Foreigners working in Ireland-what do you think about irish employers?

I would be pretty sure that any of you who are posting negatively about the OP have never worked in the service industry. It is a job where staff are worked hard, paid poorly and treated badly. How many of you have ever worked in these kind of jobs, hotels in particular are renowned for how they treat their staff. How many of you would work for minimum wage or sometimes less, with split shifts, split days off, long hours and no over time?

I'm a Hotel Manager and do my best to look after my staff (although, I'm sure there are times when they think I'm a prick), but while I was training I witnessed all the negatives that the OP has mentioned. (especially the female managers, not so much the ones who had already made it, but the ones who were starting out, I always thought it was an insecurity or something, but some of them were just evil,)

Service is not a high skill job, and very few see it as a job for life, so from the employers point of view they don't see the need to pay higher when the employee will probably just move on, or burn out anyway. I was always told to remember I was just a number, and while I try not to treat my staff like that, when it comes to a staff member looking for a pay rise or leaving, I don't think I have ever come across a staff member who was not replaceable, that's not saying that pay rises are not possible, but you would need to catch me on a good day.

One thing to remember OP is this is AH, so you were never going to get the response you were expecting.