Anyone read about any of the action from this? Anyone here work for Stryker?
20 suspensions
7 sacked!
😂
Was that the fellas who were punching yer man's balls?
I have asked someone who knows someone who works there
More details please..sounds epic.
Reading about it here. Page 3 is hilarious
https://www.peoplesrepublicofcork.com/forums/showthread.php?t=245352&page=3
I've seen a few clips now, apparently everyone was monged off their faces on coke.
You've seen the ball punching video.
There's another clip of a lad riding a supervisor in the jacks, he actually looks at the camera a few times but is so out of it doesn't cop it.
Another youngone giving blowies under the table to all and sundry.
One of the girls sent an intimate photo to the boyfriend and only later realised it was sent to the work whatsapp group.
A lad caught with a mountain of coke in his hotel room.
A photo doing the rounds on peoples rebublic of cork seemingly depicting a spit roast in one of the toilets.
So...........Harmless Craic or a bunch of fuckin idiots? It reminds me of the Celtic Tiger for some reason and the type of shit I'd expect froma Brian Cowan etc.
Harmless fun or bit of craic is all depending on how you see life. It's a work party though, so there'll be consequences. I've been at mental work parties, heard about others that got mental out of control. It's nothing new and it won't change. Imagine being a tee-totaller at it though, you must be thinking it's the last days of the Roman empire :laugh:
I've never thought of punching/heading another guys balls as fun or craic myself :-\
But you have to be a complete mong to act like you are at some random festival at a work party. Like there aren't a 364 OTHER days of the year that you can do that shit away from where you work.
The whole country knows about it, so I'd say anyone doing interviews is waiting to see people with Stryker on the CV with a finish date of around Dec on it :laugh:
I'd love to have been at it for the craic. People are defending the actions, other's are appalled. End of the day it's a work party...how does it even get to those levels of lunacy :laugh: :laugh: Thought the ball punching vid was gas myself.
Had a few work parties where I got destroyed on free beer and suffered horrendous fear all weekend because of it. Ended up just not going to them anymore. Realised I was getting so pissed because I'd nothing in common with any of the colleagues so would just knock back pints while they were blathering away about whatever the latest reality TV shite was
As an aside, if you're in Cork and looking for a new job, Stryker appear to have a recruitment drive on at the minute :laugh:
Lad I know who was a manager in a company at the time had a full fistfight with one of his team and then battled with security, biting one of them in the leg after him and 3 other managers did 100 shots of Jaeger off the bar between them. He couldn't remember a thing walking into work after a long weekend and was going about his day, smiling, saying hello to everyone until about 11 o clock when he was called into HR. He somehow survived :laugh: height of the boom in fairness.
I've heard loads of stories and been at work parties where the riding gets out of control, people swapping wives and doing drugs and you'd swear butter wouldn't melt with any of them. As the man says above, go for one or two and get out of there, you'll be glad the next day.
It's hilarious. Mainly cos I'm not involved.
Whatever about riding in the jacks or whatever craic they were all at anyone who puts their camera above a cubicle to record anything happening in said cubicle is a fucking scumbag of the highest order.
I think I know 1 or 2 working in stryker so I'll report back if there's any good stories. That's unless they actually got fired.
The video of your man using the balls as a speed bag was hilarious.
That's the one I have the biggest problem with. Yer man looks like a coked up gimp that has a wife he hates and six kids, but let him out to the Xmas party and get the coke into him and hey presto!
I don't know the circumstances as to how the other chap got elevated or indeed lost his trousers but I would've mangled that fat prick even if I had to wait til Monday.
Seemingly anything from the event which identifies anyone has been removed, aside from the first pic of the cubicle threesome. The speedbag training video isn't related to this, sadly.
Ah don't tell.me that :laugh:
Mate of mine sent me on a vid of a couple going at it in a jacks. Why anyone would want to watch, film or actually take part in it is beyond me. Toilet filled with piss, the floors manky, and it's clear they're putting on a show for anyone who wants to watch. Amazing what drink and drugs do to people really :laugh:
'Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape roaring and red handed'.
Quote from: Cryptic Stench on January 06, 2020, 02:31:07 PM
I've seen a few clips now, apparently everyone was monged off their faces on coke.
You've seen the ball punching video.
There's another clip of a lad riding a supervisor in the jacks, he actually looks at the camera a few times but is so out of it doesn't cop it.
I've seen this video and it's not from this party. It's actual from last year in a pub local to me here.
