Hiring a Polish Worker - Pros and Cons

lol health system? what health system? the one in poland is beter well at least in the qualification department so no thats not why i came here the free handouts what handouts? we have to work 1 year for the same employer to be able to clame any benefits again that is not why i personaly moved here coz i like the place and whanted a change i work for the same cash if not higher then my british counterparts since i dont value myself that low about immigration well dont look at poles i admit a lot has come but just for comparison sake look at how many poles you see on the streets and how many arabs,black or any ather "minority" (this is no racial remark).
as for the education system being beter (somone said that ) lol you got to be kiding most of the ppl ive meet (and thay got masters and phd's) cant count without a calculator and yes ive finished a uni here as well (so i got 2 degrees one polish one english) and belive me when i say that passing all the tests and projects here was like taking a break.

Okay I have bring this back up to the top because I can think of a con with regards to hiring a Polish worker, a while back I got a friend an interview at a large corporate company (my friend is a manager there), okay the job was just a clerical job but the money was okay and it meant she could improve her English, plus it looked better on her c.v. than her job at the time which was waiting tables. When the company took her on, she said she would be going back to Poland in September (for studies) so they gave her a fix-term contact, then she told them that she would be staying for another year so they made her permanent staff (no real difference, she got paid leave and all the other usual stuff before)....Okay I will get to my point, she gave her notice in last week telling the company she was going to London with her b/f, her Manager doesnt believe it because they actually offered a transfer to a branch in the south because she is a really good worker and the company believe in staff retention.....they now believe that she had no intention of staying with the company for another year and had every intention of going back to pl for studies this year and the upshot of it is they dont see the point in employing young Eastern Europeans who will be trained (which costs money) only to then leave after a few months...like I mentioned about staff retention / training, I dont think any company wants high staff turn-over and high training costs

With respect Amathyst, that happens with British workers too and any other nationality......I can't believe you posted that as a 'con' for employing Polish workers.....

Get real.......this is what happens in some industries all the time and especially in lower paid jobs in admin, retail and catering.......

No need for that kind of tone but I will clarify something you overlooked.

I didnt single out Polish I said Eastern European.

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Why should a company invest in a person only for them to leave, yes I understand that this happens with British people, but the point I made was that she lied, she said "oh yes Im staying here for another year" but now she's off back to Poland because she has saved enough money for her studies etc.....

Its made me look like an idiot and I feel pretty bad for asking for a favour from a friend...a little bit of honesty goes a long way!!!

i wasn't using any tone amathyst....you should know that :) I was just trying to say, be realistic.(maybe I could have phrased it a bit better, so am sorry if it read badly to you) it doesn't matter on the persons nationality, this happens and has happened in such industries for a long time. Thing is people do things like that all the time. They don't appear to have the same loyalty that we have to our employer. My point is and was, it has nothing to do with any nationality, in the case you mentioned.




You wrote this in the thread entitled "Hiring a Polish worker the pros and cons'.....that's why I felt it a bit unfair to point the finger at one nationality in this particular case.

I fully sympathise with you and how you must have felt, when you recommended her for the job. I'd be pretty narked as well in a similar situation. And not only did she let her employer down she let you down also :(

But again, my point is that this sort of behavious has nothing to do with their nationality. It's a human thing regardless of sex, creed or colour.

Most companies forecast their training and recruitment costs based on their known and expected turnover of staff in their particular field. And budget accordingly. As I said before it varies not only on the nature of the job but also the industry they work in.

:( Apologies for any perceived tone.....

overall, Polish people are good workers. Maybe their english is not so perfect at the beginning but later on its very good. And one more thing- England was always multicultural and thats the beauty :-) . So I am glad Europe is united now!!! (or almost united:-) )

Anyway good luck people!!!!

