State Pathologist - S Class Mercedes

HarryPotter41

Don Juan DeMagoo wrote: »

(A) No I never said that.....

(B) It was only an idea, faster there and more convenient. what has health and safety got to do with it? are you suggesting helicopters aren't safe?



I have already admitted I was wrong.

Sorry for airing my views and questions, wasn't expecting to get this reaction. I was/am very skeptical of Irish cronyism and pay in top positions. I fully accept that she is a top class state pathologist.
But is it wrong to question the pay in comparison to other developed countries. It is us paying for it after all.

I accept i am the whipping boy for this thread and will leave it now.

Again I meant no disrespect by my comments, just thinking out loud I guess.

Nobody thinks you meant any offence and you are not a whipping boy ( unless you're into that kinda thing ).

There's nothing wrong with questioning salaries but not just one persons, it would have to be across the board. Would it be fair to reduce hers and have her going through the horrific weeks work she has just had while somebody sitting in an office bending paper clips now gets paid more than her because we just reduced her salary to international norms?

So don't leave us!!

HarryPotter41

finty wrote: »

They should have given her a bike

Someone would complain because they gave her a racing bike instead of a high nelly.

Then you'd be guaranteed if someone says for her to walk, someone else will come along and say her shoes are too nice, that she should walk barefoot.

HarryPotter41

HarryPotter41 wrote: »

Someone would complain because they gave her a racing bike instead of a high nelly.

Pffft a bike.

Ridiculous, audacious and vulgar waste of public money, bitch should walk!

Millicent

AH is comical lately. Couple of days ago we had someone banging on that a Gregorian chant Masters' lecturer shouldn't be employed because he, the taxpayer, shouldn't have to pay for it. After the potential for jobs from such a course were pointed out to him, he didn't come back.

Here we have people dissing Marie Cassidy because she has the chutzpah to drive a decent car. No evidence as to whether it's provided by the state (apparently it's not) but rabble, rabble, rabble, I'm a taxpayer so she should get a 1980s Skoda to travel the country investigating horrific murder scenes.

Seriously, begrudgers, engage your brain and try to come up with a coherent argument before you bother. Just because you're a taxpayer doesn't mean you need to find things to moan about. For God's sake, there's plenty of subjects you could relevantly moan about. Stop finding stupid things to complain about for the sake of it.

Millicent

Millicent wrote: »

rabble, rabble, rabble, I'm a taxpayer...

If they did as much taxpaying as they did moaning the country would be infinitely better off!

Absurdum

Deleted User wrote: »

Pffft a bike.

Ridiculous, audacious and vulgar waste of public money, bitch should walk!

then we could bitch about her Jimmy Choos

kerash

Preusse wrote: »

two Assistant State Pathologists as well

Read that as Assassin..

angelfire9

If i read this thread correctly her car is not state owned but private
BUT
even if it was state owned I wouldn't begrudge it to her, a driver either

This week alone she would have had to attend 2 horrific crime scenes in Cork & Limerick
Overseeing the autopies and preparing evidence for a murder trial with respect to the tragedy in Newcastlewest

Horrible horrible horrible job

Its awful to think we have turned into such a nation of begrudgers

Son Of A Vidic

OP - who gives a fcuk what she drives as long as she does her job well. Out of interest, do you think she should drive a hearse?

Bosco boy

spyderski wrote: »

Plonker Plonker Plonker


It affects me if my taxes are going towards paying for it.

let's hope so that if she ever meets you professionally she gives you good service and value for your taxes! Hopefully a nice tidy job too!

brandon_flowers

spyderski wrote: »

Plonker Plonker Plonker


It affects me if my taxes are going towards paying for it.

Does it now because my tax pays for it too and it doesn't bother me? Most unfortunate that something that small can bother you.

Splicer

I really don't get it. Its an S-class, not even a Maybach... Plenty of people drive those. Plus being a doctor, especially one who handles such pressure warrants the salary. Her salary would afford getting a new S-class every year, so don't be petty.

Duncan31

Id have more respect for someone buying a good car and claiming the civil service mileage rates that some tight arse claiming the full rate and owning a 1987 toyota corolla.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Don Juan DeMagoo wrote: »

(1) Was she forced into her current employment? Enough with the oh but the poor dear has to work with terribly traumatic scenes. It is in the job title and I am aware there are hundreds of very qualified people in Ireland trying to get into the forensic pathology department...........
But guess what people, the one place in Europe that with the exception of a couple of the higher people in the department, you have to be a member of the Gardai to apply??? I can only imagine the class of highly qualified person applying.

ONLY in Ireland would you see such blatant obtuseness and cronyism

(2) What do her international peers earn. Enough with this "there is no one else as qualified" malarkey. Reduce her wage to the average international/european standard. If she decides to leave, so be it. Offer the position up to an international audience, watch and see it be gobbled up. Then repeat it for all the state bodies. Trust me, you may not want to believe it but there are some more intelligent people in the world than Ireland....

Did she not have a helicopter at one stage as well....... Surely a state chopper would make more sense than an s class. There are loads of choppers laying idle at the moment, buy one for a knock off price and TAADAA..... end of silly threads that make me question my country again

This post is rubbish.

Are you on the same wage as the international standard?

the purple tin

She needs a very reliable and efficient automobile.
After all, this is the country in which the Taoiseach once told members of the public to commit suicide!

foxinsox

Absurdum wrote: »

then we could bitch about her Jimmy Choos

I only came in here because I thought it was about Hermes bags and Prada shoes.. :P

I think she should drive her Merc with her head held high..

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

the purple tin wrote: »

She needs a very reliable and efficient automobile.
After all, this is the country in which the Taoiseach once told members of the public to commit suicide!

Got a link for that?

Ben Hadad

It was probably bought for her by Blackrock College alumni.

dxhound2005

The Germans made her buy it.

Morrigin

Magdalena Fast Semifinalist wrote: »

Got a link for that?

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0704/economy.html

I remember this - it was because they were 'talking down' the economy.

Killer Pigeon

Arsne wrote: »

Whats the story with this

I totally agree with you OP, even though you haven't specifically mentioned in your first post whether you are for or against the fact that the State Pathologist is allowed to have a luxury S-class Mercedes but I know at heart that you are against it. Let me now use this platform to advocate communism, the fact that the bourgeois class are totally evil and are doing nothing but ruining the lives of ordinary working men who have to stare on in painful jealousy at the S-class Mercedes which the owner swaggers around as a medal of their achievements. How inegalitarianism is that. OP I suggest you go to the State Pathologists' mansion and rob that car off her. Then break it up and hand the pieces to good proletarian mechanics garages nationwide. Its time for a revolution people; a revolution against S-Class Mercedes.

WornEnemies

The state pathologist drives an 04 Mercedes and bought it out of her own salary. This car is 8 years old and is NOT a state car. Also, people referring to there being oversees pathologists more qualified for the job than her and other Irish pathologists - she is Scottish and applied for the role just as anyone else did/would and got the job as she was and is the most qualified for it.

dastardly00

WornEnemies wrote: »

The state pathologist drives an 04 Mercedes and bought it out of her own salary. This car is 8 years old and is NOT a state car. Also, people referring to there being oversees pathologists more qualified for the job than her and other Irish pathologists - she is Scottish and applied for the role just as anyone else did/would and got the job as she was and is the most qualified for it.

Welcome to Boards.ie Professor Marie Cassidy :pac:

hairyprincess

Jaysus, what is it with the zombies these days!

smash

hairyprincess wrote: »

Jaysus, what is it with the zombies these days!

No brains obviously :pac:

Micky Dolenz

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