Quote from: Cryptic Stench on January 07, 2020, 05:44:58 AM
Yer man looks like a coked up gimp.
The country is in the middle of a coke epidemic and seems to be getting worse every time I go home. I remember when I was younger I dabbled in a few things just like I am sure most others that post here did at one stage or another, one group of lads I hung around with were all GAA heads they gave me shit all the time now I go back and these are lads that are on the bag every time they go to the pub. The amount of junkies around my home town as well was just a disgrace (more heroin than coke) not to mention the drug war that is going on. The country is rapidly going down the toilet.
Quote from: mickO))) on January 08, 2020, 10:27:30 PM
Quote from: Cryptic Stench on January 07, 2020, 05:44:58 AM
Yer man looks like a coked up gimp.
The country is in the middle of a coke epidemic and seems to be getting worse every time I go home. I remember when I was younger I dabbled in a few things just like I am sure most others that post here did at one stage or another, one group of lads I hung around with were all GAA heads they gave me shit all the time now I go back and these are lads that are on the bag every time they go to the pub. The amount of junkies around my home town as well was just a disgrace (more heroin than coke) not to mention the drug war that is going on. The country is rapidly going down the toilet.
Don't mind the state of the country so much after a bag :laugh:
Well until it's time to pay up.
Quote from: mickO))) on January 08, 2020, 10:27:30 PM
Quote from: Cryptic Stench on January 07, 2020, 05:44:58 AM
Yer man looks like a coked up gimp.
The country is in the middle of a coke epidemic and seems to be getting worse every time I go home. I remember when I was younger I dabbled in a few things just like I am sure most others that post here did at one stage or another, one group of lads I hung around with were all GAA heads they gave me shit all the time now I go back and these are lads that are on the bag every time they go to the pub. The amount of junkies around my home town as well was just a disgrace (more heroin than coke) not to mention the drug war that is going on. The country is rapidly going down the toilet.
I'm an optimistic person and there's so much I love about Ireland, but it does strike me everytime I go home just how out of control so much stuff is. A night out can be a sketchy affair. People go to mad levels of excess and I'm not saying it doesn't happen anywhere else, but the violence and general lunacy is probably only matched in other English speaking countries that I've been to, young Aussies are lunatics for drugs, Yanks it can depend, the Brits can be nuts aswell.
I was reading about that young Down footballer that was operated on for a brain bleed after an altercation over Christmas..some krav maga wanker decided it was ok to beat him to a pulp. Now that's Newry, and no offence, but it's rough as a badger's arse. Still though, it's always a luck of the draw thing over Christmas. Christmas itself can be ropey as fuck, I've had 2 Dec 24ths in my life where I ended up thumping lads and I just avoid it now. Seen some awful shit kick off throughout the years on those nights too. Coupla drinks and away home to the fireplace nowadays, maybe I'm just getting old :laugh:
Spain is pretty fucked up too, tbh. The things that happen during various fiestas there, jaysus!
The wildness at fiestas is bonkers but your regular Saturday night walking down the street doesn't usually result in a fight for your life. Now, all that said, I'm not out discoing til all hours, so I don't encounter it to the same level. Villages and small.towns, I'm sure get crazy and the drug use is through the roof here. Is your fine lady Basque? Wild out up there they are. I heard it gets rough. In terms of attacking and dismembering animals, Spaniards in general are absolute masters of that. Like living in the middle ages here some days.
Riojan, they've a fierce reputation for the recreationals! And even on a regular Saturday night, I'd prefer to be a woman walking alone in an Irish city than a Spanish one.
Is casual drink violence getting worse in Ireland? Always used to be seen as something that distinguished us from the four UK countries. Of course there were always a few head-the-ball exceptions in Ireland too, but overall there was less of otherwise "normal" people giving it aggro and being encouraged in it than you'd see in towns around the UK.
[quoteIs casual drink violence getting worse in Ireland][/quote]
It seems to be. And that's not a hysterical opinion - all you have to do is look over the news for the past few years, it's not hard to find accounts of deaths releated to violent assault especially where drink/drugs are involved. There's always been violence, no doubt there but it seems these days that people have to absolutely mangle each other. I can think of two clips that emerged last year on public transport no less where someone was beaten to an absolute pulp.
Quote from: Cryptic Stench on January 09, 2020, 12:44:02 PM
[quoteIs casual drink violence getting worse in Ireland]
It seems to be. And that's not a hysterical opinion - all you have to do is look over the news for the past few years, it's not hard to find accounts of deaths releated to violent assault especially where drink/drugs are involved. There's always been violence, no doubt there but it seems these days that people have to absolutely mangle each other. I can think of two clips that emerged last year on public transport no less where someone was beaten to an absolute pulp.
