New survey finds Irish people are kind but lazy

I found this to be completely true. Working for a large multi-national firm, the irish employees do not pull their weight compared to other nations and this is at their own detriment. It is even worth it to pay the redundancy and cut your losses. Let the irish firms pay their own people have large families and low productivity. Other countries, unless a client absolutely depends on having local staffing should not have to absorb their laziness. I was sad to have come to this realization because they are fun loving and nice but mostly worthless as employees.

This is ridiculous! If this was my site I would not even dare to put this survey on. What an insult!! However, I do not agree with it whatsoever! Surveys are not facts they are just an uneducated guess!

It is not the survey that is the problem. it the way the information is presented. never like for like comparisons and inflammatory words used to describe people.

Who pays for such "surveys"? Methinks we could afford a lot more of lazyness, if we stop funding such nonsensical "work".

it is Bull-My father and mother and all of our people were born in Ireland. My father worked nights as a marine fireman and all day as a carpenter My mother was so clean she even washed the faces of the plants leaves with a sponge and water every day and pracically washed the face off our floors.! How the heck can we be lazy if we helped build America, My father and mother also built their own home here and owned property This is insulting as heck- can't you find anything else to print ?

Now there's a surprise. As I once heard an Irishman say "when God made time, he made plenty of it"!

Maybe folks are not cleaning house for hours a day because they are out earning a wage in order to afford their house? Hours spent cleaning each day is about as silly a statistic as one could identify to determine laziness IMO.

They must not have seen all the Irish women on their hands and knees scrubbing the kitchen floor by hand at 1:30am, only to be up again at 5am to make the porridge and walk the dog. You can hardly get an Irish woman to sit for a cup of tea, never mind a meal. I know many an Irish man that work heavy labor in the same manner. Lazy? I think not. Less time doesn't mean less clean, it reflects efficiency.

As someone of Irish parentage, I would say that kind and lazy would describe me, sort of. I work very hard at accomplishing things for a love of craft, for the goodness and pleasure of something well done. So I'm not always lazy. Other motivations leave me cold, including power and money or approval or applause. And I can sit for hours and simply stare at beautiful scenes or think of beautiful people I have known. Laziness thus does have its rewards. ... Putting aside fanatical house cleaning in favor of spending time with family I consider a virtue, not a fault.

Mexicans also do the most housework every day, a total of three hours, and sleep for the Rest !!! Irish spend one and a half hours doing housework every day shows you how efficient we have become. onya boyo !!

I don't know if the Irish are lazy or just have a different concept of time. Whenever I was in Ireland I saw plenty of construction sites. Unfortunately, there was rarely anyone working at those sites; buildings, roads, whatever. I would be genuinely shocked when I found a crew actually on the job and working.

....Or maybe just kinda lazy... (AK: your worst post ever!)

The Irish are, in my experience, some of the kindest and most generous people on the planet. About being lazy, I must disagree. I've never met nor heard of a lazy Irishman/woman.

Don't see how, we build America.

These surveys are crap. Like most of the non-sense that comes out of this site.