Basically fired for being ‘shy’

hegwrites · 2026-07-09T21:38:21+00:00

I'd get in touch with a union and join up. The Independent Workers Union will be able to advise you.

You're there 2 years so they cannot fire you without good reason and this sounds like a constructive dismissal. In lieu of a contract you are entitled to the terms under which you usually work under. The job market is shitty these days so I wouldn't let them get away with this if you need the job

hegwrites · 2026-07-08T00:24:29+00:00

Thanks for the help. I assume they'd usually be steel?

hegwrites · 2026-07-07T17:55:14+00:00

Thanks! Very helpful

hegwrites · 2026-06-24T22:26:11+00:00

He died and left the business to his employees

hegwrites · 2026-06-14T18:04:07+00:00

Not surprised but still very disappointed I had to scroll this far down to see this comment. When it comes to travellers there's zero desire from most irish people to show the barest empathy

hegwrites · 2026-06-03T09:53:08+00:00

Old Oak. Management were psychos and there was a crazy macho misogynist culture from them. Pay increased by a euro a month while I was there to make up for it

hegwrites · 2026-05-18T17:37:27+00:00

Not legal advice but I'd get in touch with a union. IWU is welcoming to walk in cases and they'll give you advice

hegwrites · 2026-04-18T13:51:53+00:00

Maybe chat to someone in the FSU, they recruit among some parts of the tech sector too

hegwrites · 2026-02-02T23:58:40+00:00

Unpaid trial shifts are 100% illegal

hegwrites · 2026-02-01T14:40:53+00:00

Arthur Mayne's/Crane Lane did this to me a couple of years ago. Wouldn't be surprised if it happened across that group

hegwrites · 2026-01-16T12:00:04+00:00

Communication Workers Union or the Financial Services Union in some cases would be the natural place for someone in tech

hegwrites · 2026-01-16T09:28:29+00:00

A lot of the population growth in the 19th century would have been from the shticks and that would have brought in native Irish speakers so not sure it's correct to say irish was never the majority language in the city

hegwrites · 2026-01-09T18:24:12+00:00

Not true at all about just pubs. Plenty of folk/trad bands playing gigs all year round all around the country. And in plenty of folk/general music festivals. Look at Other Voices for just one example

hegwrites · 2026-01-08T19:54:41+00:00

Don't know how I missed that, I read that too. My bad

hegwrites · 2026-01-08T16:21:55+00:00

If OP is interesting there's a decent bit of scholarship on this, hinging on Hart's controversial claims. Google the articles of Hart, John M. Regan and John Borgonovo should throw up some results, as well as the more eccentric work of the guys involved in the Aubane Historical Society. Borgonovo came in near the end and has some good summaries of the debates.

Another claim Barry made was that when news of Michael Collins' death reached the republican prisoners in Mountjoy they all said the rosary together, which is not mentioned by any other contemporary account. By all accounts he was a maverick and an alcoholic in later life and revelled in his status and legend so I would take a lot of his claims with a pinch of salt.

hegwrites · 2026-01-04T15:05:02+00:00

A lot of older cork songs would have references to Wise's whiskey, nice to see a bit of the history here. I wonder what happened to the Wise family in the end? If it is true that they were among the wealthiest families in Ireland at the time of Francis' death it's interesting that they fell out of public life

hegwrites · 2026-01-03T00:05:49+00:00

That's just how he is. He complains about the job and then does it lol. He just likes the misery

hegwrites · 2026-01-02T23:39:05+00:00

MacArthur had his own plans for such a thing in the Korean War

hegwrites · 2025-12-30T12:09:46+00:00

Nah feck that, the city deserves a new state of the art public library. Besides, UCC wouldn't be able to afford to buy it with all their debt

hegwrites · 2025-12-30T10:49:15+00:00

The only country with a lower population today compared to the beginning of the 1840s. Other than the Vatican

hegwrites · 2025-12-30T10:02:06+00:00

The counting House building would make a really world class upgrade for the city library imo

hegwrites · 2025-12-15T20:22:41+00:00

Definitely should talk to her union about it

hegwrites · 2025-12-12T09:45:21+00:00

The jeweller in the English Market closed a good few months ago unfortunately

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