The only effect of all these visitors is that our income decrease and in some cases ceases altogether. Why would any boss agree to a pay increase demand if the pole will do it cheaper and not dare to stick up for themselves. Sure there may be a bit of extra damage and maybe a few people hurt, but hey... what the hell, money talks. We've been betrayed by our leaders. We cant blame the poles, if someone offered us lots of moneys to do a job we're really not up to, then most of us would take the cash and think what a pr**k he/she is for employing me! They are mostly spongers and we will lose big-time on this mistake. If anyone thinks they will appreciate the chance they have been given or be loyal for it, you're living in cloud cuckoo land because they are not typical traits of most poles. There are some very respectable people among them who will have their reputations ruined by their countrymen. Poland is just the same way, 5% tryers and 95% hangers on which is why its not going to change until they pull their fingers out and ditch the peasant mentality. I love Poland, its fantastic and birthplace of my wife and sons.

As much as i adore poland, i honestly think the uk needs to change the laws on immigration to this country, not just for the polish peeps, but more importantly for the rag heads and the vast influx of roma people heading for these shores. At the end of the day i have never met a pole i didnt like or trust, on the other hand, if we in scotland have well educated muslim doctors trying 2 blow up airports and we have roma men selling kids for sex on the streets of glasgow, then we need to get rid of them, or at the very least stop more of them getting in.

Do i blame the polish, lithuanians, latvians etc for heading to the uk to take advantage of the situation? Do i hell, because if i thought moving to any of these or any other country would improve my life then i would be gone in a heart beat. If i remember correctly in the early 90s i headed down to london to work on various buiding sites as an electrician, because if i put in the hours and worked hard i could make £600/£700 a week . Am i any different from the poles? I worked hard, away from home for weeks at a time, i was lonely, sad, i had next to no friends.

I was a foreigner in a foreign land! For england is foreign to me!

Continued good luck to all my european friends

If I was an employer I would hire Polish people they work hard and are smart people and would probably appriciate what they get.

pro: the hardest workers you'll ever get

con: they'll con you whenever you give them a chance. lol

Hardest workers until you take your eye off them,then the foot comes off the gas.
Rip you off if they get half a chance?of course .... bo trzeba

bo trzeba? lol old ways die hard, eh?

It took years to learn and will take many more to unlearn.As hardest workers, not many can outwork me and I,m certainly not a Pole.A lot of poles need to be constantly motivated to work,and yes they then work well.I prefer people who motivate themselves and get on with it for the sake of it.The blokes I worked with on International were Scots,Paddies,English and Welsh,all of them great guys who could match anyone from anywhere-especially the scots,I was VERY impressed with them because we had the same approach.I knew a lot of excellent poles too but they were exemplary examples of their nations drivers. Zenon -Czarna Stoppa-Bartosz(zamosc),Marek-pet shop boys-Krauschar( Siedlec)(R.I.P),Zbyszek Wroblewski(Warsaw).+++
I can name all the best ones because high quality was so rare and still is.

if only peopel could apply this to their life in completeness, as humand we are made to work, i have come to know that a large number of people who can be indentified as roma gypsy for ethnicity purposes only are claiming benefits in the UK, they seem to have polish nationalities and are affecting the figures of poles who are on beenfits

Not just roma s i'm afraid.I've got several friends who are very much Polish and claim everything they can.Even extra benefit for being a single mum when they actuially have partners.My wifes boss is dismayed that he gets girls on agency work,they are superb,he gives them a permanent contract with a 3 month probationary period-they are still superb,probation period ends-guess what I'm pregnant-Ineed time off-Ineed maternity leave-I know my rights,blah blah blah,then this superb worker is a lazy useless waste of time and money that only knows how to complain and assert her rights.Lets admit how it is shall we??

I let a Polish girl named Iwona Mysliwiec of Lublin live with me for a year. She managed to get arrested by the FBI, and the local authorities. She borrowed $5,748.00 for a lawyer and cry, cry, cried for me to lend it to her. She left the country and forgot to pay me back, but she sure as **** didn't forget to ship her Lexus and a Toyota mini van. Czech people call Polish people the 'N' word of Europe......they were right!!!!

Shut your dirty mouth, you twat.
Let me guess, you tried pulling the moves on this young girl, and she didn't let you touch her? Creep.

You use this word a lot...you know it really isn't all that insulting of a word in English...kind of funny actually. Might look for something new.

Don't talk to me, please and thanks.