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Nearly 1,000 Tesco staff vote for industrial action

The row centres on a two-tiered contract system.

ALMOST 1,000 MANDATE Trade Union members in Tesco have voted emphatically in favour of industrial action by a margin of 98%.

With a turnout of 85% of all pre-1996 staff, Mandate says the ballot result “sends a strong message to Tesco that they cannot simply cut wages or conditions of employment for their workers without agreement”.

Tesco is asking all staff who have been working there since before 1996 to sign up to contracts for greatly-reduced pay.

Specifically, the new contracts will see affected staff being paid up to €3 less per hour than they are earning at present according to some of those affected.

On Monday, Siptu staff at the supermarket also voted for industrial action. Tesco Ireland employs around 14,500 workers in its 149 stores in the Republic of Ireland.

Tesco has accepted an invitation to attend the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) for a conciliation conference.

Mandate say they are cautiously welcoming Tesco’s commitment to attend the WRC but it “must be with the intention to genuinely engage”.

Gerry Light, Mandate Trade Union Assistant General Secretary said, “We’ve now served notice on the company that our members intend to strike in the event the company proceeds with their plans to cut wages or alter the contracts of employment without agreement.”

Tesco earlier this week said that the pre-1996 contract was unworkable.

The pre-1996 contract was agreed over 20 years ago at a time when stores didn’t open weekends or late nights and as a result we now have too many colleagues rostered during our quietest days instead of our busiest.

“To improve customer service, we need to unlock the inflexibility in the pre-1996 contract which limits our ability to invest in having more colleagues working where our customers need and value them most.”

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    Jun 5th 2024, 8:22 PM

    Sounds like a dáta gathering exercise similar to the mandatory PPS card

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    Mute Martin Bishop
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    Jun 5th 2024, 8:33 PM

    @Ashling Fenton: they already have the data

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    Mute Sean O'Dhubhghaill
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    Jun 5th 2024, 8:44 PM

    @Ashling Fenton: PPS card. This country needs a national ID card.

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    Mute ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere
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    Jun 5th 2024, 10:15 PM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: No, no it does not.

    The feckin’ Guards are bad enough as it is without giving them Gestapo-like ideas.

    “Papers please”

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    Mute reg morrisey
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    Jun 5th 2024, 8:18 PM

    A disaster waiting to happen. Everything’s going online and no human available to talk to about it.

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    Mute Mr “JonnieBoy” Johnson
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    Jun 5th 2024, 9:12 PM

    @reg morrisey: they will have a chatbot which has the capability to answer questions you are not asking and be of no use whatsoever.
    When will the useless chatbot be consigned to the bin?

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    Mute Steve O'Hara-Smith
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    Jun 6th 2024, 7:56 AM

    @Mr “JonnieBoy” Johnson: Clippy lives.

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    Mute Daniel Skelton
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    Jun 5th 2024, 8:05 PM

    Russia must be salivating at the thought of this.

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    Mute another one? what's going on is the semi state sec
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    Jun 5th 2024, 8:15 PM

    @Daniel Skelton: You never told us non aviation folk (who you scoffed at) why the north runway was closed a few weeks ago?!?! It was only broken at 500ft.

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    Jun 6th 2024, 4:55 PM

    @another one? what’s going on is the semi state sec: I don’t think you know despite pretending you did!?!?

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    Mute Aisling Lohan
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    Jun 5th 2024, 8:21 PM

    I will collect the free information booklet
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    Mute Tom O' Donnell
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    Jun 5th 2024, 8:52 PM

    @Aisling Lohan: I assume you wrote that comment on a typewriter and posted it off to the Journal’s offices.

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    Mute Steve
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    Jun 5th 2024, 9:10 PM

    Unless it costs 500 million and is a complete waste of time we’re not interested

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    Mute Padraig O'Brien
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    Jun 5th 2024, 8:42 PM

    A hackers wet dream!

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    Mute William O leary
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    Jun 5th 2024, 10:31 PM

    we can’t build a hospital…yet we think we can secure people’s data …doing what Europe tells us ….

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    Mute 087 bed
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    Jun 5th 2024, 9:11 PM

    It’s all just for your convince, and definitely not to track you like a Chinese dissident who can be shut down and switched off in a micro second.

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    Mute Donna Fallon
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    Jun 6th 2024, 2:33 AM

    @087 bed: paranoid much?!

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    Mute rosemary flowers
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    Jun 6th 2024, 9:17 AM

    @Donna Fallon: “just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean their not out to get you”. LOL

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    Mute ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere
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    Jun 5th 2024, 8:54 PM

    Unsavory actors could hack into the database, and add people, or delete them.

    You might no longer officially exist.

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    Mute Systemic 31
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    Jun 5th 2024, 10:33 PM

    @ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: its only a digital copy.not the actual documents,which can be kept safely elsewhere

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    Mute ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere
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    Jun 5th 2024, 10:37 PM

    @Systemic 31: Now try to get someone to even talk with when you don’t exist anyway.

