valeo
27 Mar 2009
Real Estate / Foreigners: Please don't buy Polish Land! [823]
My god, what's going on here? Is there not enough hatred going on in the world?
Do we have to resort to insulting our neighbours?
My own observations..... In my previous job as a production manager I had to recruit 25 workers for my facility. I employed 25 Polish people, this was due to the fact that the bone-idle English worker refused to get his arse out of his bed for less than £6 p/hr, (I know, piss poor money, but that’s all the owner would pay), however & let me tell you something, in the 30+ years I have been working I have never known anyone work harder than the polish workers I employed. Without question they would commit to as many hours as possible & put to shame the British guys that worked for us. This country. England is full of people who just don't want to work but of course still want money.
I had English guys tell me that they would not do overtime on a Saturday morning, why? Because the government would give them tax credits to stay at home..... Work that one out!
The poles did not/have not taken jobs off the English worker; they took the jobs the English refused to do. What did they do with the money they made? Whatever they bloody wanted. Most Poles I know sent half the money back home to assist family.
Now, 5 years on, most of the poles that we employed own their homes, have cars that are paid for & go on at least 2 holidays a year. As for the lazy English well, the ones that I kept are still lazy, get pissed every weekend, fail to show up for work & always complain that they have no money!!
I actually married one of the women that came over; we have been to Poland many times over the past 4 years. It is an amazing country. OK so it may still be a bit behind the times compared to the west of Europe in some things, but who cares. If you don't like it...leave.
I, my wife & daughter will be moving to Poland for good in the summer, she has a job lined up to start & I hope to find a TEFL post when we get over. We know we are not going to become a millionaire, that’s not why we are going. We are going to be closer to her family, (which is quite large compared to mine); will we be buying a property? Who knows, maybe not in the 1st year but will hope to eventually. Does this make me a bad person? We will be paying taxes like most people, we will be buying Polish goods & our daughter will be taught at a Polish school. Will I get the steely look of hatred from people on the bus every time I open my mouth? Will they tell me to p*ss off back to England? I hope not, it hasn't happened in all the times I've been over. On each visit I have been treated with nothing more than respect even when out on my own. In fact it has not happened to me anywhere I've been in Europe & I've lived & worked in a few countries in my time.
To the 'westerners' who have written with hatred & disgust, think carefully about what your saying, To the Poles who have told us not to come over, think carefully about what your saying. My quiet & sheltered life (!!) has lead me to believe that we can all get along, we have to all get along, this is a small planet that's on the brink of boiling over, at some time in the future........ We Europeans may all have to be brothers in arms!
There will be some out there who will read this & think I am a complete idiot, I don't care.
I just had to get my say in after reading some of the posts on this site.
Live long.
My god, what's going on here? Is there not enough hatred going on in the world?
Do we have to resort to insulting our neighbours?
My own observations..... In my previous job as a production manager I had to recruit 25 workers for my facility. I employed 25 Polish people, this was due to the fact that the bone-idle English worker refused to get his arse out of his bed for less than £6 p/hr, (I know, piss poor money, but that’s all the owner would pay), however & let me tell you something, in the 30+ years I have been working I have never known anyone work harder than the polish workers I employed. Without question they would commit to as many hours as possible & put to shame the British guys that worked for us. This country. England is full of people who just don't want to work but of course still want money.
I had English guys tell me that they would not do overtime on a Saturday morning, why? Because the government would give them tax credits to stay at home..... Work that one out!
The poles did not/have not taken jobs off the English worker; they took the jobs the English refused to do. What did they do with the money they made? Whatever they bloody wanted. Most Poles I know sent half the money back home to assist family.
Now, 5 years on, most of the poles that we employed own their homes, have cars that are paid for & go on at least 2 holidays a year. As for the lazy English well, the ones that I kept are still lazy, get pissed every weekend, fail to show up for work & always complain that they have no money!!
I actually married one of the women that came over; we have been to Poland many times over the past 4 years. It is an amazing country. OK so it may still be a bit behind the times compared to the west of Europe in some things, but who cares. If you don't like it...leave.
I, my wife & daughter will be moving to Poland for good in the summer, she has a job lined up to start & I hope to find a TEFL post when we get over. We know we are not going to become a millionaire, that’s not why we are going. We are going to be closer to her family, (which is quite large compared to mine); will we be buying a property? Who knows, maybe not in the 1st year but will hope to eventually. Does this make me a bad person? We will be paying taxes like most people, we will be buying Polish goods & our daughter will be taught at a Polish school. Will I get the steely look of hatred from people on the bus every time I open my mouth? Will they tell me to p*ss off back to England? I hope not, it hasn't happened in all the times I've been over. On each visit I have been treated with nothing more than respect even when out on my own. In fact it has not happened to me anywhere I've been in Europe & I've lived & worked in a few countries in my time.
To the 'westerners' who have written with hatred & disgust, think carefully about what your saying, To the Poles who have told us not to come over, think carefully about what your saying. My quiet & sheltered life (!!) has lead me to believe that we can all get along, we have to all get along, this is a small planet that's on the brink of boiling over, at some time in the future........ We Europeans may all have to be brothers in arms!
There will be some out there who will read this & think I am a complete idiot, I don't care.
I just had to get my say in after reading some of the posts on this site.
Live long.