Top ten reasons for being Irish
Aug 20th 2003, 11:03 pm
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Top ten reasons for being Irish
1. Guinness.
2. 18 children because you can't use contraceptives.
3. You can get into a fight just by marching down someone's road.
4. Pubs never close.
5. Can use Papal edicts on contraception passed in the second Vatican Council of 1968 to persuade your girlfriend that you can't have sex with a condom on.
6. No one can ever remember the night before.
7. Kill people you don't agree with.
8. Stew.
9. More Guiness.
10. Eating stew and drinking Guinness in an Irish pub at 3 in the morning after a bout of sectarian violence.
2. 18 children because you can't use contraceptives.
3. You can get into a fight just by marching down someone's road.
4. Pubs never close.
5. Can use Papal edicts on contraception passed in the second Vatican Council of 1968 to persuade your girlfriend that you can't have sex with a condom on.
6. No one can ever remember the night before.
7. Kill people you don't agree with.
8. Stew.
9. More Guiness.
10. Eating stew and drinking Guinness in an Irish pub at 3 in the morning after a bout of sectarian violence.
Aug 20th 2003, 11:06 pm
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1. Guinness.
2. Guiness
3. Guiness
4. Guiness
5. Guiness
6. Guiness
7. Guiness
8. Guiness
9. Guiness
10. Guiness
2. Guiness
3. Guiness
4. Guiness
5. Guiness
6. Guiness
7. Guiness
8. Guiness
9. Guiness
10. Guiness
Aug 20th 2003, 11:13 pm
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I assume from the level of postings, no job yet then Pim ?
What is the job market like over there ?
What is the job market like over there ?
Aug 20th 2003, 11:25 pm
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U2
Guiness
Baileys
St Patricks day
Celts
The female members of The Corrs
Guiness
Baileys
St Patricks day
Celts
The female members of The Corrs
Aug 20th 2003, 11:27 pm
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Nope Scrumpy, but to tell you the truth, I dont plan on looking until after the wedding next month when I have filed for AOS. It would be teasing if I started to look now, when I know I cannot apply for a job due to the lack of work authorisation. I found that out, when I emailed two local firms, only to get zero response back.
Aug 21st 2003, 5:19 am
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On the subject of employment, is it true what I have heard that a lot of companies in the US will only give you a weeks hols the 1st year you are with them ?
Aug 21st 2003, 5:48 am
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Originally posted by doctor scrumpy
On the subject of employment, is it true what I have heard that a lot of companies in the US will only give you a weeks hols the 1st year you are with them ?
On the subject of employment, is it true what I have heard that a lot of companies in the US will only give you a weeks hols the 1st year you are with them ?
Not a whole job but heard today I have a part-time tutor job in a local college - start paid training tomorrow - hooray! Of course part-timers don't get any benefits at all. But I'm hoping the part-time job plus a bit of free-lancing I have going will get me an in at the college so I can get a full-time before long. Need that for the med insurance - it's costing us $200 a month to be on my husband's, which will about cover the after-school club for the kids when I go full-time.
And even with cover we have to pay co-payments plus 20% of whole cost. The med cover used to be a LOT better but was revised recently because of cutbacks. The economy's biting and even education is being hit very hard.
I'm an ex-journo but applying for anything that moves in the colleges. Currently one of 150 who made it through the first part of the selection process for a job pushing paper that could be done by a trained monkey. Lots of highly qualified people applying for low-level jobs here at the mo so generally employers can get away with murder. But the holiday thing seems to be pretty standard even for fairly high-flying jobs. The kinds of holidays your average toilet-cleaner gets in the UK seem very few and far between over here.
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Aug 21st 2003, 6:03 am
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This thread is a year old but pretty much confirms the vacation thing:
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...eferrerid=4283
Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings
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http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...eferrerid=4283
Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings
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Originally posted by ScarlettHill
Certainly seems to be often the case here in Dallas. I was practically offered an office manager's job a while back with five days' holiday and 3 sick days in the first year rising to two weeks' holiday on year 2 - with no hope of it ever rising higher. Turned it down out of ignorance. Friends here say this is completely normal. Situation's better if you work in Education. In the colleges here you generally get one holiday day accruing for every month you work plus 12 sick days a year. Guess where I'm going to work?
