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Atch   
5 Oct 2016
Work / Salary of Data Analyst or Certified Qlikview Developer in Poland Krakow (Cracow) [12]

Nitish, salaries in IT are amongst the highest in Poland. A senior developer can earn 20,000 PLN gross. However, no matter where you are in the world there are certain factors that are the same.

The salaries are highest for senior developers and four years experience only puts you at mid-level at best.

The Qlikview thing alone doesn't make you that desirable unless there's a severe shortage of developers with that technology. I don't know what the story is in Poland regarding that. You need to have another programming language like Java or C++ which are always in high demand. I mean one that you've been using in the last two years, not one that you did in college. As you know from your career thus far, employers are constantly asking developers to switch projects and use different languages or tools.

Finally it depends on which city the job is in. Warsaw pays the highest salaries.

I would say you could do a bit better than 7,000 gross but not that much. 8,500 maybe.

i got rejected once due to salary part

How much did you ask for and how much experience did you have then?
Atch   
5 Oct 2016
Life / Electricity, water, gas charge in Warsaw, Poland. [17]

Well he might not be looking seriously. You know how sometimes people are just idly wondering about these things and the easiest, cheapest and quickest thing to do is ask a question on a forum even though it's usually a complete waste of time!
Atch   
5 Oct 2016
Life / Electricity, water, gas charge in Warsaw, Poland. [17]

Could the OP have meant electric central heating?? And heating of water by electricity as opposed to gas? You see his username is House To be Built and maybe he's looking at a plot of land in an area where it would be very expensive to run a gas line to the property.
Atch   
4 Oct 2016
Law / Ex-Girlfriend in Poland and Personal Debt [7]

I have records of everything we spent

Everything? Do you mean major items like rent and any other purchases like tv or computer? Or do you mean food etc. That sounds a bit much. I mean you wouldn't really expect somebody to pay you back half the grocery bills or money you'd given her to buy clothes, would you??

There are Polish lawyers who specialise in debt recovery but to be honest your chances of getting the money back are slim and of course you'd have to pay the lawyer for their services. She may agree she owes you money but she never signed any agreement with you or had an official loan from you. 15-30,000 zł is a huge amount of money for the average Polish person and if your girlfriend was having trouble just meeting basic living costs when you were living together.......well, need I say more. The best that you'll be able to do, even if it goes to court, is get her to agree a certain amount per month. It could conceivably take her years to pay you back.

Officially she doesn't really owe you anything Simon. She was your girlfriend, you had money, she didn't, you supported her financially. That's kind of a normal thing to do when you're a couple. It's also normal even just with ordinary friendships or with family, for people to say 'I"ll pay you back when I get on my feet' and they don't. That's just life. If you had remained together and maybe got married, would you still expect her to pay you back? I think you should just let it go and get on with your life. My own view on lending people money, is, don't. If someone needs help and you want to help them, give it as a gift and don't expect to be repaid.
Atch   
1 Oct 2016
Classifieds / Polish nurses and medical staff wanted for work in the UK [45]

she never became a member

Actually she did, after her initial post. Then she changed her mind and closed the account. But she's left a breadcrumb trail :) If she were still working for the NHS she would be in a bit of trouble with them, but if she's left the job it will probably do no more than affect any references she might receive. Actually it's odd that she supposedly left there a month ago and now doesn't appear to have what I'd call a 'real' job, faffing about with a pretty much non-existent recruitment agency. It's strange for a senior manager to leave a post such as the one she occupied without having something else substantial lined up to go to, unless of course she took early retirement or voluntary redundancy. Perhaps she'll return and fill us in on the details!

Just to add, I checked the acceptable use policy for NHS email addresses and she's in breach of the policy she agreed to which states that:

3.1.2. You must not use the NHSmail service for commercial gain. This includes, but is not limited to: unsolicited marketing, advertising and selling goods or services

So even if she was still working for the NHS she definitely shouldn't be using her NHS address for recruitment activities on the side, on behalf of an outside agency. As a senior manager she would know that quite well. Very naughty.

I do work in the NHS and there is a shortage of GPS in the North West of England and I am working in partnership with a company to find GPs

However, the 'agency' she's working with is not endorsed or approved by the NHS.

NHS Employers manages a list of recruitment agencies who follow a code of conduct for ethical international recruitment, which involves a commitment to not complete recruitment activities that could disadvantage the healthcare systems of developing countries.

