05.11.2012 Views

The Polish Experience By Nicholas Westerby This ... - GetSab.Com

The Polish Experience By Nicholas Westerby This ... - GetSab.Com

The Polish Experience By Nicholas Westerby This ... - GetSab.Com

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

customer service section. Monika found me about an hour later with seven CV’s<br />

with the diversity of a Justin Bieber fan club.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re were five females and only one was over 25, two males both of whom<br />

were 24. I started to look at the CV’s and decided I needed to invite the forty<br />

plus year old Beata if for nothing else not to look ageist. Ageism is a bigger<br />

issue now than it was back then but Wally had me scared. I invited the two guys<br />

and I chose two women whose CV’s seemed to be written in the more readable<br />

English.<br />

Monika helpfully arranged for them to drop in throughout Wednesday. I still<br />

had no internet but was homing my managerial skills on my favourite computer<br />

game, Football Manager. I had decided to start a game in Poland, to get a feel<br />

for the place but I quickly abandoned that for the familiar feeling of England.<br />

It felt weird not working, not harrying and harassing for the next sale. I don’t<br />

think I could be unemployed or retired for that matter. I needed to occupy my<br />

brain and even took up Sudoku but I was still bored. I joined Monika on the<br />

balcony for a cigarette and later regularly took up smoking to fill a void for<br />

three minutes, that’s how bored I was.<br />

When I got home I was reminded of the morning’s tragedy as the tennis rackets<br />

and balls were ominously staring at me from a corner. Elly wasn’t haunted by<br />

them and busied herself with any TV show she could find. I made small talk and

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!