Local Poles taking advantage of foreigners living in Poland

I'm from North America and I alway hold the door for the next person and I always get a "Thank you". In Poland I hold it, and I don't get a thank you, and to add to that, I always get a rude gesture.

^logic would dictate that holding the door open for someone is a waste of your efforts here by those accounts.

...a rude gesture? What sort of rude gesture? I have never seen one in that particular context, so I'm curious.
And lots of people don't thank others for common courtesy, because it's taken for granted. Maybe not a very nice attitude, but the logic is "I would hold the door open for you, so what's the big deal?" And then of course there are the rude people... ;-)

It's pretty obvious by reading through this forum that no-one has yet to encounter the queues in departures of any flights going to Poland.

Ok well imagine this: Sitting in the departure lounge having a coffee waiting on the call for boarding, everything is calm quiet, people talking, giggling, some watching the departures board, then all of a sudden, the voice over the loudpspeaker says, passengers for flight number, blah blah blah to Wroclaw, then everyone stands up at the same time, runs towards the gate, the security guards and airport customer service team looking in horror as a 200 strong herd of humans come trundling towards them, pushing and shoving, bags dropping and men pushing past women with kids just to get to the front of the queue. The customer service crew announce that passengers with young children to proceed to the gate first, however this is made impossible because the line is unbreakable. I have been on many flights to Poland and they are all the same, the men have no manners and try to jump the queue, and would not offer a pregnant woman a seat when on the bus travelling from the terminal to the aircraft, my wife and I were almost stampeded when we were struggling with our luggage and a pram down two flights of stairs in Dublin Airport. I am afraid in this case, Wroclaw boy is right and there needs to be some manners taught to the majority of Polish people.. here;s the deal, stay in line, do not jump the queue and offer older women or pregnant women your seat on public transport.

watch it mate - youve just broken the cardinal rule of the forum

NEVER say anything that can be construed as critisism of the polish

youre a marked man

I flew from Belfast International at the end of January and yes, there was a similar stampede at the Gate.
however ...
once I told the getting-increasingly-irritated attendant how to screech "A" the Polish way, some of the crowd did back off a bit. She was getting nowhere using an English 'A' to identify priority boarders.
She was very capable actually - refushed to open the door and pushed her way down through the crowd to drag forward families with young kids etc.
i put it down to poor English skills plus panic about not getting A Seat
and a dash of Every Man For Himself.
On the stairs/walk to the aircraft you need to make yourself (or your group) as *wide* as possible to prevent the Run Down From Behind effect. ...

(on reflection I'd rather put up with a bit of "elbows wide, boys and girls" than have to go through Copenhagen and England to get back to NI)

Did they applaud when the plane touched down?

I have been in many places – and it’s always the same. If you are not local you will be treated different. And it doesn’t matter where on Earth you are. Try small villages in England and you will find similarities.

Don’t be so negative; it’s just that people are always treating foreigners in different way.

IK

lol



lol - these stories are about uk airports... where the locals are pushed out the way

some bit#h tried to take advantage of me yesterday...
I wanted to get my girl some flowers from the flower stand i was on my own and i dont speak much polish but i no enough to get by but this **** must have thought i was stupid ...... i picked what i wanted and they were all labled with prices i did the math and she and she tripled my answer

unfortunately the queueing theory doesnt only apply to the airports, if i have to go to any banks, post offices ect, id better take the day off work...

I've landed in an assortment of countries and very seldomly do I hear clapping on polish flights. in my experience clapping on planes occurs in less developed countries. Especially those for whom disasters are a regular feature in their country.

And although we might poo poo clapping, if you are a native of a disaster prone nation then really clapping is not such a silly thing to do.




Ha. yup had a similar experience with a shop keeper who claimed i gave her 10zl not 50zl and administered the change for a packet of cigs accordingly.
i preceeded in my rudimentary polish to go of my head. This worked very well and she promptly gave me the correct change.
When people try this on I advise becoming extremely angry and hopping from one foot to another screaming obsenities.

got to say every time I have flown to Poland they have clapped...not yet joined in..thats not to say I havent been tempted ;-)

On every single flight to and from Poland, on landing the majority of people clap.

i clapped once when i fly into a arab country, but that was just me happy to be safe if you know what i mean :)

This is true and is probably done out of relief at arriving safely. The irony is that they will then get in their cars and proceed to cause a 10 cars pile up on the motorway.




In an Arab country clapping would also prove you've never been charged with stealing. :)

I dont know what you mean, were you flying in a monoplane or something?

Hey Buddy, I don't know about that, were you in the toilet when each of those planes touched down? I fly to Poland about 6 times per year on average, that's twelve planes with Polish people on them,... They have all clapped when touching down, every single time.

Locals? You have people living on airports in the UK? :P I'm clapping as we speak. ;P

that polish logic of yours is seeping thru again matty, you need to control it ;-P

must.. control... polish....logic...urgggggh XD

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ohh and there's a british patronizing tone creeping out from your post...

... again. Oh well. :)

DTaylor, that was great, re having to take the day off!!!! Come on people, drop the life story!! Get what u need and **** off!! It's their daily entertainment. I look around at some of the gormless people on the go and I wonder who could employ such dim-witted scum. I once saw a woman complain about a package, like the post office worker had some input into it. Like, let me resend it. Clown!!

i dunno so much that this issue is confined only to poland, i find that this is the same in alot of places where you are not a local/native, for instance when i first moved to dublin from scotland, i was charged several different taxi fares for similar journeys, needless to say that i quickly got my bearings in the city..... i remember one instance where i was coming from and going back to the airport the same day, was charged 30e first time and only 20e the second for the same trip. the driver of the second taxi himself told me i had been ripped off...

the fact is, wherever in the world you go, your bound to meet an arsehole.....

patronizing... me...?

never :-)

arrogant... with an inate sense of superiority...

but of course

Just want to add(maybe at my own peril) poles without question need to learn how to be courteous about waiting in line. which is odd as they certainly had enough practice didn't they? Try laughing hysterically when a Polish person cuts in front of you simply because you left the person in front of you a few inches of personal space. it freaks them out and they may leave or pop you one in the jaw.

Weird, i fly about 1 a month back and forth and seriously haven't heard clapping in years. Perhaps Easyjet flights aren't ful or clappers, whilst Wizz Air and Ryan Air are? Odd but seriously haven't heard clapping in a long time.

The clappers were replaced by slappers. They found out that showing appreciation didn't pay and complaining at any opportunity better matched their ways