Liveline thread 09/04/2013 to 19/7/2013

Bits_n_Bobs

Crazy woman expecting some sort of service levels from department of social welfare....

IvyTheTerrible

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Do you like Elephants and 1950's lions?

Not particularly! Glad i missed it so!

Yakuza wrote: »

Sounds like more typical ars3ishness of Irish Bureaucracy. Would the Irish state not recognise the death cert of another state? Does this not have a bearing on getting wills read, or access to bank accounts?

It sounds like a massive loop hole for identity theft to me.

JonathanAnon

I handed them my P45, Joe, they took it out of my hand, lit a match and set it on fire.. That's not public service, Joe..

Dan Jaman

Welcome to the public services, missus.

Privacy? Fecking Privacy? What the feck?

HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

SEPT 23 1989

I hear they are waterboarding the self employed when they try and make an application for social welfare

IvyTheTerrible

I have to say, this one is not exagerrating. I know people who are not shouty and bad mannered (so no excuse to be treated badly) who have had awful treatment in the social welfare office.

syklops

So this is what the haddington road agreement has gotten us.

JonathanAnon

I want to be there for her next visit to the social welfare office..

europa11

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

I hear they are waterboarding the self employed when they try and make an application for social welfare

And that's only if you pay for the water.

Floppybits

Joe: can you not scan it in and email it to them? What planet is he on?

artful_codger

Welfare dept have the highest sick leave in the whole public sector. Bone idle.

Lenin Skynard

JonathanAnon wrote: »

I want to be there for her next visit to the social welfare office..

Is that you, Paddy O'Gorman?

Bits_n_Bobs

People with 100% job security not being understanding towards those without....shocker....I don't know how this could happen....

Dan Jaman

Jeez, there's one place I really wouldn't want to work in and that's the Social Welfare Office. Especially with the shirtstorm that hit them over the past five years. Cuts and overwork and a system that's fecked-over by every political w&anker going.

SEPT 23 1989

So it was your fault

next caller please

Bits_n_Bobs

45 minute tea break definitely constitutes over-working of an ordinary daycent wurker according to Jack O'Connor....

JonathanAnon

Oh ffs, ring the department of transport... And get back on to the discussion about Anglo..

Bits_n_Bobs

They should of denied him his license on the basis of speaking too slow

Roger_007

Northern Ireland is in the UK. What IS this man's problem?

Yakuza

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

I have to say, this one is not exagerrating. I know people who are not shouty and bad mannered (so no excuse to be treated badly) who have had awful treatment in the social welfare office.

Agreed - I've had relatively few dealings with the social over the years, but none of them has ever been a particularly pleasant experience.

Busted Flat.

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Oh ffs, ring the department of transport... And get back on to the discussion about Anglo..

There will be no more discussion on that subject, got knuckles rapped.

JonathanAnon

Joe I got my TR1AN license which entitles me to drive a train.. (will you put me on air now)

SEPT 23 1989

signostic

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Oh ffs, ring the department of transport... And get back on to the discussion about Anglo..

Didn`t Joe say they were getting loads of calls about Anglo at the beginning of the show?...looks like a gagging order has been received from upstairs..

JonathanAnon

The coverage of the Anglo so far smacks to me of a token reference rather than actually discussing one of the most important topics of the year.. If RTE arent brave enough to discuss the issues of the day, then they should just pull the show altogether..

Busted Flat.

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Gaybo swapped his Harley for that model, after he joined the RSA.

Dan Jaman

"Catch-22" my arse.
Pass a test before the cut-off date and you're entitled to the qualifications of the old rules, dead simple.

europa11

He'll probably spend all day Friday cracking "jokes", singing ditties and listening to Wheezebags Doc and Syl throwing bad one-liners about The Anglo tapes, Fingers, Seanie and what have you.

Yet when it's the hot topic of the day, he practically ignores it to allow non-stories like these last two callers transport alleged problems rattle on.

JonathanAnon

55 euros, and how long has he been on.. The other story is about 55 Billion, Joe.. That bigger..

Dan Jaman

"I didn't heed the warning signs - then one afternoon, bang, I was throwing Joe Duffy on the fecking radio out of the window."