You'll be happy to hear then Harrison, that I recently read that over 100,000 polacs have left the UK over the past year... for Norway! Norway has been a prime target for them for years now, and now even the ones that have moved to other countries are leaving there to come here.

I have to deal with polish workers a lot, not only because I keep running into them at various sites but also because the company I work for frequently use them as well. That said, I don't think polacs are particularily useless. They're as bright and skilled as anyone, it's communicating with them that's the problem. Hardly any of them understand any norwegian (though some are quick and eager to learn), and the ones that claim to speak english in fact barely understand it. Speaking clear, proper english to them will get you nowhere, instead you have to use a form of english-norwegian pidgin complete with exagerrated handgestures to maybe get your idea across. You can explain something to them this way a number of times and they will smile and indicate they've understood, yet when you come back they've still done things wrong. I am so fed up with fixing the mistakes these people make, but I still maintain that it is not because they are stupid or unskilled. It's just that it's too hard to explain the finer details of a job to them. They'll get the general idea, but the smaller things you've stressed they need to do in a specific way almost always flies way past them. And I don't need to tell you how annoying that is!