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wojbrian
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ecocks
Joined: 06 Nov 2007
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Location: Gdansk, Poland
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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Watch it, he's a highly-trained professional. |
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dragonpiwo
Joined: 04 Mar 2013
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Location: Berlin
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 2:19 pm Post subject: ha |
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Oh spank me! The typo police are out.
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wojbrian
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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| I just thought it was funny! |
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dragonpiwo
Joined: 04 Mar 2013
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Location: Berlin
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 3:11 pm Post subject: actually..... |
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Actually, the longer I've been teaching the worse my spelling seems to have become. I don't know whether it's because I've been conditioned by my students' common mistakes or because I've become lazy and use spell checker tools etc or because the brain rots with age. A couple of my colleegz seem to be experiencing the same fenomenon.  |
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delphian-domine
Joined: 11 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 3:18 pm Post subject: Re: erm |
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| Are you on meds or summit? |
You seem to reference medication a lot. Any particular reason?
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| I 'made it' in Poland. Aside from being a key writer for a national magazine, being a Cambridge Examiner, teaching at UAM and doing a lot of recording/TV recording work simultaneously, I also had a kid then. I made more then, than you make now, so stop blowing smoke up your own hole. Been there, done it and bought the t-shirt. I made a choice and it's worked out well for me. |
So what happened? Why would someone give up such positions for teaching in a dangerous sandpit? Why would they even go back after having to be evacuated? It just doesn't add up - why would someone leave the comfort of a job at UAM along with all the add-ons for living in a dangerous and thoroughly rubbish sandpit?
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| Much more of a future Delph? I've got a full-time, weel paid job and have been here since 2004. I think that's pretty stable myself. What's more it's till I'm 65+ should I choose not to come and work in Poland again. |
Stable? You were already evacuated once in an emergency, and that part of the world isn't exactly the most stable. Don't try and fool us
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| Go Google the top rooms in the Intercon and get back to me. Better still, go there. Since one of my missus' closest friends virtually runs the place, I'm sure we didn't actually get ripped off but you know better of course. |
Practically runs the place and yet couldn't get you a better deal than 600zl a night? Like I said - saw you coming. People living in Poland soon learn to take advantage when a big mouth with a big wallet turns up regardless of their nationality.
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| Like you know better about racist Polish banking policies. The Poles I actually work with in the same office building have 'nay bother' with Visa Cards. Same contract, they earn less and have the same tax arrangements. We've spoken at length. |
I've got a credit card. No problem, but then again, I have umowa o prace bez terminowo in a reliable, stable job. Not difficult to get, and I didn't notice anything "racist" in their policies. Perhaps they simply didn't want to give you one because of your attitude?
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| Instability? Been here since 2004. |
Blimey. 10 years in a desert prison would drive anyone nuts.
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| Own a flat and a half with no mortgage. Buying the next one in the very near future. My son also has a flat and he's 15. And stop banging on about 500Zl nights because that isn't even a night out. %,000Zl, now that's a night out. |
How many of those flats did you actually buy, and how many were left to your son because of Babcia / left to your fianc�e? |
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delphian-domine
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, just for giggles :
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/libya
Last night while you were sleeping in your sandpit, I was out enjoying Noc Muzeów and having interesting discussions with archival experts about the Communist record keeping system. You might earn much more, but at the end of the day, you're far worse for it. |
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Sgt Bilko
Joined: 28 Jul 2006
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Location: POLAND
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Dragonpiwo, I don't think the problem is that you have expensive tastes, it's just that you seem to believe that anyone enquiring about working in Poland is going to have the same tastes and cost of living as you. The fact is that they aren't so, if someone asks about working in Warsaw, the cost of a posh hotel and restaurant is pretty irrelavent.
If someone wants to earn a good salary, they'll look at vacancies in Saudi or elsewhere in the Middle East. And, if that's what they want, good luck to them. If they decide to come to Poland to teach, they probably know that they won't be earning a fortune so, more useful would be to tell them where they could eat well on their salary. I wouldn't mind knowing myself. Whenever we go to Warsaw (not often), we always eat at Svejk, which we love but it would be nice to know of some alternatives I guess. |
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sparks
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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| If someone wants to earn a good salary, they'll look at vacancies in Saudi or elsewhere in the Middle East. And, if that's what they want, good luck to them. If they decide to come to Poland to teach, they probably know that they won't be earning a fortune so, more useful would be to tell them where they could eat well on their salary. I wouldn't mind knowing myself. Whenever we go to Warsaw (not often), we always eat at Svejk, which we love but it would be nice to know of some alternatives I gues |
Yep. Notice the OPer hasn't been back. Good work guys. I think you should meet in person and settle it like men |
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delphian-domine
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| Dragonpiwo, I don't think the problem is that you have expensive tastes, it's just that you seem to believe that anyone enquiring about working in Poland is going to have the same tastes and cost of living as you. The fact is that they aren't so, if someone asks about working in Warsaw, the cost of a posh hotel and restaurant is pretty irrelavent. |
Exactly. It doesn't make any sense to compare someone spending 19 days every 9 weeks in Poland (and who presumably has zero costs in the sandpit) to someone living full time here.
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| If they decide to come to Poland to teach, they probably know that they won't be earning a fortune so, more useful would be to tell them where they could eat well on their salary. I wouldn't mind knowing myself. Whenever we go to Warsaw (not often), we always eat at Svejk, which we love but it would be nice to know of some alternatives I guess. |
I wouldn't mind knowing as well, especially about Vietnamese places. I know one little excellent Vietnamese place near the SGGW campus, but somewhere closer to Centrum would be nice to know about. |
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delphian-domine
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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| sparks wrote: |
| Yep. Notice the OPer hasn't been back. Good work guys. I think you should meet in person and settle it like men |
Oh come on. There's light entertainment on a rubbish Sunday afternoon, and then there's actually having to listen to this nonsense about money! |
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sparks
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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| You could try Dzonka on ul. Hoza, I think they have Vietnamese food. |
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dragonpiwo
Joined: 04 Mar 2013
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 5:36 pm Post subject: erm |
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I left to go direct-hire, married status at Qatar Petroleum. Qatar was superb. At the time I was just bored and wanted a change.
And Delph, like everything else you know nothing bout my contract here. Check out your reading skills too as we had a non-standard room 
I like the idea of meeting this guy. |
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sparks
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| I think the viciousness of the attacks i.e. calling someone a liar who lives in a sandpit deserves a face-to-face confrontation. I thought that you two knew one another in Poznan. Really, next time you're both in town, come out from behind the computer screen and confront your foe |
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delphian-domine
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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| sparks wrote: |
| I think the viciousness of the attacks i.e. calling someone a liar who lives in a sandpit deserves a face-to-face confrontation. I thought that you two knew one another in Poznan. Really, next time you're both in town, come out from behind the computer screen and confront your foe |
Would need to be on neutral ground though, I don't like drinking |
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