Employers are urged to use an agency that is on one of the recognised frameworks above and complies with the international code of conduct, as these are seen as indicators that an agency is reputable.


But neither Manchester Recruitment International (which basically doesn't officially exist) nor Medics Recruitment International appear on that NHS list.

I'll conclude by saying 'well done Roz' for spotting the dodginess in the first place.
Atch   
30 Sep 2016
Classifieds / Polish nurses and medical staff wanted for work in the UK [45]

I don't think she could get away with claiming 'it wasn't me'. I'd say it would be fairly easy to establish whether it was really her or not.

I think the Linkedin profile for the person called Hazel Foster (which gave her present job as recruitment consultant) would be the giveaway as it had 75 connections - I have a good memory - so it's likely that it's been there for some time. If it's a fake profile, then

a) Where's the professional profile of the real Hazel Foster? She must have one and

b) Somebody (complete with photo) has been impersonating her for quite a while (long enough to get 75 professional connections), so something would have arisen before now.

I don't think identity theft would wash.
Atch   
30 Sep 2016
Classifieds / Polish nurses and medical staff wanted for work in the UK [45]

I think I've solved the mystery of Ms Foster, partly anyway.

On her Linkedin Profile she said that she worked for Manchester Recruitment International, which after a quick google doesn't seem to exist.

However the other organisation she mentioned Medics Recruitment International does exist in the form of a very recent Facebook page:
facebook.com/MedicsRecruitmentInternational/about/?entry_point=page_nav_about_item&tab=page_info

Other information available lists the company which was founded in 2011 as either dormant or no longer trading. The company now consists of just one director, the redoubtable Dr Quang and the other director has resigned. The one who resigned has been a director of - wait for it- a thousand, yes that's right, a thousand companies and has resigned from 998 of them!

Now I would be in agreement with Dominic that for a woman who's been in senior management in the NHS for several years, this kind of thing is really not on. She's used smoke and mirrors to misrepresent herself right, left and centre, to what purpose I can't imagine but it's fairly evident that anybody responding to her post would be unlikely to end up getting a job of any kind out of it in a hurry. It's more likely that Dr Quang started his company as a moonlighting thing on the side, has let it lapse and is now trying to get going again by creating a register of available doctors so that he can start approaching potential clients.
Atch   
30 Sep 2016
News / Adam Michnik awarded for integrity, professionalism and high standards. Poland's No. 1 fascist? [321]

fecked

Will people please stop mis-appropriating our lovely Hiberno-English. If you use feck as a verb as in 'he fecked it', it means to steal something or to throw something 'he fecked his rubbish over the wall into my garden' or 'he fecked it in the bin'. You cannot 'feck' a person unless you physically throw them somewhere. You should use 'fup'. Watch Fr Ted. Ted uses the word feck all the time because it's not an offensive word in Hiberno-English. But when they want to use 'f*ck' they substitute it with fup. It sounds much stronger and more effective because the sound is much nearer to the word you want 'bet he got butt-fupped', see? Sounds a lot better, say it aloud and enjoy!
Atch   
29 Sep 2016
Classifieds / Polish nurses and medical staff wanted for work in the UK [45]

I do loose my job over a mistake

If you made a genuine mistake, you'll probably get a slap on the wrist but you're unlikely to lose your job. Unless you've been in trouble before for something else you should be ok.

However it's still very unclear who or what you are. You:

a) Work at a medical practice which needs GPs.
b) You work for the NHS
c) You are associated with a Dr Quang from Medics Recruitment International
and on your internet profile you:
d) Work as a recruitment consultant for Manchester Recruitment International
and you previously worked for a hospital, not a medical practice, in Manchester.

So it's a mass of confusion.
Atch   
29 Sep 2016
Classifieds / Polish nurses and medical staff wanted for work in the UK [45]

I wouldn't call it threatening. He's a doctor himself and he's talking about reporting you to the appropriate authorities for what he perceives as professional misconduct/unethical behaviour.

Your original post isn't clear as it suggests that you are recruiting on behalf of the NHS. If you're not recruiting directly for them but through an agency, you should have used your agency email address. Otherwise it's misleading to candidates.

We have many placements available throughout the United Kingdom.

