Funnily enough I was going to write exactly the same as Fox earlier aping the 'there's good and bad in everyone' line from Ebony & Ivory by McCartney and Jackson.
I have been expecting from my first post some idiot to accuse me of racism. This is certainly not the case here, we have many foreign nationals working for us including Zimbabwe and The Philippines with no trouble whatsoever, some of them have been with us years. We have employed Eastern Europeans for about a year. The first 2 were from Bosnia and this couple lasted 3 days with the inevitable threats from these people when it goes wrong for them. Of course I didn’t judge all people on these two but continued to employ E.E labour and have in the past employed Hungarians, Slovakians, Czechs & loads of Polish. What I can and will say though is, that there is no way I would go to another country and behave in the way that the majority of these people do, they do have to learn that this is OUR country and we have OUR ways and we have OUR principles and we have OUR way of going about our daily lives and business workings. They talk to each other in their own language which I find very rude, especially the Polish who all seem to have excellent English skills anyway, they cause trouble with the local staff by spreading rumours & lies and hate any form of authority as well as constantly falling out amongst themselves. I’ve never come across so many people who are willing to stand and row with you in my life, they always seem to know best and have a hard time backing down, then jeez, can they sulk, bear a grudge and cause an atmosphere. I can’t stand the way they smile sweetly to your face and then can’t wait to run off and criticise you and then come back for a confrontation.
They are always complaining they have no money!!! That’s because they are sending it home!! That’s not my fault OR my problem, but they make it everyone’s business by letting them know how miserable they are and causing yet more friction. Most will admit that they hate this country and don't want to be here but they have no choice as there aren't any jobs back home and the money here is so good. Some of my workers who earn £6.00 per hour are used to getting just 50p ph in there own country and still they want more.
As I said, this is just my experience and my opinion, and I really hope that in 6-12 months time this thread isn’t resurrected by CIU members saying “its all gone horribly wrong with my EE employees”.
I’ve ‘been there, done that’ and I ain’t going back!!!
Still waiting for the reply to my question asking how a self employed cleaner in Central London can offer a self-employed cleaner service for £5.05p per hour legally.
