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WELL YOU MIGHT not know this, but it’s springtime, technically, and even though it’s bitterly cold still, there are little signs that brighter evenings are coming.
And that often means more movement, more socialising, travelling and more spending. Have you prepared financially for this foray back into the real world? Have you been busy saving through the winter? Surely you saved a wad of cash over Christmas and January at least?
With this in mind, we thought you’d like to consider keeping one of our money diaries to keep track of how your finances are looking. In honour of the seasons changing, why not take a snapshot of your spending and saving habits?
Readers at The Journal will be familiar with our popular How I Spend My Money series, which looks at how people in Ireland really handle their income and outgoings. Over the years, the series has chronicled the lives and financial ups and downs of hundreds of readers.
We are asking you to get in touch and write a Money Diary to help us build a picture of your financial lives in Ireland right now…
Absolutely. Everyone is in a different place when it comes to money and will have different incomes and outgoings.
Everyone also has different approaches to finances. For instance, are you a good saver, or does money burn a hole in your pocket? Can you afford a pension? What about mortgages, are you confident you could qualify for one, are you meeting your mortgage payments?
If none of the above even seems remotely possible right now, then we also want to hear from you. It’s not an easy time, and we get that, so you might just feel like saying ‘I can’t make ends meet’ and that’s ok too.
Over the course of a week, we ask you, our readers, to keep a record of how much you earn, what you save if anything, and what you spend your money on.
Send a message of interest to money@thejournal.ie and we will send back a diary template.
Our Money Diaries readers also love to hear about your day, what kind of routine you have, what you had for dinner – all of it. Woven into that is a note through the day about how much you spent on groceries, incidentals and other expenses.
Readers often get helpful information and tips from reading the diaries, so include details about Revolut vaults or other handy savings tips you might have.
If you’re interested in keeping a diary for a week, send an email to money@thejournal.ie and we’ll get in touch. We would love to hear from you.
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Best if luck guys!
Mortal Kombat! Give them hell guys! You deserve proper redundancy payments!
and the girl in the glasses is very pretty
Seems to be a growing trend where companies are shutting up shop and to hell with the workers, and a lot of these companies are using the recession as an excuse to say they can’t afford redundancy payments, been happening with a few years now and it needs to stop and as usual the shower of muppets that are in government couldn’t give a flying fuck and they’ll still come after the workers for the household charge.
Not paying redundancy and getting the state to pick up the tab has been going on for years. Happened to me in 2008.
Well done guys and don’t give up the fight untill you actually get satisfactory results
Pack up the stock! I would be selling the stock.
Totally agree Lisa. There would be nothing that the administrators could do about it.
Better still, leave the store open and unsecured and what happens, happens…
yes yes
They wouldn’t get anything for that except prosecuted.
This non payment of redundancy is becoming more and more common! When the government decided to cut the states contribution to statutory redundancy, their wasn’t a peep from the unions! The reason for that’s quite obvious though! Because this massive cut in redundancy contribution from the state doesn’t affect public sector workers, the unions don’t care! As long as the Croke park agreement remains in place, unions will keep their heads down! Just look at how they had to be dragged into the household charge debate! Unions should have been the first on board to protest against something that massively discriminates against the less well off! Any private sector worker paying union dues might as well be throwing money down the drain!
Spot on Mike!
Thats feckin brutal. Fight Your case and squeez every penny you can out of them. Best of luck
I have two friends and one distant relative working for this company – two of which just got promoted a month a go.
Now they are sacked with little or no money!
They all have been working for “Game” for years.
Its a absolute disgrace that they are doing it and that also they can get away with it – but then our government is too busy bullying people themselves at the moment to be looking into this matter!
Support the GAME workers. They’re defending *your* rights too. Facebook page = facebook.com/GameIrelandFight and twitter = @GameIREFight . Please share those accounts with your friends.
Sorry but that’s hilarious, an angry woman holding an Angry Bird.
I hope the former employees get what they deserve, they’ve been treated very unfairly.
Fight your ground guys dont give in,oh and fill your cars with stock lol…
Best of luck, you have my support.
Good luck to you all. Stay strong. The workers in Cork are still there, fighting to the end. They mean business and I hope that their’s will be sorted soon.
Fine Gael have no idea how these people are feeling. One only has to look at the faces of the poor workers in Cork to see the stress they’re going through. Don’t give up, you have huge support.
Best of luck to all the staff at game I hope you get what you all deserve for years of service. God knows it’s not easy working in retail at the moment or for the last few years and you should at least get whats owed to you for your loyal service and hard work through what were no doubt tough times. Stay positive and keep the head up and hopefully you will be all back to work soon
Standing up for what is right (or sitting down in this case) is admirable. Plenty of video games around to pass the time :P
Good luck to the workers stick to your guns and it will be game set and match to you.
I notice you dont see sits ins in dail eireann when it comes to their pension payouts.Plus a big golden handshake as well
Those stock on the shelves will more than cover redundancy payments so make sure ye don’t let it out of the building till ye get paid .
Solidarity from the families of the vita cortex workers,stay strong and god bless.
Where are the 11 shops that are being occupied?
One in Cork
One in Limerick
One in Dublin (Ilac Centre)
???
All bar Galway and the branch in Hamleys, Dundrum.
Best of luck folks. Disgraceful treatment after all the loyalty yea gave to your jobs.Keep Strong and stay with it to the end and as previous comment said DO NOT PART WITH ANY OF THE STOCK till yea get what is owed to yea all
will there be a sale and when ? I do like cheap games :)
and good luck with the sit in
No. Staff were supposed to pack up all the stock to ship it over to the branches still operating in the UK.
Round 1 – Fight
And what government think about it?
I think the government should legalise “sell goods and get what should be yours” allowing legally to do it. And helping with accountancy.
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