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Is it getting worse though or is it just being publicised more? Back years ago I had more than a few dodgy Nitelink trips, and seen taxi rank bust ups or just drunk assholes beating the fuck out of each other in the small hours, just that no one would have been putting them up on social media.
It's been a few years though since I've been out regularly in town, so it very well could be worse but I remember it alway being quite bad
I'd love some coke.
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Is it getting worse though or is it just being publicised more? Back years ago I had more than a few dodgy Nitelink trips, and seen taxi rank bust ups or just drunk assholes beating the fuck out of each other in the small hours, just that no one would have been putting them up on social media.
It's been a few years though since I've been out regularly in town, so it very well could be worse but I remember it alway being quite bad
I think this is on the money. Things were done and quickly forgotten in the past. Crazy shit was always happening, it just wasn't recorded and regurgitated to be sensationalised at will in perpetuity. At one xmas do here about 10 years ago a lad was twisted and tried to drive a car through the doors of the hotel, got fired, etc and it just dissolved into folklore. It never trended on social media, you know? Only those that saw it really can recall it. Admittedly, I don't hang out late around town these days but I don't see the kind of violence at gigs that used to be taken for granted outside McGonagles. I don't feel a threat in Gardiner Street or Summerhill like there used to be or any of the other former no-go zones around town.
What I'm saying is there was always violence but now it routinely ends in murder.
I've witnessed lots myself, but these day it seems to end with someone dancing on a victims head until they're completely annihilated.
All good points and yes the violence was always there. Jesus I remember shitting myself going to teenage discos in Drogheda, you looked wrong at one lad and you could have 15 of them outside later waiting to kick you to pieces. I think the debauchery has gone up a bit though. The drugs and public riding and stuff like that. Yes, it definitely existed back in the day too though. Jesus I've seen people go at it that nobody should ever see going at it, pornstars are paid becuse they're generally in shape and look good, but seeing some brickie smashing Joanne from the local deli out by the bins is just more than the eyes can take.
But it's a great point in general. Everything seems to be going UP. The temperatures, prices, taxes...fair enough. But when it comes to stuff like suicide rates and depression and abuse and all these things, you'd wonder where they're coming up with the figures from. My parents are from down Cork and Kerry and they would say that lads would often be found hanging from a rope in a barn or the gun went off accidently but it was rarely, if ever reported as suicide...ah he slipped on the bridge, type of stuff. So I'm wary of generalising even though I just did it. The drugs and madness is definitely at lunacy levels though..Stryker a case in point.
Just to add to the Cryptic post...I have that perception too...the violence seems to go further these days, but again I couldn't confirm or deny it. Certainly stuff like that young girl being killed by them young lads in Castleknock, I don't seem to recall stories like it, but is it, again, that they're being reported more now...I have no clue.
I don't know dude, stories were always reported, I guess in some cases now there's video to back it up.
Here's a couple of stories though that are indicitive of what I'm talking about;
David Curran murdering two Polish lads at just 17 years old, stabbed both in the head with a screwdriver because he believed (Out of his mind on drugs) that one or either of them had attacked his old man.
The lads in Coolock that danced on Lukasz rzeszutko's head outside his place of employment "for a buzz" as they put it.
This is the level we're at now lads, I think we're so desensitised to it we're saying it's comparable to a lad getting a few slaps outside Mcgonagles which it most definitely is not.
But then similarly there was the young lad stabbed outside the cinema in Coolock and the guy outside the Burlington and both of those were in the early '00s
Perspective plays a large part in it, of course, since you're mentioning desensitivisation. I don't have TV channels, don't use social media either, aside from a few forums. I'm not desensitised to violence, quite the opposite. I read news from a number of sources and, when I'm not reading the news, I'm observing life as I see it. The stories you mentioned are absolutely shocking to me, of course, but I'm not overexposed to bad news, trust me. I wouldn't class a gang of lads kicking the shit out of someone lying on the ground as "a few slaps" either.
