Earlier today there was apparently some kind of demonstration outside Batt O’ Keeffe’s offices in Cork. Of course he wasn’t even there ..
Why?
Seemingly USI are upset that the minister didn’t drop everything to meet them. Or at least that’s what it sounds like based on their rather whingy press release. I love this bit:
Last week Minister O’Keeffe requested the help of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) to combat graduate unemployment. However, despite our request for an urgent meeting, the Minister has so far failed to meet with us.
Yeah – getting meetings with important people is going to happen overnight.
In the “real world” getting a meeting with a business or political leader can take weeks. That doesn’t mean that they don’t want to meet you or that they’re not interested, but they have busy schedules (and no – I’m not an apologist for Fianna Fail or O’Keeffe)
But what really gets me is the entire tone of the USI release
Have all the graduates made an effort to get a job? Of ANY kind?
Or are they just sitting there expecting someone to spoon feed them?
From Damien Mulley:
They’ll want free broadband so they can read this post.
From Stewart Curry:
Love the banner image on their site – so they are all about protesting jugglers to impress business people?
From Jonathan Brazil:
USI site seems to be broken in Chrome on the Mac so I can’t read the letter. However, on the up side that’s a job for at least one of them to do.