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Joined: 2 May 2009 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 29 Jan 2013
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dtaylor5632   
26 Apr 2010
News / 2010 Polish Presidential Election [39]

JK may be a homophobe and a little evil but he won't put Poland in harm's way.

But putting him as President would be a backward step. People voted him out as Prime Minister for a reason and LK was on the way out anyway. Putting JK in as President would only be a sympathy vote and that's never a good thing.
dtaylor5632   
26 Apr 2010
UK, Ireland / Polish workers going back to Britain [14]

I had so many fights with ZUS that I finally left Poland lol.

I was very lucky, in all the years in krakow I never had to deal with ZUS once. Though they have a reputation for being the most incompetent organization ever. PP I had many an argument with though. To the point I paid someone to go there for me :D

Did he grow his own crops and have live stock?

He did actually, nothing big but enough for themselves. I would have done it myself but could never find a place with a big enough balcony!
dtaylor5632   
26 Apr 2010
UK, Ireland / Polish workers going back to Britain [14]

WTF? How can you survive on that? You would make that here on a Friday night in tips.

God knows how he done it, his wife was a teacher and they lived in the countryside where it is a lot cheaper, but still it's a pittance.

On the other hand many people get jobs because they know somebody, so they are hired not because of what they know, but who they know.

I work for Electrolux in Krakow and I often wonder how some of the "accountants" have jobs there. For example they have people with degrees in Journalism ect working in the accounting teams. No experience but they are there just to punch numbers into a computer.
dtaylor5632   
26 Apr 2010
UK, Ireland / Polish workers going back to Britain [14]

Is there a minimum wage in Poland? I don't think so though I could be wrong.
Some of the working conditions I've heard about in some jobs in Krakow are beggars belief.
For example our school would hired folk to give out leaflets on street corners. I don't think anyone who took the job was paid higher than 600pln a month. My ex worked for Atlantic Gym in Krk and she was on 1200pln working 6 days a week often 12 hrs a day. The laughable thing about that job was that the owners would try their best to not pay them the full wage or on time. Every month she was deducted 400-500pln for sports drinks going missing from a drink machine that had no lock on it! :D

I think because there are so many students in Krk it brings down the wages, but this also happened in Kolbuszowa in the South East. My ex father-in-law to be was paid 600pln a month stacking shelves in a local shop. horror!
dtaylor5632   
22 Apr 2010
News / Crash of Tu-154 at Smolensk-North--could it have been a bomb in the Polish plane? [233]

Strange, all this info from people who neither stay in Poland (or near) or have much to do with Poland. hhmmmmm CT's in my book.

Olga who is from Canada and doesn't speak Polish but can read all the excited theories on Polish sites and famd who only join the forum to talk about his theories.

Starved of attention anyone?

Oh and I just laughed so hard at this new theory!!!

Were the Polish elite abducted and killed in Poland? No evidence of bodies at crash site fuels speculation

dtaylor5632   
21 Apr 2010
Love / Demands from Polish ex! [75]

we can't stand whiners...

The Texan girl's mission to stop all men whining continues eh! :D
dtaylor5632   
21 Apr 2010
Love / Demands from Polish ex! [75]

Anyway, now it is almost the end of April, 4-6 months later she writes to me out of the blue saying that I owe her 500zl, because she got a fine for using too much water in her apartment while I was staying there!

If she has only received this bill and you haven't lived there for the past how many months then it is not for you to worry about. Sounds like this for the last 6 months.

Sounds a bit like she needs a quick 500pln and though about this excuse to get it from you. I would tell her to send you a copy of the bill then take it from there. She is acting a little silly.

If you only stayed there for 2 months then there is no way you could use that much water. I think I paid about 400pln for a years worth of water and I take baths :P
dtaylor5632   
21 Apr 2010
USA, Canada / Do Poles feel America is going down the drain? [149]

Whoever comes up with a practical and efficient green energy production will become the next Bill Gates. Whatever we have now is expensive and mediocre.

Well Scotland has a huge target in converting its energy sources to green. Something like by 2011 33% of electricity will be from green sources and we have already passed that target :)
dtaylor5632   
20 Apr 2010
Australia / Any nice Polish people in Perth? [78]

Ha I hear Perth and think Scotland ;) so i guess she is ****** :D But still she can look for work, but her employer needs to apply for her visa.
dtaylor5632   
20 Apr 2010
Australia / Any nice Polish people in Perth? [78]

You can work, and apply for jobs like any other EU person can. Nobody from the EU needs an EU wisa for work. If you are accepted for a job your employer will sort out your NI (as the law says they should) or you can apply for one yourself. A little like the NIP in Poland.
dtaylor5632   
20 Apr 2010
UK, Ireland / No job unless you're Polish [201]

Oh booooo hoooo, 1.8 whole billion, compared with the debts of Ireland its a pebble in the ocean. Go spread ur sh1t elsewhere.