Honestly, I think Dublin, being the example, feels like a substantially safer place than it was when I grew up. There were parts of town you just did not go into. Fuck sake, there were parts of the council estate I grew up in which I couldn't go into. There used to be gang fights between my estate and the estate next to us, running battles, it could be fucking mental at times. When I was studying in Ballyfermot we used to get together to leave in groups to get the bus after dark. Even then, we were attacked more than once and chased onto the bus. It doesn't feel like that lawlessness is as bad. Then there was the Troubles, shit like the unmarried Mother homes, there has always been violence but there was never the constant exposure to incidents which many get through the telly and their phone. Maybe there is more money and less catholic guilt to fuel the depravity side, sure, but it feels like a generally safer place to me.
Just thinking of something else, I watched The Commitments recently, for the first time in a long, long time. What struck me was not the story but the Dublin it captured. You forget what a dirty, decrepit shithole it used to be. You forget that the bridges over the Dart tracks used to be covered in barbed wire with sides high enough to stop cunts throwing cavity blocks onto the trains. Different times.
Quote from: Juggz on January 09, 2020, 03:11:49 PM
Honestly, I think Dublin, being the example, feels like a substantially safer place than it was when I grew up. There were parts of town you just did not go into. Fuck sake, there were parts of the council estate I grew up in which I couldn't go into. There used to be gang fights between my estate and the estate next to us, running battles, it could be fucking mental at times. When I was studying in Ballyfermot we used to get together to leave in groups to get the bus after dark. Even then, we were attacked more than once and chased onto the bus. It doesn't feel like that lawlessness is as bad. Then there was the Troubles, shit like the unmarried Mother homes, there has always been violence but there was never the constant exposure to incidents which many get through the telly and their phone. Maybe there is more money and less catholic guilt to fuel the depravity side, sure, but it feels like a generally safer place to me.
Jesus I forgot about those estate battles, absolutely crazy stuff. The field in between the two of them where I lived could be like a warzone, especially around Halloween time
Deffo agree with all of the above. Ireland in the 80's and 90's....jesus! The 80's was close to third world at times. You never see groups of skinny, dying little street urchins walking around with their heads shaved like back then. My primary school was a strange mix of posh, working/middle class and poverty stricken kids. Some of the families were enormous, both parents alcoholics and you could smell the poor cunts coming a mile down the road. They'd eat hardly anything all day and spend the whole evening roaming until they eventually went home at night. All sorts of abuse and violence was going on behind closed doors. Roddy Doyle captured it very well in The Family mini series if anyone remembers that. Charloooo!!
So, at the very least it's great that that's gone, lads walking around with their heads down, miserable, no confidence, poor. There's a certain arrogant wankeriness that has replaced it in some quarters but you'll always have arseholes. I got rid of the telly years ago, really wish I could fuck away the phone because it's definitely replaced it, but at least I'm aware of what's coming at me in terms of depressing stories etc and can take steps to avoid it.
My hometown is nowhere near as violent as it was when I was a young lad, 15 years ago. The world seems stupider, more violent and bigoted because of social media.
Quote from: Juggz on January 09, 2020, 03:17:41 PMWhat struck me was not the story but the Dublin it captured. You forget what a dirty, decrepit shithole it used to be.
It still is.
Anyone who thinks dublin was worse back in the day is wrong. Worse kip than ever and far more violent now
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A2c1vvRdPb8
I wasn't around in the 1980s but for me things are definitely a lot worse than they were growing up in the 90's and 00's. I do agree that things did happen back then and video does have a part to play in the way we are seeing more of what's going on but so many people these days that would stab you before even throwing a punch.
I have no problem with people taking what they want on nights sure when it comes to drinking I am worse than I have ever been since I started drinking higher percentage beers a few years ago and most nights I drink and end up blacking out because I go from being tipsy to hammered in a short space of time. But when people are going for a pint mind week to watch say the football and they have work in the morning but are in the toilets snorting lines in between each drink to me that's too much.
Coke is basically as common now as weed was 10 - 15 years, big difference in both the health effects, addictiveness and cost of both. I am living somewhere now that weed is legal so to me I don't think of it any differently then I do beers or cigarettes. For the first time I was home as well it felt weird not being able to go out to the beer garden and light up a joint freely.
Then when I was home as well on the way to the pub on the Friday before new years I ran into that Nigerian gang that have been terrorizing Dublin for the last few years and now have decided to come to Drogheda. I was walking up to a corner and could hear a load of Nigerian accents so I decided to cross the road next thing a gang of 20 lads come around the corner with two Irish girls following them, then two cops cars came around after them following them at walking speed the whole way up the road. I have no doubt if the cops had not of been there I most likely would have ended up getting a hiding from them.
