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Center Parcs Resort for Longford

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    #122
    vargoo
    Registered Users Posts: 737 ✭✭✭vargoo


    Ah come on, they're after putting up a 9.5hr week contract!

    https://isw.changeworknow.co.uk/centerparcs/vms/e/careers/positions/bzDBqM465fBBTlt5DCSNyg


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    #123
    salmocab
    Registered Users Posts: 11,288 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    vargoo wrote: »
    Ah come on, they're after putting up a 9.5hr week contract!

    https://isw.changeworknow.co.uk/centerparcs/vms/e/careers/positions/bzDBqM465fBBTlt5DCSNyg

    It says part time at the start.


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    #124
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    9.80 an hour with a contract of 9.5 hours a week, which is flexible over 4 weeks. Quality employment opportunity right there.


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    #125
    salmocab
    Registered Users Posts: 11,288 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    9.80 an hour with a contract of 9.5 hours a week, which is flexible over 4 weeks. Quality employment opportunity right there.

    No it’s not but it’s a part time cleaning job in an area that has little industry.


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    #126
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    9.80 an hour with a contract of 9.5 hours a week, which is flexible over 4 weeks. Quality employment opportunity right there.


    Nice profit margins straight away. Cheap labour for top dollar facility.


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    #127
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    salmocab wrote:
    No it’s not but it’s a part time cleaning job in an area that has little industry.

    Crap excuse for poor contracts tbh.


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    #128
    vargoo
    Registered Users Posts: 737 ✭✭✭vargoo


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Crap excuse for poor contracts tbh.

    Exactly, theirs no need for what they are doing, I'm not even sure where the flexible part exists in that either, they're telling the hours (unpaid break?) and days??

    Are these zero hour (effectively) contracts not under some government review? Thought I read they were or is it in the UK?


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    #129
    salmocab
    Registered Users Posts: 11,288 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Crap excuse for poor contracts tbh.

    I don’t get this yes they are crap contracts but they are part time cleaning jobs. If they can’t fill the positions they’ll come back with better. It’s surely supply and demand, like all those short hour contracts that are unfortunately quite common with including zero hour that some places use I presume they will actually give out more hours but that’s the base amount per month.


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    #130
    vargoo
    Registered Users Posts: 737 ✭✭✭vargoo


    salmocab wrote: »
    I don’t get this yes they are crap contracts but they are part time cleaning jobs. If they can’t fill the positions they’ll come back with better. It’s surely supply and demand, like all those short hour contracts that are unfortunately quite common with including zero hour that some places use I presume they will actually give out more hours but that’s the base amount per month.
    Take off the blinkers.


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    #131
    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    vargoo wrote: »
    Ah come on, they're after putting up a 9.5hr week contract!

    https://isw.changeworknow.co.uk/centerparcs/vms/e/careers/positions/bzDBqM465fBBTlt5DCSNyg

    Was only a few weeks ago you were giving out that the hours wouldn't suit working mothers.


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    #132
    vargoo
    Registered Users Posts: 737 ✭✭✭vargoo


    vargoo wrote: »
    Exactly, theirs no need for what they are doing, I'm not even sure where the flexible part exists in that either, they're telling the hours (unpaid break?) and days??

    Are these zero hour (effectively) contracts not under some government review? Thought I read they were or is it in the UK?

    https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/law-banning-zero-hour-contracts-to-come-into-force-in-march-893410.html

    Banned from Mar1.

    I'll need to dig up actually wording, probably not worth a damn if these guys are advertising this job.

    Useless politicians.


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    #133
    vargoo
    Registered Users Posts: 737 ✭✭✭vargoo


    Graham wrote: »
    Was only a few weeks ago you were giving out that the hours wouldn't suit working mothers.

    And?



    You need to read back anyway.


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    #134
    salmocab
    Registered Users Posts: 11,288 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    vargoo wrote: »
    Take off the blinkers.

    Blinkers? Do you post about every job with crap pay and hours? I don’t understand why people expect center parcs to pay more. Is it because they are a big company or foreign? What do you want from them?


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    #135
    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    vargoo wrote: »
    https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/law-banning-zero-hour-contracts-to-come-into-force-in-march-893410.html

    There's no mention of zero hours contracts in the ad you linked to.

    It's a part time position.


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    #136
    marvin80
    Registered Users Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭marvin80


    Good news for all - we should all be hoping Center Parcs is a massive success:

    "The sheer size of the Center Parcs Longford Forest scheme currently under way near Ballymahon has caused the price of an average property in the county to rise by 21.1pc in the past year."

    https://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/property-mortgages/driving-up-values-properties-around-center-parcs-soar-37946914.html


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    #137
    Iscreamkone
    Registered Users Posts: 720 ✭✭✭Iscreamkone


    We went to Center Parcs Longleat last August. 3 adults + 3 kids (2,3,5).
    We ferried across from Rosslare to Pembroke.
    We had a 4 bed house for 10 nights.
    We enjoyed ourselves thoroughly - kids loved it. The pool area is suberb. My only complaint is that the night life is almost non existant. Nobody around after 10pm.
    We're going again in July. Center Parcs Longleat is next door to Longleat Safari (monkeys on your car roof etc.) and the kids loved the day out there last year.

    I'm looking forward to Longford opening.