I work for the NHS and am looking for GPs for the practice I work at in Manchester

Those two statements contradict each other.
Atch   
29 Sep 2016
Classifieds / Polish nurses and medical staff wanted for work in the UK [45]

Well I just checked Roz and there is a Hazel Foster who's a recruitment consultant with a medical recruitment agency. She previously worked for the NHS and she's only been in her present job for a month so she's probably still using her old email - if it's the same person.

Isn't it mildly unsettling the amount of information you can gather on a complete stranger in a few seconds??
Atch   
29 Sep 2016
Love / Should I bring gifts? - help with a Polish wedding [46]

the fact that you consider anything I've written as controversial in the least is, frankly, depressing

Goodness me what an old misery you are. I don't consider anything you've written remotely controversial. In fact I suspect that however genuine the core sentiments are, your tongue is well and truly lodged in your cheek.

Now, you're a pathologist if I remember correctly. You should have been an orthopaedic surgeon or something of that kind - oh wait, time for the speech on which consultancies are the most lucrative and allow the greatest options for saving etc :)) But you see if you'd been a consultant of the more mundane variety, think of the possiblities for having the poor student nurses and interns cowering and quaking in anticipation of 'Prof Dom's round'. All would flee before your barbs - wasted on the dead. Although once again if memory serves me correctly you were more on the academic side rather than the hands on.
Atch   
29 Sep 2016
Love / Should I bring gifts? - help with a Polish wedding [46]

You're in great form at the moment Dominic whipping up a storm of controversy hither and thither. You'd be odds on favourite if you were running in the Grand National :))
Atch   
29 Sep 2016
UK, Ireland / Non EU parent of Polish child [12]

she is still quite far from coming out of that marriage

Of course, that's a very good point as she's not actually divorced.

For all we know, there might well never have been a fraudulent and/or bigamous marriage at all.

That's true. She could simply have made a bad choice of husband and regretted it. I would say she probably didn't know the divorce law in Ireland when she married and it came as a huge shock to discover that it's not like Poland where you can be rid of your spouse in a few months. Five year waiting time in Ireland. Hence she'll have to go down the null and void route if she doesn't want to wait.

However if she does that and gets a decree of anullment on the basis of being defrauded into a marriage for residence purposes, the Gardai will then get involved as the ex-husband will be investigated with a view to prosecution. So she'd need to be careful. She's already made a big enough mess of her life.

One of the problems is that people today seem to be finding it increasingly hard to understand and accept that actions have consequences and that there isn't always a quick fix solution, especially for a major error of judgement.
Atch   
29 Sep 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2971]

Civilization that has granted so many privileges and right onto women that is unparalleled in a history of the world.

You don't really know your history very well do you? Women had far greater freedom in the West a thousand years or fifteen hundred years ago than they had five hundred years ago. Christianity and its reinvention of the female ideal (and yay Christianity, I am soooo a Christian) robbed women of a good many freedoms they had previously enjoyed. For example Viking women had all the independence and freedoms enjoyed by twentieth century women, Irish women under the old Irish system had equal rights with men including the right to enter all professions open to men and served amongst other things a judges under the Brehon legal system.

Also Irony, Susan B Anthony et al are not 'early feminists'. They come very far down the line. The early feminists are women like Mary Wollstencraft. You could also say that some of the founders of the religious orders and the Abbesses of the great convents were also feminists. They managed to get out from under the patronage and control of men to a great extent and forge an independent existence at a time when Christian women were chattels of the men in their families. Also the later ones like Nano Nagle and Catherine McCauley went out into the world from their convents mixing hands on with the poorest and roughest people at a time when women of their class usually maintained a safe distance. Charity was ok as long as you sat at home and sewed garments for the poor or dropped a shilling in a begging bowl but women were not encouraged to involve themselves with the destitute. Those women who abandoned a comfortable middle class extistence to do so went against the social norms of the times as much as a woman who wanted to study science or smoke a cigarette in public.
Atch   
29 Sep 2016
UK, Ireland / Non EU parent of Polish child [12]

'Keep it in yer pants!'

