FUZZYWICKETS: eeehhh, not really. it's not that they're under-qualified. they do what they are asked to do according to the policies of the restaurants they work at, and some of them are pretty damn efficient at it. it's simply a matter of different cultures. it's done differently here than in America. totally different. Polish bartenders can't improve on something they don't know "exists", if that makes any sense.
yeah, I know what you mean.
I had a waiter in one bar who came up and asked for the order. I asked him in Polish which beers he had. He straight away started speaking in English, although I was speaking Polish. OK, I thought, he's trying to be helpful. He then started describing each beer. I told him I'd lived in Poland a few years. He said, "Oh, so you're the expert then!"
I wanted to punch his lights out. OK, he was only trying to be helpful but he presumably had no idea how insulting and patronising he sounded (that's why I didn't do anything).
Funny thing was that when I mentioned it to Poles, they didn't find anything wrong with it. Brits asked me if I'd hit him.
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