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    #138
    vargoo
    Registered Users Posts: 737 ✭✭✭vargoo


    marvin80 wrote: »
    Good news for all - we should all be hoping Center Parcs is a massive success:

    "The sheer size of the Center Parcs Longford Forest scheme currently under way near Ballymahon has caused the price of an average property in the county to rise by 21.1pc in the past year."

    https://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/property-mortgages/driving-up-values-properties-around-center-parcs-soar-37946914.html

    Say that to anyone renting!

    I know 1 guy who decided to move after 7 years living there due the second massive increase in a few years.

    No one working there will ever be able to afford their own place.

    No locals will ever be allowed in to the place, unless they pay to stay or know someone staying.

    Prices to stay are insane, testing the spending ceiling limits of the stupid Irish, cheaper to go to England/elsewhere and stay there.

    Good news for a small few who own their own home in the area and are looking to sell and those with money who piled in a few years ago and bought up alot of cheap places and are waiting to rent rape.

    Yeaaaaaa, roll on August!


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    #139
    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    The area has had some of the highest unemployment and lowest property prices/rents in the country for almost a decade.

    What you're complaining about is a result of jobs being created and money being invested. Many people would view that as a good thing.


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    #140
    hondar
    Registered Users Posts: 56 ✭✭hondar


    Jobs being created! Get your facts straight before posting bull****.the jobs that are being created are 18 hours a week at minimum wage.


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    #141
    salmocab
    Registered Users Posts: 11,288 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    hondar wrote: »
    Jobs being created! Get your facts straight before posting bull****.the jobs that are being created are 18 hours a week at minimum wage.

    There will be plenty of jobs created by this overall. Yes mostly low paid but they are the type of jobs that are low paid elsewhere. The hours will be more than advertised as they are just minimum. I really don’t see the issue with this it’s jobs created in an area that badly needs them.


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    #142
    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    hondar wrote: »
    Jobs being created! Get your facts straight before posting bull****.the jobs that are being created are 18 hours a week at minimum wage.

    Do come back and tell us all when you've invested more and created more jobs in Longford.


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    #143
    vargoo
    Registered Users Posts: 737 ✭✭✭vargoo


    salmocab wrote: »
    The hours will be more than advertised as they are just minimum. I really don’t see the issue with this it’s jobs created in an area that badly needs them.
    A guess + sounds great, you go to work (probably forced as they seem to have a connection to some social welfare job scheme) for a few crap badly paid hours and whoops sorry, you cant go home we're busy, you have plans/second job, tough, not happy don't come back.

    Not a guess^^ over 2500 deleted reviews on indeed laid out in great detail the type of place it is.


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    #144
    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    The amount of sour grapes on this thread is unbelievable.

    One of the largest investments into Longford creating hundreds of desperately needed jobs and bringing tourists to the region and a few people are cribbing because property prices are beginning to edge towards realistic/sustainable levels, wages are on a par with most other tourism/service industry businesses, and prices for a family stay aren't the same as Mosney in the 60s.

    Now we're concerned because someone on social welfare might get a job?

    Bizarre.


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    #145
    mario84s
    Registered Users Posts: 137 ✭✭mario84s


    Mrs tells me the price of this place for a week is same for all inclusive in festival village in Salou, and that's with flights.... Roll on Spain...


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    #146
    vargoo
    Registered Users Posts: 737 ✭✭✭vargoo


    Graham wrote: »

    Bizarre.

    Deluded


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    #147
    Accidentally
    Registered Users Posts: 257 ✭✭Accidentally


    vargoo wrote: »
    Deluded

    What exactly are you looking for?

    They'll create low paid jobs for students and people looking for part time work. There'll also be some spin off for the businesses in Ballymahon and the wider area, which might incentivise some of them to up their game.

    I'm not aware that anyone was ever promised or expected more than that.


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    #148
    slave1
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 18,721 Mod ✭✭✭✭slave1


    Their staff turnover is over 30% pa consistently, that tells me enough.
    I hope it's a success but having looked at their pricing I was gobsmacked

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    #149
    salmocab
    Registered Users Posts: 11,288 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    slave1 wrote: »
    Their staff turnover is over 30% pa consistently, that tells me enough.
    I hope it's a success but having looked at their pricing I was gobsmacked

    A lot would be seasonal I would think. It is expensive but I’d think they’ve done their homework and if not it will quickly enough find it’s level.


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    #150
    Cosmo Kramer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,991 ✭✭✭Cosmo Kramer


    Pretty amazing to see the condescending attitude towards the development in this thread. This should be seen as a really positive development that will, probably for the first time ever, give people a reason to actually go to Longford rather than just pass through it on their way to where they actually want to go. Personally I've never once visited Longford for any reason other than because the road passes through it or I was going to a GAA game there. But we might visit Center Parks sometime for a short break and maybe try the local pubs and restaurants in the area while we're there.

    The jobs being created are obviously not going to be high skilled highly paid jobs, it's cleaners and cooks they'll be after. I'm not sure why that's a reason for criticism but reading the thread you'd think people were expecting Center Parks to be rocking up with hundreds of degree level pharmaceutical jobs or something. It is what it is and it will have a significant positive effect on the local area. You are lucky to be getting it.


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    #151
    mario84s
    Registered Users Posts: 137 ✭✭mario84s


    Cosmo Kramer wrote: »
    You are lucky to be getting it.

    That's all good and great, but when you can take the kids away to bloody Salou for same money AND all inclusive, then that tells you something...


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