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MULTINATIONAL IT GIANTS PayPal and IBM are facing strong criticism for using the controversial JobBridge internship scheme to fill a total of eight positions at their Dublin offices.
The US companies have listed vacancies for a security specialist, quality analyst, and inside sales representative, among other jobs.
Former Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy today condemned the use of the scheme – which pays social welfare recipients an extra €50 a week – by companies with billions of dollars in annual revenue.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie today, the founder of ScamBridge.ie said:
These are very, very profitable corporations, and these positions seem quite clearly to be jobs, not true internships.And with the way the government places companies like PayPal on a pedestal, this could go a long way to normalising the use of JobBridge.
IBM – which is seeking six interns to work in its Damastown location in Dublin 15 – requires applicants with a third-level science, tech, engineering or maths (STEM) degree for a JobBridge internship in Inside Sales.
The company also mentions an additional European language as an advantage for the 39-hour-a-week position.
PayPal, for its part, is looking for two interns to take up roles at its Irish HQ in Blanchardstown.
The two “business support agents” will be required to work 37.5 hours a week, and hold third-level degrees. The JobBridge posting describes the position as follows:
Business Support Agents will support and troubleshoot PayPal product issues, provide information and support regarding PayPal policies and practices, educate customers concerning dispute processes, and assist in determining resolution for customers.
Former MEP Murphy said in a statement earlier today that the roles advertised in these cases proved that the purpose of JobBridge was not “dealing with the unemployment crisis, but giving free labour to big business, to go with their tax breaks.”
Representatives from IBM and PayPal did not respond to inquiries from TheJournal.ie at time of publication.
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It’s really not that hard to slow down. Your destination will still be there and you’ll still have your life and a car at the end.
Why are you assuming speed was the cause?
You can overturn an low speeds.
What else causes cars to roll over? Pretty sure there weren’t extreme winds or an angry mob around to push the car over.
Don’t be willfully ignorant. Most car accidents (rollovers included) in this country are caused by excessive speed.
Stupidity that’s what. You don’t need to be particularly fast to overturn a car.
I once rolled a car over a couple of years ago going at a low speed. Tight corner down a fairly narrow rural road I hit a slippy/oily patch and lost the rear, I panicked and ran out of road as I tried to correct it – I went into the ditch which acted like a ramp, so to speak, and she rolled over. Definitely wasn’t me going too fast. To be fair though from that photo it seems the driver was on a nice good stretch of road so you have to think speed did play a part.
Seeingeye, the marks on the road aren’t very long, which could mean it didn’t go very far upside down, that’d suggest lower speed, and that car looks light and fairly tall, so maybe a higher centre of gravity!! That could overturn it without high speed!!
In fairness, The Fiat Panda will role a lot sooner and easier than other cars due to its odd dynamics of narrow axel width combined with high center of gravity. Two lads could push one over.
Ya, it’s definitely possible to roll at low speed. You can tell by the comparatively low roof damage that the vehicle wasn’t being driven excessively fast.
@seeingeye – don’t be wilfully ignorant ? Would you not apply this to your own comment ? You can roll a car at low speed. This is fact, not science fiction.
That’s why you don’t buy a car that looks like a confused mutated blue bubble.
A 4 sentence story….wow give me more of this obdulla longata porn.
Same story as yesterday’s today?
Fiat Panda, must have rolled over a snail
Did Holmatro sponsor this post?
It’ll be on car sales websites as a time warp minter in a few weeks time.
Thats a wide road along there, it turned over because of bad driving is all
Is that a fiat cinquecento or (chunttogetinto)
There was a strong gust of wind in Tallaght yesterday morning.
Not a single mention about the fire truck being a Scania 340 4×2 crew cab.
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