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NorthMancPolak   
16 Jul 2010
UK, Ireland / Nursing staff from Eastern Europe about to 'flood' into UK ? [45]

No they are paid the same wages as their counterparts in the same jobs.

Sort of.

New immigrants (and UK citizens returning to the NHS after a few years abroad) are paid the same as newly-qualified nurses, irrespective of experience. It takes about seven years to climb back to the top of the scale. It is therefore obvious that some (if not all) employers would rather go abroad, rather than pay someone up to £7K a year to do the same job, if the opportunity is there.

The fact that a nurse with 20 years experience may only get paid £7K an year more than someone who is recently qualified is shameful enough in itself, but employers clearly do not think so. It's obvious that employers are rubbing their hands at the prospect of "getting the job done" for £20.5K p.a. instead of up to £27.5K.

As a consequence of this, applicants for nurse training or nursing jobs will fall, which will give the papers yet another opportunity to claim that nursing is another job "which British people won't do".

Everyone knows that "frontline services" will NOT be protected - Governments LOVE the jobs which keep people under control - i.e., managers and faceless clipboard-waving bureaucrats - and nursing posts will form the majority of posts to go in the forthcoming NHS cuts. Yet the EU is imposing YET ANOTHER law on us which will make it even more difficult for British workers to find jobs!

This country is clearly heading for widespread race riots or even civil war unless we leave the corrupt EUSSR.

Unfortunately, some qualifications from Poland (and likely other Eastern European Countries, perhaps also UK?), etc, have been proved to be forged.

I strongly suspect that my ex had forged qualifications, but as I cannot prove this, I couldn't really do anything about it. But based on the questions she asked me (which even a first year nursing student should be able to answer) I simply couldn't believe that she had over a decade's experience in ICU/PACU/

Anaesthetics in Poland - unless, of course, Polish nurses working in such areas are simply there to do the sort of things which anyone can do (washes, position changes etc) and have no clinical role (giving drugs, making decisions on fluid management, etc) - but I do not believe that this is the case. All the other Polish nurses I have met seemed well-trained, intelligent and knowledgable.

The jobs are always secure, have you tried sacking a nurse when we have all the backing of the unions. These days you can't even sack someone who is drunk on the job. Trust me I've tried.

True. But in my experience, employers have other ways of getting rid of people who rock the boat - turning a blind eye to bullying, denying them training opportunities, changing their rota so it makes life more difficult for them, etc. I've seen plenty of this during my working lifetime, so I can definitely imagine some employers allowing this to go on, so that experienced (better-paid) staff will move on, in order to replace them with someone who costs up to £7K per annum less.
NorthMancPolak   
16 Jul 2010
Love / Please Stop insult for polish girls [17]

Maybe the term butterface originated from America, but I can tell you that ''she's butters'' is a very British expression. I've heard it millions of times already. (Especially in and around London!) It was a real trendy word about seven years ago.

I wonder which part of London this was mostly used in, because I've lived in London for most of the past 20 years, and I know a lot of (mainly South) London slang, but I've never heard anyone say it.

Then again, it was probably a word which only schoolchildren used, like "nang", haha.

If we were talking about an ugly girl, we'd just say "na she ain't buff" lol :D
NorthMancPolak   
11 Jul 2010
News / The chances for Warsaw to become capital of eventual Slavic confederation? [183]

This will be controversial, but Wrocław is better positioned for the capitals/largest cities of neighbouring countries, for trade at least.

Some countries have several capital cities, each with different functions. I suppose it depends on how convenient for Moscow a "Slavic capital" would need to be.

But let's face it, can anyone really see Russia agreeing to this proposed capital being anywhere but Moscow? ;)
NorthMancPolak   
11 Jul 2010
Language / So why did you give up learning Polish? [105]

Useless language.

That depends.

If you have no practical use for it, or no interest in other Slavic languages, I'd agree. Although I rarely speak it more than once or twice a week these days, I hear it every day. Now that alone makes it useful, because if some Polish pr*ck decides to call me something disrespectful in Polish, and thought I wouldn't understand, they may be surprised to find that I'm calling them an ambulance :)

Seriously though, its helped me in other languages, saved various employers a fortune on interpreters, and helped me work my way round Poland. So for me at least, it's very useful.

