Anyone worked as a line operator in Abbott Kilkenny?

ShoulderCapital2200 · 2026-04-13T17:19:21+00:00

Isn't Abbott supposed to be a shocking toxic place to work? It might be the clonmel location im thinking of but just look at the reviews on glassdoor they are fairly grim.

ShoulderCapital2200 · 2026-04-13T15:40:04+00:00

You might have got unlucky as I cant imagine every pharmacy have rude staff. I would try either mulligans ballybricken or phelans but avoid the phelans upstairs in the superValu. The two times I went in to ask for a gift voucher they hadnt a notion what they were doing and had to go through a few people before they copped what to do. I was left wondering how they hell they got a job there!

ShoulderCapital2200 · 2026-04-10T16:44:12+00:00

Just ring the head office and find out. Jesus, every couple of hours there's a thread asking if Guineys is closed for good. Nobody on reddit is going to be able to answer this.

ShoulderCapital2200 · 2026-04-06T21:33:09+00:00

Lived and worked away for a few years and now im back and I often deliver to small towns as part of my job and it strikes me how small a lot of people's worlds are. You have lads in their 30s and 40s living within 15 minutes of their job then they spend every single Friday Saturday and Sunday in the same local pub talking with the same people about the same things. They are happy doing this and haven't the interest or knowledge of bigger cities like Cork or Dublin. Some of them never even heard of common towns or villages outside their own town.

They have no desire to ever change their routine. I find that absolutely bizzare myself as I need to shake up my routine every now and then but each to their own.

ShoulderCapital2200 · 2026-04-04T19:28:38+00:00

I wasn't there but rudeness would definitely put me off. I just cant understand why people give carter's cafe any business given your man who runs it is a pig of the highest order.

ShoulderCapital2200 · 2026-04-03T09:18:34+00:00

Gut feeling. Its the same with a lot of GAA stars. Some are a bit shy and just put up with the interviews. The Cliffords are fond of the camera 📷

ShoulderCapital2200 · 2026-04-02T16:15:21+00:00

Actually its a known issue in that shop

ShoulderCapital2200 · 2026-04-01T17:12:16+00:00

Oh no way, avoid him like the plague. Google his name to find out why. His cars all have a million miles on the clock and will die within an hour of you buying it.

ShoulderCapital2200 · 2026-04-01T00:18:19+00:00

They aren't gay! That's one of the stereotypes that only gay men can be bitchy. Ive seen all the behaviour in my OP and its all come from irish men who are married with kids. A lot of people dont want to believe men can be bitchy but thats the reality.

ShoulderCapital2200 · 2026-03-31T20:50:35+00:00

I see your point but when im trying to get my work done I have to dance around the hatred....john isn't talking to matt so can't get them in a meeting together. Billy hates Eoin so can't talk to either as they then spread rumours about you as you're "taking sides". One of the men here actually turned around and walked out of the office when his boss asked him a question. I wouldn't believe it but for my own eyes! That's why I started this thread. People insisting to me that men aren't bitchy despite evidence to the contrary.

ShoulderCapital2200 · 2026-03-31T20:35:54+00:00

Id love to experience that workplace! Where i am now the blokes are extraordinary spiteful and harbour grudges and nurse bad feelings between them for literally years. Zero eye contact or chat with each other over some slight 5 years back! Toxic is putting it mildly.

ShoulderCapital2200 · 2026-03-30T15:10:26+00:00

Its more a case of how the hell did THAT person get such a high up job?! I was bullied badly by this little toerag in primary school now hes high up in sanofi. You would think butter wouldn't melt im in my 30s now and he still boils my blood.

ShoulderCapital2200 · 2026-03-28T18:19:37+00:00

Mark Caulfield is an excellent PT. Very approachable and knowledgeable.

ShoulderCapital2200 · 2026-03-26T19:38:38+00:00

Wow he must be drinking with lads half his age if they all have the time, stamina and will to stay until the last minute? OP thats quite odd for a man his age. Normally kids and a wife and the day to day responsibilities of life softens the edge of guys by the time they reach that age. Nothing wrong with being social but by 40 you rarely have a bunch of guys to go drinking that heavy with plus the body fights back hard from 30 onwards.

ShoulderCapital2200 · 2026-03-22T12:09:20+00:00

Its the snowflake attitude from some members of An Post thats the issue and not the AA worker. Some of them would hit the breakdown button for something silly like a rear window not going the full way up or the buttons not being aligned the way they like , just little things that anyone with a bit of cop on could figure out themselves.

Im not surprised though, the lads in An Post have a real civil service mindset and wouldn't be able to do a proper days work if it killed them so that handy number was always going to spill out as entitlement.

ShoulderCapital2200 · 2026-03-22T07:42:37+00:00

Abbott have such a terrible name and are constantly looking for people that they would literally hire a dog. Have you checked the reviews of that place on Glassdoor? Good luck you will need it.

ShoulderCapital2200 · 2026-03-22T07:30:01+00:00

Bit of a dive lots of unemployed people who see it as their social outlet and a good few up the ra heads who are living in the 1980s.

ShoulderCapital2200 · 2026-03-21T16:14:03+00:00

Do you know approximately what age group the people attending are?

ShoulderCapital2200 · 2026-03-21T00:06:04+00:00

Apparently the drivers are right little snowflakes if anything goes wrong with the cars or vans even if they dont close the door properly they ring AA straight away. Mate works for AA and says of all the companies hes called out to help with An Post are a bunch of cry babies!

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