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convex   
13 Feb 2010
Work / Is it normal for companies/schools in Poland to be rude? [116]

As for foreign management skills - ask yourself how many banks went bust in Poland. Then compare this to the current situation of British, Swedish and American banks.

You mean PKO, WBK, Bank Slaski, Millennium Bank...
convex   
13 Feb 2010
Work / Is it normal for companies/schools in Poland to be rude? [116]

The method of training has to change. More work experience, more international exposure, more apprenticeships.

Constructive criticism is good, whining just for the sake of it doesn't help anything.

Regarding teachers, I think no matter where you go, you will have native speakers selected for jobs over locals. Due to the wages, you're flooded here with native speakers who teach, instead of teachers who are native speakers.
convex   
13 Feb 2010
Travel / Rented car from Germany to Poland [15]

Are there any special customs documents we need to cross the border?

Just the green insurance card, registration, and the rental agreement.

Make sure that Poland is included on the green card, and not crossed out.
convex   
13 Feb 2010
Love / Polish Girls vs Russian Girls [813]

polish girls are created by Allah, to prove the mankind, there is an heaven for belivers. and polish girls are heaven girls whom are living in woman format in the world...

good luck with that, you seem pretty shallow, come back and let us know how it works out here in a few months.
convex   
12 Feb 2010
Real Estate / Has the Poland real estate bubble popped? [12]

There is no popping of an asset bubble, there is only deflation. It takes a couple of years until prices are back in line. It will decline back to affordable levels just as it rose, gradually.
convex   
12 Feb 2010
News / Poland: In Top First 15 Countries in the WORLD by the number of CRIMES [286]

Crime has dropped drastically in Poland over the past few years.

Brits and Americans move to the middle east and asia to make money. People all over the UK move to the city to make money, for some reason I doubt that the majority of people working in Londan are doing so because it's such a great place to live. They could do the same in Nottingham, but they move to London because they'll get paid twice as much. That's the point, the motivation is money, more of it, not money to live.

So only the people with exceptional drive and determination will succeed. Im sorry but i feel like im talking to a child here.

No, the point is you don't need exceptional drive. You just need to study something relevant and move to a city. How is that childish? This is a country where people go to school studying worthless degrees because they can, the university system is flooded with them.

Its irrelevant as your trying to make Poland look like some wonder country with oppotunities for all by comparing it with other countries.

It's not a wonder country, but anyone that gets off of their ass and decides they want to "live well" can do so.

You're an apologist for the lazy and unambitious.
convex   
12 Feb 2010
Life / Important: A Good Medical Center with English speaking doctors in Krakow [50]

consultations, blood tests, as well as hospitalizations for things like...

Planned
- All planned hospitalization in the following departments: pediatrics, internal medicine, cardiology, gynecology (excluding pregnancy and delivery), and surgery;
- in addition, among others, the following procedures: by-pass surgery, arthroscopy, cystoscopy in general anesthesia, lithotripsy, kidney stone surgery, prostate biopsy, transurethral resection of prostate, cataract and glaucoma surgery, salivary gland surgery, tonsillectomy

It's fairly comprehensive for 270zl.

But I'm not a salesman, give them a call if you have questions. I know there are other providers out there as well. I've only used them for diagnostics here in Poland, but used them extensively in the Czech Republic.
convex   
12 Feb 2010
News / Poland: In Top First 15 Countries in the WORLD by the number of CRIMES [286]

Thats totally different and you know it, i really cant be bothered to type out the reasons. Poles didnt have a choice thats the main reason they went abroad.

How is it totally different? I don't believe it. It was primarily motivated by making more money, not money to survive. Now Poles that are illegally working in Germany for €100 a week, you might have a point that they're doing it to survive, or more likely, so their family can survive.

You can make it work here of course but you need several factors in your favor including some luck. At the end of the day there are many more poor people in Poland than most other established countries, someone has to be poor right, thats basic common sense......

There are more poor people in Poland than in most of Western Europe, US+Canada, and some smaller Asian countries. I truly believe if that motivation and common sense is there, you can "make it" in Poland. No luck involved.

Regarding having to be poor, it's a question of what is poor? If you mean that some people will always have lower bank balances, then yes, someone has to be poor. If you use quality of life and availability of opportunity, than no, no one has to be poor. Poland is Sweden 50 years ago in just about every statistic.

Another no brainer and of course true but were not discussing that, thats totally irrelevant to this debate.

It is relevant, one of the themes in the thread was Poland in comparison with the rest of the world on various issues, such as crime.

Mistake maybe, ones integrity is the price to pay.

Pride has a tendency to bite you in the ass.

But they said that because the total value of what had been stolen was under 500zl, they wouldn't come.

Sounds pretty damn lazy to me. I took abusive to mean physically abusive, in the context of locking people up without trial.
convex   
11 Feb 2010
UK, Ireland / Brits to protest against foreigners in the workforce, including Poles. [289]

So rich in Africa more often than not means there's something smelly. And even if they worked hard for the money they paid to trafficers, it's unfair that they get the chance to become richer in Europe whilst the poorest stay poor.