However, I rarely bother "learning" any more of it, because I can speak it faster than English, I'm fluent enough to engage in conversation in virtually any subject, I understand it as well as English, and i can read/write as well as I'll ever need. So even if I wanted to, I could never forget it.

I used to think it was a useless language when I was in my teens, and even stopped speaking it completely for a few years, but I changed my mind and I've never looked back :)
NorthMancPolak   
10 Jul 2010
Life / Car Crime in Poland [28]

Don't come to Salford if you're scared of car crime, my car insurance almost TRIPLED when I moved here. And I live in a nice area!! lol!

(except it's not really a "loling" matter is it, but I like saying lol. lol)

Besides, don't Poles tend to steal all their cars in Germany? :)
NorthMancPolak   
10 Jul 2010
Life / WHY DO POLES USE ENGLISH WORDS IN CONVERSATION? [396]

Ponglish

I'd never heard this word until I saw it a few years ago on this forum. For quite some time, I thought it was a word invented by JustysiaS lol :)
NorthMancPolak   
10 Jul 2010
Law / Poland's going forward while Britain is still trying to wake up [86]

How many people in the UK do you know in poor circumstances that own their own house while having 2-3 kids?

People who bought their property 15-20 years ago, for starters.

My (now ex) wife and I bought a 2-bedroom flat in a good part of London in 1994 for... £44 000. :0 At the time, this cost just over three times my salary.

I've just done a search - the same flat would cost just under £250 000 now, or 6.25 times what I would earn in London these days. THIS is why property is no longer affordable, and only the rich and the underclass can afford to have more than a couple of kids!

In the North, it was possible to find plenty of 3-bedroom houses for around £25000 at the time - easily affordable for people even in comparatively low-paid jobs.

And don't forget "right to buy" council tenants, who were able to buy at well below market value ;)
NorthMancPolak   
10 Jul 2010
Love / Are there Polish women who date black guys? [281]

The sad thing is, you seem to be the only one here, besides Southern, that believes in the stuff he posts.

The sad thing is, you're too thick to realise that I know that he's not serious.

southern may think he's a sex god, but I know that he's Tesco Value and I'm Waitrose :D
NorthMancPolak   
10 Jul 2010
Law / Poland's going forward while Britain is still trying to wake up [86]

Poles can build their own houses

For a Western price, maybe. Even my richest Polish relatives live in a wielka płyta - it's probably worth over a million PLN, but it's still hardly a "house".

So Poles with houses live much better than their British counterparts

In that case, please tell them to stay in Poland and stop telling us that they move to the UK for a better life ;)

British counterparts with their poxy rotten teeny-weeny wooden windows

What's wrong with wooden windows?? Mine are uPVC but they still work!

stinking carpeted floors

I don't have any carpets, I have laminate and rugs - much more fashionable and cleaner, too.

creaking floorboards

No creaks here! What kind of British property have you visited? A squat??

Considering that most Poles (including all my family) live in medium or high-rise concrete blocks, whereas I and all my British relatives live in properly-built brick or stone houses or flats, your post is hilarious! :D

Most people have laminate or oak these days.

You tell 'im, our kid! :D
NorthMancPolak   
10 Jul 2010
Food / PIZZA & KETCHUP served only in Poland? [159]

I certainly don't - but when ordering a sandwich at a pub, I often get asked whether I'd like chips with that, dunno whether they're trying to be more like McDonalds or what, but it does happen often enough for me to have noticed ;-)

Horrifying :)

Well, I can tell you: if you go here in Dubs to a chipper and order a chip-buddy, you will get a sandwich WITH CHIPS, MAYO AND KETCHUP ON IT...Nothing else...Disgusting!

As above ;)
NorthMancPolak   
10 Jul 2010
Food / PIZZA & KETCHUP served only in Poland? [159]

They serve chips with everything in the UK as well - and I mean everything, including sandwiches.

Who on earth orders chips with a sandwich?? :D

M-G (sometimes even crisps with everything, which is even worse)

Believe it or not, some people over here put crips in their sandwiches! :0 lol
NorthMancPolak   
8 Jul 2010
Food / PIZZA & KETCHUP served only in Poland? [159]

i like the Kettle brand...

