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Grzegorz_   
12 Sep 2015
News / Poland Parliamentary elections 2015 [1060]

"Given that Poland's governments for the last 25 years (with the exception of PiS during 2005-2007) have all been broadly like PO"

About that there's no doubt...
Grzegorz_   
17 Jul 2013
News / Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers [301]

GW is rather selective about whom it hires, especially when it comes to those who spent the '70s and '80s collaborating with the commie regime.

It really does indeed. Lesław Maleszka is just one of examples :)))))
Grzegorz_   
16 Jul 2013
Love / I Love a Polish Girl (I'm from India) [28]

Should i really be this much worried about the language problem ?

No, please be not this much worried about the language problem.
Grzegorz_   
16 Jul 2013
Work / Living in Lublin (as a teacher)!? [36]

I don't know what kind of taxation you expect

what a surprise to see you promoting socialist labour theories.

LOL !
Grzegorz_   
16 Jul 2013
Work / Living in Lublin (as a teacher)!? [36]

I'll be honest I find this whole thing preposterous and a misuse of EU funds.

Sure but a large part of "EU funds" is about similar crap, think of these countless "helping jobless people how to actively look for employment" stupid programs, business owners pay very high taxes instead of spending that money on actual investments creating jobs and in return they get losers taught how to lie in their CVs and cheat during recruitment process, so possibly they can fool one of the tax paying companies that they are actually good and very productive workers. Great, isn't it ? EU is a new Soviet Union, just with better make up.
Grzegorz_   
14 Jul 2013
Life / Immigration in Poland and being surrounded by a monoculture? [134]

but it won't change the fact that educated, intelligent people working in good jobs won't want to have several children.

The "Poles don't want to have more children" agenda you are constantly pushing here is simply nonsense, which was proven by countless studies and surveys.

The lack of opportunity is caused by two main factors - a pathetic work ethic and a culture that encourages employee abuse of employers, particularly small employers.

Utter nonsense again, you most likely made it all up or what "you" offer is some 700 zł a month crap, people in the city with lowest unemployment rate in Poland simply will not treat it seriously as it is not competitive on that market. Employers, who treat people like shyt will sooner or later receive the same treatment, nothing to do with work ethic, you seem to confuse that with slave mentality.
Grzegorz_   
12 Jul 2013
Law / Jobs and Economic Status in Poland [64]

He could save them some of the millions they pay for the world's best economists. Hey, a saving.

Are you nuts ? I'm not saying that HSBC and others you quoted are wrong on anything, It's you who totally miss the context of what they are really talking about.

No, it will go straight in the pockets of people that never contributed to their pension fund in a hard currency.

ZUS and other similar systems generally work the way that what we pay into it is immediately spent on retired people, there is no real money in it, our future pensions are what our children will have to pay into the system, unlike in OFE, which are very imperfect in current form, however a general idea of investing people's own real money to save for their future pensions is far better than ZUS crap and taking away real money from OFE and replacing it with a virtual future ZUS pensions is really no different than a country issuing more bonds, it's just a swindle to go around 60% GDP debt limit to keep "stimulating" the economy with public spendings, so politicians can say "hey, look there's no recession", that's pretty much what Greeks had been doing, everyone knows how that ended up.

All of them (literallly ALL of them) said that poland's economy is doing quite good.

Fascinating. You mean those guys, you had mentioned before, who make 3-3.5k a month ? Yeah, they are doing excellent then... almost...
Grzegorz_   
11 Jul 2013
Law / Jobs and Economic Status in Poland [64]

I think you mean you disagree.

Let me put it this way, you think that your neighbor is doing fine because he's bought a new car and you don't find it relevant that a fool spend his all savings to buy it when at the same time his income is shrinking rapidly. That's just terribly simplistic analysis.
Grzegorz_   
11 Jul 2013
Law / Jobs and Economic Status in Poland [64]

The issue isn't what something "is due to" - it's what the state of the economy is now.

The best example that you guys simply have no clue what you are talking about.

It's the OFE funds themselves that have been doing the stealing.

Except that money is not going to be given back to the real owners, It will be stolen from 1 thief by another.

The difference is that Poland has a sensible constitutional limit on debt - so spending a bit wasn't a big deal if it meant avoiding the problems.

What you clearly don't understand is that the country would have already reach that limit without dirty tricks of Icek Rostowski, he's running out of them, so here goes the OFE takeover, after that probably a sell out of forests and so on. It is economic policy on a level of an alcoholic, who sell everything just to buy more of liquid, you know how that ends up.

yet you in other posts think that the Government should be subsidising others.

Of course I don't.

Investors are coming back to Poland

LOL ! The country has run out of its competitive advantages before even getting to half of wealth of the west, If you think that it is the economy, which is doing fine, then you have serious issues.
Grzegorz_   
11 Jul 2013
Law / Jobs and Economic Status in Poland [64]

As shown by the comments from the OECD, Ernst & Young and the aforementioned analysts.

Even the articles you are coming up with clearly state that "the only economy to avoid recession" was due to massive public spendings and If you had any clue on the issue, you would know that it works pretty much the way like getting drunk, It's fun but after that comes the hangover, It's just started, stealing OFE money will move it forward 2-3 more years but it's just a slow agony of an alcoholic selling out all his possessions to buy another bottle. Real people (not those in name only) don't judge the world through their own situation alone.
Grzegorz_   
11 Jul 2013
Law / Jobs and Economic Status in Poland [64]

The output PMI index bounced back to this year's January high of 49.9, pointing to near stabilisation after months of falling production.

