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18 Sep 2011
Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]
Sticking to original question: I think we are not... unless someone is rude to us. At least this is for me. When someone is nice to me, I am nice to him/her too. If someone is not, sorry, but I will either ignore this person or won't be nice.
Few days ago, some article appeared saying that 85% of Polish people live in stress - in Polish if anyone wants to have a look). This may be a reason why sometimes you feel that someone in the shop, on the phone etc. is rude to you (these poll said that 15% that don't feel stress are mostly people over 50 years of age, pensioners or unemployed people). I understand such people because I work with Polish clients as customer service person for 5 years now. Now I am happy from my job, but in the past I had a bad boss and plenty of clients who did not understand something and blamed for everything etc. Stressful life did not make it easy for me and sometimes I was rude too. Another thing is that customer service people are not paid well so they are annoyed that they are coping with a lot of stress, work a lot of hours a day (sometimes people in cash desks work for like 12 hours a day or more), and can't afford to live a normal life because of their salaries. I think if you met such people when they are, for example, on holidays, you would see they are much nicer than at work :)
As many as 85 per cent of Poles feel daily stress and anxiety. In this group, 60 percent . people are trying to unload it , but not always in a way that is beneficial to health - studies have shown TNS presented Tuesday in Warsaw.
The survey , "How Poles care about the heart" was conducted on 16-19 June at the request of Bayer on a representative sample of 1000 people aged at least 18 years of age. The results were presented at a press conference " Heart Academy ."
Sticking to original question: I think we are not... unless someone is rude to us. At least this is for me. When someone is nice to me, I am nice to him/her too. If someone is not, sorry, but I will either ignore this person or won't be nice.
Few days ago, some article appeared saying that 85% of Polish people live in stress - in Polish if anyone wants to have a look). This may be a reason why sometimes you feel that someone in the shop, on the phone etc. is rude to you (these poll said that 15% that don't feel stress are mostly people over 50 years of age, pensioners or unemployed people). I understand such people because I work with Polish clients as customer service person for 5 years now. Now I am happy from my job, but in the past I had a bad boss and plenty of clients who did not understand something and blamed for everything etc. Stressful life did not make it easy for me and sometimes I was rude too. Another thing is that customer service people are not paid well so they are annoyed that they are coping with a lot of stress, work a lot of hours a day (sometimes people in cash desks work for like 12 hours a day or more), and can't afford to live a normal life because of their salaries. I think if you met such people when they are, for example, on holidays, you would see they are much nicer than at work :)
As many as 85 per cent of Poles feel daily stress and anxiety. In this group, 60 percent . people are trying to unload it , but not always in a way that is beneficial to health - studies have shown TNS presented Tuesday in Warsaw.
The survey , "How Poles care about the heart" was conducted on 16-19 June at the request of Bayer on a representative sample of 1000 people aged at least 18 years of age. The results were presented at a press conference " Heart Academy ."