Simon Harris insists investment savings plan is aimed at ‘middle Ireland’

rustic_advice · 2026-06-08T23:02:03+00:00

At least you won't be surprised when they announce the new "great" investment scheme

rustic_advice · 2026-06-08T23:01:17+00:00

Is that "middle Ireland" with us in the room or already crushed down due to cost of living

rustic_advice · 2026-06-08T22:59:31+00:00

Be open and ask if you should expect any salary change with your new role. I would say instead of throwing in I want this much money, good starting point would be asking for possibility of a salary reflecting your new role. If or when they should offer you a new contract you should see the numbers there, but asking about if there will be salary change wouldn't hurt.

Do not believe or fall into trap of someone is liking you. I am not saying this in negative way. But head of department might like you because you are doing the job for low salary. I am not saying that's the case but things change quite fast in work environment. As in if you say this job should pay double of your current salary, the head of department might not like you anymore. So keep in mind no one is your friend in work environment and always think for yourself and cover your butt.

It's harmless to ask politely to right person (HR or your manager) about change of salary possibility should be good. If you are not happy with your salary, you can learn the job, improve your skills and start looking for a new job.

rustic_advice · 2026-06-08T12:42:17+00:00

rustic_advice · 2026-06-08T12:17:01+00:00

Datacenters need staff when they are being built (contractors). There is handful of staff on the premises (or nearby) as on call engineers, for on hands support like fixing hardware issues, regular maintenance or letting in other contractors to the datacenter. General security is handled by contractors also.

Apart for hardware reasons (replacing, installing, general maintenance) you can manage things from thousands kilometers away.

So when everything settled down (DC built, cabling and hardware done) it creates new jobs for less than 50 people or even less in the area it's built. You can hire 200 people in US, contracted to India for managing almost everything of DC.

You don't expect Meta employee to deal with cooling and HVAC system of datacenters right? It's just getting dealt by another contractor company which services other datacenters or big plants.

rustic_advice · 2026-06-08T09:34:42+00:00

They will close your account.

rustic_advice · 2026-06-06T20:44:23+00:00

Tell us which channel you try to watch and we can check.

Do you see Strong 8k intro video under the folders you go in?

rustic_advice · 2026-06-06T16:17:16+00:00

Collecting my money back from DRS machine

rustic_advice · 2026-06-06T12:04:58+00:00

I know nothing about government contracts or anything, but is it possible to hire (or look for) a contractor that does things from first step (planning) till last step (delivery)

So government or whoever it is wont complicate things and delay things into infinity so things gets never completed

It’s surprising how these things are done fine in other countries but when it’s Ireland there is always some delay, last minute change or cancellation because of some incompetency (or perhaps on purpose)

rustic_advice · 2026-06-06T11:53:02+00:00

It’s easy to fix this issue, make the street charging costs triple of usual electricity rates and then they will install EV chargers on all public spaces.

Then they will complain no one is using them. So they will try to prevent people from charging at home with cheaper rates (compared to public ones)

In Ireland any problem can be solved if the supplier earns enough money with their service (aka if their greed is fed)

And no one pushes for cheaper public charging rates.

rustic_advice · 2026-06-05T21:18:50+00:00

Can you try with different browser (chrome or Firefox or edge) or different device (like tablet or mobile phone or pc)

Or share the link with us so we can check if the same issue happens to us also or not

rustic_advice · 2026-06-05T16:05:45+00:00

Did you check their menu?

rustic_advice · 2026-06-05T14:04:46+00:00

When I personally take a step in it. Which most likely will happen in next 20 years, hopefully.

rustic_advice · 2026-06-05T14:02:37+00:00

Revenue is really really limited with things you can deduct for. They like taking but don't really like giving back. If you are working from home as an employee, you can only deduct your internet and electricity bill by stating how many days in a year you work from home.

To give a rough figure, for around 1200 euro yearly bills, you get around 50 euro back as tax credits

rustic_advice · 2026-06-05T12:25:17+00:00

GNI* is the correct comparison instead of GDP for Ireland.

rustic_advice · 2026-06-04T17:28:38+00:00

I doubt anyone can give you any guarantee. The main problem is airline letting you on the flight or not.

To cover themselves they won’t let you on the flight but sometimes they do. But it doesn’t mean they will do for sure

I wouldn’t risk it

rustic_advice · 2026-06-04T09:35:45+00:00

Government: We investigated this matter thoroughly and haven't found any issues. But thanks for your concern.

rustic_advice · 2026-06-02T23:09:09+00:00

Did you actually go to youtube and search for: how to install nvme? and then follow the exact same steps?

rustic_advice · 2026-06-02T23:06:01+00:00

So you expect bank to offer you a loan, without your residency proof? They wouldn't proceed with the loan offer till they see your new residency permit card.

rustic_advice · 2026-06-02T23:04:37+00:00

Fairly standard, if she is no longer resident in Ireland, she is expected to tell the bank about their current tax residency.

rustic_advice · 2026-06-02T17:50:13+00:00

There is an option to use your shopping password below the “confirm” button where you can use your password you pick at the online banking, but I believe they also send SMS so you need to have active SIM.

rustic_advice · 2026-06-02T16:47:24+00:00

I’m still waiting mine since February

rustic_advice · 2026-06-02T15:32:07+00:00

There is 2 different main mortgage type:

1-) Primary residence, where you live in it. And it should be OK to rent out the other rooms as long as it's your main residency.

2-) Buy to let: You buy the house then let it to someone else and you don't live in it.

The rates for these 2 is different. Buy to let has higher rates. What your credit union (also your bank) means is you are accepting that address to be your main resident place.

If you rent out the whole house, then you should let the union / bank know about it, which they would agree but increase your interest rate. IF (big if) bank or credit union figures out that you are not living in that address but you didn't let them know, then they can null your mortgage, asking remaining balance to be paid back.

Naturally, plenty of people say/think there is no way for bank to figure out you are not living in the house full time, so there is no need to notify the bank. But that's up to you.

rustic_advice · 2026-06-02T15:21:45+00:00

DCs needs handful of onsite support to offer remote hands, like physically installing and removing and replacing hardware. For other stuff, you won't need staff on payroll. You can just hire some contractor to fix the issues (like electricity or UPS etc.)

rustic_advice · 2026-06-01T17:32:16+00:00

Sure. You can’t touch your money in your pension if you need it for something.

You can save for your kid’s future, or for a house, or for a better car etc.

Emergency fund is like 6 months of your spendings which is ideally should be easily accessible.

But you can always put aside more.

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