Work / Working in Poland as a Paramedic / Nurse [13]

Mediciver have some doctors who don't speak Polish and I presume might be open to nurses or support staff for regular work like blood tests and vaccines

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

Yes - but tragedy is the wrong word. It is murder and the murderers will one day be extradited by a democratic Udmurtian government.

Your attitude to the air hostess is no surprise - such an act would be unthinkable in democratic Poland. In Udmurtia it is her fault for serving coffee

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

The reasons for death are clear

Standing too close to a window

Going shopping in Salisbury

Drinking tea in London

Going to your job as an air hostess on a plane containing Putler's enemy

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

Because you get poisoned or pushed out of a window for criticism of the government

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

And for that they are getting long sentances - of course like pussies they are trying to get out of that by saying they are mentally incapacitated etc, same excuses as Lavrov and Medvedev will be using at the Hague.

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

Shut about America - or alternatively go out do some American Friday night things - have a drink in a bar, watch some Basketball, have a deep pan.

In American you could certainly not spray a fire extinguisher in someone's face.

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

Interesting that in Udmurtia there is no free press, free speech, free assembly, right to trial and yet the paid trolls come here to lecture us about democracy

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

Oh - at the moment the military commissary seem to be picking poor kids from Siberia, not sure why.

What the Germans do about public religious symbols is their business. Here in Poland we can make our own rules. Braun could simply have complained or made his deranged speech on the floor of the Sejm

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

What does something in a German kindergarten have to do with violence in the Polish Sejm ?

Be off with you Udmurtian troll. In fact as we are getting close to day 700 of the special operation, isn't it time you went and served your country ? I don't wish you any harm but you could at least tell us first hand what it is like.

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

You probably should get over it - gay sex in the USA is taking up as much of your posts as Iraq and Vietnam

This is a thread about a violent act in the Polish parliament

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

This and JK's deranged comments yesterday are a fitting coda to 8 years of idiocy.

Approve the new government, send Tusk to Brussels and let the world know that we are back under adult supervision

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]

Many private companies already do that. It doesn't need the law - let the market decide. If you want to earn a few zloty more and work on Sunday then you are free to do so, unless you work in a shop.

The government will not make a law because that will mean paying all the nurses cops and tram drivers more, one at the moment they tend to get time off on different days instead.

News / Polish PM Tusk- dictator or not? What Poles think? [455]

You missed out inflation - needs to get under control quickly, as does the huge debt run up by PiS.

Lets also include
- the strength of the zloty
- the stock market

Both easy to measure and already strong since the election

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]

Today is niedziela handlowa so fill your boots

After an hour you will be dying to get out of the mall !

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

But there is substantial illegal migration from countries that have never been invaded by the US or even been in any open conflicts - Nigeria, Pakistan, Eritrea etc

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

Atch the thing to do about Crno is either ignore him or mock him. Or argue back if you really have time. Not shut down his rights to spout nonsense.

Any attempts to reduce free speech should be given the most careful consideration - it really is the freedom that all our other freedoms are built upon.

I would hope that Ireland with its huge literary tradition would be a place to stick up for that right (Poland the same - should be a beacon for free speech)

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

It's a weird thread - Russians, Brits and Americans telling Irish people what Ireland is like

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]

He was working for the BBC as a sports reporter and they asked him to change it - so he used his Mum's name.

Was deported from Poland once by the commies in the 80s.

An interesting guy who certainly knows more about Polish affairs than some other Polonia.

Real Estate / How is it being a landlord in Poland? Do poles pay their rent etc.? [8]

So my experience as a casual landlord - 17 years in the game. Maybe 10 tenants in 2 properties.

1 eviction and a few other cases of delay - longest was for 6 months during covid.

I am not a professional- just renting out places where I used to live. If you want to make proper money then listen to someone who does it for a living - there probably are ways to get rid of bad tenants but without the language and patience and experience then it will be more difficult

Read in the paper than in 2022 one in four properties had unpaid rent - but that includes social housing and was also after covid so maybe no longer accurate

Real Estate / How is it being a landlord in Poland? Do poles pay their rent etc.? [8]

When was the last time anybody used a check in Poland to pay their rent ? I think Pilsudski was still in power !

Real Estate / Would you rent from me? [24]

Well on Otodom there are 4 houses for rent in the whole of Olsztyn - an indication that the house rental is not really common in secondary cities.

Maybe a better move to build, put in the sustainable solar etc and then sell ? Would need the same amount of capital and a more obvious market.

Real Estate / Would you rent from me? [24]

Very expensive for Olsztyn

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]

This might end with PiS sitting in the Sejm pretending they are the government and all the other Posels holding an alternative parliament in the Sheraton

It seems PiS are determined to trash Poland's image for as long as possible but all they do is make Tusk look like a wise and patient man.

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]

Drags on for a month during which the taxpayers of Poland continue to pay the PiS sinecures.

As they are people who don't work, they also don't understand the concept of wasted timw.

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]

What do you think would happen in early elections ? Do you think there are people who would change their minds after seeing this unreasonable behavior?

It would obviously be a complete wipeout for PiS, probably terminal.

Every day of delay about 700 PiS voters meet their maker.

News / Time to clean the swamp - dePiSification of Poland [324]

Source = living in Poland and trying to do things, trying to run my business honestly and being sick of my taxes being funneled straight into the pockets of some Waldek and Czeslawa over in Chelm.

Yes this has always happened but it has steadily declined between 2004 and 2015. PiS has taken it to a whole new level (same in Hungary too BTW, where I also do business)

News / Time to clean the swamp - dePiSification of Poland [324]

In the state companies and media, many of these have written their own contracts with heavy compensation clauses for dismissal. So hard working taxpayers like myself will be paying for these lowlifes to drive around in fancy German cars for a few more years.

The directors of the Provincial post offices can have no complaints - they knew nothing about post, and not much about sitting in an office - these were pure sinecures for PiS organizers and pig farmers who funded PiS.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]

Nobody from government will ever admit either

That the lockdown was too long long and severe.
That the paper masks are not proved to be effective

Scientists are even more unwilling than politicians to admit mistakes, so you probably need to wait 30-40 years for impartial research into what worked, once everyone involved is retired.

And these policies came from left and right - Boris, PiS, Hungary etc all had lockdowns just as long and hard as US Dems, Trudeau and Macron.

I supported the lockdown and wore my mask because I was told like everyone else that it would be a few weeks. When they still were trying to push us around 18 months later, after we were vaccinated, it was pretty weird.

Language / What are the best professional reasons for learning Polish? [16]

Outside Poland none - every country has a large Polish diaspora who would take any Polish language job

Inside Poland it is extremely useful, especially with French - there is high demand in Polish for French speakers

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]

So in the end a convincing defeat for PiS, a rejection of Konfederacja and looks like people just want a half normal government that is not full of fruitcakes.

Will be interesting to see the results in Eastern towns like Bialystok and Rzeszow - I think PiS is losing a grip over there