Yes, that is good advice! Or failing that use protection. However, the girl is as much to bIame in this situation. I have to say I have limited sympathy for, or patience with a woman who comes out of a fraudulent and possibly bigamous marriage (see the other thread) and within two years gets herself pregnant by a man who has no fixed abode or right to remain in either the country where they are living or in her own country. Foolish and irresponsible behaviour in the extreme.
Atch   
28 Sep 2016
Love / Should I bring gifts? - help with a Polish wedding [46]

Huge, vulgar weddings (which invariably feature a bride looking like a prize heifer dressed in human garb for a day) are an abomination, I agree. Actually that reminds me of what Billy Crystal said about his own family's general demeanour at a wedding 'like wildebeest in cheap clothing'. :))

However, wedding presents are the norm in our society, whatever form they take. It's like the old thing of not showing up at somebody's house empty-handed or indeed in Ireland, letting a guest leave empty-handed. It's hard to get out of an Irish household, in rural areas anyway without having some form of produce pressed upon you, be it a pot of jam, some eggs or even a head of rhubarb from the garden which means rhubarb tart for tea tomorrow whether you want it or not. I've even had things like knitting wool foisted upon me! 'Look, I've a bag of wool here that I never used, it might come in handy. Sure the colours are gorgeous, you could make a lovely tea cosy out of that'......

Now, what I really object to, and there was a thread about it a few months ago, is children collecting money for their First Communion and Confirmation, a practice that's gotten totally out of hand in recent years.
Atch   
28 Sep 2016
UK, Ireland / Non EU parent of Polish child [12]

Ok, well you can't leave the state while you're waiting. If you already have a representative body handling your application, then talk to them. Otherwise, these people give free legal advice.

irishrefugeecouncil.ie/law-centre

You won't get any reliable advice on a complex issue like asylum on forums like this. You need to talk to people who are experts in the area of immigration and asylum seeking in the EU.
Atch   
28 Sep 2016
Love / Should I bring gifts? - help with a Polish wedding [46]

Ah come on now Dominic. Giving cash is a tradition in many countries. I read a book published in the 1930s set in the Austrian Tyrol and at a peasant wedding there was an old lady designated for collecting the cash. The English author commented to one of the Austrians about her po-faced expression and was told that it would be considered bad manners for her to appear happy about it! I don't know how old the tradition is in Poland but is it any worse than those cringe inducing gift lists?? As for your American compadres with their bridal showers and baby showers etc......yes I blame America for all our woes. :)
Atch   
28 Sep 2016
UK, Ireland / Non EU parent of Polish child [12]

Sikander, did you complete the application process for recognition as an asylum seeker in Ireland or are you still awaiting a decision?
Atch   
27 Sep 2016
UK, Ireland / Marriage in Sweden, divorce in Poland (applying from Ireland?) [40]

Sikander I edited my last post, so don't know if you saw the link:

brophysolicitors.ie/practice-areas/immigration-solicitors-dublin

You're welcome by the way. Hope it works out for you both. Will you update us?
Atch   
27 Sep 2016
UK, Ireland / Marriage in Sweden, divorce in Poland (applying from Ireland?) [40]

Ok, well the Irish courts will not look at all favourably on a Pakistani man behaving in that manner. I think they'll be sympathetic to your girlfriend and she may not need any substantial documentary evidence or proof that he defrauded her in the form of the wife in Pakistan etc. The court can decare the marriage void if they are satisfied that the guy's intention was merely to ge the residence permit even without the wifey in the picture. It's definitely worth talking to a solicitor. Just get a consultation and then proceed on your own if you can't afford to have a solicitor represent you. The Irish courts are easy enough to navigate and not too intimidating. You could go to FLAC for some initial advice. They might be able to put you in touch with a specialist in this area:

flac.ie/help

Try this solicitor:

brophysolicitors.ie/practice-areas/immigration-solicitors-dublin
Atch   
27 Sep 2016
UK, Ireland / Marriage in Sweden, divorce in Poland (applying from Ireland?) [40]

Well she needs to be careful because she doesn't want to leave herself open to prosecution if the court decides that she knowingly participated in a sham marriage. You have good grounds if she states that she entered into the marriage believing it be genuine and later discovered that it was fraudulent on his part and only done to obtain a residence permit. Under no circumstances should she say that she married him in order to help him get such a permit as that's an offence.

