So I Hired a Ukrainian

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Candellara said:

Al Gorithum said:

impressed enough with the work ethic, basic skills and overall attitude to hire him permanently. He couldn't more grateful for the opportunity too.

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Edited by Al Gorithum on Thursday 23 June 12:59

Doesn't that sum up most Eastern Europeans?

Although many have returned home, they're still our 1st port of call when advertising vacancies. WFH has been a blessing in some ways as we can hire people with better work ethics, same skills at a lower cost albeit working remotely for us.

We've a few Ukrainian staff onsite and they're great workers.

Nothing special about East Europeans in general.

What you are seeing is motivated people prepared to work in a foreign country for a better life, and significantly more money (often for less than someone from the UK would want)

If you go to a country that UK workers emigrate to you would also find similarly highly motivated and skilled people.

Neither are representative of the countries population in general.

My father lived and worked abroad for about 25 years. If he and his colleagues were your only experience of British people you would assume we are a nation of highly skilled and well paid engineers, architects, and project managers.

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1st gen poles etc are great workers good ethics and want to better then selves. Their children the 2nd gen who grew up here nowhere near as reliable, take sickies, don;t work as hard or want to.

Obviously there are exceptions but 99% of time this has been true. Too often at my work a mum has said my son/ daughter wants to work here too . We take them on and they are useless.