There seems to be some confusion over my complaints about Denmark. Firstly, everyone I worked with (aside from Ken Primby of course), was fair, honest and hard-working. In fact, you have to have a high work ethic because every worker in Denmark carries at least two lazy, useless Danes on their shoulders, through the high taxes they pay. Even worse is that it means you have very little left for the people who actually matter in your life, which in my case is my wife and our four children.
So there you go, just in case anyone I ever worked with reads this!
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Just read your entire blog, and lol I'm thinking twice about going to denmark. I've been planning for awile now in moving there, and have everything arranged for the month of february, me and two friends from college. Come on things can't be all that bad, can it? I also work in IT, working for 1 year now as a developer, working with java and .net, will it be easy for me to get a job??
uh oh, I don't know where you're coming from, you may find it OK. I know young Danes are more friendlier and open than the older ones, so the culture will definitely change as the years go on, and of course IT is a young mans game - hey many of the people I worked with were great. But yep, don't expect to keep too much money out of it ;-)
aha, it's funny to read these misadventures from the right, to go along with my from-the-left view at http://tsrid.blogspot.com/ . Frankly, I could spent my life writing about things rotten in Denmark, but gave myself a break, the bottom line is the country is OK, no more rotten than any other I know. Welfare cheques have always been around for the majority, it just shows how little work is required to maintain human life and human lifestyles. The hard-working alternative would be that we would all add one car to our personal fleet every year with all the lazy bums employed by the car industry, and we'd die under a heap of crap. So let some lucky/smart/stupid/unlucky people have jobs, and everybody else just have a beer and one car!
Anyway, the real reason I am writing is because I am surprised you could not use the legal system to get your dues (or did you)? As you've said yourself, the country is anything but lawless. When it comes to building work etc, just use my Polish pals, they are rotten as can be but they can finish a bloody wall or paint job!
Thanks for your comment. Sadly, as you obviously encountered yourself, Denmark is seriously anti-business and anti-capitalist, and hey, anyone who dares to try and run a business is a capitalist scum who deserves what he gets, right? Anyway, that essentially seems to be the approach, and while we clubbed together to chase him legally, looks like we'll only be getting a few % of what we're owed. Oh and he's already back in operation and working again under a new name.....nice!
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