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Previously on "Eastern European consultants not good enough for the UK"
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostYou 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.
This is a question or what? You couldn't!
I would write:
Could you type your answer in MS Word and then past it on the forum after the spell check?
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostHe'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.
My dear, I know exactly my level of English.
We are in a professional forum and instead of talking bulltulip, you should be more constructive by explaining why the MS Word after the spelling checker would correct broken English .
You found an error in one word and your guys are complaining.
I’m looking forward to hearing from you.
(I apologies to other posters for this crap discussion)
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Originally posted by Bee View PostSarcasm again, where are the mods now!
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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.Last edited by northernladuk; 9 September 2016, 17:28.
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Originally posted by fool View PostBee 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.
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.
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Originally posted by WTFH View PostWell, 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.
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Originally posted by Bee View PostOh 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.
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Originally posted by WTFH View PostYou 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.
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.
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Originally posted by Bee View PostDon't make me laugh, please. This is not supposed to be funny.
The fact is, I asked a question politely and what I've received?
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.
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Originally posted by Bee View PostDon't make me laugh, please. This is not supposed to be funny.
The fact is, I asked a question politely and what I've received?
He gave you quite a detailed reply at 10:52, but you were probably just concentrating too much on trolling to read it.
There are a couple of posts regarding the Polish work culture earlier in the thread.
All these continuous anti British sentiments you spout are, quite frankly, very boring .
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