Hey @broadsheet_ie, why no article on half the civil servants, nurses, gardai and academic staff in the country not being paid today?
— Mark Dennehy (@MarkDennehy) July 31, 2014
It’s an honour to work for the state,
And while the pay ain’t always great,
Generations have found,
Their jobs safe and sound,
And you know that the cash won’t be late.
John Moynes
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34,500 tweets!
Get back to work buddy
34,500 tweets x 140 characters / 120 words per minute touchtyping = ~7000 minutes of typing.
Over six years, that comes to one 15-second tweet every five hours.
It’s odd how much work you can do in the other four hours, fifty-nine minutes and forty-five seconds if you put your mind to it…
:P
not to mention the amount of sh1te you write on boards.ie Sparks, all 33,796 posts :p
…but over ten years, so it was actually less time typing :P
big deal, i’ve gone a day or two late of being paid by my job cos of bank error or a change in system. Do you want everyone to make big deals when they get paid a day late?
Does your bank make a big deal when your mortgage is a day late? Your landlord if the rent’s late? Your creche when their direct debit bounces? Your car loan payments? Your ESB or phone or gas bill? Hell, the M50 lads will happily start sending you letters for payment of twice the normal rate if the DD bounces by a day (they seem to count those letters as the notification that their payment’s gone sideways).
Oddly, you’d think you’d remember all this from the last time Ulster Bank decided that the whole “money and computers” thing was hard to do…
Yes, I would imagine they do.
Whinge whinge. You got the attention you so desperately craved now f off.
afaik it’s everyone who’s job uses BOI for payroll, not just public sector.
THIS x 1000
Everyone is in the same boat on this one, unlike, for example, paying your own pension or being actually responsible for yourself in an environment that requires people to perform their job in order to keep it.
Nothing like a bit of bitterness and ignorance
Are you suggesting public servants don’t pay for their pensions?
The private sector is lucky to have a towering and well informed intellect as yours.
Also, does this count towards my 15 minutes of fame?
If so, hi mom and all that…
No, because you actually sent the tweet to Broadsheet, as opposed to being ‘discovered’
Yes, but I didn’t ask for a poem about it. Besides, the news bit was over here:
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2014/07/31/on-the-friday-of-a-bank-holiday-weekend/
So you had already read about the story when you decided to make it solely about the public sector? Nice one.
Nope, didn’t know it extended past the public sector at the time. Nice assumption though, do you work for the ESRI or something?
You helped birth a new moynes limerick into the world. You’re worse than hitler.
Damn right. Why settle for Hitlerhood when you can aim to be a Stalin?
Spare a thought for the non permanent teaching staff who don’t get paid for the summer anyway!
Somebody pay Mark, quickly…
His gun posts here give me the impression he’s not a man to be trifled with. We don’t want him going all “Falling Down” on us…
With *my* rifle? I’d have to shoot you so many times with it that you’d literally be in danger of lead poisoning. We’d be there all day. You’d get bored and wander off…
Ha! Do you only do competition shooting, Mark?
Yeah Mick, just the Olympic stuff.