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xmas work parties

  • 16-12-2012 10:16pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 15


    hi all i work in steel factory in the west there is about 22 or 23 people working 11 in the yard and the rest in the office. anyway the management is having night out for the office staff and nothing for the lads outside ,its been like that for the last few years, and its creating a bit of them and us attitude what do ye all think ????


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    Why aren't they invited.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,107 ✭✭✭amacca


    singasong wrote: »
    hi all i work in steel factory in the west there is about 22 or 23 people working 11 in the yard and the rest in the office. anyway the management is having night out for the office staff and nothing for the lads outside ,its been like that for the last few years, and its creating a bit of them and us attitude what do ye all think ????

    I think its a very foolish shortsighted decision by the management

    I'd say when push really comes to shove they wont be able to manage their way out of a paper bag


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,364 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    They won't care. They have baubles of steel.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 735 ✭✭✭joydivision


    Find out where it is and turn up .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    work to rule i say


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 166 ✭✭peterk675


    Find out where the party is and pop in for one... or two!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,843 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    What? Associate with the hired help? Feck that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Bosses wife will be home alone

    Call over with a bottle of wine and start an affair

    That'll show your penny pinching boss!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,742 ✭✭✭Wanderer2010


    There must be a reason for this, Either this has always been the way and the management are snobby and only consider the office staff as 'real' staff or else there was a feud started by one party or the other and there is no longer a will for the two groups to mix. You need to tell us more OP!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,281 ✭✭✭Valentina


    Very unfair. They work hard and should get to play hard.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭franktheplank


    Is your workplace like this? (sorry for poor clip quality)



  • Registered Users Posts: 331 ✭✭james142


    guessing you dont work in the office then...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭molly09


    That is terrible, the office staff should refuse to go unless their collaugues are invited, if managemaent refuse, just organise a few drinks for everyone,
    That is so poor for Moral in a time when Moral is so low in most work places due to the recession


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    Those manual working types can get a bit rowdy with the drink. Keep them at arms length old bean.


  • Registered Users Posts: 15 singasong


    There must be a reason for this, Either this has always been the way and the management are snobby and only consider the office staff as 'real' staff or else there was a feud started by one party or the other and there is no longer a will for the two groups to mix. You need to tell us more OP!

    no genuine reason we all used too go out together 7/8years ago then stopped and the yard staff got something like 50 euros that lasted 2 years since then nothing


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,742 ✭✭✭Wanderer2010


    singasong wrote: »
    no genuine reason we all used too go out together 7/8years ago then stopped and the yard staff got something like 50 euros that lasted 2 years since then nothing

    Very bad form then if thats the case. I would just organise a few drinks amongst yourselves and enjoy it and make no mention of it to the office staff and keep things professional with them, maybe even keep a distance from any birthday or work leaving dos in the future, its obvious they dont regard you on the same level so keep things cool with them and try to just focus on the people you do like..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,576 ✭✭✭monkeysnapper


    singasong wrote: »
    hi all i work in steel factory in the west there is about 22 or 23 people working 11 in the yard and the rest in the office. anyway the management is having night out for the office staff and nothing for the lads outside ,its been like that for the last few years, and its creating a bit of them and us attitude what do ye all think ????

    I hear ye . That's a bit shiyte but why don't you , (you) organise a night out for ye . Make a big deal about it. Push the boat out . Go to a club and all dance in a large circle.

    That's what we did this year . Great fun :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭whymeagain


    NAME AND SHAME


  • Registered Users Posts: 225 ✭✭Shinaynay


    depends on the relationship between yarc&office staff . like do the yard staff work completely different hours to office staff? are they contracted by a different employer? is there much, if any, social interaction between both?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭Max Power


    singasong wrote: »
    hi all i work in steel factory in the west there is about 22 or 23 people working 11 in the yard and the rest in the office. anyway the management is having night out for the office staff and nothing for the lads outside ,its been like that for the last few years, and its creating a bit of them and us attitude what do ye all think ????
    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Did you lot cause a scandal last year?

    Get barred from the local hotel?
    You should probably read the OP first.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Miss Lockhart


    Shinaynay wrote: »
    depends on the relationship between yarc&office staff . like do the yard staff work completely different hours to office staff? are they contracted by a different employer? is there much, if any, social interaction between both?

    Doesn't really make much difference though - either the employer holds a party for all staff (together or separately) or they are playing favourites and excluding one group of workers.

    Even in the case of contract staff I think it's a pretty crappy way to treat employees.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Where have you been OP? The whole steel industry is gay.


