go to is run by an old dear that's prone to pronouncements like, 'Oh, Julie Smith's young wan was just in here, all grown up she is now, and a lawyer no less!" (for the record, I've no idea who Julie Smith is, but she does seem particularly pleased for her). That's just how they pass the time, that and the death notices, but those sorts also tend to be the back bone of many a community, the people that deliver the meals on wheels and know that Mr. Jones hasn’t been well lately and perhaps somebody should check up on him. I much prefer people like those than condescending ‘silo dwellers’ that would do a double take if you said so much as 'good morning' to them walking out your door (I’ve had a few of those kind of neighbors too, wierdos!) There's just something sneering about the OP's post that seems unplesent.

wallpaper12 · 31-05-2012 12:59PM

They get paid an extortionate amount of money for this like a couple of hundred for the day, think my friend got paid 800 the last time she did it.
Shows what a joke this country still is, minimum wage should be enough to sit on your ass all day crossing off peoples names.

Pacing Mule · 31-05-2012 01:07PM

wallpaper12 wrote: »

They get paid an extortionate amount of money for this like a couple of hundred for the day, think my friend got paid 800 the last time she did it.
Shows what a joke this country still is, minimum wage should be enough to sit on your ass all day crossing off peoples names.

The normal polling clerk get's nowhere near 800 euro for the day.

stovelid · 31-05-2012 01:11PM

Move out of the bog to a city.

mikemac1 · 31-05-2012 01:12PM

wallpaper12 wrote: »

think my friend got paid 800 the last time she did it.

Your friend was codding you

SEPT 23 1989 · 31-05-2012 01:13PM

400.00 for the day

runawaybishop · 31-05-2012 01:13PM

My mum does it, she gets 700. is 700 near 800?

Pacing Mule · 31-05-2012 01:23PM

runawaybishop wrote: »

My mum does it, she gets 700. is 700 near 800?

Your mum if this is accurate is not a normal front line polling clerk.

There are different grades / supervisors / management etc but the normal polling clerk basic rate is nowhere near 800 or 700

admiralofthefleet · 31-05-2012 01:31PM

instead of paying 'poor' teachers overtime to man the polling station perhaps they should give the unemployed a few hours work instead

runawaybishop · 31-05-2012 01:34PM

Pageant Messiah wrote: »

Your mum if this is accurate is not a normal front line polling clerk.

There are different grades / supervisors / management etc but the normal polling clerk basic rate is nowhere near 800 or 700

You could be right, i seem to recall her mentioning 400/500 when she first started - a ridiculous amount of cash either way

Aul biddies manning the polling stations....

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