The HSE must be the best place in the whole world to work. Minister for Health, Fatty Arbuckle, doesn’t give a shit what goes on. The Chief Exec gets paid a bonus based on how many people are misdiagnosed with, and subsequently die from, cancer.
And you don’t even have to turn up to get paid!
One employee has been paid €1.3m since 2003 but has been on sick leave the whole time. That must be a fairly senior member of staff too. Another hasn’t been to work since 1996 and has been paid €300,000 in that time.
13 years out sick. Fucking hell.
I’m gonna apply for a job, turn up for a week or two, then get Doctor Nick to fudge me up a sick note, sit back and count my cash.
Sweet.
Fatty Arbuckle..heh..
Yeah pretty bad.
The bigger picture here is who in the Government is leaking all this negative publicity about the civil service? What is actually happening here is the Government is trying to divide the country between public and private sector and create a division among the people.
They’re doing that to distract the attention away from themselves and leave is bickering amongst ourselves and getting nowhere.
Divide and conquer – oldest trick in the book. Don’t get taken in by it.
An attempt to make it easier to enforce public sector pay cunts?
Cuts, I mean. It’s like a reflex when you type CU …
Abolish money – it’s the only answer. Free beer, food and ciggies for all.
I guess tou are back watching the news again Twenty.
So Civil Servants are threatening strike action. Since so many of them do less than fuck all, have they asked themselves – how will the public know they’re on strike, what will the bleedin’ difference in levels of service be?
Any Civil Servants not on the front line – managers, administrators, the O.P.W., etc. – who’d fucking miss them?
Let them fucking strike. Just don’t pay them.
Tossers.
Crank:there’ll be riots when the dole offices are shut and people arent gettin sent their checks on time,White Riots at that..
HM – “Divide and conquer – oldest trick in the book. Don’t get taken in by it.”
Spot on.
Doing the same in the UK at the moment.
Think about it, a working stiff has to bring a note from a doctor if he’s out sick for a day or two. No note, no job or perpetual harassment. The inhabitants of the political cesspool believe they are superior to real people and the pricks always seem to get re-elected or re-appointed as well. They take damn good care of each other. Fuckin’ cunts. Same shit in the US and the rest of the world.
Doesn’t that picture of Karadzic in the IT Make him look like Father Ted.
My hubby works in the public sector, on the frontline, dealing with junkies and skangers, people pretending they can’t speak english who then accuse him of racism, he’s been threatened, spat at, abused, belted, and now his wages are so low that he is trying to get a second job to pay our mortgage.
For years he was paid much less than the private sector, he pays PRSI, he pays tax,he must have a doctor’s note for sick leave, and now he’s being portrayed as some sort of evil genius, with squillions of ill gotten loot!
What a shower of idiots the general public must be if they believe this propaganda from this shower of shites in government, who are just trying to turn everyone against ordinary workers, instead of themselves or the big nobs, that no one on the front line ever sees, or even know who they are!
Don’t do their dirty work for them, Twenty.
That sounds like a fun job, Yippee.
Yippee, that’s exactly what I’m talking about.
IBEC and ISME have to cop on and stop harping on about the public sector. I own a small company but I rarely agree with IBEC or ISME and I don’t for one minute buy into all this public sector criticism. I can see it for what it is. The government is using us against each other. It’s disgusting.
Yippee – ‘Don’t do their dirty work for them, Twenty”
Got to agree here. The ‘haves’ in Irish society are delighted to pit the private and public sectors against each other.
And while the general public are taking sides in this ridiculous and pointless blame game, and the papers are covering these stories, the haves will go back to giving themselves stupid pay and perks, and it’ll all go unnoticed.
Divide and conquor…
Fatty Arbuckle….
Here…. poxy computers…
http://www.kontraband.com/pics/8741/EXTREME-Body-Mods/?gpage=16#show
There was a woman on the radio this morning, she was near in tears as she highlighted the plight of her 2 year old daughter who is waiting for an operation to correct a hole in her heart. The surgeons and the operating theatre is available in Crumlin, the problem is the aftercare required, there are either no beds available in the ICU or not enough staff to man the beds, so her daughter would not get the care required and therefore they cannot carry out the operation.