They caused riots up in Dublin on new years even at the Red Cow Inn and were back in Drogheda last Saturday night causing chaos as well and nothing is being done to stop them out of fear of how it will look. The same lads tried to come down to Drogheda multiple times during the fleadh once the cops were waiting for them at the train station and refused to let anyone off the train and sent it back to Dublin then another night they did the same thing with a bus coming from Balbriggan. One night they managed to get down and ended up a big fight with the cops and had a ban garda on the ground kicking her in the head I even saw a video of this.
I know people will use the argument "Irish lads cause trouble as well" but we have never had a case of gangs of Irish lads going from town to town robbing and attacking every person they come across. If you look on google you will find multiple stories of these lads harassing young kids, old women, pregnant women and just causing havoc everywhere they go.
Also I heard on the news when I was home about the lad stabbed multiple times up in Dublin then the next morning I woke and someone had sent me a video of part of the attack on whatsapp.
Quote from: Cryptic Stench on January 09, 2020, 07:05:21 PM
Anyone who thinks dublin was worse back in the day is wrong. Worse kip than ever and far more violent now
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A2c1vvRdPb8
How does that show that Dublin is worse now though? That shit has always happened just people didn't have the means to document it
Luas, Broad daylight. Public Transport. No problem trying to murder someone by dancing on their head.
I could put a lot more and lot worse up.
Dublin is worse than ever, you can now get killed for very little. Glad I moved out of the kip and am reminded of that every time I go back in.
From the video description it looks like the fella on the ground tried to stab the fella attacking him.
The violence has always been there.. I think though it has increased a lot over the last few years.
Most time people don't get involved with teenagers fighting male or female as they seem way more likely to do something extreme.. ie a weapon or literally dancing on peoples heads.
Or get into it with one and another 12 appear and you end up in a coma/dead.
It's equally disgusting and sad to see how bad it was/has/can be.
Quote from: Pedrito on January 09, 2020, 09:25:08 AM
I was reading about that young Down footballer that was operated on for a brain bleed after an altercation over Christmas..some krav maga wanker decided it was ok to beat him to a pulp. Now that's Newry, and no offence, but it's rough as a badger's arse.
Saw the video of that at work today, fucking hell, the sound his head makes as it hits the road. Guy charged with assault? Should be attempted murder.
Where's that video?
It's funny, and people will say I'm overreacting, but I'm thinking about it now, and I couldn't wait to get the fuck out of Dublin after living there for the guts of 15 years. I'm from Drogheda and that can be sketchy on a Saturday night, but Dublin was always riddled with scum. Now, I love the place, and I really like Dublin people, some of the nicest, most decent people you'll ever meet(generalisation, but loads.of really decent ppl). That said, the place is rife with lunatics and scumbags..some of them native, others imported from about the country and I'm sure immigration is piling on top.of that too. I often wonder if I'll go back home to live in Ireland but even the thought of going back anywhere near Dublin gives me the jitters.
In my opinion Drogheda has always been worse than Dublin for a night out over the years I rarely had any trouble in Dublin. Hadn't much trouble in Drogheda either but always see shit going on, on almost every night out or hear about it from other people.
Yep it's ropey. I think, like Dublin, you just gotta have your wits about you too and stay away from certain areas. Though I usually lived North side of Dublin, I tried to stay away from being around the Connolly station part of Dublin too late at night. Another spot that I used always walk home through was up past Fibbers, Gardiner street etc. Never had any issues, but, again, it's hardly ideal. The South side of the city, generally safer, though I remember living up out the back.of Whelans and you'd see loads of sketchy shit going on. It's a great city, the nightlife is second to none, great place to get locked and get yer hoooole, but, yeah, you're never far off an altercation or an issue of some sort and you got to know when to cross the street and keep your wits about you.
Quote from: Cryptic Stench on January 09, 2020, 08:58:25 PM
Where's that video?
A guy showed it to us at work today, someone sent it to him on Whatsapp. Probably only a matter of time til it shows up on Facebook.
So it's not just me then :laugh:
QuoteMr Aydin says he enjoyed working behind the till while at college and that the late-night antics among customers "aren't as bad as people make them out to be". "Nearly all kebab shops have security after 1am but I don't see the need for it because there aren't as many problems as there used to be. We used to hear stories of fights between customers but we don't see that anymore. People seem more chilled."
RIP Iskanders
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/consumer/dublin-s-late-night-kebab-shop-iskander-s-to-close-after-nearly-three-decades-1.4137311?mode=amp