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Job Board in Welfare Office

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  • 10-01-2014 11:53pm
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    zom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭


    Spotted today in my local Welfare Office - hilarious! Piece of cardboard in on the window cill with series of A4 photocopies (actually about technical apprenticeships in Germany).

    http://omg.wthax.org/795dLJ.jpg

    Millions spent on creating and advertising Job Offers and how it all looks like?
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    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    You should have complained to the concierge. I hope it didn't put you off collecting your welfare.


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    apollo8
    Registered Users Posts: 349 ✭✭apollo8


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    You should have complained to the concierge. I hope it didn't put you off collecting your welfare.
    Smart ass


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    downonthefarm
    Registered Users Posts: 1,308 ✭✭✭downonthefarm


    Plenty if work around now according to Gilmore and co.


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    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    apollo8 wrote: »
    Smart ass

    Imagine a welfare office advertising jobs!, cheek of them.


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    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    I think the display signifies opportunity.


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    #7
    cena
    Registered Users Posts: 10,022 ✭✭✭✭cena


    Social welfare offer jobs world wide so I have heard


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    PCX
    Registered Users Posts: 433 ✭✭PCX


    Looks like someone in the welfare office stopped complaining about cuts in resources and got off their ass and improvised. We need more public servants like that.

    Hope someone who reads it gets a career out of it.


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    humbert
    Registered Users Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    Does it affect its function? It's cheap and functional and you're complaining.

    Seriously what do you want, jobs advertised on full HD TVs mounted on a gold encrusted solid oak notice board??


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    #10
    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,631 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    I'd much rather go serve a technical apprenticeship in Germany than sit on the dole in Ireland.


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    #11
    Eight Ball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 906 ✭✭✭Eight Ball


    One of our neighbours got sent a letter from welfare few weeks back with a job offer in the arse end of Canada. He's a 59 year old man and his wife has MS. Some country we are alright.


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    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    If it were advertised on a 3 grand tv mounted to the wall, people would be complaining about wasting money.

    Lose-lose situation


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    humbert
    Registered Users Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    Eight Ball wrote: »
    One of our neighbours got sent a letter from welfare few weeks back with a job offer in the arse end of Canada. He's a 59 year old man and his wife has MS. Some country we are alright.
    I assume you mean they actually shipped him off to it as you'd hardly be whinging about them informing him of an offer.


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    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Eight Ball wrote: »
    One of our neighbours got sent a letter from welfare few weeks back with a job offer in the arse end of Canada. He's a 59 year old man and his wife has MS. Some country we are alright.

    Chance of a lifetime.


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    RacoonQueen
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    wazky wrote: »
    If it were advertised on a 3 grand tv mounted to the wall, people would be complaining about wasting money.

    Lose-lose situation

    Or they could just spend a couple of quid on an oul notice board...or take some crap (of which no doubt there is some) off another notice board and put it up there.


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    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Yeah absolute disgrace that they aren't on a 1080p 3D display with the latest in vector graphics and visual display of quantitative information. :mad: The sheer cheek of them to be advertising jobs! Jobs that might improve a citizen's own welfare! The arrogance!


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    Specialun
    Registered Users Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    " i dont believe it joe"


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    downonthefarm
    Registered Users Posts: 1,308 ✭✭✭downonthefarm


    What jobs were they advertising op


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    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    RacoonQueen wrote: »
    Or they could just spend a couple of quid on an oul notice board...or take some crap (of which no doubt there is some) off another notice board and put it up there.

    Why?

    Your in the welfare office, they are advertising jobs, jobs that you might be a successful applicant to.

    Where's the issue?


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    Pawwed Rig
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    Eight Ball wrote: »
    One of our neighbours got sent a letter from welfare few weeks back with a job offer in the arse end of Canada. He's a 59 year old man and his wife has MS. Some country we are alright.

    A job offer? Really? Visa included for him and his wife? Sounds like a winner


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    Oranage2
    Registered Users Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    People that complain over something trivial like this are usually the same folk with the 'give me a job' attitude that are too lazy to get off their holes and actually look for one!


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    jackofalltrades
    Registered Users Posts: 3,253 ✭✭✭jackofalltrades


    zom wrote: »
    Spotted today in my local Welfare Office - hilarious! Piece of cardboard in on the window cill with series of A4 photocopies (actually about technical apprenticeships in Germany).

    http://omg.wthax.org/795dLJ.jpg

    Millions spent on creating and advertising Job Offers and how it all looks like?
    Do you mind me asking which social welfare office it was?
    Do you have any further details about the apprenticeships?

    I'm genuinely interested in what they're about. If you can post up the info or PM me I'd really appreciate it.


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    Eight Ball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 906 ✭✭✭Eight Ball


    humbert wrote: »
    I assume you mean they actually shipped him off to it as you'd hardly be whinging about them informing him of an offer.

    No he refused and told them to fcuk off.


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    Eight Ball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 906 ✭✭✭Eight Ball


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    People that complain over something trivial like this are usually the same folk with the 'give me a job' attitude that are too lazy to get off their holes and actually look for one!

    Nice stereotyping.


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    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Eight Ball wrote: »
    No he refused and told them to fcuk off.

    Declined politely I hope. There's no way they could have known his personal situation.


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    #26
    Hello_MrFox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 201 ✭✭Hello_MrFox


    I see a business opportunity here.


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    #27
    Tombi!
    Registered Users Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭Tombi!


    I think the complaint is that computers are so common and cheap nowadays that putting up 8 pieces of paper or so is a bit insulting for job offers.


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    #28
    Larianne
    Registered Users Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    What job adverts have pie charts in them?! :confused:


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    #29
    humbert
    Registered Users Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    Eight Ball wrote: »
    No he refused and told them to fcuk off.
    Until his next cheque was ready.


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    Chareth Cutestory
    Registered Users Posts: 6,608 ✭✭✭Chareth Cutestory


    Isn't that what a job board is? A board...with jobs stuck on it. Looks about right to me.


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    meoklmrk91
    Registered Users Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    Don't see anything wrong with it from an asthetic standpoint, it does the job.

    What I do have a problem with is them advertising foreign jobs, I would imagine if something similar had been happening in Poland during the boom times people would have been up in arms. If people want to go out foreign they of course can but perhaps the government should focus on job creation instead of trying it ship people off.


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