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Posts by dtaylor5632  

Joined: 2 May 2009 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 30 Jan 2015
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Posts: Total: 1,999 / Live: 1,759 / Archived: 240 		From: Kraków/Poland
Speaks Polish?: Spytałem rodziców i mogę iść na dyskotekę
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dtaylor5632   
4 Nov 2011
News / The Political Circus of Poland [306]

Pawian, PiS haven't been in power for the last few years so please tell me what they are, other than a group of people with a bunch of opinions just like you or I.

Snp had never been in power. The conservatives had been out of power for over 10 years. Pis are a bunch of god-loving, fear mongering, stuck in the past, babka hat winning old school toff. Once the elderly die out PiS will end.
dtaylor5632   
4 Nov 2011
Work / So I received an offer from a Poland language school - what's your take on this? [59]

Hehe, just did.

You shouldn't feel that it is slimy to contact clients personally. At the end of the day you are the teacher and the client is the student. As the student it is up to him to decide. Put it this way, most schools spend their summer months attempting to steal clients from each other. It's a dog eat dog world and to survive you must rise above it all. In the beginning I was like you, but I soon learnt that I wasn't getting what I could potentially earn and my students weren't getting what they should be. I'm now in a position where after 2 years away from the game I'm having a holiday in Krk next week, reputations count and I have 7 job offers already. I'm not moving there though.
dtaylor5632   
4 Nov 2011
Work / So I received an offer from a Poland language school - what's your take on this? [59]

I didn't say it was unusual. It's just a limitation in some ways. One-off deliveries should be paid 200PLN and not 65PLN. Sorry, it just doesn't pay IMHO. Fine if you one to develop new contacts but it depends on what the contract with them stipulates.

You would have private students who would only have lessons once a week, why not do the same with schools. Less classes you do for the schools the higher you can charge ;)
dtaylor5632   
4 Nov 2011
Work / Advice on Teaching English in Poland [709]

Yup.
I always demanded that my students paid a month's fee up front. I never missed a lesson, changed the timings of a couple (in 6 years) when other things cropped up. With Polmos and a few other companies and clients I had it in my contract that I would be paid a "bonus" after their passing of the FCE.
dtaylor5632   
3 Nov 2011
Work / I got a job in Krakow for 3500 zl Brutto...is it ok ? [33]

Have you joined the company afterwards? What about the 1 year clause that if you resign the contract you have to pay the training back.?

Under European law, if you leave your job to start a new job that pays more or offers better conditions then you do not have to pay a penny back for training.
dtaylor5632   
3 Nov 2011
News / Polish hero pilot lands 767 without wheels. (Warsaw) [191]

I know the crash position is probably a load of old XXXX designed to keep people vaguely calm etc

The crash position is designed to preserve your teeth so that you can be identified afterwards. No other reason.
dtaylor5632   
1 Nov 2011
Classifieds / English cuisine week in Lidl shops in Poland [203]

Not really, around 90% of Scottish caught seafood goes directly to Spain and France. Not (if any) Spanish trawlers fish in Scotland.
dtaylor5632   
1 Nov 2011
Classifieds / English cuisine week in Lidl shops in Poland [203]

Well, true scampi is Irish and Norwegian.

Though the langoustines the French and Spanish use are caught off the Western shore of Scotland.

Unfortunately, finding good fresh shrimp here is difficult so I just buy the frozen ones.

Scampi isn't made from shrimp.
dtaylor5632   
28 Oct 2011
Work / Englishman seeking non teaching work asap - to stay in Poland or ..? [37]

It seems they like to round on the 'off the plane' brigade as a way of making themselves feel more important!

Not quite, he clearly stated that he couldn't cut the mustard in one English teaching job in Krakow and if a native can't get a job there with some of the dodgy schools in that area then god help him.

That said, don't be take the advice of some on here too seriously... they too blindly followed a girl to Poland.

No, I don't think anyone who has answered this topic has "followed" a girl here. Most people have been living happily in Poland for many years. I myself lived in Krakow for around 6-7 years so on the topic of getting a job in that city I think I know my stuff. As the OP has not given any information as to his qualifications then it seems likely that he may have none, therefore there won't be many opportunities in Krk to get a position outside teaching English especially as he is not yet fluent in Polish too.

In other words................DUH!
dtaylor5632   
28 Oct 2011
Work / Englishman seeking non teaching work asap - to stay in Poland or ..? [37]

Have you ever met a foreigner working in a Polish bar?

Yeah quite a lot. Wee Cardno who used to post on here was a barman. A few other friends I have work in bars too. My fav barman was a nutter of an Englishman who used to serve at the Irish arms in Krk.

The majority of them are mostly students though. Would be quite hard to scrape by on a 1000pln a month.
dtaylor5632   
28 Oct 2011
Work / Englishman seeking non teaching work asap - to stay in Poland or ..? [37]

Pity that its not like England for the Polish!!

Most Poles have a good grasp of the English language BEFORE they start seeking work in the UK.

They do ok in England.....way I see it...without EU assistance and the foreign investment here,this country would still be in communist state...but Poles still think of foreigners as interfering?

With that attitude I think you might as well throw your CV in the bin. Apart from maybe bar work you will find it difficult to out compete other foreigners and Poles in Krakow.
dtaylor5632   
21 Oct 2011
Law / Medical Malpractice in Poland - seeking accountability? [146]

Never heard of that in the UK, but I might be wrong.

Depends wholly on the patient. Many of mine do, more of a recreation than a cure but every little helps. Hydro-baths ect. I once had a psych patient who we used to send for a massage 3 times a week, until we found out exactly why he was so happy going. Never seen a grown man lose all faith in the world after we stopped that :D

Do you think?

Well, care homes ect from my experience are quite rare in Poland and the 2 I visited when I first came to Krk shocked me enough to think that I would never work in healthcare in PL. But it also means that there is a huge section in the market for decent 24hr nursing care in PL. Just as long as the doctor who sends his patient for nursing home care isn't the same doctor who actually owns the place.
dtaylor5632   
21 Oct 2011
Law / Medical Malpractice in Poland - seeking accountability? [146]

The incidences of MRSA in Polish hospitals is lower than in the UK

I'm taking a punt at this, but I'm guessing the care of the elderly is a lot lower in Polish hospitals than in the UK.
dtaylor5632   
19 Oct 2011
Life / The Blame Game (Have you ever noticed that a Polish person is never wrong!?) [205]

Time to yourself without the constant calendar of family events?

Oh god, that was the one thing out of any that got on my goat! I thought Easter was bad (dressing up the church and constantly getting ear-ache for not doing it right) but the THOUSANDS of bloody engagements, weddings for people we hardly even knew (of course expected to give a gift of money), trips outside the city at any given time. Don't get me wrong I loved getting away from the city, but not every time I had a single day off!!! Doesn't anyone understand what the word "relax" means!! grrrr

And it was all right for her to go out and socialise on days that I was working, but bloody hell I better not dare have a night out with my mates when she had to go home for the weekend!! Hypocrite!

Thanks Seany for raising my blood pressure :D
dtaylor5632   
14 Oct 2011
Love / Do young Polish ladies 17-23 speak any English? [59]

He's talking complete and utter tosh...

Trust me, I know he is ;)

It's ACTUALLY legal for me to work behind a bar, so long as I'm being supervised WHILST pouring drinks, I can serve them without supervision.

Sorry its legal for you to serve drink behind a bar when you are being supervised, as long as that person isnt supervising you??? Are you daft? I know alcohol laws, 18 or nothing mate, tell me what bars were u serving in?