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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: PaulKing on June 07, 2007, 07:26:38 pm
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No not Joe Polish.
I was thinking of hireing a polish worker, in the cleaning side, any one had any experiance of this?
A friend whoes a baker near me has one polish guy and food is great, and he goes home for 3 mths after christmass as well!
looks like we lost the cold war after all i think
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make sure they bring their own sausages
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why, are they good ?
I though it was the germans who were big on sausages?
Straight question though has anyone though about it ?
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Hi Paul,
There are a few polish recruitment agencies around that might be worth looking @.
We have one in Scotland called pol-uk who are very good and charge £7.50/hr. Im sure there will be one closer to you. The good thing about the poles is that they are very greatful of the work and ask for overtime etc...
I just wish more people in Britain had a working attitude like that when they are on min wage.
Graeme
Access Cleaning Solutions
PS i hear that Romanians and Bulagarians are equally willing to work and heading here in droves at the moment.
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I got a polish fella working for me, he comes over in the summer only cos hes on break from college where he is studing to be a teacher, non skilled labour in poland get paid £1 per hour and the living expense is almost the same as here.
I pay him £6 an hour he works like a trojan for 60-70 hrs per week he`s polite, spot on really I can`t fault him, he`s bringing some friends with him this year so I`ll let you know how it goes ;D
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I have two Polish workers , both grafters, very keen.
Cheers
Fred
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how did you find them
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i have 2 polish employees they are fantastic staff, enthusiastic and hardworking. they have their querks and sometimes communicating is not easy but we get by.
i pay them £6.00 p/hr and bonuses occasionally which they think is great.
go for it
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Paul ,
Some friends new I was looking for staff and put them on to me. By some estimates the population of Edinburgh is now Polish!!!. If you come across any Poles just ask them if they have any friends looking for work, I'm sure you'll get bowled over in the rush.
regards
Fred
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"By some estimates the population of Edinburgh is now Polish!"
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Come on now Fred, there's still some Scots live here. ;D
Cheers
Rab.
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Sorry that should have said 10% Polish. Oterwise we would have to re-name it Edinwwwzzzzetsg.
Fred
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;D ;D ;D
Didn't think it was that high :o
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Apparently so. Most of them seem ok. Played basketball with a bunch of them the other week and their English is mostly pretty good. The guy that works for me sounds like he has meen here for years even has the slang and the colloquilal stuff. Some customers mistake him for a native.
Cheers
Fred
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The logical followup to the above postings, should be...................what do you think these people will be doing in 10 years.................do you fancy working for a Polish employer at minimum wage ?
The camel and tent story returns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ther are an estimated 40,000 Poles in the North East of England. You should be able to find one amongst that lot Paul.
It won't take 10 years before these lot are setting up carpet cleaning companies, its happening now!
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Be careful not to give out to much info. They will be pretty quick to undercut us.
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The cost of living is no where near as expensive as here, yet. My mates have just been and didn't even spend 100 quid over a full weekend. Thats a normal night out for them in Newcastle. We've just booked up to go to Krackow in August. Trouble is give it five years and it will be the same as everywhere else cost wise. Thats whats hapenned to Prague.
By then most of the Poles who want to stay here will have moved up into better paid jobs or become self employed and the rest will drift back home as it won't be economical for them to work here.
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Fred,
Thinking about it, no way is it 10%
Who told you that?
Cheers.
Rab
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Cant remember where I read it I will check up. Also there are more spanish speaking people per head in Edinburgh than in Manchester
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Hi
i have worked with a few polish and they work life demons.
BUT...
If in the future they undercut you and you lose the contract, they may say they didn't understand your contract (about not doing that) as it was in English, but they signed it as they wanted the work.
Just be careful
Regards
Martin 8)
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Sorry Rabby , not 10% but upwards of 20k , 35 k in Lothians.
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;)
Nae Bother.
Where the hell do they stay?
Affordable accommodation in Edinburgh is like hens teeth.
Earning minimum wage, it can`t be done.
You have to share, I wonder how many share a room?
Rab
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Leith is most popular according to evening news. Ones that work for me stay in Restalrig. Big shot egg producer here in borders has mostly poles working in chicken sheds and accmodates them in caravans at Leadburn. Only slightly better off than the chickens :o
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I'm not so sure they will go back................and there is increasing immigration from other places, like African countries and the Middle East.
When it's too late, the government of the day, will eventually realise, the French and Germans were right to take measures, while our dithering fools of Members of Parliament, sat on the fence and continued to waffle, with fake statistics about unemployment and the need for immigration.
The absolute lies of these MP's have allowed foreigners to get jobs in medicine and education, while our kids are graduating from uni' and unable to get work in the UK.
That is the reality and I wish to God some politician of substance had the guts to stand up and say so, unfortunately, the last time this happened, the best Prime Minister, we NEVER had, was ostracised and sent to Northern Ireland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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When I lived in Newcastle unemployment was 25% of working population.
Now we need to import Labour?
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send them back ,soon they will be into carpet cleaning and window cleaning undercutting all of us.
carpet man >:(
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HI GUYS polish people are ok and they do work hard, my wife is polish so i do have alot of experience with them, but what i will say is they will try and work other people out of a job and they all stick together so you do need to be carefull hope that helps
chris
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Without stating the obvious, we are now in the 3rd generation of Asian immigrants whose population on these tiny islands is growing far quicker than people realise..........so much so, that a young female who tripped while wearing one of these strange face masks, retorted to a friend who helped her, but could'nt resist commenting on her redused visibility.
" You can mock me, but in a very short time, we will be in the majority in this country and you will do as you are told "
As has been mentioned before, Muslims have been trying to take over Europe for centuries and been repelled by our European neighbours................so what do we do.....our dim politicians invite them into the UK and start a sustained campaign of compliance , forcing our population to accept everything Muslim, even teaching the religion and language in our schools, why, why, why ?
With our society in decline, it's going to be very easy for the Asians / Poles / Romanians , etc, etc, to become influential and dominate, unless something is done quickly.
What really upsets me, is the fact that it's all so obvious and predictable.
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I stand with you full square on this one Robbie!
Damian.
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It could be far worse than it is, I'm not sure how but I'm sure it could, remeinds me of the old yellow pages advert "Maybe next year son................."
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I hear they have a very good name for bonnet buffing though.
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guys
dont teach then everything or you'll cut of the hand that feeds you. teach them how, but not why. it happened in manufacturing and service could go the same way.
respect
ian harper
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I'm well aware of how this sounds, but thank God the natives are wakening up, otherwise it our kids would have a pretty bleak future
This is not ALARMIST or RACIST.............it's REALISM
Blair and his buddies are fer too keen to be P/C they don't give a monkeys
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This was meant to be post on employing Polish workers in the Carpet Cleaning Industry as we have gone off Subject I am going to lock it.
Discussion on Immigration policies should be in the General Discussion Section.