  • Registered Users Posts: 526 ✭✭✭ManOnFire


    think the office staff has some responsibility here, if they respected ye any bit they'd make a point of having ye involved


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 404 ✭✭frank reynolds


    just show up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,630 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    Thats dreadful how can the owner or managers of the company do something like that in this day and age.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭davetherave


    Perhaps one should have ones own end of year box social with ladies of the night and partake in gambling events, and don't invite any of "them".




    And afterwards you can take a dump on the bosses desk.


  • Registered Users Posts: 15 singasong


    whymeagain NAME AND SHAME
    not a bad idea. i`ll let ye guess ,,a steel comany in the west with 22/23 working there


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    to be honest i'm more shocked that there are 23 jobs out west.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 487 ✭✭Cungi


    Would this company be based in Oranmore perhaps?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,609 ✭✭✭irishgirl19


    start a petition, or put a notice up in the staffroom saying how stingy u think it is


  • Registered Users Posts: 15 singasong


    start a petition, or put a notice up in the staffroom saying how stingy u think it is
    everyone knows how mean they are they`re proud too be so mean,
    "staffroom" what`s that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    Aw ; that's terrible . And SO mean.

    You know what to do - put the ideation in writing nice to whomever is in charge & ask for a reply. Would youze rather the e50, or to go to the party?! Sounds like the party could be a better goal : )

    Must be a history there thou...


  • Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭whymeagain


    Cungi wrote: »
    Would this company be based in Oranmore perhaps?
    is it family owned and they`re from gort


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭RoyalMarine


    I worked in a company like that before, all the management went out on a staff night and us common folk were not invited.

    The monday after their party they were all talking about how great it was etc etc. the pics didn't back up their words.

    So us common folk decided to go out on our own party. we paid our own way, and it was EPIC. we flooded the company email with pics of the night, and the year after we all received in invitation to the office party.

    We all turned down the invitation and went out on our own night.


  • Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭whymeagain


    singasong wrote: »
    hi all i work in steel factory in the west there is about 22 or 23 people working 11 in the yard and the rest in the office. anyway the management is having night out for the office staff and nothing for the lads outside ,its been like that for the last few years, and its creating a bit of them and us attitude what do ye all think ????
    how did the party go did ye get an invite


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  • Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭whymeagain


    well are ye back to work yet ?any bonus?????


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    whymeagain wrote: »
    well are ye back to work yet ?any bonus?????

    Was back on New Year's Eve. This week is my first full week in ages :(


  • Registered Users Posts: 15 singasong


    we`re back at work for a week now haven`t seen any of the top DOGS yet not even a happy new year


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭EoghanIRL


    Sounds pretty ignorant on their behalf .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,148 ✭✭✭mr_edge_to_you


    Make up a few poles for dancing using your steel engineering/fabricating skills and hire in some strippers. Have a January shindig in the warehouse.

    Sparks will fly!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭imitation


    There always seems to be some problem Christmas partys, and I'll never get it. Usually what happens they are too tight to do anything "offical" and things just break into cliques. Is the top man organizing the party or is it somebody lower down doing something with there buddies I wonder ? Next year you should organize your own night out and ask the boss if there's any chance of a few quid towards it, sometimes you just need to ask. If he has any cop on he'll see there is a split going on


  • Registered Users Posts: 15 singasong


    2014 and still the same,the office staff are having their party friday night in the park house. The 8 lads outside are going home with nothing..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,812 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    Why don't the office staff say no and not bother going to it? That of course is if the office staff actually cares.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭SIX PACK


    Why don't the lads in the yard band together and have it out with the owner ? Or are the rest of them all Pu**ies ? I know your not happy about the situation so your comrades should join forces with you as the speaker and have it out with Management
    It should be Equal rights for all employees even more so when it's a small company. Ye are the guys that do all the dog work owner should show some appreciation for his hardest workers.


  • Registered Users Posts: 15 singasong


    SIX PACK wrote: »
    Why don't the lads in the yard band together and have it out with the owner ? Or are the rest of them all Pu**ies ? I know your not happy about the situation so your comrades should join forces with you as the speaker and have it out with Management
    It should be Equal rights for all employees even more so when it's a small company. Ye are the guys that do all the dog work owner should show some appreciation for his hardest workers.

    i asked about something year but no joy, even the other day i asked about a bonus all i got was a stupid remark from the so called general manager,if anyone is in park house give them grief


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,223 ✭✭✭Canyon86


    fck em,

    head away yourselves and do your own thing,

    they are prob snobby cnuts in the office anyways

    :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,088 ✭✭✭Nib


    How did you remember your password after two years?


  • Registered Users Posts: 15 singasong


    Nib wrote: »
    How did you remember your password after two years?

    a brain


  • Registered Users Posts: 15 singasong


    we got holidays today ,only got 2 weeks pay and they don`t want us back until the 12th,office back on the 5th


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,676 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Lucky you, thats a nice long break.

    Any jobs going there?


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