USA, Canada / Pulaski Day (celebrated in the US only) [54]

I wonder if she should now be referred to as Kazimierza Pulaska...

Of course Kazimera rather than Kazimierza. A lot of street names in PL could need changing.

USA, Canada / Pulaski Day (celebrated in the US only) [54]


Not that modern. Emilia Plater dressed as a man, and it seems that Kazimierz Pulaski (I wonder what her real name was) may have pretended to be one. Those identities certainly existed then, had names and were usually criminalised; there are records of trials and contemporary accounts of the lifestyle. It existed and there is hard proof of that.


Count Fredro the playwright. He dressed as a woman and more besides.


Cobblers.

USA, Canada / Pulaski Day (celebrated in the US only) [54]

Merged:

Was Poland's Kazimierz Pulaski a woman?

There's a surprise. Emilia Plater the mannish and genderbending Polish lady soldier is well enough known, as is the great Count Fredro, however now it looks like she might now be joined by another transgender LGBTQI+ Pole!


usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/06/revolutionary-wars-casimir-pulaski-likely-woman-intersex-research/3381409002/

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


Don't be daft. In a democracy, people have the right to express their opinions in any non-violent way they choose.

Sad how some turn a thread about interesting photos into a right-wing rant.

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]


A rigged vote, and al about Russian strategy/pride.


It's not Radom, more like the Katowice region with less inward investment. The problem is that the production, supply chains and capital flows in any country are indivisible; remove one part and the whole economy is affected.

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]


The residents might not agree.


20% of Ukraine's industrial base.

Life / The role of government agencies in Poland. Who is making decisions? [8]


They do.


Poland isn't.


Me too.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


To measure the time between the Good Friday liturgy and the first Mass of Easter, symbolising the period when the disciples and His family were still mourning?

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


Is it to do with the Warsaw Uprising? I know daffodils symbolise the hope they had.

Work / Diversity in Poland especially in workplace [90]

There you go again.

And organisational diversity policies are not only here to stay, but also are increasing year on year as organisations see the immense value of them.

Work / Diversity in Poland especially in workplace [90]

Don't be so silly. All three are relevant. This is why effective organisations take diversity so seriously.

You should stick to things you think you know about, like weeping about your unfulfilled life (what's left of it, anyway) your compulsive internet trolling and your calling people 'foreign garbage'.

Work / Diversity in Poland especially in workplace [90]

Getting the best staff and getting the best out of staff is certainly an organisation's concern.

History / Positive portrayal of Poles in world`s cinema and TV [18]

Does anyone remember "A very Polish practice", the sequel series to "A very peculiar practice"? A great sitcom back in the 80s as PL was opening up, a co-production with Polish State Television and one that gave people in the U.K. a glimpse of modern Poland.


A classic! I nearly p*ssed myself laughing last year when I went to a theatre that was actually doing 'excerpts from Shakespeare'!!!

Work / Diversity in Poland especially in workplace [90]


I could, since I'm a lecturer in HR and teach it at a University, however a quick look online will do you nicely.

Disability, gender, social class, ethnicity, language, age, political affiliation, and a shed load of other things more relevant in Poland than your obsession with immigration.

Work / Diversity in Poland especially in workplace [90]


Again, something slow to change.

Bizarre how a thread about diversity in the workplace (which is mostly not about skin colour or culture) has turned into yet another thread about immigration.


You would do well to make fewer assumptions.

Work / Diversity in Poland especially in workplace [90]


It will happen anyway; the current 'crisi' isn't a crisis. It's a beginning.

It'll happen anyway, so (in the workplace) people had better get used to colleagues who look a bit different to them.

Work / Diversity in Poland especially in workplace [90]


Why would skin colour matter to anyone...

Work / Diversity in Poland especially in workplace [90]


The number is actually low.

Somehow, almost every thread here ends up about immigration.

Work / Diversity in Poland especially in workplace [90]

In Japan, women who work are still sometimes called 'office flowers'. Even now.

Work / Diversity in Poland especially in workplace [90]


Yet there are still more men at higher levels, Women still dominate in the three Cs, cooking, cleaning and care while there are some pretty f*cking mediocre male managers who get on because their face fits.

Work / Diversity in Poland especially in workplace [90]


If a manager or supervisor just employs people like themselves, those pesky blood-sucking capitalists from the HR department have a solution; encourage applicants and support staff on the basis of their ability to help achieve the organisation's mission and goals rather than put up with a low-level interviewer's personal tastes. That's one of the reasons HR exists in the first place...

No matter how much the concept of diversity irks you, it ain't going away...

Work / Diversity in Poland especially in workplace [90]


Indeed. These are the ones that lose out, while larger organisations gain. It should be the other way round.

Work / Diversity in Poland especially in workplace [90]


Yes, very much so. One of the roles of HR is to manage this so the individual manager's preferences don't lead to people being/feeling excluded.

Work / Diversity in Poland especially in workplace [90]


And disability, social class, skin colour, gender, religion and sometimes regional origin. It's about getting the best out of a workforce. In Poland, some employers do understand this, however as in most places there there are department managers who recruit people they feel most comfortable with (or know, or are related to). One of the various reasons HR people organise the staffing process is to avoid this.

Work / Diversity in Poland especially in workplace [90]


is it?

Diversity (as part of a range of HR policies intended to improve staffing) isn't the same as going to a beach.

Work / Diversity in Poland especially in workplace [90]


That's not a workplace now, is it...

Work / Diversity in Poland especially in workplace [90]


Very sensible.


Not on its own, it doesn't...

Work / Diversity in Poland especially in workplace [90]


Ignoring diversity just means you have a smaller pool of good candidates.

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]

Or hold on to their rapidly declining power.

News / Hollywood's War with Poland. [150]


Or in Polish, for that matter. It's easy to see how someone could get paranoid about a non-existent "Hollywood's War with Poland" when that level of weirdness is involved.