LOL ! That basically means after months of rapid decrease, industrial production is falling to even lower level only the dynamic of month on month drop is a bit slower, you clearly have no clue what is commented here, go start from googling what PMI is, besides you keep searching for articles regarding developments on the monthly basis with any slightest sign of positiveness and that is going to "prove" that "Poland is doing fine" ? Dude, what next, are you going to post forex comments on market changes since 9AM today to "prove" that country x is doing fine ? Even from you I didn't expect ridiculousness of that scale. Fundamentals is what matters here and Poland is a country with terrible demographic situation (one of the worst in the world) huge structural unemployment, one of least effective courts in the world, huge and growing administration, hardly any innovation, domestic market raped by foreign corporations and "export" based on nothing else than cheap labor, this country is dying out, literally, all the macro-economists when discussing long-term trends are terrified by this situation, Balcerowicz, Kołodko, Hausner, from left to right, from orthodox liberals to Keynes admirers.That's the reality, go eat some damn tortilla instead of copy pasting current comments on statistical indicators you have never even heard before.

and eat humble pie:

Yes copy pasting boy, either you think it's "fun" to argue with people whose country is collapsing or are really a total imbecile.
Grzegorz_   
11 Jul 2013
Law / Jobs and Economic Status in Poland [64]

Exactly - Poland is doing rather well at the moment.

LOL ! Please quote 3 economists, who agree with that.
Grzegorz_   
3 Jul 2013
Work / Dutch speaker (native) experienced in Finance: job opportunities in Poland [63]

Maybe my expectations of salary in poland are too high, but yours are definately too low if you would find 3000 net as a "fair" salary for this kind of job at Microsoft.

These are not my expectations but realistic assessment, again which part of "Poland is a poor country" you don't understand ? You seem to think that If you tell an employer "but I want more" they will pay you more, there are jobs where you can negotiate the salary but few and that's for sure not one of them and It is totally irrelevant If one find the amount of cash "fair" or not.
Grzegorz_   
3 Jul 2013
Work / Dutch speaker (native) experienced in Finance: job opportunities in Poland [63]

So how can you explain me that a Spanish friend of me just signed a contract with Capgemini as a starter function (quite basic) will earn 3200 zloty netto?

Ehh... 2500-3000 is a norm is such jobs... 3500-4000 is max which occasionally happen...

but 2500 is certainly a lower-extreme which i frankly don't want to believe.

You don't believe in what? It's almost an average national salary here, you don't believe that entry level jobs pay ~90% of average salary ?
Grzegorz_   
2 Jul 2013
Life / Right or wrong, Polish controversies [11]

For a crime like this, she should have been executed or at least get a life in prison and a fact that she was allowed to be a teacher again is yet one more example how messed up III RP is.
Grzegorz_   
2 Jul 2013
Real Estate / Day of exchange of contracts with property sellers in Poland [12]

does this seem unreasonable to you?

As these days majority of properties is being bought with money lent by the banks, it takes some days between a contract is signed and the money shows up on the sellers' account... and only after they get the money, they start packing up their stuff, so... I'm not selling a house every single day but here it would look like more or less as follows:

You sign a notarial contract on let's say 15th July, till July 30th they need to get the money, If they get the money, they have to move out, no later than on let's say 15th August, before that day they have to arrange the actual "final exchange" with you, when you check If everything is fine (if they left the furniture as was agreed etc.) and they give you the keys.. I think there's a misunderstanding what you call the final exchange, you think they want to stay there for 2 weeks after you take it over and move in, they want to have up to 2 weeks to leave the place after you pay them...

I think you would like to sort it all out in one day, sign the contract, give them cash, get the key ? It should be doable but they want to avoid it, what If you change your mind, they will be moving to Germany with unsold house in Poland. I don't know these people but overall I see nothing strange here.
Grzegorz_   
2 Jul 2013
Real Estate / Day of exchange of contracts with property sellers in Poland [12]

The sellers are now saying that they require a minimum of two weeks to move out of the property AFTER the final exchange.

Hmm usually it's put in the contract more or less the way that "the buyer becomes the owner after he transfers x of PLN to the bank account of the seller, which must happen within [for example 30 days from now] and after the money is transferred, the seller must leave the property no later than on... "

So I see nothing wrong here. You can (and should) put in the contract what stays in the house (i.e. furniture etc.) and that's it. I really wonder...

AFTER the final exchange.

what you call "the final exchange" and how you were doing it in other countries ? You came with a suitcase full of cash and previous owners were waiting there for you with all their belongings put into some van ?
Grzegorz_   
2 Jul 2013
Travel / Just visited Poland - here is my random rant [154]

if universities are forced to find such jobs for people

That's totally unrealistic.

I'm struggling to find a capable German teacher...

I can't comment on teaching sector but overall you seem to think that the whole country is like Poznań, no it isn't, in majority of a country the situation is far worse, not only in Poland B ex-PGRs but also in many large cities.
Grzegorz_   
2 Jul 2013
Travel / Just visited Poland - here is my random rant [154]

How about trying to make Poland a more attractive place to live and work in, so that young people don't immediately move abroad once they graduate?

Exactly. If the state start forcing young people to work for x years after they graduate or pay back the costs not improving anything in the country at the same time, people will just start leaving right after matura... Besides, how one can be forced to work for x years, when there are simply no jobs for a large part of the workforce ? Far more students than the economy really needs is another issue but governments do nothing with that as that helps them to "improve" unemployment statistics...

So what is the best way forward in your opinion ?

You're asking what should be improved ? Better ask what shouldn't be improved, the list would be much shorter.