Life, Love, Various Vodka's, Trials and Tribulations of Life in Ukraine

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What's the difference between British, Russian and Ukrainian Builders? // Thu Apr 2 08:25:23 2009

british builders will turn up late, leave early and stop for a cup of tea every half hour.

russian builders (if they turn up) will get drunk on vodka and steal anything they can.

ukrainian builders aren't bad apparently...

and lets not even mention german builders as everyone knows they are the best...

looking out of our window on this amazingly sunny morning (which just seems strange as there was a mahoosively heavy rain of snow just a few days ago) we noticed some builders digging a rather large hole outside (no idea why they need such a large hole in such a strange place however)

olya mentioned some guy from moscow who recently(ish) got fined for using non-russian workers, and no... they weren't polish! which seems to crop up anytime people mention british workers these days. they were a combination of ukrainian and moldovan. a few weeks later he was found to be using the same workers again. when asked why he simply said that "it's cheaper". it seems that as well as actually getting the job done, they don't get drunk or steal anything!

oh, i spoke to soon... they seem to have stopped working. maybe they've all gone for a drink?