Job advert - Must speak Polish... a sign of the times?

[mundstick]

I had signed up to a Job site as I am considering a change.

Having checked my emails this morning I have been sent details of a job for an office administrator for a local accountancy firm.

The main remit for the job being,

"Must speak fluent Polish as well as English."

Shouldnt that be the other way round

 

[GravyMonster]

Maybe they have Polish clients?

My wife is an accountant and they recently had to employ someone who could speak Chinese as they had landed a client which was a UK division of a Chinese corp, and 90% of the management staff had been relocated from there.

 

[mundstick]

good point... its probably just me being bitter as I cant aplpy for the job lol!

 

[Vonhelmet]

What's the actual job?

Cleaners are often Polish. Office admin might be in charge of them?

People want things cheap. Polish people are cheap, particularly those who don't speak English. Someone must oversee the Polish people. In the case of non-English speaking Poles, that means the supervisor must speak Polish.

Capitalism, yo. Dirty deeds done cheap.

 

[Mr^B]

A sign that companies have to deal with clients from around the world and not just their own country?

A sign that we don't expect people from other countries to speak English in order to get their business?

I don't really understand what your point is...

 

[dekez]

I've been searching for jobs, not seen any must speak Polish but have seen a fair few requiring French or German.

 

[Vonhelmet]

I've been searching for jobs, not seen any must speak Polish but have seen a fair few requiring French or German.

Outrageous! Post on a forum about it.

 

[Cosimo]

So big deal they probably have a lot of Polish speaking clients.

 

[Flubble]

when i was looking for a job a few years ago i went to some agencies and all the adverts in some of them were written in just polish, i thought this country was england, not poland

 

[OriginalJonty]

I've been searching for jobs, not seen any must speak Polish but have seen a fair few requiring French or German.

What? How dare we deal with Frogs and Nazis?!

 

[K1LLSW1TCH]

Outrageous! Post on a forum about it.

lol

 

[Cosimo]

What? How dare we deal with Frogs and Nazis?!

They'll soon be asking for people with the ability to speak proper English.

 

[dekez]

Outrageous! Post on a forum about it.

I didn't even mention the worst of it, one them wanted Spanish!!!!

 

[Adam]

polskie ludzie (lud) skradły wszystkie prace!

 

[jack.mitchell]

Capitalism, yo. Dirty deeds done cheap.

I would vote for this, just a way of bringing in cheap workers without discrimination.

 

[Pav89]

I think its quite ridiculous that the OP is complaining. Many countries around the world are required to learn english as it is 'The business language'.

One advert pops up in the UK whereby the applicant must speak Polish which opens a can of worms. I think this just shows how some people in society are selfish and ignorant of that fact that we live in a multicultural society and have freedom to travel so easily with the EU.

polskie ludzie (lud) skradły wszystkie prace!

They work their backsides off for little pay. I'd rather have Polish people working here than the people of this country that constantly complain about not being able to find a job.

 

[Adam]

They work their backsides off for little pay. I'd rather have Polish people working here than the people of this country that constantly complain about not being able to find a job.

Calm down. Are you Polish?

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

You have real problems with this don't you?

 

[Col_M]

Most positions for large international companies over here only require either English, German or French, nobody apart from the cleaners where I work are unable to speak English.
Granted it's a bit different as English is an international language of business and commerce but the point is the native language of the country you are living in isn't always required for a job there.

 

[Vonhelmet]

What? How dare we deal with Frogs and Nazis?!

In Europe we have 200 languages. Two hundred languages! Just count them! I know you won’t! … And future generations of Europeans, I’m sorry Europeans, but we’re going to have to be bilingual. We are going to have to be, and English speakers hate this.

“Two languages in one head? No one can live at that speed! Good Lord, man! You’re asking the impossible!”

“But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana!”

“Yes, but they’re cheating! Everyone knows marijuana is a drug enhancement, that can help you in track and field, to come last in a team of eight million…eight million other runners who are all dead.”

I don’t know how the Dutch do it, but anyway – because we’re going to have to learn! And the reason we’re going to have to learn is, one, for being groovy, and just getting out there and doing it, but the second one, we just lose a lot of business, in Europe. In the rest of Europe. Because German people phone up and go, “Wir haben fünf millionen Deutschmark, für die Auto…”

“Just **** off, willya mate?! [hangs up] I thought he was speaking German, I told him to go away! I said… I don’t know, something about fünf millionen Deutschmark and I told him to get knotted! We don’t want any of his Deustchy Markys. We do?! We do want that?! Oh, I’m terribly sorry! Oh ****, redial."