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Abtran office in Cork

Jaykers.

The Irish Examiner reports:

“The company handling customer queries for Irish Water has denied a report that a staff member was “rushed to hospital” after a customer pack including human excrement was received.”

“Cork’s 96FM reports the staff member noticed a cut on his hand, and was brought to hospital, and that another staff member fainted and was also brought to hospital by ambulance.”

“While confirming that an “offensive” item was received yesterday, Abran said no members of staff had been impacted – “other than it being an offensive matter”.”

 

Meanwhile…

“They have not received over 700,000 letters back it’s more like 600,00 now this IS including the no consent forms, they actually don’t know how many have signed up because ALL the letters are in a warehouse in Cork, so people that have filled in the forms, their PPS details are in an unsupervised warehouse. The reason being is because people sent back sh*t and bangers and other stuff in the letters…”

Part of an anonymous email to Broadsheet on October 31

Irish Water pack containing human excrement sent to call centre staff (Irish Examiner)

Pic: RTE

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38 thoughts on “Dirty Protest”

  4. andyourpointiswhatexactly

    Somebody posted about that recently, saying that all the forms were dumped in an unguarded warehouse in Cork and that there was poo in some of them.

  5. donkey kong

    You take the soup and therefore can complain when the populous are upset.
    The overly dramatic guff of being sick calling doctors etc… f – off.
    wash your hands and deal with it – and your delicious soup

    1. Sidewinder

      Abtran is a private company contracted by Irish Water. It’s not staffed by ghouls and goblins, they’re just people trying to make a living ffs.

      I know three students working for abtran, all mature students, all working at least four hours evenings after college and on the weekend, none of whom could afford college without that job and you think it’s acceptable that they receive actual sh*t in the post.

      Cop on ffs.

          1. Sidewinder

            “Penelope” – I’ve never seen it and it looks shite but I just love this gif.

            From IMDB
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    1. ahjayzis

      In fairness it was probably a big black rancorous guinness loaf, matured over it’s time in the postal chain. I’d faint >_<

  8. Rep

    “It is understood that the staff member who fainted in an incident unrelated to the package received first aid at the office.

    96FM’s report that used tampons and razor blades had also been received by Abtran staff in other incidents was not specifically addressed by Abtran, but the company stressed the delivery of the pack containing human excrement was “an isolated incident”.”

    Razor blades? Nice people out there trying to get some gopher injured. But, as donkey kong says, they ‘took the soup’ so completely deserve whatever happens to them. Ugh.

    1. donkey kong

      they still know they are handling Irish Water business. They are complicit.
      sorry this – “nothing to do with me mate , I’m only earning a living” is bollocks.
      Nobody who works for them is innocent they are all part of the machine.
      Likewise the meter installers

      and likewise bank staff – happy to take bonus’ galore in the boom, not so happy at taking the guff of customers they are harrassing. You take the soup and you pay the price

      1. pissedasanewt

        Its not really a protest though. They are not going to see a crappy form and decide that this person should pay for water this year. You’d be better off dropping a bag of crap outside the front door and setting it on fire before running away. To smear your form in it, is juvenile and pretty pathetic.

        Not to mention postal workers have to handle that envelope and it gets thrown in with all the other letters and tossed around the postal system.

      2. Nigel

        Are you seriously advocating this type of activity? Frankly I want the people responsible in jail and/or sued to a fare-thee-well by their victims.

      3. Sidewinder

        You are so full of sh*t.

        Ever bought a coca cola product?
        Ever shopped in Penneys or Tesco?
        Ever bought something made by Nike?
        Ever bought nutella?
        Ever not run for political office?
        Ever not voted?
        Ever not brought a case against the government to court regarding Irish Water legislation?

        If any of the above you’re complicit in a diverse range of terrible terrible things so get off your high horse.

      4. Rep

        It would seem that donkey kong is the type of cowardly idiot previously seen shouting at bank tellers about how they, personally, have ruined the country.

    1. andyourpointiswhatexactly

      What’s the big fuss about having people’s PPS numbers? I genuinely don’t understand why people get their knickers in such a twist about it.

      1. pissedasanewt

        My dentist has my pps number. Should I be worried?

        It makes perfect sense that everybody gets what they are entitled to and only once. It would prevent people scamming the system. The more people scam the system, the more everybody else has to pay.

  14. phil

    How many companies have IW contracted work out to ? Im sure its all above board , but I found this interesting tidbit on another site from the Phonex mag I think

    ‘ the Abtran group of companies are registered in Cork and the directors here are listed as accountant Patrick Fitzgerald, Gerard Fitzgerald, Michael Fitzgerald, and Patrick Ryan, all with addresses in Cork. The group’s shares are now held by two BVI companies – Forrest Hill Global Ltd and Edgeway Group (unlimited), both registered at Road Town, Tortola, BVI, with the latter company giving as it’s a ddress a PO Box number. Until last year, the four directors were listed as the shareholders (the Fitzgeralds holding 83% between them and Ryan having 17%), while Enterprise Ireland was also on board, courtesy of a €400,000 investment in 2006.

    Back in 2011, all the companies in the Abtran Group were re-registered as unlimited, which means they no longer have to file accounts in the Companies Registration Office.’

  15. Just sayin'

    You’d be surprised how often public servants get razor blades in the post too, especially the civil servants who have to open the Ministers’ post.

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