Work / Salary, holidays - questions to employer during a job interview in Poland [47]


This question is asked worldwide...It is simply part of the psychological warfare of the job application/interview process...From the employers POV, THEY ask the questions, YOU give the answers!

I make two suggestions: 1...If you are really interested in job, do some study and perhaps talk to people doing similar jobs about what the going rate of pay is...This way you can give a reasonable answer.

2...If you don't give a sh*t about the job, or the interviewer is particularly obnoxious, simply say to him/her 'My expectation is to make more than you, because you are a moron and an a**hole' loudly and clearly.

Life / Cost of delivering a child in Poland [30]


Lucky you didn't need brain surgery...

Work / Salary, holidays - questions to employer during a job interview in Poland [47]


STOP!!!


Well, my experience in my city (and understand that men my age do not generally even get considered for mainstream jobs anymore) is that many 'human resources' people are really quite pitiful, and usually just do their hiring based on a 'cheat sheet' or guidelines handed down from somewhere above...They really don't consider you as a person, but a human resource, like soybeans...This is my experience in the modern job market...If you display too much intelligence or individuality, you are dismissed rather quickly, even if you may be a good team player.

Much hiring is done nowadays by third party contractors, and they are the worst.

In the old days, your skills counted, along with your personality...Now personality is a negative, unless the personality is one that appears on the instructions given to the human resources firm, or department.

News / Polish journalist's "show trial" Belarus [40]

Journalist's Wife Climbs Fence to get to Him

Even the big demonstration is small, only a few hundred...I think most BelaRussians are probably happy with the stability of their society, although unhappy with certain decisions of Lukashenka like blocking exports of consumer goods west, where the BR people could make some money.

Are rich Jews powerful in Belarus?...I know they are powerful in Ukraine, and they probably wanted more power there with their 'coloured revolution', Timoshenko, this and that...IMF is all run by Jews, and they will let Lukashenka twist in the wind before giving him money.

Also, I don't understand all the demonizing of Lukashenka as a 'dictator'...He got elected, right?...All this crap spewed out by the Western press...Has Lukashenka slaughtered anyone, built any gulags, attacked any neighboring nation?...All I can think is that certain parties want him to privatize everything in Belarus, so they can snap it up at cheap prices.

Worst thing he do, like I said, i to NOT LET his less well off entrepenuers make some money by exporting goods and services west.

News / Polish journalist's "show trial" Belarus [40]


But he was elected...Protests there are miniscule...This leads me to believe that this is a situation where outside agitators seek his downfall, and instruments of Globalist/Zionist power seek to get their dirty paws on Belarus assets...You give no credible examples except the usual hearsay and rumours...Globalists, and here I mean Western banking interests who suck dry European countries ranging from Germany, France and Greece by subterfuges like 'sovereign debt', which is simply the latest smokescreen for the theft of national assets through the derivatives, hedge fund swindle, want Belarussian goods too...Lukashenka has taken a hard line against this by maintaining state ownership/control of essential assets...He is then demonized as a 'Stalinist'...While Belarus may not have the 'gloss' of so-called 'emerging' economies, at least their is stability there.

Some reforms are needed, but when you let the Western bankers run the show, the result is disaster, and 'shock therapy' for the average people.

Problem is people watch things on TV, and think the West is a paradise...On IMF, you borrow money from them, you sign a 50 page document where you basically sell out your countries productive base if you don't make payments on time.

News / Deepening of the neo-liberal model of market de-regulation in Poland [6]

Shapiro just another globalist Jew...'Neo-liberal' means 'let the Jews buy up cheap'.

News / Polish journalist's "show trial" Belarus [40]

Yeah, but who leads this 'opposition'?...Does it have a platform or program?...Or is the goal just to remove Lukashenko?

Here is a good article about Belarus by Israel Shamir:

israelshamir.net/English/Belarus1.htm

News / Polish journalist's "show trial" Belarus [40]

Ha!...Listen, Shamir always goes a little hard on Poland, and he seems misinformed about certain things...I just liked the article because it presents a bit of the other side, not just painting Lukashenko as one of Satan's minions...Shamir may be wrong in some areas, but he covers a wide range of topics, primarily the Middle East...He is Russian by birth.

