Wednesday 17 October 2012

This is Poland #1: Polish customer service

I've been thinking about starting this category for a while- to explain a few interesting aspects of life in Poland. Not that it's all that strange, but some things do stand out...

So I'm thinking of changing my cellphone provider and had a few questions about which phone to choose, prices according to my usage etc and I thought I'd just get in line for the customer service chat while doing other tasks online... This is what I got:


I'm like..... if you don't speak English, then why even bother with the chit chat???! And clearly he *did* know how to put sentences together so I really don't understand why he couldn't either find someone with skills or simply say "nienienienienienienienienienieninieNIEEEE" like the other honest people who claim not to be able to communicate in anything but Polish, Czech or Russian!

Excellent. Now I actually have to man up and go to the Play shop- it's not like there's a guarantee that the English speaking people on the phone will *actually* speak in English...!


.n

Wednesday 10 October 2012

Textbooks for the lazy.

I'm trying to buy my books second hand off amazon.co.uk and other places online. Being lazier than your average cat at Sunday brunch I've left this way too long and probably need to start reading off real material soon. My relationship with wikipedia is getting a little too intense....

So I came across this and it made me chuckle:


A cover of an actual medical textbook! If only there was one of these for every single subject I have the next five years... Hah... I'd especially like to see the one for "oral and maxillary surgery- made ridiculously simple".........which we found (well except the title was missing the part after the hyphen) at one of the medical bookshops today and is probably the biggest piece of "book" I've ever seen in my life. Oh surgery, I just can't wait!



So long..! I'm going to send off my amazon order now before I put more DVDs than books into the shopping basket..


.n