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No, we're actually happy enough to have jobs. We can take it a bit easier in the Summer.
AIB and BoI cancel Christmas staff parties
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No, we're actually happy enough to have jobs. We can take it a bit easier in the Summer.
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No, we're actually happy enough to have jobs. We can take it a bit easier in the Summer.
Well, it is good you feel that way but I think it is a bit heartless of your employer when their staff really are going the extra mile.
Good on you for doing it! And good for your family for being so understanding.
I work in an international bank, and we've had a ban for over a year on Christmas parties etc. We do still have department nights out, but they can't be booked in the bank's name due to adverse press coverage. The press coverage at one point got to the stage where some people were sent abroad to evaluate an outsourcing company that the bank was planning to use and it ended up in the press as a management junket (one manager, a few technical specialists).
As to who complains, probably the same people who can't differentiate between the bank worker at the lowest level in the hierarchy and the CEO of the whole bank, and lump them together as banking fat cats.
As to who complains, probably the same people who can't differentiate between the bank worker at the lowest level in the hierarchy and the CEO of the whole bank, and lump them together as banking fat cats.
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Sorry to hear bank staff Christmas parties are being cancelled. Don't worry because your bosses have made up for that .
The fat cats of the banks had a nice evening bash in the Burlington attending the Institute of Bankers' dinner.
You will be happy to know they shared fine wines and five-star food. Tables of 10 cost €1000 . According to Shane Ross they dined on smoked salmon and crabmear followed by baked fillets of halibut and barbary duck with seasonal vegetables.
Nurse Nightingale, Mary Harney, deputised for Brian Lenihan and a good time was had by one and all
The fat cats of the banks had a nice evening bash in the Burlington attending the Institute of Bankers' dinner.
You will be happy to know they shared fine wines and five-star food. Tables of 10 cost €1000 . According to Shane Ross they dined on smoked salmon and crabmear followed by baked fillets of halibut and barbary duck with seasonal vegetables.
Nurse Nightingale, Mary Harney, deputised for Brian Lenihan and a good time was had by one and all
Says it all, really
What's 'Five-star food'
? Even Michelin only goes to 3 and there are none of those in Ireland ?€100 a head for dinner and drinks, not bad really... you'd hardly get a starter in Patrick Guilbaud's for that (the only place on the island with two Michelin stars).
Oh, by the way, the Institute of Bankers dinner is not a staff dinner for the employees of banks.
I don't, nor ever have, worked in a bank but that sort of tabloid rubbish gets up my nose.
I can put a starter of crab meat and smoked salmon together for about €3.50 per plate from stuff I can get in Lidl. Mr Guilbaud wouldn’t give a starter like that to his cat.
A lot of us have a beef with the Sindo. Mainly because they print rubbish, exaggerations and downright lies in a self righteous tone while lauding a group of 'celebrities' on their back page many of whom epitomise what was wrong with the celtic tiger.
If you took time to read properly what was written, you would realise that the bash was for the bosses NOT the employees
That's what the man wrote ,maybe he dropped a nought.
I was making the point that the bosses were not cutting back as far as they were concerned
Busted
To honest, I prefer Andrex to anything from Independent 'news'papers.
Also, Shane Ross having a beef with the banks is not 'news'. He has had a chip on his shoulder, or some such other anatomical complaint, about the banks for years.
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You can now - maybe it's the recession:
Starters range from €40-€44.
Main courses about €50-60.
I'd be cautious about it myself. I wonder how much snob-premium is on these prices? (I've had gorgeous food in crap looking restaurants, and mediocre food in expensive places.)
Our company were reluctant at first to have a chrismas party this year but are going ahead as they can afford it and it will be a boost to a local hotel and will be a thanks to staff who worked hard during the year and had their annual payrise deferred for at least a year. I feel it is appropriate for the banks not to have a large party but companies who can afford it should still try to spend locally and boost staff morale!
Your portions are too small!
I think the 1K as you said they got is enough of a Xmas present don't you think
You are saying that you would prefer a night out where 40E is spent on you than getting 1K, you must be loaded
I don't like the Indo because it's cravenly west-brit.
The "bosses" are employees of the bank.
Jasus, what value!
I was there twice (wasn't paying) and it was fantastic but I don't think I'd feel incomplete if I was never there again.Last time I invite you around for dinner
Well, next to not telling the truth, not checking their facts, not reporting in a balanced way, trying to make celebrities out of pointless nobodies...........
I wish being west-brit was the worst of their crimes. (I'm talking about the Sindo by the way).
e.g. Dr. Sir Wing-commander Professor Rear-admiral His Holiness Brigadier AJF O'Reilly, Esq.
ditto... Also, what's wrong with being west-brit?
I think treating staff to a Christmas party at least shows a bit of respect for them, whereas a grudgingly paid increase forced upon you by a labour court doesn't exactly give the impression of employees being appreciated.
I don't think so and thanks to the appalling examples of greed and selfishness set by their political, organizational and union masters all they want is their slice of the imaginary cake, paid for by me.
A simple rule of thumb in budgeting is that the first items of expenditure to be stopped, not reduced, are those things that come under the heading of "Discretionary Spend" like Christmas parties.
I support the cancellation as I won't now have to pay for them lorrying food and drink down their necks instead of doing the jobs they failed to do for the last few years.