The Office Block.
A new podcast for finance workers in Ireland.
‘Himself’ writes:
Host Paul Dillon was joined in the studio and over the phone for a free-wheeling discussion that took in topics like mental health and technology in the workplace, how big data is dominating the headlines, GDRP, the Brexit jobs dividend,…
…the fallacy that interns are some special category of worker completely devoid of protection under the law and how Ireland is stuck doing the unglamorous “back office” jobs of the financial sector.
Our guests were academic and self-confessed “subversive in the business school” Deirdre Curran from Galway, solicitor and employment law specialist Richard Grogan, Jack Horgan Jones from the Sunday Business Post and dialing in all the way from Paris was freelance journalist Emma Kennedy.
We’re running a poll about data protection and work on our Facebook page too and hoping to hear from listeners about their experiences with internships in finance.
I absolutely, pathologically despise accountants.
if they had emotions, they’d hate you too
My girlfriend has a pathological hated for marine biologists. Don’t know why.
Why was the marine biologist so happy? Because they found their porpoise.
Why don’t algae have sex? They have a planktonic relationship.
That’s me done now…sorry, but you triggered me.
…how do you recognise extrovert accountants…they look at your shoes instead of their own…
I hate bankers
Do you know for a nation of people with a fixation for university and finance our country collapsed
With these astute people in place
All the PHDs the brains to burn and yet none of them protected this country or saw it coming
No regulators no members of the various departments of finance
They all keep their pensions
We are expected to believe to this day that none of these are responsible and every citizen has to pay for their mistakes
And they are still in place and have prospered and these boys are to guide this nation through brexit
Change the record david, it’s tiresome now.
Does one take part in the Broadsheet TV? Vanessa seems ok.
Might actually subscribe to this – I’ve been genuinely curious for some time about those back office jobs.
the amount of out-sourcing by the irish banks recently should be mentioned
Bank of Ireland has said they want to insource a lot of stuff. I know it doesn’t fit the narrative, sorry.
Those two statements aren’t mutually exclusive.
a) Irish banks are out-sourcing a lot
b) one Irish bank wants in-source a lot (are they already out-sourcing this and want to bring it back?)
hard to listen to any ‘financial experts’ in this country, given the track record.
Exactly
+1
Is that supposed to be GDPR?
Lol.
Like someone said, don’t listen to financial experts! Not that anyone is claiming to be one here.
Cheers for the typo spot, will fix.
:)
No problem – best of luck with your project :)
it’s an interesting idea for a podcast but needs some more people who are actually working in finance talking about real experiences rather than academics and journalists
Just finished listening to the first episode. Pretty good job. Very well produced. It’s on the list.
Not sure why it’s called a finance podcast. They didn’t really discuss any finance.