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some team members I needed others who’d fit in with them. I also explained<br />

that if I had made a mistake I could rectify it in the trimming down phase.<br />

He looked at me as if I was a newborn. He saw that when you got a job in<br />

England you turned up for it but holding back his condescending tone he<br />

explained that in Poland, even though people shake your hand and promise<br />

they’ll come, hell most of the time you are doing them a huge favour, they<br />

don’t. I nodded and smiled and asked Monika and she confirmed Paweł’s<br />

version of <strong>Polish</strong> recruitment. I must admit I was taken aback.<br />

I thought I had the power.<br />

I thought I would have been the one to do the hiring and firing. It turned out that<br />

it was more of a negotiation in Poland than in the UK. I finished up Friday back<br />

in the good mood that I’d started it with and was confident in the team I’d put<br />

together.<br />

I had a week with them before the UK team arrived and when they came, the<br />

crew, my team, finally had computers.<br />

<strong>The</strong> UK weren’t sure about my team’s ability. For the whole time Stacey and<br />

Sharon were in Poland they just trained the team. Saj tried to configure the<br />

network to get the computers operable. He thought he had it fixed then<br />

something I had no idea about happened and everything failed. I was beginning<br />

to see that a good team would be sat on their arses unless the technology

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