Arise Europe

talkingclock

Trainers & tackies at my time many moons ago...

fire_man

What way do the shifts work inside there,do u work 1-9 every second wk and then 8-4?what happens if u work wkends what days do u get off?

Mc Love

fire_man wrote: »

Whats the dress code inside?

Its fairly casual - you can wear what you like (within reason)

fire_man wrote: »

What way do the shifts work inside there,do u work 1-9 every second wk and then 8-4?what happens if u work wkends what days do u get off?

I think its worked like the way you have mentioned, but its more on alternating days than every other week, twas the way when I worked there

fire_man

Do you have to work a week in advance in this place before u get paid?

bantee

How long do you have to wait for a reply after an interview?

Are they a bit of a disaster getting back to people?

fire_man

I was waiting a wk or so,had u an interview lately.

donutheadhomer

fire_man wrote: »

I was waiting a wk or so,had u an interview lately.

They hired a good few last week I think

phill106

Also an ex sykes worker. Was there when they had sony vaio. Was in last group that got our training in brussels. Was good craic at the time.
Applied for arise before, never responded...sniff
Probably think i had too much experience, but dammit i needed work at the time!

fire_man

what kind of breaks do u get in arise?do u get long for lunch?

donutheadhomer

fire_man wrote: »

what kind of breaks do u get in arise?do u get long for lunch?

? why would you need to ask this?

phill106

EurasianBadger wrote: »

? why would you need to ask this?

Perhaps he lives locally and was wondering if he could go home for lunch? Hardly company secrets!

fire_man

Exactly ,i live close enough,just wondering have i time to go home for lunch.

donutheadhomer

fire_man wrote: »

Exactly ,i live close enough,just wondering have i time to go home for lunch.

breaks are not consistant and are 30 minutes in duration. When are you starting?

Mc Love

30 minutes but they werent strict

campo

I see they are advertising for a team leader for out there was tempted to stick in my CV see what they money is like only thing is my job now is pretty secure so would not want to go somewhere that is not secure.

Anyone know what kind of money they would offer a team leader there

donutheadhomer

campo wrote: »

I see they are advertising for a team leader for out there was tempted to stick in my CV see what they money is like only thing is my job now is pretty secure so would not want to go somewhere that is not secure.

Anyone know what kind of money they would offer a team leader there

I saw one agency advertising this vacancy for €20K pa

campo

EurasianBadger wrote: »

I saw one agency advertising this vacancy for €20K pa

Cheers for the info Badger think I will leave that alone 20k for a team lead position is a bit rubbish on more then that now and im only a call centre agent

fire_man

They havent got back to me on a starting date,is there good craic inside or are u worked to the bone,do ye have nights out etc?

talkingclock

trust me, there are worst callcenters around! sykes or PAN anyone?

phill106

campo wrote: »

Cheers for the info Badger think I will leave that alone 20k for a team lead position is a bit rubbish on more then that now and im only a call centre agent

Saw another one offering it at 25k on jobs.ie

Flaccus

Arise are the leftovers of AST Comptuters (who were originally Tandy) which alot of people will remember were originally beside UL and then moved out to the old Verbatim plant in Raheen after Dell bought the Castletroy building. At that point the business was doing very bad and they went from making their own PC's (and they actually did do their own motherboard, storage and workstation design and research and all the stuff that went with it), to selling just Samsung notebooks (Samsung bought at least 50% of the business). It was eventually sold globablly (I believe Gateway or someone similar bought the brand name), and what has left became Arise under a local management buyout. At first they continued to resell Samsung notebooks, then went into selling spare parts. Finally they moved to the back of Dell near where Xircom are, and concentrated on repair work and being a call centre which is mainly what they are now. I worked for them many years ago when they made PC's. So that's the background to the company for those interested.

talkingclock

just going trough old photos: is Dave still tidying up? a lovely chap!

tommy26

It is a terrible place,i would advice to stay away.

donutheadhomer

tommy26 wrote: »

It is a terrible place,i would advice to stay away.

better than dominick street though

tommy26

I dont know is it.Its demoralizing work,better off trying to do a college course,its a dead end job.

donutheadhomer

tommy26 wrote: »

I dont know is it.Its demoralizing work,better off trying to do a college course,its a dead end job.

you could do both.

anyway most college is fairly demoralising too

tommy26

ya u could do both,have u been there long?

donutheadhomer

tommy26 wrote: »

ya u could do both,have u been there long?

forever

tommy26

Its a pay cheque anyway.

donutheadhomer

tommy26 wrote: »

Its a pay cheque anyway.

as said above - double the dole