I think that at this stage your best bet is to lay all the facts before an Irish solicitor and get their view on whether you have a case for getting the marriage declared void under Irish law. Was he trying to get a residence permit for Ireland or Poland?
Atch   
27 Sep 2016
UK, Ireland / Marriage in Sweden, divorce in Poland (applying from Ireland?) [40]

Pakistan does have some kind of civil wedding system and also a requirement to register marriages but it also recognises unregistered religious ceremonies (Islamic ones anyway) as valid marriages so even if he had a religious ceremony, he is married under Pakistani law and therefore he was not free to contract a marriage in Ireland. So, if you could obtain some proof, you would have a chance of getting the Irish marriage declared void.

Would any of his friends know the name of the wife or any other details that they'd be prepared to give you? If there's a child the birth would surely have been registered. What city is he from? How old would the child be? If you're really determined, you could start to piece together some information and then go to a solicitor and see what the chances are. In the meantime you could get the forms for voiding a marriage from the courts and see what information you need to provide.

It might be a good idea to put the fear of God in him by bluffing that you have 'certain proof' which you have obtained and that he has a choice to agree to divorce in Poland or you will take steps to apply to the Irish courts for a voiding of the marriage on grounds of fraud and bigamy. You might be able to get a solicitor to write him a threatening letter to that effect. It may do the trick in getting him to agree to a Polish divorce. I'm just wondering do you think he's holding out because he wants you to pay him off? If either of you is earning good money he may think there's a cash bonus in this situation. Actually I'm sure that if you could afford it a good international private detective agency would be able to pull up a fair bit of information on his background including routing out the wife and child.
Atch   
27 Sep 2016
UK, Ireland / Marriage in Sweden, divorce in Poland (applying from Ireland?) [40]

Well that narrows her options down considerably.

Option One: Go back to Poland and apply in six months time.

Option Two: She could chance her arm as we say in Ireland and file anyway in Poland, pretending she's living there, giving her parents' address. If she just gets a family member to get the forms from the court and doesn't use a solicitor she could get away with it.They're probably not likely to ask her for proof in the form of payslips or something. The worst that can happen is that it doesn't work. They won't throw her in jail or anything so she might as well try.

Option Three: Wait it out for the next two or three years and get her divorce in Ireland.

I presume our lovely Pakistani ex had some kind of religious ceremony in Pakistan which is why there's no record? If he had a civil wedding it may well have been recorded, even in a place as chaotic as Pakistan. What's the problem with getting the proof?
Atch   
27 Sep 2016
Love / Polish girlfriend may be pregnant - what girls from Poland think on having a child without marriage? [54]

20 per cent of us are not our father's children..:)

But that still leaves 80 per cent of us who are.

Most men are the fathers of the children living in their homes and calling them Daddy and that is a fact.

And that's good enough for me!
By the way Roz where did you get the 20 per cent figure from? That wouldn't be some class of an aul American statistic would it? Mind you don't start heading down the Polly route :D
Atch   
27 Sep 2016
UK, Ireland / Marriage in Sweden, divorce in Poland (applying from Ireland?) [40]

Hi there Sikander. I took a look at the following site which is maintained by the European Commission so I would take their word over that of a Polish solicitor. Clearly the solicitors you contacted don't really understand European law.

europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/family/couple/divorce-separation/index_en.htm

According to the EU:

You can file your request with the courts in the country where:

both you and your spouse are nationals.
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So in their case, Poland.

The six month rule applies if she is a national of Poland and has been living there for six months. What it means basically is that if your girlfriend decided that she didn't want to live in Ireland and went back to live in Poland, she would have to wait six months before applying for a Polish divorce. But, if she continues to live in Ireland, she can apply for a Polish divorce on the basis that both she and her husband are Polish nationals. Hope that makes sense.

Read the link in full anyway and you'll see it for yourself. If you feel you need to consult a solicitor you'd be better off using an Irish one as they are more accustomed to dealing with EU law than Polish solicitors, having been in the EU so much longer. You could also try a Polish solicitor based in Dublin as they'd be likely to have experience in these matters.
Atch   
27 Sep 2016
UK, Ireland / Marriage in Sweden, divorce in Poland (applying from Ireland?) [40]

she cant prove he is already married

How could that be? Was it a civil wedding or a church wedding? If it was a civil wedding there should be a record of it. Then she could simply have his subsequent marriage to her declared null and void. She could get that done in Ireland.

poland.

Yes she can apply for a divorce in a country where she is domiciled. Domiciled is not the same thing as living in. As she's Polish she should be able to apply.