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    Mute Vincent Hickey
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    Jun 5th 2024, 10:18 PM

    We’re running headlong into a dystopian society

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    Mute Jason Memail
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    Jun 5th 2024, 11:16 PM

    @Vincent Hickey: Having a copy of my driving license on my phone is dystopian? Who knew.

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    Mute Michael o Dwyer
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    Jun 6th 2024, 6:52 AM

    @Jason Memail: lol

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    Mute Athena
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    Jun 6th 2024, 4:28 PM

    @Jason Memail: Well, you could always take a photo of same for reference.

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    Mute Cormac McKay
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    Jun 5th 2024, 9:51 PM

    The Digital driver’s licence should be required to start a vehicle and should only be eligible if you are fully insured, too many uninsured drivers are causing carnage on our roads causing tragic traumatic Life altering or ending events on our roads.

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    Mute ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere
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    Jun 5th 2024, 10:21 PM

    @Cormac McKay: A problem easily solved.

    If the state compels us to have 3rd party insurance, then the state should provide it. Remove profit scheming insurance companies from the equation altogether.
    (If anyone wants any additional level of insurance, such as fully comp, then they can go to a private profit gouging insurance company.)

    If the state charged for this insurance through a fuel surcharge, as an example, then every vehicle is automatically insured.

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    Mute Jason Memail
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    Jun 5th 2024, 11:21 PM

    @Cormac McKay: Your point seems to be anchored on the idea that having insurance makes you a better driver, which is fundamentally false. Insurance is only an agreement to do something if an incident occurs, it doesn’t prevent the incident happening in the first place.

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    Mute Helen McKernan
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    Jun 6th 2024, 7:15 AM

    @Jason Memail: i agree. It doesnt make people better drivers because accidents happen but it covers you if someone is injured or there is damage done to a car you have a loan on.

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    Mute Ben dover
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    Jun 5th 2024, 8:03 PM

    Great idea, scrap the plastic cards and paper passports once and for all.

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    Mute ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere
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    Jun 5th 2024, 8:53 PM

    @Ben dover: And if your abroad and lose your phone?

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    Mute Marleen Passet
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    Jun 5th 2024, 9:10 PM

    @ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: if you lose your phone or tablet containing them, you will most likely be able to go online at another source and retrieve your information that way while at the same time blocking your lost item. Just an idea?

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    Mute Mr “JonnieBoy” Johnson
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    Jun 5th 2024, 9:15 PM

    @ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: everyone will eventually have a barcode tattoo

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    Mute Megan Ward
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    Jun 5th 2024, 9:17 PM

    @ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: It doesn’t say it’s replacing physical documents, it’s just another tool for convenience. It’s a pain in the Swiss losing physical documents too, I can only speak for myself but I’m more likely to lose something physical than my phone (including bank cards). It’s one reason I like the passport card, easier to keep close to me at all times than the book.

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    Mute ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere
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    Jun 5th 2024, 9:43 PM

    @Megan Ward: Stolen phones?

    And could the thief use that phone to impersonate you?

    I’d imagine phones are targets for theft more than any other item even today.
    With all that extra valuable information on them…

    And how would you be able to go online to retrieve that information, when it is – presumably – stored on a government database to which you will probably also have lost account access.
    Unless you are able to remember the gazillion extra user names and passwords that would be added to all those we have to try to keep control of already.

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    Mute Megan Ward
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    Jun 5th 2024, 10:18 PM

    @ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: If my phone is stolen and the thief threatens me to such a violent and scary extent that I tell them my passcode, or knocks me out so that they can pull my eyelids open and use my Face ID, I’ve got bigger problems than worrying what they’ll get into on my phone. If this did happen and they were able to get into my phone, I’d be using iCloud to remotely erase the phone. Phones can be stolen with or without these ‘digital wallets’, this isn’t a new potential issue.

    I’d be screwed if I was abroad and someone stole a bag that contained my cash and passport if I only used cash, is that a reason for no one to ever carry cash? No, you use what you prefer and the more backup methods you have, the better.

    I don’t know about you but I prioritise learning more important passwords off by heart. More concerned about making sure I remember my Gmail password or Apple ID than my Facebook or ASOS password, for example.

    Let’s save the fretting until this is mandatory, maybe? If you don’t want to use it, don’t. If they announce that they’re slashing physical ID documents then we can start panicking. There are lots of features people use that others freak out at the idea of, like Apple Pay and Google Pay.

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    Mute Megan Ward
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    Jun 5th 2024, 10:20 PM

    @ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: Oh, because you’ll come back with ‘and how will you log into iCloud when your phone is gone???’ I would use the phone of a friend, my boyfriend or family. Or find an internet café. Or use my iPad if I’ve brought that and left it in the hotel safe. If I’m doing a solo trip, I need to be extra careful about absolutely anything. Wouldn’t go on many holidays if we assumed the worst will happen every time, though.

