Life / Why are Polish people so ruthless? [87]

You are mistaken my friend - they didn't like him either.

And i am not a perv, I only was her friend.

Life / Why are Polish people so ruthless? [87]

Thank you to everyone who has replied, especially Seanus and Justysias but everyone else too.

What has happened between the Polish people and myself is very sad from my point of view.

However probably I shall continue to be nice to each new Polish person I meet. Most likely yes, they will treat me like dirt after I have helped them. However what if they really need my help and I don't give it? That would be worse.

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Shorthairthug your comment has an easy answer - if you read my original thread I said one Pole out of all of them is still talking to me, the funny thing is that that one person who is still speaking, was her best and most trusted friend here before she moved back to Poland.

I think I've made my point.

Seanus and Justysias thank you very much again for your kind support!

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Ksysia you have made so many incorrect assumptions in your post that it is not even worth me beginning to start with how wrong you are in your response.

Szkotja you too are also misinterpreting things.

Seanus is absolutely spot on - Administrator is not a high rank, I am no more important than the average person.

It is simply that the position I have gives me more ability to help the people working there. I am able to give jobs, push for payrises for people, mediate between the manager and staff to a certain extent, grant annual leave, change people's working hours etc. This the Polish people have gained from brilliantly in my humble view. More so than they would have if I was an administrator who speaks no Polish with no interest in Polish culture. As I said before though, I have helped them an awful lot in their personal lives when I could just simply politely say I don't have time. In any case, Szkotja I am not asking for thanks, I do not consider that the Polish people owe me anything. I am just expressing disappoitment at their horrible behaviour towards me which is particularly sad when I think about the things I have done for them.

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What a funny bunch you are. It's almost as though - 'You helped people - you deserve to be smacked in the face.'

And Szkotja - no it is NOT what I am supposed to do.

Ksysia, Szkotja and the many others who have criticized me here, I guess you are the very type of people I am talking about. The crazy thing is that ultimately the Polish people that like turning on people who have helped them, are the ones who will suffer. One of those people that is no longer speaking to me now wants her working weekends changed so that it is in line with her husband's working hours. She had to go to the Housekeeper to ask for this - in turn the Housekeeper came to me and I subsequently said 'No.'

As it happens I am not really supposed to change their work hours regularly anyway, I was just doing it because they needed that help and I was able to. I can still do it but now, as of this week, I choose not to. Of course though, any new Pole joining will still be treated with kindness until they decide to turn on me too.

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Ksysia I think you are someone who finds amusement in just making it up as you go along. Where on eart on this thread have I said that I break rules and amend people's timesheets? I said I can change people's working hours (meaning BEFORE they have worked them) and I swap their shifts with other people if they want to. Things that are frowned upon by the company but not anything immoral or illegal.

By the way, I would not let you associate with me anyway.

Life / Why are Polish people so ruthless? [87]


Okay let's take Ksysia's comment at random from the many here that have no basis in any kind of reality. The Slovakians along with the Indians, Zimbabweans, Nigerians, Filipinos, Brazilians and people from all the other countries represented where I work have recieved many acts of help from me. Please stop peddling such drivel Ksysia when all it amounts to is childish lies on your part. The reality is you do not like it because I have expressed a critizism of your country, which incidentally, still remains a country I very much like.

The rest of you who have sought to make some frankly, breath-taking assumptions will not have the pleasure of seeing a response from me to your posts.

The reason I began this thread was not for sympathy or support as many of you seemed to have assumed. I started this because I was seeking to understand why it is the Polish act so differently to the rest of the nationalities I encounter. By the way they have often been attacked at work for dispalying petulent behaviour with the others and I have always stuck up for them and made excuses on their behalf. Not any more I'm afraid. I began this thread because Polish Forums is a website for Polish people and people interested in Polish culture. Also I made the mistake of thinking that you would be a mostly friendly bunch even if you would disagree.

It is sad that one or two people have made offensive remarks that are personal but I will pretty much forget them as soon as I finish this post. You do not know me. The non-Polish people who work with me do and they like me. Their opinions are more important. I am lucky to work with them - they are nice, decent friendly people with manners and courtesy. I admire them. Also the one Polish person who still speaks to me is a fantastic person too and I value her opinion more than yours.

Seanus, Justysias, Szwedwpolsce and the one or two others that have not jumped on the bandwagon of trying to make me out to be some sort of monster - I do not include you in my negative view of the website here! I thank you for your support, it is kind of you, especially when it would have been easy to just go with the majority. I have not gone in to specifics out of respect for the Polish people and for reasons of privacy. However, your non-judgemental comments are nice and I am garteful!

Although please don't put yourself in to a position whereby you too get attacked!
You are good people!

I am sorry I can't say that for most people here though. Polish forums is not quite the website I thought it was. Allowing posters to call me an a-hole etc.