Amazon Chief Technology Officer, Dr Werner Vogels, at Amazon’s Dublin office this morning
300 new jobs just announced by Amazon for Ireland over next two years to add to 1400 already employed here #ntfm
— Páraic Gallagher (@paraicgallagher) November 6, 2014
Amazon opens 300 new jobs in Ireland (IDA)
Pic: Will Goodbody
Sponsored Link
How about an Amazon.ie or extending the free shipping of amazon.co.uk to us?
THIS.
Do it, Doctor V.
This eile
I bought something the other day and I got free shipping to Ireland.
The free shipping on those inflatable “girlfriends” is just for the month of November.
It was actually a Fleshlight
Sum’ting nice?
Use Parcel Motel. Its not rocket science.
But I thought closing the double Irish would send all the foreign companies away and usher in a new famine?
Amazon were already in the door and get to keep the Double Irish until 2020. Six years is more than enough time to come up with a new loophole.
Shhhh! We need to keep this up just long enough for baldy to retire with da full pensin. Stop making waves, you.
Pensions.
You forgot the s
Not a grammar’natti but an important correction that needed to be made.
He also forgot the “o”
Yeah. But coulda got away wi’it. But the S was far more vital
Don’t worry about a famine. We all eat quinoa now.
They don’t use the Double Irish. They have Luxembourg schemes, which are currently being investigated by the EC for State assistance. At least they have bums on seats in Dublin.
And Cork
Mostly Cork, isn’t it?
What kind of jobs, is it the lab rat jobs they have in the warehouses in the UK… you know the jobs that are detrimental to ones health? …or proper jobs?
Do Amazon even have a warehouse here? They do some serious software development in Dublin (a chunk of the Kindle stuff is done here as well as AWS as far as I’m aware) so more than likely ‘proper’ jobs.
They have a warehouse. They use it for a homeless fight club they organise for rich investors to attend while here for the web summit. You should see the big smiles on their blood spattered faces as they leave. Begrudge it if you wish, but this summit makes a lot of people happy. And hurts a few homeless people, fair enough.
Thanks Karl
Data centre techies.
Good. Saw a BBC/Ch4 doc on those warehouse jobs. Wouldn’t wish it on any enemy.
Indeed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkNO8J4XSIc
Yeah but is the IDA giving them a grant to provide the jobs like they usually do? Not to mention the 5 years it takes to bring them on stream.
where’e the guy with the hoodie?
bah humbug private sector jobs. boo.
+1
Some people never fail to jump to the negative.
Sigh, had a look through the jobs going. It’s all engineer this and engineer that. No place for someone like me with an irrelevant degree and Masters. Looks like it’s suicide again for me.
It doesn’t help that Rob Reiner is the one announcing it.