Most ridiculous Celtic Tiger wages

Sh1tbag OToole · 01-10-2015 08:43PM #1

We have all heard the stories of plumbers getting 1500 a week or more firing their change into the bin after leaving the shop with their breakfast roll and lads getting about 3 quid for every cavity block they put down but what's the most ridiculous wage for a simple job you remember from the tiger? and how are they faring now?

A lot of the people getting ridiculous wages during the tiger squandered it all on their own overpriced residential unit with f*ck off pillars outside it and a plastic Jaccuzzi for 5k that's most likely broken now.

tomwaterford · 01-10-2015 08:50PM

E10 for putting down kerbs....just larger versions of bricks

I'm still terribly paid

SKETT · 01-10-2015 08:51PM

The bitterness is strong in this one.

Gatling · 01-10-2015 09:00PM

15 ph working in a specialist security company but done -100 hours a week so fortnightly pay came to about 3k

asherbassad · 01-10-2015 09:00PM

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

We have all heard the stories of plumbers getting 1500 a week or more firing their change into the bin after leaving the shop with their breakfast roll and lads getting about 3 quid for every cavity block they put down but what's the most ridiculous wage for a simple job you remember from the tiger? and how are they faring now?

A lot of the people getting ridiculous wages during the tiger squandered it all on their own overpriced residential unit with f*ck off pillars outside it and a plastic Jaccuzzi for 5k that's most likely broken now.

Dunno....was busy living abroad in a beautiful 3 bedroom riverside apartment in Amsterdam that I bought for 350k and being told by little **** down the pub in Dublin that I was a loser to have gone to University and not stayed in Dublin to be a plumber as they showed me pics of their 57 sqm gaffs that they "stole" for 560K.

Does your shoe box come with anything other than the local Spar?

DEFTLEFTHAND · 01-10-2015 09:03PM

Gatling wrote: »

15 ph working in a specialist security company but done -100 hours a week so fortnightly pay came to about 3k

What type of work did that entail?

mulbot · 01-10-2015 09:08PM

28E per box( a single kitchen press) kitchen fitting,and 40E a metre for wardrobes-How i'd love those days to be back

Timberrrrrrrr · 01-10-2015 09:10PM

Used to drive tower cranes, €25 an hour plus overtime. Used to get 2 hours money a day just for turning up, 1 hour "travel and 1 hour greasing time. 250/300 a week before you even do a minutes work.

Lumbo · 01-10-2015 09:14PM

Gatling wrote: »

15 ph working in a specialist security company but done -100 hours a week so fortnightly pay came to about 3k

The most I've ever worked is 65 hours over 7 days. Is 100 hours in a week not boarder line insane?

whiskeyman · 01-10-2015 09:16PM

Pick any of the RTE gang...
Or John Delaney. At one stage, he was being paid 100k more that the combined total of the heads of the Spanish and Italian FAs!

Sir Osis of Liver. · 01-10-2015 09:16PM

Working as sparks on the sites I was getting €150 lodge money just for turning up for work on 4 days.
€25 ph after that.All the hours I wanted.

Nice.

Streetwalker · 01-10-2015 09:17PM

Whatever Bertie Ahern got paid.

fm · 01-10-2015 09:18PM

mulbot wrote: »

28E per box( a single kitchen press) kitchen fitting,and 40E a metre for wardrobes-How i'd love those days to be back

it's that now and more

scwazrh · 01-10-2015 09:19PM

Big rates are starting to come back again .A good few companies in dublin are now paying 750 a week take home for tradesmen .

Gatling · 01-10-2015 09:23PM

Lumbo wrote: »

The most I've ever worked is 65 hours over 7 days. Is 100 hours in a week not boarder line insane?

I honestly believe it caused me more problems than I could ever imagined 5/6 years doing the same hours literally wrecked my body and (my mind to a degree ).

After a few months you don't realise that your working that long

Sunnyisland · 01-10-2015 09:25PM

I was getting 208 a week for doing nothing,it's dropped to 188 now but we all have to play our part in getting the country back on its feet so no complaints here.

dirtyden · 01-10-2015 09:26PM

Gatling wrote: »

I honestly believe it caused me more problems than I could ever imagined 5/6 years doing the same hours literally wrecked my body and (my mind to a degree ).

After a few months you don't realise that your working that long

That is 14 hour days, seven days a week? Did you really do that?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 01-10-2015 09:32PM

I was on 165,000 before the boom. That's all short-term chicken feed lads. And for many it was hard earned over long hours.

Gatling · 01-10-2015 09:35PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

What type of work did that entail?

