Guest: I think I can shed some light on this and it's got nothing to do with with racism - it's a combination of boredom coupled with these airport security staff in Gdansk having small lives who get paid very little and have no power outside of their place of work. And let's face it, they're just a glorified bouncers. So they pick on everyone and anyone regardless of colour just to make themselves feel important. I've flown in and out of Gdansk airport many times and seen this kind of cretinous behaviour more times than I care to remember. It's like watching 'Groundhog Day' only 20 times worse. At least we have this 'Groundhog Day' only when visit 'lovely' Poland. These people are doing this thankless, soulless job every day of their lives. I wouldn't trust these people to clean toilets let alone work in 'security' at an airport. These days I just do whatever these short haired thugs tells me to do - except bend over for a cavity search, which in any case is probably not only their job but also their hobby. Put yourself in their shoes...they have a crappy job, no future, and they hate the kind of people like me and you because of that. I'm sure when they go home to sleep at night they don't feel so good about the pathetic things they do in their 'working' day, but when you're arriving in a new a new country and with their level of intellect you're an easy target. And the more you **** them off the more they love it. So just accept it because it'll be a long time before things change and at least you can leave the country when you wish which is more than they'll ever be able to do. So the next time it happens to you smile at the guy with pity and think how lucky you are when he's having his inglorious moments of selfish, depraved pleasure. He'll still be stuck there 20 years from now (if he hasn't been fired first) and you won't. I hope that someone who works at Gdansk airport reads this....actually no it doesn't really matter - a) you don't understand english and b) even if I wrote it in Polish it'll still be indecipherable to you - you idiots. Customer satisfaction survey anyone? >i'm from the philippines and at the gdansk airport, i was held in front of the immigration officer for about 15 minutes. he asked me the basic questions (where i'm from - which is stated on my passport, where i'm going/staying, how long am i going to stay there for, the name of my sponsor, their phone number, etc.) i can speak basic polish so i was trying to speak to him in polish. obviously, to no surprise, he doesn't speak english. his face was so red! at least i'm trying - and he isn't reciprocating! lovely! and then at some point, he gave up, turned away from me, stepped out from his tiny desk and shouted, "is there anybody here waiting for a lady from the philippines?" omg! it was so embarrassing. oh well, maybe he's just doing his job. but you know, they should give a little courtesy to me for at least trying to speak to him in polish. i'm based in the uk and would never want to go hiding in poland. please.
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