Can anyone help?

Fra · 19-09-2007, 16:46

I'm writing on behalf of a polish lady who can't speak English yet but is wanting to get a start somewhere, preferrably in hotel work. She has been to agencies and she is working nights for a company called Strategy in Nelson which is very difficult for her to get to because she has no transport. Does anyone using this site work for a hotel or know someone who does that could get her a start? Her experience includes caring for the elderly in Germany and she worked in a hotel in Italy, working in the kitchen and cleaning rooms. She has filled in an application for the dunkenhalgh and I spoke to a lady there that said there are several polish speaking staff but we haven't heard anything since.

Any help would be really appreciated

Thanks

flashy · 19-09-2007, 16:59

to be honest with you Fra jobs in Lancashire are few and far between as it is, english people cant get jobs let alone other people

***Mr D*** · 19-09-2007, 17:37

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Originally Posted by Fra

I'm writing on behalf of a polish lady who can't speak English yet but is wanting to get a start somewhere, preferrably in hotel work. She has been to agencies and she is working nights for a company called Strategy in Nelson which is very difficult for her to get to because she has no transport. Does anyone using this site work for a hotel or know someone who does that could get her a start? Her experience includes caring for the elderly in Germany and she worked in a hotel in Italy, working in the kitchen and cleaning rooms. She has filled in an application for the dunkenhalgh and I spoke to a lady there that said there are several polish speaking staff but we haven't heard anything since.

Any help would be really appreciated

Thanks

Suppose that part wont help her much.

blackbandit · 27-09-2007, 09:10

There is an agency in Blackburn which specialises in work for Polish people,Think it's called Barrow and Grundy,or She could ask at the polish deli along Accrington road at intack-they may know more.

Speedy · 28-09-2007, 01:19

Try the polish shop on abbey street. They have vacancies for all over the place advertised in the window.

Fra · 28-09-2007, 18:52

thankyou for your positive replies. I shall pass this information on to her

tosh · 17-01-2008, 22:14

good luck to the lady looking for work.
not a lot want work in this day and age.

pipinfort · 19-01-2008, 10:29

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Originally Posted by flashytart

to be honest with you Fra jobs in Lancashire are few and far between as it is, english people cant get jobs let alone other people

don`t know how this got dragged up again but i could`nt of put it better flashy

blazey · 19-01-2008, 15:13

I like Polish people, they seem to want to work hard. I think they're good for the economy. I can't find a job either but I dont hate the polish for it. The better qualified gets the job afterall, and I dont believe they'd accept cheaper than minimum wage if they had rights as british citizens. They just seem to have a good work ethic all round.

firth_dawn · 19-01-2008, 18:22

good luck to the lady looking for work.
i hope she finds something soon.

Neil · 19-01-2008, 19:28

Not good luck to the Polish lady looking for work.
Let her sod of back to Poland and get a job instead of being here where she is not wanted draining our resources even more.

BLACKBURN RAVER · 28-01-2008, 21:04

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Originally Posted by blazey

I like Polish people, they seem to want to work hard. I think they're good for the economy.

whose economy ?.... they work for peanuts and put decent british folk out of jobs and then take the ones that are available so we cant !!!

keetah992000 · 28-01-2008, 21:31

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Originally Posted by blazey

I like Polish people, they seem to want to work hard. I think they're good for the economy. I can't find a job either but I dont hate the polish for it. The better qualified gets the job afterall, and I dont believe they'd accept cheaper than minimum wage if they had rights as british citizens. They just seem to have a good work ethic all round.

My partner works iwth a lot of Polish people -this is his experience-not his opinion:

the polish save up their money - then they go back to poland for at least a month at a time and spend that money they have earned here over there ( so that isnt too good for the British economy)
My partner gets 16 days holiday in a year plus bank holidays- ask for anymore time off - you wont get it unless it is an absolute emergency take any time you may need for a family emergency and you get your p45 through the post ( it has happened twice with english workers - damned hard workers at that )
BUT if you are Polish you can use your holidays up - and then dissappear after taking those holidays and come back and your job will still be there for you .(one worker left for three months after booking two weeks holiday and walked straight back into his job)
The Polish workers did work really hard whilst they were still on the agency books -but once taken on by the company - workload suddenly slowed down-One of the women has even been called an ignorant pig becasue she asked two polish workers - having a conversation in polish across her -to speak in english, which they can do pretty fluently.

Blazey just because i have quoted you doesnt mean that i am having a go - just pointing out the other side of the coin as it were.

i understand that the empolyers are pertly to blame for this but as are the polish workers because they take the liberties in the first place.

Speedy · 28-01-2008, 23:12

The place where i am working at the moment has quite a range of people. And the 2polish guys who work there are the laziest people i have ever met. The job is on a production line where everyone has one job to do before passing it on to the next person, but the polish guys just pass it on without doing thier job. I believe we should have more jobs for british people as its slowly killing our economy.

Sue1 · 29-01-2008, 13:36

But didn't most of the jobs the Poles and others are now doing exist before the "great influx". They were then open to the people who normally live here. What happened and why didn't they take the jobs they apparently want so much now.

To be fair, I imagine a lot of these jobs are minimum wage which, if you are on benefits, you in all honesty cannot afford to take - has to be something wrong somewhere.