Everything from securing millions in high value goods in transit across here and Europe, recovering goods from heavy machines and equipment during industrial disputes and financial disputes
To internal company investigations involving theft and fraud .

Sh1tbag OToole · 01-10-2015 09:35PM

Marleigh Loose Wrongdoing wrote: »

I was on 165,000 before the boom. That's all short-term chicken feed lads. And for many it was hard earned over long hours.

What sort of work were ya doing for it though and how many hours a week?

B.A._Baracus · 01-10-2015 09:48PM

I assume plumbers were making good money back in the day.
As my Dad rang up a plumber to get one of the sink taps in the bathroom changed years ago. Would of been around 2003/2004 (perhaps earlier) and he got a quote for a 80 euro call out charge and parts and labor on top.
Obviously my dad felt that was well too much so he decided to do it himself. So he gets a new tap, turns off the water and busts out the spanners. Around 20 minutes later the brand new tap is working.

80 euro call out charge and what ever he would decide to charge on top of that!!!? The tap was just siezed. No water was coming out. There wasnt an emergency or anything. My Dad was just ringing up a plumber to see when he could come out and fix it.

Sh1tbag OToole · 01-10-2015 09:53PM

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

I assume plumbers were making good money back in the day.
As my Dad rang up a plumber to get one of the sink taps in the bathroom changed years ago. Would of been around 2003/2004 (perhaps earlier) and he got a quote for a 80 euro call out charge and parts and labor on top.
Obviously my dad felt that was well too much so he decided to do it himself. So he gets a new tap, turns off the water and busts out the spanners. Around 20 minutes later the brand new tap is working.

80 euro call out charge and what ever he would decide to charge on top of that!!!? The tap was just siezed. No water was coming out. There wasnt an emergency or anything. My Dad was just ringing up a plumber to see when he could come out and fix it.

The plumbers are probably busy lobbying the government to bring in domestic tap installers cert so that only registered plumbers can do this job and that taps can only be sold to plumbers who will then issue a cert. Also only members who subscribe to the €2,000 a year traders guild will be able to issue the certs so no chance of you getting the retired plumber you're friendly with to do the job for you. You'll get no house insurance and won't be able to sell the house if you don't have one of these certs for every tap installed

Bulbous Salutation · 01-10-2015 09:55PM

Plumbers are starting to make good money again. That and all the casual sex they have with frustrated housewives when they call around to fix the shower pump.

B.A._Baracus · 01-10-2015 09:58PM

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

The plumbers are probably busy lobbying the government to bring in domestic tap installers cert so that only registered plumbers can do this job and that taps can only be sold to plumbers who will then issue a cert. Also only members who subscribe to the €2,000 a year traders guild will be able to issue the certs so no chance of you getting the retired plumber you're friendly with to do the job for you. You'll get no house insurance and won't be able to sell the house if you don't have one of these certs for every tap installed

Well all this certs stuff is news to me. But we're talking years ago here.

tomwaterford · 01-10-2015 10:03PM

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Well all this certs stuff is news to me. But we're talking years ago here.

I'd say at a guess he's referring to electrians
Kinda how registered electrians have to sign off on something for insurance....but are no more qualified/pass extra tests than a standerd unregistered but qualified electrians

Sh1tbag OToole · 01-10-2015 10:04PM

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Well all this certs stuff is news to me. But we're talking years ago here.

Well tis pure speculation for now but the gas installer crowd got laws passed in their favour and are still lobbying to have it tightened up

fleet_admiral · 01-10-2015 10:05PM

I was offered 50 pound an hour to work in the RTE restaurant on new years eve 1999. Didnt do it

zl1whqvjs75cdy · 01-10-2015 10:22PM

scwazrh wrote: »

Big rates are starting to come back again .A good few companies in dublin are now paying 750 a week take home for tradesmen .

And we wonder why houses are too expensive to build.

Sunnyisland · 01-10-2015 10:23PM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

I was offered 50 pound an hour to work in the RTE restaurant on new years eve 1999. Didnt do it

What was on the desert menu

Humble pie...

ratracer · 01-10-2015 10:29PM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

I was offered 50 pound an hour to work in the RTE restaurant on new years eve 1999. Didnt do it

Sure the PS workers got £1500 bonus if they had to work that night! Ah Happy Days, there was nearly a fight for the overtime in our job!

AnonoBoy · 01-10-2015 10:31PM

I probably didn't 'deserve' the 80k annual salary I was on as a jizz mopper but I worked hard for it I can tells ya.

Most ridiculous Celtic Tiger wages

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