It is quite difficult to get unbiased, or at least somewhat balanced news about states of the former Soviet Union, and even Poland in the Western Press...Especially in the US, any stories about these countries seem as if written by robots from a computer program.

Now, I have met a few Belarussians here in the States, but, without exception, I had to pry this fact out of them...Unlike some, I am always interested in a person's ethnic background, because it makes things interesting...Anyway, the BRs are very tight-lipped in general, and, since they came over to the States, they must have felt a lack of opportunity there...This is why I say Lukashenko should reach out, make a gesture to the people, the young ones, to make them feel like they have a future there, and that he wants them to make some money, too.

I was very disturbed by the Minsk metro bombing, and we still don't know what the happened there, or who did it and why...

Life / How many Jewish people live in Poland? [145]

How many Jewish people live in Poland?

Just two:

Norman Zalecki, Optometrist from Wroclaw

Mabel Krusz, retired textile business manager living in Krakow

Almost all the rest of the Jews were killed at Auschwitz, except for a handful, who either moved to Tel Aviv or Miami Beach, and a tiny number who stayed, to whom Pan Zalecki and Pani Krusz are related ...

Life / New Polish generation prefers black culture? [145]

If young Poles look to present African-American culture for worthwhile content, they will find they scrape the bottom of the barrel.

African-American culture formerly was rich, particularly in music, because much of it came from the church, in terms of gospel, which gave birth to modern R & B, and pop...Jazz was also a great contribution, but a lot of this was drawn from European classical, in terms of harmony and structure.

These musics and artists, from Duke Ellington through Miles Davis and Coltrane, through Motown, Stax/ Memphis and artists like Aretha Franklin were all music that elevated...They were lookin 'upward' for creative inspiration, while mingling in elements of street rhythmns and such.

Hip hop or rap is simply low ghetto culture mixed with computer programs, and it looks to the gutter, not upward.

Life / New Polish generation prefers black culture? [145]


You are right.

BTW, I talk as someone who knows, because I have been a musician for almost 30 years...I was influenced by the great Black blues guitarist like BB King, Albert King, and bluesmen like Muddy Waters...I have also played a lot of Jazz, and had the privilege of studying with a few of the greats.

Mist older African-Americans, who grew up listening to all the great music, look at rap and such as garbage.

USA, Canada / Poles in Philadelphia [9]

I've lived in Philadelphia most of my life, and now I'm back in the old neighborhood, Bridesburg...Both sides of my family grew up in Port Richmond...I'll try to contribute if I can...Good idea!

Krakus Market, Richmond Street



Syrenka Restaurant, Richmond Street



St.John Cantius Church, Thompson Street, my parrish

Czerws Kielbasa, Port Richmond

News / Wal-Mart coming to Poland? [146]

Poland doesn't need WalMart...The United States doesn't need WalMart.

History / Pomerania -a Polish land since the creation of Poland and the German invaders. [60]

It is now the 21st Century, and debates about historical events between Germany and Poland are interesting, and deserve to be investigated and discussed...However, there should be no arguments about ownership of certain territories, as too much water has flowed under the bridge, and there is too much intermingling of national peoples for this to serve a realistic purpose.

But I would suggest the ideas about Slavic union would go some way to clearing up mis-perceptions in historical reality about events that happened in the past and would give a better awareness to Poles and other Slavs about their history, and improve education.

History / Pomerania -a Polish land since the creation of Poland and the German invaders. [60]


Just like Palestine is 'part of 'Israel".

BTW, has Merkel visited Tel Aviv or Jerusalem yet this month?

News / Insulting Catholics in Poland can get you 2 years in jail? [67]


I think the point is who cares what a rock singer runs off at the mouth about?

In any case, one can debate forever about 'offensive speech' and 'free speech', but the biggest criminals in the world, in many cases national leaders, will always speak in a most diplomatic manner while ordering the murder of the masses.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Who cares about this issue?

This is like the the various absurd topics posted by forum homosexuals.

Why would cosmetic surgery on the penis be even remotely important?

Life / Stereotypes about Polish people being stupid? [281]

Most of these stereotypes come from the historical Polish problem with turning the ladder when replacing burned out light bulbs.