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    Mute ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere
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    Jun 5th 2024, 10:42 PM

    @Megan Ward: It’s not about assuming the worst will happen.

    But it will happen to some.

    And it’s not about someone torturing you to gain account information.
    We thought our bank cards were secure. Until several ways of hacking these were created.
    We thought our bank accounts were safe, until scammers found ways.
    There are many spywares and the like that may already be on your phone.

    With new ones coming down the line all the time.

    I’ve yet to meet many who don’t let their device handle their account information, and who would have any clue what their account names and passwords are.
    When they get a new device they have no clue how to get onto their accounts anymore.

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    Mute Megan Ward
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    Jun 5th 2024, 10:51 PM

    @ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: You’re right, there could be spyware on our phones and computers stealing our data, getting into all of the websites we use and taking important personal data. What’s the solution, go off the grid and use nothing? Never use things like Revenue Online Service (that contains very important information) in case it’s hacked? That’s not a practical solution for most, all we can do is practice good internet security techniques, use 2 Factor Authentication where possible and the like.

    With all due respect to them, those people are very careless. You’re right in that there are so many websites now it’s hard to remember passwords to all, but it’s not a big ask to remember your Google password, Apple/Android details, basically anything you’ll need to get into things again. In almost 20 years of using the internet I’ve been completely locked out of something once, because it was linked to an old email service that’s now defunct. I don’t understand these people who seemingly don’t even know their email password and keep setting up new accounts for everything every time they get a new device.

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    Mute ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere
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    Jun 5th 2024, 11:02 PM

    @Megan Ward: Nope!

    Just don’t make ourselves unnecessarily reliant on one single point of failure.
    (Although physically we have single points of failure in our brains and our hearts.)

    Always have a paper copy of your birth cert somewhere.
    A physical passport.
    And so on.

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    Mute Megan Ward
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    Jun 5th 2024, 11:09 PM

    @ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: I think everyone can agree on that. I first got the passport card when I was visiting the US for the first time, knew I’d need ID everywhere but they don’t accept age cards and I didn’t fancy the idea of having my passport book out everywhere especially if drinking, so kept that in the safe. Handy to have the card anyway.

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    Mute Jason Memail
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    Jun 5th 2024, 11:15 PM

    @ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: Nobody is suggesting that digital versions of birth certs or drivers licenses will replace physical versions. This is a great initiative, despite what the doomsayers and pearl clutchers say

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    Mute Ben dover
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    Jun 6th 2024, 7:10 AM

    @ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: and if you’re abroad and lose your wallet now?

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    Mute William Tallon
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    Jun 5th 2024, 8:29 PM

    Deartháir mór is watching…

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    Mute micheal duff
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    Jun 5th 2024, 8:38 PM

    New hack

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    Mute Sun Rise
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    Jun 6th 2024, 1:51 AM

    It is amusing that people are raging about data and digital trackers yet they are most likely on a mobile phone which not only gives away data with your consent but also tracks you too. What triggered you lot was the word ‘government’. You saw that word and never took the time to engage your brain before commenting.

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    Mute P. J.
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    Jun 6th 2024, 10:41 AM

    @Sun Rise:
    Bullseye.
    Although nowadays you have to wonder how many comments are from computers triggered by certain words.

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    Mute Louise Marie
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    Jun 6th 2024, 12:41 AM

    Kindly feck off with your digital tracker.

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    Mute Blue Moon
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    Jun 5th 2024, 9:12 PM

    Just put it all on a chip and implant it into our wrists… Problem solved… ??

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    Mute Steve O'Hara-Smith
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    Jun 6th 2024, 8:00 AM

    @Blue Moon: Right up until the accident that takes your arm off or it gets fried in an MRI scanner.

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    Mute Timo
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    Jun 6th 2024, 12:06 AM

    Bad idea

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    Mute Oh Mammy
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    Jun 6th 2024, 12:41 AM

    It is a digital vaccine

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    Mute aeX06eDn
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    Jun 5th 2024, 8:27 PM

    Whoahere

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    Mute smatrix mantra
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    Jun 6th 2024, 7:46 AM

    Brilliant, another soft target for cyber attacks.

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    Mute did you every wonder
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    Jun 6th 2024, 6:06 AM

    As an IT person, give me the contract. The technology is already here, so I will just use it and charge a fortune. Nice.

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    Mute Steve O'Hara-Smith
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    Jun 6th 2024, 7:58 AM

    @did you every wonder: Fine but you sign up for liability for all future cyber attacks.
    Still want the job?

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    Mute Mr. Man
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    Jun 6th 2024, 9:52 AM

    How about starting slowly and getting the leap card sorted so it can be used on your phone. Baby steps !!

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    Mute Hector turtlehead
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    Jun 6th 2024, 6:31 AM

    Anybody who listens to Ossian Smyth needs there head screwing back on.

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    Jun 6th 2024, 11:13 AM

    Tracking whole life is coming not fair on few people that dont do online

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