Not again! As soon as I read the headline I knew it. Another Peninsula Ireland survey. Guys, you really need to start questioning the methodology used to produce these results before just reprinting them. Peninsula have come up with some real zingers in their time – such as more people use Facebook at work than actually have a computer, let alone internet or social media access. These are not just spurious – they’re deliberately sensationalist and downright fantastical. Having studied marketing I would dearly like to see how these surveys are structured although to be honest I’ve a very good idea already. Utter pantaloons is what this is, ladies and gentlemen. If you were to cumulatively take all the surveys from this outfit, you’d have to seriously wonder how with all the tweeting/sickies/social media use and office romances how a single solitary day’s work is done in this country at all.

This is just beautiful. It really is. So, according to Peninsula, in almost three quarters of workplaces we should expect to see a television or radio set up to watch or listen to the Olympics as the Irish workforce drown themselves in drink to celebrate the Uzbeck victory in the long jump?

**beep beep** “what’s that?” *beeeep* “why, it’s the BS detector…. and the readings are off the charts!”

Eh…it’s only the Olympics. Hardly the world cup. Most people could not care about them. Not really worth ringing in sick to see people fencing or sledging. YAWN

Most people couldn’t give a monkeys about the Olympics. The event has long been discredited by drug taking. I wouldn’t miss a check up at the dentist for the Olympics

As an employer of 11 people, I would ask for a doctors note if someone phoned in sick after a major sporting event. Before I started my business, I used to phone in the odd time as a sickie to my employer. I thought I was so convincing. From the other side of the fence, it’s a real eye opener. I can ALWAYS spot a stickie from a genuine absence. I never question it and I reckon most people think they have gotten away with it, but it never goes unnoticed. I don’t nessisarily punish the slivers, but I certainly reward the non-skivers more than the skivers when it comes to salary reviews and the better jobs to do.

Why don’t employers quit complaining, show some sense of understanding and arrange a tv in the workplace. Get a TV license, stick a TV in the canteen, and let people watch events with Irish athletes, within reason.

2 days of paying sick pay for an average employee would pay for the above.

There’s such a thing as morale. Morale helps your company be successful, and in a successful company you get more out of your workers than they do from you.

im lucky to get a lynch in work never mind the time to watch the games ha

Mmm could u really see people taking. Sick day for this sporting fete ‘maybe there all reading planning there sick day ‘oo today is the high jump. ‘or the hurdles’the long jump from the bed to the couch’ the shot putt ‘mmm. Beer’or d’bommers pa read there A big run on remote control batteries also
‘Hea in the work place ‘have ur own comp ‘gold silver bronze sickie awards ‘