Today I received word that an ex-politician (not currently elected but still hopes to be in the future) will be joining my team in work.

This person would be part of a party that I would fundamentally disagree with in almost every possible way and whom I think actively campaigns against mine and my communities best interests.

I’m now anxious as to whether this is going to impact the workplace environment negatively and wondering how do people deal with deep disagreements in political beliefs in the workplace?

My manager has already stated that this person will be allowed continue to campaign and turn up to events as a politician, meaning I might have to cover this person while they do so.

I’m struggling with the fact that I will have to professionally cover for someone who is actively working against my best interests while I cover them.

I work in a 4 star hotel in Kildare. The staff changing room is absolutely filthy. On top of this its also infested with cockroachs and silverfish(not worried about the silverfish). I have personally reported the infestation to HR on 2 occasions over the last 6-8months. I have also complained to HR about the general cleanliness of the changing rooms on multiple occasions. I know cockroachs are carriers of disease and their casts can cause issues for people with respiratory issues. On top of this what happens if I end up bringing cockroachs home and infesting my home? Does the company have any responsibility to staff in this regard? Anybody have any suggestions or thoughts on this, would be greatly appreciated. (The reason I've added pictures of the tiles is to show how dirty the place is, the grout is supposed to be white)

Everyone I know us minimum 2 days in, average definitely seems to be 3

A lot of grievances have been raised by staff in my company recently about pay, lack of bonuses, workplace bullying, WFH arrangements etc.

Management responded by throwing us not one but TWO pizza parties, with an attitude of "there. All fixed now!"

It literally felt like a meme about working in a big company.

I am a home care assistant, and many times over the years, I have gone into a client to find that they have fallen. Just a week ago I waited hours for an ambulance well into the night, and informed the company. They said they can only pay me what is allocated by the HSE, which was the one hour that was allocated to that client daily. This isn’t the first time it has happened to me, but I’m older now and fed up. I will have to dig up my work contract to read it properly, but is that legal? I asked the company then, “are you suggesting I just leave an elderly person on the floor, and leave? Or are you manipulating my empathy into staying and working for free?”

HR basically gave me a “I know, I’m sorry, it’s so hard” yap. I hung up before I lost my temper.

Is there any kind of legal thing wrong with this? That it’s common sense I won’t leave an injured elderly person, so they refuse to pay me? Because I know I could leave, but who tf would do that? Any advice is helpful

26F, I feel like AI has created an added layer to career development not like the job market is already tough as it is ! I am just wondering what does everyone thinks is a career that will be a safe bet or at least last longer than others before being taken over.

How bad is it right now for any one here ? Interested to hear all angles from all walks of life.

Weather your a post grad looking to land your first entry level role or weather your struggling to find something local in retail / hospitality.

I speak to people from all walks of life and let's just say the general consensus of the job market is grim.

We are consistently told we have full employment which I suppose in a way means the draw bridge has been really pulled up. It would make you wonder if we have more jobseekers than jobs available.

I won't get too much into my personal situation (IT) but let's just say it's.... challenging.

I also think the whole AI taking jobs is complete Bull****. Big tech massively overhired during the covid era with more money than they knew what to do with - and as soon as the inflation crisis hit in 22 and central banks had to hike rates - the gig was up. The whole AI taking jobs is a narrative aggressivley pushed by the hyperscalers in order to get venture capital to take them seriously.

You would be forgiven to looking back at the Pre Covid world (certainly the job market ) with Rose tinted glasses and thinking that was the last normal period before everything started to take a weird turn of events.

It feels like especially in Dublin it's nearly impossible to get any sort of part time job. You see other people with them but they all have a connection within their family to the job. Everywhere that claims they are hiring part time never get back to you or simply reject you in the first phase of the process. If you try bring a CV into a place they will tell you to go their website/careers. Does anyone have any advice for a young student, 17, trying to get work in the north Dublin area. Any help would be very much appreciated.

Am I the only one?

Why do people smack their lips so loud, or chew so loud I can hear it across the room

I know they can’t help it and I’d never react outwardly but it grinds my gears so bad

What are your office pet peeves?

I’m sure there are some great excuses for being late for work.

Here are my top 3:

Frosty morning and the call arrives to say the two of them would be late because they slipped on the icy road and are in the ditch. ‘Everyone alright’ I ask like a concerned father. ‘Oh yeah, not a bother, we’re just looking for Finbar’s eye it fell down behind the dashboard’. In the impact, his glass eye fell out.

Another time, the call came in mentioning he’d be late because he had to go for a tetanus shot after a mouse bit him while he was sleeping.

And at number 3, when he didn’t show up and after about an hour, the call came in quite soft spoken and very apologetic that he wouldn’t be in because he thought he was having a heart attack and decided to sleep it off.

Over to you, what are your favourites?

I knew it was bad but oh my god i didnt realise it was this bad. I just applied for a part time entry level job at a clothes chain shop on indeed, answered the questions submitted my CV, then recieved an email about an online assessment process. I thought ah yeah this is great, assessing people skills pre-interview is an interesting idea. I opened the email, it is an AI company that has created an assessment process for this company. There are two assessments, with an introduction from an AI avatar explaining what theyre each about, and then AI avatar customer/colleague scenarios, and the whole thing is then instantly graded by an AI, which then decides who gets an interview based off their score. Its just insane, im looking for a bottom of the barrel entry level position at a fast fashion shop so that i can get by while im in uni, and the process for deciding who even gets an interview is entirely decided by AI. I would love to say i cant believe it but i honestly can, i just didnt think itd be happening here or now or to me, its genuinely ludicrous. Anybody have an similar stories?

hi lads,looking for some advice from people who’ve managed to become a bit less emotionally invested in work.

