Name and Shame Job Bridge

yore wrote: »

I stand corrected. Your figure was for one million a month for 6000 people. I should have said that instead of getting 4 million into their hands, those people are now getting 5 million and training.




And yet you don't see the irony that the government is paying to train you up so that you can work in that boom industry at zero cost to that industry or your future employer. Despite the fact that there are thousands of Level 8 degree holders coming out of colleges from nursing/physio/OT/SLT etc. who can't get work. None of them with your attitude wouldn't wipe their arses with a Level 5 Fetac cert. and yet there is the government, subsidising an industry that would otherwise have to take these people on for a few months and train them before they become productive :rolleyes:

Basically, your attitude is that it's grand for the government to provide training for you but not for others.

Again, you have read me wrong. Sigh.

I have nothing wrong with training being offered to anyone, why would I?

Not sure what you meant with the 'wiping their arses' comment. The sentence is poorly structured and doesn't make sense

yore wrote: »

That's sad. You must have little to be doing. That is a perfectly good and honest internship for someone.

Waitress internship? Like you need 9 months experience for that. Like all the shop internship ones for the likes of centra etc. Perfectly good paid jobs off the market because it is possible to get people for free.

It takes all of 10 seconds to report an internship, so not sure what you mean by the OP having little to be doing.

You spend more time on here replying to all the replies one by one than it takes me to report a few internships on a daily basis. By the looks of it, you have plenty of time on your hands, yore.

One fact, before I disappear for a while, it that there are plenty of people who would be financially better off doing an internship for the extra 50 quid and keeping all their benefits than they would be to sign off and take a minimum wage job to get work experience for their CV. Just to have to show potential future employers that they're not afraid of work.

Anyone like to comment? Nobody care about those people eh?

ABajaninCork wrote: »

Interesting discussion about Jobbridge on The Last Word with Matt Cooper (TodayFM)...

I missed it. What was said?

What is the best address to report an internship?

ABajaninCork wrote: »

I would normally agree MrsO. But I have no confidence this is the case. If an employer can get away with not paying the PRSI (NOT that I'm saying the employer in question is one of those), then why not skimp (or not have) the correct insurance? What I've seen employers get away with here is staggering.

I would love to be proved wrong though.

Wow. I got infracted for a perfectly decent post and yet this spurious shite is allowed.
Sure why not take your logic a step further. If they can get away without paying their employees via jobsbridge, then sure why not try to get away with fiddling with the local kids on the estate.

Why is this allowed Mrs. Mod? To start from an ad for a perfectly good internship and to end up insinuating that the company is allowing uninsured employees to drive their trucks. If I was the owner of that internship company and I saw that claim on boards.ie, there might be a court case winging it's way in boards.ie's direction!

You're clutching at straws Mr. Poster. Working isn't that bad once you give it a go. Stop trying to ruin it for everyone else.

I'm gone. Stay moaning and bitter all you want. I'm done.

areyawell wrote: »

Listen Yore, you are trying to act smart and are acting like that there are millions are jobs out there and ways for people to better themselves and unfortunately this is not the case.

You are complaining that people are looking down on jobs like cleaners and even a petrol pump attendant and they are not. I worked as a cleaner during college, it took me 1 day to learn what to do so why should someone work at this for 9 months if they have no interest in the area. I also worked in a petrol station.Why should someone be a petrol pump attendant for 9 months when it takes a day to learn? These internships are slave labour and the companies are looking for someone for free.
If the companies do need someone new they can offer it as a job and not through a 9 month internship where they will probably put up the same internship after 9 months and get someone else for free.

There is a serious lack of job oppertunites for college graduates at the minute in Ireland. I know a lot of students who have taking the iniative to apply to companies they would like to work for for an internship but these companies have no interest. A lot of jobs these days they look for people with masters but these are between 3-6k and people just cannot afford them like they used, especially after grants have been taken away.

You also say to do a Fas course or some programming course or some business course like a FETAC level 5. There are tens of thousands of people unemployed with experience and recent graduates and when recruitment companies look at people with Fetac level 5 they will immediately bin the C.V. depending on the role they applied for

If any job in places as you put "people look down upon" are advertising such as a cleaner or petrol pump assistant they receive hundreds of applications for these roles but unfortunately can only hire one person


Your answers to other peoples posts are ultimately snobbish, childish and it seems like you have no idea what is really going on with the job market in Ireland. You think if people stop waiting around they will get work? You are a snob of the highest order and clueless

How do you get all the people with trades working with a family etc? Get them to do a Fetac level 5 course which is of no use to them? Go back to college to do a college degree for four years and then there are thousands of other graduates and people with experience looking for the same jobs? Apply for a job in a restraunt where there is another 500 applicants?

You say you are not living in Ireland anymore so you have no clue what it is like over here anymore. The jobs are not here for people to be hired

You worked as a cleaner in college. So we'll deduce you might have a cert or probably a degree. If so, then an internship as a cleaner/petrol pump attendant isn't aimed at you.

But there might be some young kid, 18/19 with no college but who wants to work. It's tough getting a start there. When you start on the ladder you list any previous position that might show you as a person who was trusted with some measure of responsibility. You probably had your cleaning job on your CV when you tried for the next job even though you might not put it there now. All previous experience counts when you have nothing or very little on your CV. No reference or evidence that you can hold down a position? - That's a tough position to be in.

Those jobs aren't meant for you. But those people are as deserving of a leg up as a kid out of college with a fancy degree. I'm not telling the fella with the architecture degree to work as a cleaner, but I'm saying that he has no more right to a leg up in his chosen career via a government scheme than someone who wants to be a HGV driver! I would actually say less so, as he has more options! Give the young kid a start at the HGV and maybe in a few years he'll have his own haulage company! A lot of essential companies are started by people with no degrees/formal qualifications. Any internship can be a good opportunity for someone. I said previously, there are no stupid internships, but there may be ones that would be stupid for you personally to do. you can't just look at a centra job and pooh-pooh it as being worthless experience. Because it might not be worthless to someone else.

I saw another thread where someone approached a business to take him on as an intern and he got the gig. This scheme is a great opportunity for people. If you were signing on, you could be here in 9 months still giving out about it or you could have 9 months experience in your chosen industry under your belt.


Not everyone is starting from where you're starting. You have to remember that. I said I'm gone. I just wanted to respond to your post. Because if I don't go, I'll be permabanned!

And for your information, I am neither a snob, nor clueless. The first allegation makes zero sense as it is wholly counter-intuitive to my whole argument on here. The second one is unfounded in every sense. Seeing as how you are getting personal, yeah I left college and Ireland 3 years ago. I turned down a number of job offers in Ireland as I got a better opportunity overseas....but somehow I'm "clueless"

I particularly like this line

areyawell wrote: »

You think if people stop waiting around they will get work?

Well I don't think it's going to come and find them and bite them on the arse if they stay sitting around!