So this woman must watch her child suffer & must herself live everyday with the fear and pain of seeing this, while the frustration is compounded by stories such as the one you highlight here.
They cannot afford to pay staff in the ICU in a Childrens Hospital but have paid some CUNT €1.3m in 6 years while out sick. This pretty well sums up the HSE and this Government & Country for me.
Close wards, cancel operations, don’t replace frontline staff & watch children suffer & die, as long as you don’t upset the fucking unions.
The HSE is a national embarrassment. At all sorts of levels (from minor to major) there is just such inertia that nothing gets done.
In my own situation, I am just so embarrassed for health professionals at their lack of communication/ collaboration between hospital specialists. If they could organise their sorry asses, I could be ‘fixed’ and actually get out of their hair entirely which would SAVE MONEY!!!!
I really do empathize with the story about the woman with the kid needing surgery… it really is like someone smashed Humpty Dumpty and none of the bits fit together, Harney breaks everything she touches, from taxi drivers to industry to the health sector. The woman is like a plague on us all.
Don’t be surprized if the f*cker out sick for 13 years is on a waiting list to have his corn pared.
IF YOU ALL HAD SPENT YOUR MONEY EDUCATING YOURSELVES ABOUT THE WORLD OUTSIDE YOUR DOORSTEPS INSTEAD OF BLOWING THE CELTIC TIGER WINDFALL ON PINTS OF GUINNESS – YOU MIGHT HAVE MADE BETTER CHOICES FOR GOVERNMENT, OR HAD THE ARSENAL TO TURF OUT THE PRESENT BUNCH OF CYCLICAL GANGSTERS…..GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL OTHERWISE, IT’S EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF NOW GOD HELP YOU….
I AGREE WITH GLUAISTEAN WHY DID I BUY THAT YAUGHT INSTEAD OF THAT HITMAN TO TAKE OUT THE CYCLICAL GANGSTERS……..WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE DOING WHEELIES AND PULLING SKIDS ALL OVER THE PUBLIC SECTOR…..MY OWN FAULT I SUPPOSE FOR GUZZLING CHAMPAGNE INSTEAD OF VOTING FINE GAEL
HEY GUYS WHATS GOING ON IN HERE?
yeah they’re obviously trying to pit one side against the other and it’s not the normal people earning freakish amounts of money for being on sick leave, it’s probably some brother of a FF TD who got the job without having an interview.
BURN THEM! BURN THEM!
oh, good article : http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/david-mcwilliams/rich-get-richer-as-rest-of-us-pay-for-their-mistakes-1925851.html
WHY IS EVERYONE SHOUTING??
The ordinary working people (public and private sector) are ripping into each other like mad dogs. Meanwhile, Fianna Fail, the bankers, the developers and their fat cat social partners scrape up all they can, before the IMF take us over. Jesus fucking Christ people! When are we going to wake up? We sat on our arses and laughed at the yanks for giving George W Bush two terms, while we were electing a bunch of gangsters to lay our country to waste.
America will recover from Bush. Ireland will never recover from the devastation wreaked by Bertie and his builder buddies. And the sad thing is, we elected them. And we’ll elect them again, because we are still a nation of small-minded, parochial, selfish bastards. Nurses and factory workers screaming at each other on Liveline! They love it.
The working people are at each others throats, because that’s where they want us to be. As long as we keep fighting among ourselves, we’re no threat to them.
There are a lot of strikes and worse ahead in the next few months. But when we’re all squaring up to each other in the streets, maybe we should spare a thought for our highly paid Union leaders, bankers and politicians as they clink champagne glasses in the Dail bar, while their chauffeurs wait outside.
Wake up, for fuck sake! Or do you really believe Beverly Flynn is a rebel?
Have any of U civil service assholes ever stopped and looked at yourselves? Sit in the Tax office and watch the sheer incompetence and indiference! Now the passport office and we should not argue with U because you are so downtrodden! I hope U are all fired and the people who are unemployed are given Ur jobs then maybe we would feel like supporting a civil service than has consistently since the foundation of the state sat with their thumbs up their ass’s!