That's what people say about Eastern Europeans too. That's why every Mercedes with Polish plates is obviously mafia. You might want to do a bit of research into the larger cities and the economies of Africa, not everything is as backward as you make it out to be. There area plenty of people making their money just like in Europe.
convex   
11 Feb 2010
Travel / Driving to Poland from England - any tips? [264]

One of you told me back then that there are not more border controls does that mean once i hit the motorway i can just keep going till i reach Poland?

Theoretically the last border control you will face will be when you leave the station, then you can drive straight to Ustron.

I've been getting pulled over a lot lately crossing from Poland to Germany. And with UK plates, you might draw some attention crossing from Holland to Germany. They're like mobile passport checking huts :)

Make sure that you stay out of the Ruhr area during rush hour, and you should be good to go as far as traffic is concerned. The highways in eastern Germany and Poland are nice, and there usually isn't any problem with traffic.
convex   
11 Feb 2010
USA, Canada / Getting a VISA to USA by a Polish person nowadays [339]

So, at the end of the day, getting a visa appears to be down to the mood of the official or the quota system that they surely are running behind the counters.

That is exactly the problem, right there. There is another thread on which people seem to think that everything is great with the visa program. 25% refusal rate by the way.
convex   
10 Feb 2010
Life / Punk and Garage scene in Poland [35]

Cool Kids of Death
Defekt muzgó
KSU
Dezerter
Pabieda
Brygada kryzys
Smar SW
Apatia
Post Regiment
Blade Loki
1984
Zielone żabki

Thanks for that, anyone have anything to add to this nearly three year old thread?
convex   
10 Feb 2010
Love / Polish girlfriend going back to Poland if I dont buy engagment ring [85]

sage advice. and prices are cheap right now...

Anyway, here's my advice. Buy a cheap ring and offer up a trip to somewhere special. If that doesn't fly, don't despair, there's something like 20 million women out there, the vast majority of which aren't gold diggers.
convex   
9 Feb 2010
USA, Canada / REFUSED A HOLIDAY VISA TO THE U.S CAUSE IM POLISH [323]

Well, I have no reason to disbelieve you, Convex. You sound like a sensible man,
but what you're saying is very surprising to me. We managed to do our own engineering
and aircraft operations ourselves for years before 1989 and now we're suddenly out of
specialist? That's disturbing.

That's it exactly. Basically you have old timers that are stuck in their ways and no young people to take over. What I would really really like to see here is a system like the one in place in Germany. A strong mentorship program instead of just an emphasis on university education. Practical knowledge is what the Polish labor market needs, and unfortunately the focus is still very much on universities.
convex   
9 Feb 2010
USA, Canada / REFUSED A HOLIDAY VISA TO THE U.S CAUSE IM POLISH [323]

I'm all for knowledge transfer, but the jobs could have been done by our specialists.

Even outside of the management area, I've been looking a network engineer in Warsaw for about 6 months now. The knowledge just isn't here. Same thing goes for an operations manager for an aircraft charter operation, there just isn't anyone here that can fill the role. I would much rather pay a generous Polish wage than a Swiss expat wage, but I just can't find people with the skills. Lets both hope that changes soon.

Poles have done a really lousy job of getting themselves noticed abroad

That is a huge, huge problem in upper management.

I know two that are genuinely convincing - in fact, the only thing they fall down on is when you use specialist vocabulary. But then again, natives are the same.

My woman pulls off a pretty convincing native speaker.
convex   
9 Feb 2010
USA, Canada / REFUSED A HOLIDAY VISA TO THE U.S CAUSE IM POLISH [323]

hiring foreigners and pay them as if they were some kind of demi-gods.

As Polish companies are becoming more international, more of those specialist contracts are coming up. The middle management and program/project management contract expat jobs are going away as we speak.

I repeat again - there is no job that our American friends may be doing in our
country that couldn't have been done equally well by a Pole

Still going to have to go against you there, American management tends to have a lot more exposure to the global environment than their Polish counterparts, that will change with time of course, but don't hold your breath. The global experience just isn't here yet. I haven't once met a Pole in a management position in North America or Asia. Germans, French, Island Monkeys, Swiss, Scandinavians, but very few Central/Eastern Europeans.

Regarding the local market, I think there is still quite a bit of knowledge that could be transferred to Polish companies.
convex   
9 Feb 2010
USA, Canada / REFUSED A HOLIDAY VISA TO THE U.S CAUSE IM POLISH [323]

If that were the case, Poles would be doing those jobs and not expats on €1500 a day contracts.

We should just introduce exactly the same visa laws for Americans (just
for the sake of fairness and balance in mutual relations) and forger about
the issue).

For short term visas, that's no longer possible. For long term visas...well, there's not a whole lot of difference...
convex   
9 Feb 2010
USA, Canada / REFUSED A HOLIDAY VISA TO THE U.S CAUSE IM POLISH [323]

Telling America that gaining residency is now going to be more difficult till you implement the VWP for Poland is hardly a bargaining chip.

I'd agree with you there, fellow Wromerican.