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blaz44
Joined: 03 Jan 2005
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Location: wroclaw, poland
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 Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:54 am Post subject: Doing well , BUT..... |
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Haven't been on the site for a long time. Been in Poland now 4 years. I managed to start from working in a school to running my own company, teaching only in companies which is quite nice as there is no bullshit, I dictate rules, times price etc.. I also coach american football for a second salary which is a passion on mine so a dream come true so to speak. So why am I so pissed off all the time? Its the attitude. I call it the upside down pyriamid syndrome. All show and no go. Big production and no foundation or structure. Want to run before you can walk. I will leave it at that to let you all fill in the blanks on why I want to knock people out on the street, and its happened.
GOTTA LOVE POLAND.......................NOT!
my wife is Polish. Took a short trip outta here and thought it would clear my head, did the opposite, made me feel like WTF am I doing wasting my effert on these people for. I have been cheated time after time, slandered in the news by poles as a coach, threatened with violence over the phone, and outright lied to on a weekly basis. |
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scottie1113
Joined: 25 Oct 2004
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Location: Gdansk
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| Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for sharing. Glad you're so happy here. |
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justflyingin
Joined: 30 Apr 2009
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blaz 44...
What was the point of your post? How does it help those of us who do teach English here? Why are you lied to weekly? (maybe time to find new friends)
How can we help? |
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Jack Walker
Joined: 23 Oct 2008
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Well I can tell you that it's true that Poles and the government in general focus on small insignificant things while ignoring the important issues in all aspects of life.It is very much like putting an expensive roof on a tin shanty.
All flash and show with not much underneath it all. |
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sharter
Joined: 25 Jun 2008
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Location: All over the place
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| Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:00 pm Post subject: erm |
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Funnily enough I kinda get where he's coming from.................I find Poles to be generally big on ideas and short on action, especially where money is concerned. Then again, they've always been like that.
Each to their own.......I posted my end of TEFL Poland thread some time ago.
Having just come back from Ali Baba the takeaway having piad 62ZL for 2.5 kebabs I sometimes think I'm imagining things. I was in a bar the other day and was offered a 60USD shot of whiskey........insanity........had never heard of the brand and it wasn't Scottish.........came in a bottle looking like a set of bagpipes though:) |
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scottie1113
Joined: 25 Oct 2004
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Location: Gdansk
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sharter, I love your stories about the prices in Poland and how much you spend while you're here. I marvel at how you only seem to go to rip off places. There is another Poland, you know.
Not a knock. I really do love your stories. |
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dynow
Joined: 07 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 7:45 am Post subject: |
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i get where the guy is coming from too.
nothing more than that. i just get it.
that's why i'm leaving next year. as should you, blaz. |
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hrvatski
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Yeah you're not gonna have fun in Poland unless you play by Polish rules, tough to do when you've been raised elsewhere. Once I got into the 'grumpy groove' as I like to call it, Poland became much more accessible!
I like it how people don't wear masks, you know when someone's pissed and can react accordingly. |
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dynow
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Yeah you're not gonna have fun in Poland unless you play by Polish rules, tough to do when you've been raised elsewhere. Once I got into the 'grumpy groove' as I like to call it, Poland became much more accessible!
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GREAT post. |
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sharter
Joined: 25 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 7:27 pm Post subject: erm |
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| Polish rules. I refuse to be permanently miserable, I believe in the concept of sharing, when I'm with someone I don't behave like the Wife of Bath, I don't believe it's my right to keep a foreigner's change, I can admit wrong doing, I like toilet paper that works, I always say 'thanks'. You know where you can stick Polish rules. Oh yeh....I'll never do joined up dancing to house music.....wazzat all about anyway? |
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scottie1113
Joined: 25 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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| hrvatski wrote: |
Yeah you're not gonna have fun in Poland unless you play by Polish rules, tough to do when you've been raised elsewhere. Once I got into the 'grumpy groove' as I like to call it, Poland became much more accessible!
I like it how people don't wear masks, you know when someone's pissed and can react accordingly. |
Do we live in the same Poland? Polish rules? "grumpy groove"? I know what you mean, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm no Pollyanna, believe me,but people are people everywhere. I've found Poland to be accessible since the day I got here. That was yesterday.  A |
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hrvatski
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 6:50 am Post subject: |
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| scottie1113 wrote: |
| hrvatski wrote: |
Yeah you're not gonna have fun in Poland unless you play by Polish rules, tough to do when you've been raised elsewhere. Once I got into the 'grumpy groove' as I like to call it, Poland became much more accessible!
I like it how people don't wear masks, you know when someone's pissed and can react accordingly. |
Do we live in the same Poland? Polish rules? "grumpy groove"? I know what you mean, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm no Pollyanna, believe me,but people are people everywhere. I've found Poland to be accessible since the day I got here. That was yesterday. A |
I'll just give some examples of how I found Poland to be different, not necessarily unique only to Poland, just different to where I grew up:
- Don't guard your place in a queue with wolf-like alertness and you'll lose it.
- If a company does wrong by you, it was your fault. If you don't have the balls to lash back and lose your dignity arguing then you don't deserve a refund.
- Stand waiting at a pedestrian crossing for a line of cars to stop for you and you will never cross the road.
- Poland is an eternal victim and has never done anything wrong to anyone but keeps getting picked on by others (except for its historic repeated smack-downs on Latvia, Ukraine, Russia, etc. which all seem to have slipped into some kind of national amnesia). |
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sharter
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| Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:07 am Post subject: Erm |
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| It's a no shame all blame culture! |
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scottie1113
Joined: 25 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:48 am Post subject: |
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All valid points, except the one about pedestrian crossings, at least here in trojmiasto. It's certainly true in Warsaw!
I don't have any experience in dealing with companies as my school sets up the deals with them. I just show up and teach.
Line jumping has only happened to me, both times by babcies. They're incredible.
Oh well, no country is perfect. |
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hrvatski
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I sounded bitter there, I love Poland and would gladly live there again should the economy (and possibly weather?) improve.
I'm told that babcies (damn English-Polish double plurals) have a god-given right to push in in any situation because they in fact hold more power than Lech Kaczynski and Donald Tusk combined, if you make any move to dispute this power play you are pretty much the lowest form of life imaginable. I learned to accept them, anyone else having a go on the other hand can bugger right off  |
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