Multinational for North Side

mentalson · 31-01-2008 11:27am #1

There's a new company coming to the Northside in February. a few hundred new jobs apparantely. Anybody know who it might be?

bill_ashmount · 31-01-2008 11:29am

Haven't heard a thing.
Good news if true though.

rebs23 · 31-01-2008 12:46pm

It was widely reported recently that Facebook are looking at setting up in Ireland.

run_Forrest_run · 31-01-2008 2:38pm

oh please not another dead end call/support centre

let's hope not.

mentalson · 31-01-2008 3:19pm

more than likely it will be yet another min wage,no benefits, non unionised , sweatshop call centre like RCI, Abtran, Amazon, Apple, Siemens etc, although I will be reserving judgement till I find out more.

missingtime · 31-01-2008 3:23pm

run_Forrest_run wrote: »

oh please not another dead end call/support centre
let's hope not.

amen to that...i'm very close to running out the door of one of the companies listed just above ^

craichoe · 01-02-2008 11:19am

Arra feck off will ye ... Can't really be selective about the companies and jobs you want coming to cork.

Theres alot of Town are cities that would gladly take the extra jobs !

If you dont want to work there then don't ! simple as.

P.S. I don't even live in Cork anymore ! or Ireland for that matter.

rebs23 · 01-02-2008 11:29am

craichoe wrote: »

Arra feck off will ye ... Can't really be selective about the companies and jobs you want coming to cork.

Theres alot of Town are cities that would gladly take the extra jobs !

If you dont want to work there then don't ! simple as.

P.S. I don't even live in Cork anymore ! or Ireland for that matter.

he is right you know. Typical Cork some good news and we moan about it.

mentalson · 01-02-2008 11:45am

Ever work in a call centre Craichoe?

anyway we still have no idea who it is. It isn't Facebook as they were looking at Dublin.

missingtime · 01-02-2008 5:00pm

Not really moaning just hoping that it wont be a call centre.

missingtime · 05-02-2008 11:52am

If anyone looks at that Whazon! guide for cork, on one of the pages is Hayes advertising 160 jobs in a...call center.

craichoe · 05-02-2008 1:27pm

mentalson wrote: »

Ever work in a call centre Craichoe?

anyway we still have no idea who it is. It isn't Facebook as they were looking at Dublin.

Bloody did .. Apple for a couple of years .. You take it for what it is though .. bloody call center job

Raskolnikov · 06-02-2008 11:13am

I hope it's IT related. I'd love to be abe to come back to Cork some day.

mentalson · 07-02-2008 8:44am

most IT call centres are in India. If it is a call centre it will probably be dealing with the european market as they have difficulty getting french spanish and german speakers in most third world countries.

bill_ashmount · 07-02-2008 10:15am

mentalson wrote: »

most IT call centres are in India. If it is a call centre it will probably be dealing with the european market as they have difficulty getting french spanish and german speakers in most third world countries.

....and English

mentalson · 07-02-2008 11:48am

bill_ashmount wrote: »

....and English

not at all. hundreds of millions of english speakers in India. all of the cork call centres (except Amazon) are here because of the availability of french, german, scandanavian language speakers etc.

missingtime · 07-02-2008 12:15pm

Yea the English speaking countries are generally India and Philipines (Manila to be exact).

bill_ashmount · 07-02-2008 12:20pm

mentalson wrote: »

not at all. hundreds of millions of english speakers in India. all of the cork call centres (except Amazon) are here because of the availability of french, german, scandanavian language speakers etc.

I know, I know, I know.

craichoe · 08-02-2008 4:04pm

mentalson wrote: »

not at all. hundreds of millions of english speakers in India. all of the cork call centres (except Amazon) are here because of the availability of french, german, scandanavian language speakers etc.

Yes, but the accent is VERY hard to understand.

mentalson · 12-02-2008 9:09pm

craichoe wrote: »

Yes, but the accent is VERY hard to understand.

I assume you mean the Norrie accent.

something strange going on though. The big announcement was supposed to be Monday, but there was no announcement and the page on the Hays website has now been taken down. Has the whole thing fallen through.

bill_ashmount · 13-02-2008 10:05am

mentalson wrote: »

The big announcement was supposed to be Monday, but there was no announcement and the page on the Hays website has now been taken down. Has the whole thing fallen through.

What's the website address?

mentalson · 13-02-2008 10:27am

www.hays.ie\countdown.
no more ads in the papers either.

bill_ashmount · 13-02-2008 10:55am

mentalson wrote: »

www.hays.ie\countdown.
no more ads in the papers either.

Cheers. Hopefully they have just been told to quieten down until it is officially announced.

Heisenberg. · 28-02-2008 2:24pm

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bill_ashmount · 28-02-2008 3:22pm

The Scientist wrote: »

Nail. head.

Announced today in the Echo.
Marriott International (Hotel Reservations crowd) have announced a new Operation for the Commons Road, Blackpool which is likely to create over 150 jobs.

So it aint eBay or Intel, but hey, its 150 jobs for Cork!

meh, disappointing all the same.

mentalson · 28-02-2008 4:18pm

not certain that this is the one. . Marriott already has a call centre in Cork (and a really bad rep as an employer) and the expansion to 250 jobs was already announced with much fanfare......in 2002

http://www.entemp.ie/press/2002/021002.htm

the ads until they were pulled a few weeks ago referred to an "exciting global start up"

mentalson · 29-02-2008 3:08pm

The Scientist wrote: »

Nail. head.

Announced today in the Echo.
Marriott International (Hotel Reservations crowd) have announced a new Operation for the Commons Road, Blackpool QUOTE]

Unfortunately you may be right The expansion of the Marriott call centre which was announced years ago is the "exciting new Global Multinational expanding to Cork" bit of a scam

Multinational for North Side

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