Eastern European consultants not good enough for the UK

[Bee]

You received a polite reply that gave advice which could be applied to anyone. The fact that you are trying to imply that it or my previous reply was somehow rude would tend to point to you being one of the "victims" of this world.
Rather than trying to find aggression in posts where none exists, try starting from the point that people do not spend their whole lives trying to think of ways to hurt you.
If I was a psychologist, I'd suggest you are doing a lot of projecting, which is not a great trait to have as a professional IT contractor.

Oh more bulltulip!
I believe that you have a lot of experience (check my signature with no offence) than me in this kind of dicussions. I'm sure you are a winner.

I believe that you can do better than this.

Have a nice weekend my friend.

[northernladuk]

Oh more bulltulip!
I believe that you have a lot of experience (check my signature with no offence) than me in this kind of dicussions. I'm sure you are a winner.

I believe that you can do better than this.

Have a nice weekend my friend.

I didn't think were allowed in the prof forums let alone yet again directly implying a mod is an idiot.

[kolata]

I didn't think were allowed in the prof forums let alone yet again directly implying a mod is an idiot.

Is he/she?

[northernladuk]

Is he/she?

She I believe but who knows.

[fool]

Well, the only way you can know the intricacies of the differences is by understanding both cultures.

My experience of different cultures is that they are, by definition and reality, different.
It is not an argument about one being right and another being wrong, it is about accepting the other culture is different to yours. You can either adopt it to try to integrate when there, or you can ignore it and find it difficult to integrate.
You can also learn from other cultures, as long as you are not closed-minded. Not everything one culture does is "the best", learn something new, grow a bit.
It's like business improvement and contracting. Good contractors have a raft of experience gained from different clients. If you believe that after 1 client you know everything and there is nothing left to learn, then you'll just be an arrogant permie in a year or two. The more clients I go to, the more I learn. If you don't learn at a client, you haven't listened and you haven't done your job well.

Again, my biases line up with yours. However I don't actually have experience working on the continent, thus I was wondering if we had anything tangible.

For example some may cite their experience working in Berlin and finding businesses more direct there; alternativly I've heard the french are a bit laissez-faire; whilst we, the brits, are super political.

I don't have personal experience with this, thus I'd actually be interested in hearing your own.

[Bee]

Bee has a good point. Whilst I suspect the cultures are different, saying things are different because they are is a poor argument. We should be able to quatify our opinions.

Pet peeve of mine, I spend my days aruging with people blocking projects because of whimsical fantasys not baked in reality. They can't backup their opinions but don't seem to feel they have to.

Please don't attempt to validate fallacious arguments.

Yes, I'm glad that you were capable to see my point of view.
Genelazing that one country is a kind of A and other a kind of B its wrong and reveal ignorance.
A it's not better than B just because it is.

I had a British complain about the working hours, a Vietnamese complaining about the air conditioning and a North American that went to a meeting directly from the beach. I can't generalize all just because I had an incident.

Conclusion no one is better than the other one, we just need to make sure and that they need to respect the culture of the country.

[northernladuk]

You couldn't type your answers in to MS Word and then paste it on the forum after spell checking? The way you are doing it now seems to be broken.

[Bee]

You couldn't type your answers in to MS Word and then paste it on to the forum after spell checking? The way you are doing it now seems to be broken.

Sarcasm again, where are the mods now!

[northernladuk]

Sarcasm again, where are the mods now!

Well they ain't going to come to your defence after you've been calling them out recently. Wasn't sarcasm anyway, it was a reasonable suggestion based in fact.

[SueEllen]

Sarcasm again, where are the mods now!

He's not being sarcastic.

There is a difference between people who speak English to a high standard making random mistakes and someone who doesn't making mistakes in everything they write.