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Minimum basic salary in Poland [96]
Putting something is better than putting nothing.
Not necessarily. Not with the sort of attitude shown by most of HR departments - or even bosses of small enterprises who think recruiting makes them half-gods, looking down on any applicant.
Besides:
Let's say she is from rural area. I've known plenty of students that had to go back to their own little villages (and "lazy villagers" parents) because of two reasons:
- one: it's harvest time. The best time to reciprocate the effort the parents put into paying for child's schooling in some crazy expensive big city
- second: the student dormitories close for summer. Finding a summer accommodation (and paying for it) in cities like Kraków or Warsaw may be quite a challenge. Definitely not something you can do with a part-time waitressing job or unpaid training provided by some well-known brand name (the possibility of using their name in your future CV is of course sufficient reward, isn't it?).
The problem with Polish salaries is that generally speaking there is no average salary for average work (and I don't mean the level of engagement here). No mid-levels, no proper training / start-up periods, when you earn money not-that-good (but sufficient to survive) and know that the situation will improve with time. No basic jobs that still allow you to pay the rent and bills without ambitions for much more. You either have to embrace the über-capitallistic mindset and maybe finally advance in the market food chain (unless of course your family has long been there in the right spot and it's all downhill form here) or steer away from the rat race and realise in time that it's not really an option if you want to survive. The average salary quoted before is not the "most common salary". There is no such thing as "average" in Poland and that's the biggest issue. You have two very different worlds and very different salary levels - it's either tens of thousands or 1,600. And it takes a lot of these "1,600" to make for one "ten thousand" in the "average salary". There is no work ethic as such, it got replaced by the money ethics when you can't be proud of your job unless it pays well. And there is only a handful of jobs that pay well - and even these can offer you the right money only because down the food chain there are people who are getting less and less. The mid-level managers' salaries can be 20k and more because the till lady gets 900. The editor gets 10k a month because the student journalist gets 120 for their two weeks work (but hey! he can use the magazine title in his resume!). The local craftsmen, the little kind vendors who knew all their clients, nurses proud of their work ethics, courteous bus drivers - they are gone. If not entirely - going extinct at an alarming rate. The middle class is gone.
It's either sh1tstorm or place almost pristinely sh1tless, the space for gradual sh1t changes is shrinking and not too many vacancies seem to be left there.