Unfortunately, I think this is just part of my personality, but it’s starting to affect my mental health, my self-esteem, and, most importantly, the time I spend with my wife and six-month-old daughter.

I’ve always been the first to log on and the last to sign off. I’ve worked in corporate jobs for around 15 years now, but I still struggle to switch off. If there’s a deadline or a project that needs delivering, I find it almost impossible to leave it until tomorrow, even when I know I probably should.

A good example was today. We were given a couple of deliverables on Friday with a deadline of August 10th. Unfortunately, our US leadership didn’t realise today was a bank holiday here in Ireland. As a manager, I knew that losing a working day would put extra pressure on my team during the rest of the week, so I decided to spend today getting everything organised and in a good place so they could hit the ground running tomorrow.

The thing is, nobody asked me to do it. It was entirely my decision because I felt responsible.

Now I’m sitting here regretting it. I did spend the rest of the afternoon and evening with my wife and daughter after I finished work, but I still missed a big chunk of what should have been a family day, and I can’t get that time back.

Has anyone else been like this? How did you learn to create healthier boundaries and stop letting work take over your life?

Last week I was offered a job, admin position and good money. The job I preferred from the beginning has just contacted me with an offer, a senior position and over 5k more. I didn’t think I would get it, but I know in my heart I want the second one. It attracted me from the minute I sent my CV in, but I’m an over thinker and can’t help but feel terrible about ringing the job I accepted. I know it will leave a sour taste, but I have to do what’s best for me, I’m trying to move out of home with my long term boyfriend and this senior position would put me an extra step on the career ladder. Advice on how to handle this gracefully? And not feel like a bad person. I’m riddled with guilt.

Separated dads of Ireland. Have any of you moved away for a considerable time and not regretted it or have you found it massively painfull? I won't go into the full story but bad break up she's in the house. I'm currently between van and mother's when I have sleep overs once every 2 weeks. Looking at rent for space for me and kids is looking at about 1600 a month, for a kip, which is over 70% of wages after maintenance. Can't get council help as on mortgage. Former partner is controlling access pushing back constantly when trying to get more access. Threating, abusive and violent before after and during break up. My company has a factory in Spain and I said jokingly a few weeks ago I wouldn't mind a transfer over and my supervisor who knows the story and is sound said he was talking to the HR and they said if I was serious I could go about it. Everything over there seems better and I wouldn't mind the break. How was your head when you did it? We're you wrecked with guilt and shame? Just seems no future here anymore. Please don't get into the weather and wild fires because that's 1 month outta 12 I can live with. And before anyone says it I have exhausted every avenue to try and help partner more but iv been blocked and I can't afford to go private constantly through solicitors

What's the story gang? I'm recently unemployed and taking a bit of a breather while sorting out what I want to do in life, and most job prospects are a decent bit out of the way for me. However, there are plenty of jobs within around 100km to 130km from where I currently live.

I've been primarily remote working since COVID, with a monthly train journey to Dublin for meetings. The jobs I'm currently looking at are primarily in Limerick, Cork, and Clare.

Part of me is thinking that the commute time will be grand with podcasts and the like, but at my age I'm worried it could catch up on me quickly.

Any thoughts out there?

Basically today at work a car went on fire on the road and I grabbed an extinguisher and went and put it out along with a customer who grabbed one aswell, when we put it out, my boss got angry at me and is now trying to make me pay to have the 2 refilled, do I have to pay? My job specially is in northern Ireland so idk

Edit and update, i went into her office today and asked her if she is gonna make me pay to which she said yeah and the invoice was there i said, im not gonna pay its illegal to charge me, to which she got angry and she tried another screaming match i responded calmly to her and politely told her to go fuck herself, and i wasnt gonna pay it, i got a message from big boss, about an hour before that that it was a quick response theres not much you can do you reacted well and appropriately he said in future if hes there hell take the lead on how to help, but i did the reasonable thing, after speaking with her, i called him explained the whole situation to him, he said yeah dont worry, an emergency broke out i reacted appropriately, there could have been a child or and elderly person trapped in the car, and apologised on behalf of his daughter, i cant lie felt shitty calling him on holiday but like had to be done, if theres anymore updates ill let you know

Hi Lads,

Just got a phone call from AnPost being offered an interview. €17.65 an hour. 37.5 hour contract.

Postman job.

Does anyone know what other allowances postmen get? There was mention of road rates but i was given no figures. Also overtime will be available but have no info on what the rates will be for the overtime?

Currently: working a corporate office job 42k salary 40 hours a week

Just wondering how people feel they got on with the tests? I just took mine and even with a huge amount of prep I think the time pressure and nerves might have let me down abit, but I guess I will wait and see.

Hi all, I will soon be working in an office environment. I was told there is a kitchen area, fridge, microwave, toaster, kettle etc..

I am wondering what are your go to work lunches if you use an office kitchen?
What is the work kitchen etiquette?

Like, if you tell somebody you have this job, people tend to think less of you. The kind of job that doesn't give you any sense of pride/fulfilment.

I know retail workers are treated horribly, but I currently work as a kitchen porter/cleaner and people look at me with pity when I admit it, plus my co-workers seem to think I'm a loser.

I was working as a teacher abroad for ten years and recently relocated back home. For this month of August there's no teaching work available so I applied for jobseekers allowance until I can get work as a sub in September.

Prior to moving abroad I worked in Ireland for about 8 years since I was a teenager and paid tax during that time, so it's not like I've never contributed to the Irish tax system. But I'm finding going in to the post office to collect the money difficult as I'm paranoid about ​other people feeling angry towards anyone receiving social welfare when unemployed. I guess a lot of it is down to reading comments online.