Not a whole job but heard today I have a part-time tutor job in a local college - start paid training tomorrow - hooray! Of course part-timers don't get any benefits at all. But I'm hoping the part-time job plus a bit of free-lancing I have going will get me an in at the college so I can get a full-time before long. Need that for the med insurance - it's costing us $200 a month to be on my husband's, which will about cover the after-school club for the kids when I go full-time.
And even with cover we have to pay co-payments plus 20% of whole cost. The med cover used to be a LOT better but was revised recently because of cutbacks. The economy's biting and even education is being hit very hard.
I'm an ex-journo but applying for anything that moves in the colleges. Currently one of 150 who made it through the first part of the selection process for a job pushing paper that could be done by a trained monkey. Lots of highly qualified people applying for low-level jobs here at the mo so generally employers can get away with murder. But the holiday thing seems to be pretty standard even for fairly high-flying jobs. The kinds of holidays your average toilet-cleaner gets in the UK seem very few and far between over here.
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Certainly seems to be often the case here in Dallas. I was practically offered an office manager's job a while back with five days' holiday and 3 sick days in the first year rising to two weeks' holiday on year 2 - with no hope of it ever rising higher. Turned it down out of ignorance. Friends here say this is completely normal. Situation's better if you work in Education. In the colleges here you generally get one holiday day accruing for every month you work plus 12 sick days a year. Guess where I'm going to work?
Not a whole job but heard today I have a part-time tutor job in a local college - start paid training tomorrow - hooray! Of course part-timers don't get any benefits at all. But I'm hoping the part-time job plus a bit of free-lancing I have going will get me an in at the college so I can get a full-time before long. Need that for the med insurance - it's costing us $200 a month to be on my husband's, which will about cover the after-school club for the kids when I go full-time.
And even with cover we have to pay co-payments plus 20% of whole cost. The med cover used to be a LOT better but was revised recently because of cutbacks. The economy's biting and even education is being hit very hard.
I'm an ex-journo but applying for anything that moves in the colleges. Currently one of 150 who made it through the first part of the selection process for a job pushing paper that could be done by a trained monkey. Lots of highly qualified people applying for low-level jobs here at the mo so generally employers can get away with murder. But the holiday thing seems to be pretty standard even for fairly high-flying jobs. The kinds of holidays your average toilet-cleaner gets in the UK seem very few and far between over here.
Regards
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Aug 21st 2003, 8:33 am
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Thanks for that Scarlett. How do they expect to get the best productivity out of a worker when the only give them a week off ?
Aug 21st 2003, 11:17 am
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Originally posted by doctor scrumpy
Thanks for that Scarlett. How do they expect to get the best productivity out of a worker when the only give them a week off ?
Thanks for that Scarlett. How do they expect to get the best productivity out of a worker when the only give them a week off ?
Sam.
Aug 21st 2003, 11:34 am
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Originally posted by ukemigrant
Yeah sucks doesn't it? I went from 25 holidays plus statutory ones to 1.5 per month plus statutory. Better than most. Some places don't offer any paid time off for the first year....
Sam.
Yeah sucks doesn't it? I went from 25 holidays plus statutory ones to 1.5 per month plus statutory. Better than most. Some places don't offer any paid time off for the first year....
Sam.
Just couldn't stomach the idea after 12 weeks a year off + unlimited sick leave, so also turned it down from ignorance.
Aug 22nd 2003, 2:59 am
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Originally posted by doctor scrumpy
Thanks for that Scarlett. How do they expect to get the best productivity out of a worker when the only give them a week off ?
Thanks for that Scarlett. How do they expect to get the best productivity out of a worker when the only give them a week off ?
They don't care ... If you don't give your best you'll get fired. One of my co-workers was fired for phoning in sick twice- she had a young baby. US employers want their pound of flesh and get it...and the higher up you go, the more they want. Two weeks holiday is standard, very few places allow sick leave.
This is Capitalist America- not socialist Europe.
