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Fancy an overpaid, underworked and guaranteed job?

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  • 13-04-2016 9:13pm
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    esforum
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    Fancy an overpaid, underworked and guaranteed job and pension?

    Well now you can have it all!

    The public sector gravy train is leaving the station make sure you are on board so you can leave that ultra real world, underpaid, overworked, whipped at your desk job behind.

    Live updates of the Public sector express:

    Choo Choo! next stop on the public sector train is coming up.


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    #2
    callaway92
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    ehm...ESB??


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    #3
    esforum
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    jesus christ, how did you reply so fast?


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    #4
    CaraMay
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    esforum wrote: »
    jesus christ, how did you reply so fast?

    He works in Esb


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    Glebee
    Registered Users Posts: 6,618 ✭✭✭Glebee


    Phew, for a second there I thought it was my job advertised...


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    jjpep
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    Seems to say its a fixed contract job. Plus i don't think paramedic counts as easy....


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    esforum
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    jjpep wrote: »
    Seems to say its a fixed contract job.

    yep, like all public sector jobs


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    the14thwarrior
    Registered Users Posts: 396 ✭✭the14thwarrior


    I work in the public sector. i'm drowning in the gravy. I'm so rich I don't know what to do with my money. I';; get a pension, I'm pretty sure I won't be spending it all in one go, I have to stay in this job for a long time but that's ok.

    i'd work in the private sector but most of the jobs are in the public sector. I knew that, i'm ok with that.

    the public need my services, or at the very least benefit from my services. If you weren't paying my wages you would be in a bad state when you get sick. but I also pay taxes to pay for services too, and I think that's ok.

    do you want people to work in the private sector all the time and you pay your taxes but don't get any public services because we are all working the private sector? I don't understand the mentality of it all.

    I haven't had a pay rise in over 15 years, and won't get one for another 18 years. i'm not moaning I know that's the deal when I joined the public sector.

    I joined the public sector because that's where the public needs my services.
    oh, and they need ambulance people too.


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    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    OP. That's a mighty big chip on your shoulder…


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    lawlolawl
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    esforum wrote: »
    Fancy an overpaid, underworked and guaranteed job and pension?

    Well now you can have it all!

    The public sector gravy train is leaving the station make sure you are on board so you can leave that ultra real world, underpaid, overworked, whipped at your desk job behind.

    Why don't you apply for the job if you think it is so great?


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    pidgeoneyes
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    The job advertised is for student paramedics. They'll have to deal with some godawful sh!te during their careers! Pay them well.


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    dirtyden
    Registered Users Posts: 1,733 ✭✭✭dirtyden


    A tough job I would say. I hope it is well paid but I some how doubt our paramedics are swimming in gravy.

    OP what is your problem with this advertisement?


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    diograis
    Registered Users Posts: 435 ✭✭diograis


    Pretty sure OP is a troll, if you think people work as paramedics for the money you're deluded.

    Shame really, because there's actually a big problem with waste in the HSE, and this does nothing to address that despite his best efforts.


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    OP, you need to get over yourself and take in a dose of reality. Do you really think a Paramedic is a cushy number? Do you think all public sector workers are overpaid and underworked? If so, try the job of nurses or paramedics and see how you like it. What's stopping you taking up one of these handy numbers? Are you not qualified or are you just full of BS?


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    #15
    griffin100
    Registered Users Posts: 4,790 ✭✭✭griffin100


    My dad did this job for 30 years. It's far from fcukin easy. Jesus he has some unbelievable storeys and as a result a really macabre sense of humour. It's only as I get older I realise how hard his job was and hard he worked for us.


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    KERSPLAT!
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    Bait


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    Edward Hopper
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    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    Bait

    Bit of Bait related trivia. Bait Magazine's first Bait mate was Sylvia Wiss.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKBPLUV9J7I




    Some of Tom Hanks and Dan Aykroyd's finest work!


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    #18
    esforum
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    Tis ok boys and girls.
    Maybe those shouting should have read my post, how ta **** if I was a private worker would I describe it so OTT? Or even read some of the threads in AH about public sector workers?

    Too fast to jump on a statement.

    Mary and Maud, have ye applied yet?


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    Tombi!
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    mad muffin wrote: »
    OP. That's a mighty big chip on your shoulder…
    Makes for a difference to the usual dole bashing threads.


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    BattleCorp
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    Starting remuneration is less that €26k. That's pretty watery gravy so it is.


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    #21
    discus
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    I can't tell if people actually get the joke he's making or not!

    Still though, lots of respect for paramedics. They must see some amount of horrible ****.


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    TerrorFirmer
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    lawlolawl wrote: »
    Why don't you apply for the job if you think it is so great?

    He already has a bitter-class ticket for the bull**** express.


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    [Deleted User]
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    esforum wrote: »
    Fancy an overpaid, underworked and guaranteed job and pension?

    Well now you can have it all!

    The public sector gravy train is leaving the station make sure you are on board so you can leave that ultra real world, underpaid, overworked, whipped at your desk job behind.

    I hope you are never in an accident. Or do I?


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    #24
    maudgonner
    Registered Users Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    esforum wrote: »
    Mary and Maud, have ye applied yet?

    Now why would I want to join as a new entrant to the public sector when I've been saying all along that new entrants got screwed over by their senior colleagues and unions?

    But fire ahead there and use the salaries of the worst paid members of the public sector to justify across the board increases. That's the story you've been peddling all along anyway. Just mind you don't trip over your own hypocrisy while you're at it.


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    #25
    esforum
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    Choo Choo! next stop on the public sector train is coming up.


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    Caliden
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    discus wrote: »
    I can't tell if people actually get the joke he's making or not!

    Still though, lots of respect for paramedics. They must see some amount of horrible ****.

    People completely missed it and went off the title alone.

    Par for the course with after hours.


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    #27
    brevity
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    Thats a **** gravy train op.

    Can we have a gravy train that doesn't envole getting shot at or working in an ambulance.


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    #28
    fullstop
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    Aww, thought from the thread title Luas were recruiting drivers :(


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    #29
    evolving_doors
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    maudgonner wrote: »
    Now why would I want to join as a new entrant to the public sector when I've been saying all along that new entrants got screwed over by their senior colleagues and unions?

    But fire ahead there and use the salaries of the worst paid members of the public sector to justify across the board increases. That's the story you've been peddling all along anyway. Just mind you don't trip over your own hypocrisy while you're at it.

    Sooo you'ld be happy for new entrants pay to be restored.... but then after a few years they take a pay cut to keep in line with their currently 'overpaid' seniors?


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    Maximus Alexander
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    the14thwarrior wrote: »
    do you want people to work in the private sector all the time and you pay your taxes but don't get any public services because we are all working the private sector? I don't understand the mentality of it all.

    You realise that our tax money could be used to pay private companies to provide those services more efficiently instead, right?


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    maudgonner
    Registered Users Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Gebgbegb wrote: »
    Sooo you'ld be happy for new entrants pay to be restored.... but then after a few years they take a pay cut to keep in line with their currently 'overpaid' seniors?

    That's the second time you've posted that and it still makes no sense to me.

    Post-2011 entrants are on a lower pay scale than pre-2011 entrants. From the figures given on the other thread it's 10% lower. Pay parity would remove that imbalance. I don't know where the paycut would come into it?


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