[PaulKing]

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
 

[brights cleaning]

make sure they bring their own sausages

[PaulKing]

why, are they good ?

I though it was the germans who were big on sausages?

Straight question though has anyone though about it ?

[Graeme@Access]

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.

[Cleaning Resource]

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

[Fred Gullan]

I have two Polish workers , both grafters, very keen.

Cheers

Fred

[PaulKing]

how did you find them
?

[kuiwik]

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

[Fred Gullan]

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

[Robert Watson]

"By some estimates the population of Edinburgh is now Polish!"
 
Come on now Fred, there's still some Scots live here. 
Cheers
Rab.

[Fred Gullan]

Sorry that should have said 10% Polish. Oterwise we would have to re-name it Edinwwwzzzzetsg.

Fred

[Robert Watson]

      
Didn't think it was that high 

[Fred Gullan]

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

[carpetguy]

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[John Kelly]

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!

[maxcarpets]

Be careful not to give out to much info. They will be pretty quick to undercut us.

[John Kelly]

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.

[Robert Watson]

Fred,
Thinking about it, no way is it 10%
Who told you that?
Cheers.
Rab

[Fred Gullan]

Cant remember where I read it I will check up. Also there are more spanish speaking people per head in Edinburgh than in Manchester

[The Great One]

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