History / Is Jozef Pilsudski the king of modern Poles? [138]

BTW, Pilsudski was not a king...He was a soldier and leader who founded the modern Polish state...He also had no particular flair for diplomatic and political subtlety.

Dmowski was a technocrat, no?...He didn't care for music.

News / Did George Soros want to destroy Poland with his economic shock therapy? [87]


This is the general plan for Europe and the United States: to bankrupt industry, have widespread currency speculation, and an unpayable 'sovereign debt' owed to international money-center banks by governments.

It used to be called a 'robber-baron' plan, but now is referred to as this and that, whatever seems most palatable to the the media.

This plan was used to devastating effect in Russia during the Eltsin regime, by Oligarchs allied with Western shysters from Harvard University and Wall Street.

History / Is Jozef Pilsudski the king of modern Poles? [138]


You oversimplify, to the extreme...By birthers, you mean Poland belonging to native Poles?...What an outrageous idea!

Pilsudski a 'cosmopolitan'?...What, did he patronize a coffee house in his youth?

History / Is there any part of Polish history that's at least a bit glorious? [192]

This is a silly topic best illustrated by the original post.

That fact that Poland has existed for over a millennium is simple evidence of a glorious history...A nation does not endure for this period of time without a high degree of national awareness from it's people.

The United States has been in existence for less than 250, yet it is considered by many the most glorious nation of all...You can debate the merits of this assertion...Poland has been in existence 4x as long, in one form or another.

News / Did George Soros want to destroy Poland with his economic shock therapy? [87]

Hell, you can just read the NY Times, the Economist or Soros's own writing...Or ask Putin.

News / Wal-Mart coming to Poland? [146]


In any case Jews don't shop at Wal-Mart...They have netter taste...They go to Loew's or Home Depot, Macy or Neimann/Marcus in US, Marks & Spencer in Europe.

Genealogy / LOOKING FOR "RIGHTEOUS CHRISTIANS" IN POLAND - BEDZIN, BRZOZOW / Cyganek, Gruszczynski, Chura [17]

I cannot offer any assistance except to say if you go there you will find them or friends of theirs...Best of luck to you, you will find something good on your journey to bring back with you.

UK, Ireland / Brits or Poles more eager to try new foods? [17]

Forget organ meat for me.

My mother used to cook up kidneys, liver for my dad back in the day.

One day I came home and she was boiling kidneys, and, although I had smelled them cooking before, the smell hit me that time...I asked her whether someone had taken a p*ss in the kitchen.

Mom also used to make czarnina, with home made kluski...I used to eat it until I found out what it was...Afterwards she was upset: "You always loved it when I made czarnina'...Yeah, well, ignorance was bliss.

The head cheese, no...Jellied eels?...She never cooked those, although I noticed they were popular when I lived in the UK.

Can't even eat liverwurst, and I used to enjoy a sandwich with that, raw onions, mustard.

A substantial portion of the older African-American population enjoy chittlins (pig intestines) usually boiled then deep fried...Can't go for that either.

Working class populations worldwide prepare all these organ meats in different ways.

Asians will cook anything that moves.

History / Is Jozef Pilsudski the king of modern Poles? [138]


Thank you Johnny, and I will do my very best never to get a swelled head.

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

Britain: Nation of Shopkeepers & Hooligans...



Italy: Nation of Artists & Greaseballs...



France: Nation of the Cultured & the Slimy



Germany: Nation of Engineers, Philosophers & Robots



Jews: A nation of the determined & the devious...

News / Insulting Catholics in Poland can get you 2 years in jail? [67]


'Distorted thinking' smacks of Communist 're-education centers'...

Life / Stereotypes about Polish people being stupid? [281]


You need to lighten up here.

I'm aware of the Norman Lears, the Howard Sterns and the other showbiz Jews who love to portray Poles as dumb...At the same time, this is a forum for Polska, and sometimes the jokes can be funny...You can't be afraid to laugh at yourself...If you didn't think it was funny, well, everybody has different taste in humor, and I just poked fun at one of the most common 'Polish' jokes.

I care about Poles, but Poles are like everyone else, and some can be quite nasty and miserable.