They just totally rule!!!! (and they're kosher, which keeps the locals round here happy, haha :) )
NorthMancPolak   
8 Jul 2010
Food / PIZZA & KETCHUP served only in Poland? [159]

cant be wprse than vinegar on french fries in uk...ughhh :((

When Polish chefs start winning Michelin stars, then you can start criticising our chips :p
NorthMancPolak   
5 Jul 2010
Travel / what are the average fares to Poland from USA? [10]

My round-trip in August from LAX to Warsaw (with transfer) is costing me over $1,300.00. Good lord thats a lot of money! Should be worth every penny though.

It can cost the equivalent of $300 USD to travel 200 miles by train in the UK, so you could say it's exceptional value ;)

Unless...

I'll have the opportunity to get to know relatives, I've never met before.

... you get there and you don't get on ;)
NorthMancPolak   
5 Jul 2010
Life / Kryminalni Sezon 7, why is the box set so hard to find? [6]

Here you can buy it for 38,99 zł. They send it within 24 hours.

Click here

Strange... I've had that site bookmarked for weeks, and it's never showed up! lol

dzięki :D

(this can go to random chat now, mods... lol ;) )
NorthMancPolak   
4 Jul 2010
Life / Kryminalni Sezon 7, why is the box set so hard to find? [6]

OK you lot (especially those of you who actually live in PL) so why is "Kryminalni Sezon 7" DVD box set so hard to find?

What's so special about this series, then??

I've got all the others, but can I find this one? NO!!! :(
NorthMancPolak   
4 Jul 2010
UK, Ireland / What cigarettes are popular in England? i ask because of EXIT music festival [15]

Did someone take a survey on some scummy council estate?

They'll be telling us that people prefer soapbar over home-grown high-grade next, lol

I've noticed Marlboro lights seem to be the choice of many young women. Supposedly the "light" in the name means that it's more healthy for your lungs;)

It's like commiting suicide by jumping off the 10th floor instead of the 20th :)
NorthMancPolak   
2 Jul 2010
Life / WHY DO POLES USE ENGLISH WORDS IN CONVERSATION? [396]

You googled the word or u didnt have the font? I thought you can write in Polish well

Obviously, but I wanted to make sure that I was right and it was "menedzer" not "manadzer", because I would have looked pretty stupid if you had been right, and not me.

Still, I can see that you have a problem with me, whatever I write, but I can live with that, lol.

But I'm going to keep on saying "kartofle" even if you do think it makes me common :p
NorthMancPolak   
2 Jul 2010
Life / WHY DO POLES USE ENGLISH WORDS IN CONVERSATION? [396]

manadżer

Isn't it "menedźer", though?

jestem bardzo tired po long dayu

add "w nursing homie" to that sentence, and that could have been my ex. lmao :)

What annoys me is if someone from Poland corrects me on an incorrect pronunciation... of an English word adopted into Polish! That's even worse than Americans who correct British people because they can't spell U.S. English words like "tires" or "color" lol.

Or Polish people who throw all these English words into Polish speech all the time, but if you ask them a question in English, they say "sorry I don't speak English" lol :D
NorthMancPolak   
29 Jun 2010
Language / Polish regional accents? [141]

People do tend to speak differently to the way they write, even if they are educated. I certainly don't speak in the same way as I write university assignments! But I get better marks than my "ethnic British" colleagues do ;)

and less formal would be ziemniaczek...

;)

It just goes to show that learning language is not only (a) fascinating, but (b) can have a wide range of influences, even within one family.

Most of my family is Masovian, but my dad was apparently from somewhere in the south-east/Ukrainian border; my stepdad was from Lwów but grew up near Katowice; I've lived in the English South-East, Midlands and North, so I use words from all over Poland as well as from all over England.

I may call a barm a cob sometimes, and a potato a kartofel, but you'll never hear me saying "sorry" (Polish use) instead of "przepraszam" lol :)
NorthMancPolak   
29 Jun 2010
Language / Polish regional accents? [141]

Oh actually, come to think of it, my dad was in the building trade, so we probably got it from him lol :D

Mind you, in Poland, English women are "seen" as fat and ugly - so what do I care what "people in Poland" think, haha :p
NorthMancPolak   
29 Jun 2010
Language / Polish regional accents? [141]

So how come almost all my family (including me) have a university education, lol :)