SEQUESTERING funding earmarked for the proposed Dublin MetroLink to the airport, the Department of Transport has decided to streamline the process by digging a MetroLink directly to Australia. “With 7 in 10 young people contemplating emigration because…well, have you looked around this place lately? This fact coupled with the impending recession we thought the OzTunnel… Read more »
THE new trend of ‘quiet quitting’; a form of workplace protest where employees do the absolute bare minimum and refuse to work any harder than they are legally required to is sweeping the world as millions of young people kick back against substandard pay and conditions. But here’s the funny thing many workers think this… Read more »
TÁNAISTE and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Leo Varadkar has hailed the latest CSO stats which revealed Ireland has reached record employment numbers with 2.5 million people in regular employment. However, some economic experts after examining the CSO report have called the numbers into question as more and more people take on second jobs… Read more »
THE McConnlon family from rural Cavan have four sons; Callum, who is an incredibly vocal cryptocurrency expert and anti-vaxxer, Eamonn, who lives in Australia after being kindly asked to move there by local paramilitaries, Sean, a clamper, and William, who works for Customs & Excise. But they don’t talk about William. “He broke his mother’s… Read more »
IN THE MARKET for a new job? WWN Business has you covered with sensible and often overlooked job interview tips for when you’re sitting down with your prospective new employers. Recruiters are sick of the boring, same old preprepared answers – stand out by answering questions using interpretative dance or fire breathing. Where do you… Read more »
AS up to 10,000 ‘hot desk’ slots open up for remote working across the country today, work-from-home dad of two Michael Conlon is brushing up on all the hilarity and merriment that saw him receive ‘Office Joker Of the Year’ awards at his last two work Christmas parties, before he was promptly made redundant. “They… Read more »
MINISTER FOR RURAL and Community Development, Heather Humphreys recently announced the government will pay for 10,000 remote working days at hot desking hubs around the country as funding for expanding and refurbishing hubs is also made available. Many workers will be keen to avail of such an offer but it’s important to know the exact… Read more »
THE hunt for the nation’s most slothful person may have come to an end, after an independent research group deemed Waterford native Steve Carrins to be ‘the single laziest fucker to ever draw breath’. “Here is a man who would shite in the bed and kick it out, rather than make the effort to walk… Read more »
HAVE you received the dreaded email from your boss telling everyone that it’s time to get back to the ‘fun’ of 9-to-5 office life after becoming very accustomed to the relaxed nature of working from home? Were you banking on another Covid variant to buy you until at least 2023 at home? Well you may… Read more »
THERE HAS been significant criticism of ‘the Right to Remote Working Bill’ which is to go before the Dáil for a vote soon. But just what evidence is there that this coalition or its Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Leo Varakdar would put forward legislation which is stacked heavily in favour of businesses over… Read more »