TELEPHONE POLES The telephone company needed to hire two more telephone pole installers and the choice came down to two from Poland and two Irish men. So the boss met both teams and said “Here’s what we’ll do. Each team will be installing poles out on the new road for a day. The team that installs the most poles gets the job.” Both teams headed right out. At the end of the shift, when the two Polish guys reported back, the boss asked them how many they had installed. They said it was tough going but they had put in twelve. Forty five minutes later, Paddy & Mick came back in, totally exhausted. “Well, how many poles did you guys install?” said the boss. Mick wiped his brow and sighed, “Paddy & me, we got three in.” The boss gasped, “Three? Those two Polish blokes put in twelve!” “Yeah,” said Mick, “But did ya see how much they left sticking out of the ground.”
Walking around Dublin last night and we passed a road works crew, all talking to each other in Polish....
I heard nearly as much Russian in Dublin as I do most days here. None of them were Russians though. Most likely Latvians and Lithuanians.
