Jesus Christ what is it with Irish aul lads and having a love for going on power trips in their jobs? 🙄

Jesus Christ what is it with Irish aul lads and having a love for going on power trips in their jobs? 🙄 from ireland

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  2. He’s acting up for the camera too trying to make us think he’s great at his job.

    Asking are you OK as if the person is high or intoxicated.

    This video makes me sick to my stomach. So much for the warm welcome to tourists.

  3. He is always calling people “my friend”. I’d love to get stopped by him and tell him “I’m not your friend”. I can imagine he’d go mental so it would be well worth it

  4. Christ he’s annoying. If you were only to hear his half of the conversation you’d assume he’s negotiating with some aggressive roaring lunatic. Also the answers the lad from Hong Kong gives are perfectly reasonable but he acts like they’re weaselly or evasive. Answering “a hotel” to the question about where he stayed makes perfect sense as an answer, as it differentiates it from say “with family” or “in my own house”. If anything, answering the precise name of the Hotel to that question (very possibly a Cantonese name) would come off as cheeky.

  11. When you get into a position like this and your just really not feeling like being walked over, stand up for yourself in the knowledge that they’re putting their job on the line by being a prick. Give them an opportunity to prick themselves out of a job if they’re clearly deserving of it

  12. These types were the cabbages in school that never missed a day but had no brain cells. Do this kind of job long enough, and you’ll end up in a position of power.

  13. I was married to an Irishman and had an Irish passport. Used to drive him mad when we vistas his man that I was always pulled over by passport control because I was too brown! Had rows with him to keep his cool because I get that the world over!!!! Not new to me but very new to him. Don’t lose control with border control – they have the power. Watched this show on British tv – this guy is a cunt

  14. What the fuck is this? Irish version of of the Border Patrol? If so, for god’s fucking sake, could they not pick someone who’s less of a massive cunt… The fucking accent on the cunt too…I hope they don’t play this worldwide because he’s an embarrassment.

  15. What a fuckin pathetic bastard that customs officer is. Power-trip out the wazoo. I thought the civil service were supposed to weed out people like this. At every turn, he chooses the confrontational route. These questions could be asked so much more politely.

    Asshole: “Are you working in Ireland?”

    – ” I live here”

    Asshole: “I didn’t ask you were you living here”

    how about just saying “okay, and do you work here?”

  16. Lads no harm this is blatant racial profiling, how has this cunt not been reported. You can tell the way he asks the questions he has an underlying agenda. The statement about ‘there’s thousands of people living here and not working’ is an obvious implication. Disgusting behaviour

  17. The absolute worst kind of person to ever put in a position of authority. They gave him a little badge and now he’s on a rampage to make everyone around him feel miserable and intimidated. He obviously never could get anyone to respect him for real.

  19. He’s always like “I’m not happy with your story” “I’m not finding that believable” wanting the mark to have to beg him or plead their case while he gets his jollys off on a power trip.

    I wish people just said to him ‘fine. Your not happy. That’s your problem. I’ve done nothing wrong and you have no evidence that I have done anything wrong. And I’ll sue the fuck out of customs authorities for any loses i incur if you turn me back.”

  20. I thought the OP was overreacting but he really is a bit odd. He’s trying very hard to escalate the situation and provoke a reaction from the young lad. The traveler can’t answer or say anything without you man trying to make mountains out of it

    He’s completely entitled to stop and question him, it’s his approach that seems odd. Never encountered airport staff as needlessly awkward and aggressive as him.

  21. Can confirm,

    Chap is a knob. Have seen other staff members telling him to relax on a couple of occasions.

    ** EDIT

    Had travelled Europe 5 days straight tour hauling 3 record bags.
    You don’t get much sleep as a touring DJ, I’d say I looked like a zombie come Monday morning.

    He proceeded to take all 140 records out of my bags checking for cannabis, I had been in Amsterdam on Sunday and Rotterdam the Saturday. He said that was a suspicious flight path.

    Once everything was emptied he just said you’re good to go, pack up your stuff and go on.

    140 FUCKING RECORDS !

  22. Hes from the same area I grew up, my Da knows him personally,can confirm he is also a wanker in real life.

  25. Hate cunts that go out of their way looking for conflict. I know people like this and I wouldn’t entertain him for one second. Power tripping flutebag needs to be taken down a peg

  27. Jesus chrsit “I’ve even hear since 5 am and I’m not climbing in your ear”

    Uh, yeah you totally are you ignorant grommet

  29. Ah man that’s Bruce I’m always hoping to see him on the way out he’s like a terrier.. rude bastard to everyone too

  32. So in July I was coming through Cork Airport with my wife and daughter. I fly through no bother on my Irish passport, but the girls are Americans and have their US ones. The passport fella proceeds to grill my wife like yer man in the video, while my daughter – who’s been airsick – is green at the gills and holding her little barf bag from the plane. Wife is getting flustered, and it was only making yer man worse. Finally the wife breaks down and apologised saying “I’m really sorry, my daughter’s sick and my husband has the info on the Airbnb we’re staying at.”

    “Look love, if you paid less attention to your daughter and more attention to my questions, then you’d get through this quicker.”

    I’d come back at this point wondering what was taking so long, heard this, and immediately went “Right, I’m an Irish citizen, you just waved me through. This is my wife, and that’s my daughter who is also an Irish citizen and is in distress. We’re staying at an Airbnb in Glasheen for two weeks, and then staying with my friend in Farran for the rest of the visit. I can give you their addresses if you want, but for feck’s sake would you stamp my girls’ passports so my seven year old daughter can go to the toilet before she pukes all over your booth?”

    Gives me a look like he’d had his fun spoilt, stamped their passports without a word, gave them a half hearted wave and said “Go on so.”

    Prick.

  33. So when this show was being filmed years ago Revenue forgot to make sure they had editorial review of the footage used in the episodes. It was around the time the Customs/Border shows from Australia/Canada/UK were popular so they thought it would make the work they were doing look good. But the production company quickly realised this guy made excellent TV which is why his unprofessional behaviour is in so much of the show and Revenue could do nothing to stop it.

  34. Haha I was stopped by this guy about 4 years ago coming home for Christmas. He was exactly like this. He asked me a bunch of normal enough questions which I had answered politely, and then proceeded to ask me where I’m from. I just looked at him and said ‘Ehhh, here’. I wasn’t being sarcastic, I was just confused as he’s heard me talking and had seen my Irish passport. He didn’t like that one bit, and things went downhill from there. In the end I got annoyed and told him to search my bag nice and quickly so that I can go home. He didn’t like that either, so he kept me there for another 20 minutes because apparently I was being uncooperative. I’ll admit, by the end I was being a right sarcastic cunt, but if he had just been professional and courteous there wouldn’t have been any issues.

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