u/No-Strawberry7

It’s extremely annoying to constantly see advertisements for businesses while using services like Google, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, and other platforms.

Because of this, I keep a list of businesses that advertise themselves and avoid giving them my business.

For example, if there is a restaurant near me that I would otherwise consider going to, but I have previously seen that restaurant advertising itself on Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, Google Maps, or another platform, I won’t go there.

The same applies to other businesses. If I encounter their advertisement, I simply choose another business instead.

I’m not talking about influencers or content creators who happen to promote a product or business. That’s different. I’m specifically talking about businesses paying to have their own advertisements shown to me while I’m using another service.

I understand that this doesn’t really affect these businesses on an individual level. They aren’t going to know that one person decided not to visit because of an advertisement.

But I still do it. If a business advertises itself directly to me, it goes on my list, and I don’t give it my money.
The purpose of advertising is presumably to make people more likely to use a business. For me, it has the opposite effect.

If I discover a restaurant or business organically through search, reviews, recommendations, or simply
by seeing it in the area, that’s completely fine.

But if I see the business as an advertisement, I’m choosing someone else.

I think the current justice system is fundamentally flawed, and I have a alternative: every person should have a criminal point score from 0–100, starting at 100 when they are born.

Every crime deducts a certain number of points depending on its severity.

For example:
Minor theft: −5
Fraud: −10
DUI: −20
Serious financial crime: −15 to −25
DUI resulting in someone’s death: −50
Murder: −100

The exact numbers could obviously be debated and adjusted. The important part is that punishment would be determined by the number of points a person has left, rather than relying primarily on judges deciding what sentence someone deserves in each individual case.

You could then have different punishment tiers.
Someone with 90–100 points might receive probation, mandatory rehabilitation, community service, etc.

Someone with 50–90 points might receive progressively more restrictive sentences.

Someone below 50 might be sent to a high-security prison.

And someone who reaches 0 points would be permanently removed from society, potentially including the death penalty for sufficiently severe offenses.

I also think this system would make repeat offending much easier to deal with. If you commit a relatively minor crime, you don’t necessarily get thrown into prison for years. But if you repeatedly commit crimes, your score keeps falling, and eventually the consequences become much more severe.

The most controversial part of my proposal (imo) is that sentences would essentially be determined by a person’s remaining points. There would still be courts to establish whether someone actually committed a crime, but once guilt was established, the punishment would follow a predefined point system rather than being determined largely on a case-by-case basis.

I think this would make the system considerably more transparent. Everyone would know exactly what different crimes cost them, and repeated criminal behavior would have an increasingly severe effect on the punishment.

Obviously, there are a million problems with this idea: false convictions, differences in circumstances, proportionality, rehabilitation, corruption, whether points should ever be restored, and who gets to decide how many points each crime costs.

How do you guys feel about this?

Clearly, the goal is to attract more foreign tourists, and we all know that tourism brings money into Poland and benefits the wider economy.

But given how much we’ve heard in recent years about places like Zakopane and Kraków becoming increasingly popular with Arab tourists, do you think Poles will actually become more accepting of foreign tourists in general?

There have already been complaints about Zakopane having large numbers of Arab tourists, Arabic-language billboards, and more halal food options. I remember eating at a steakhouse there that was completely halal.

It’s interesting because Poland seems to want to attract more tourists while there is still some local frustration about the tourists who are already coming. As a foreigner, I’d be interested to hear your perspective on this.

I’m the OP behind these posts:

https://www.reddit.com/r/poland/s/Wx%7C08Fzfr6

https://www.reddit.com/r/poland/s/w7yU9AH2CV

Thank you to everyone who commented, gave advice, helped me out, and, yes, made fun of me when I deserved it.

Today I finally got paid.

So, I ended up not going to PIP. Before doing that, I followed the advice of one of the Redditors here and sent the company a przedsądowe wezwanie do zapłaty (pre-court demand for payment).

After receiving it, the owner of the company contacted me and we arranged to meet at the office. We ended up signing the necessary PIT-11 documents and, finally, a contract.

The funny part? I signed a contract almost a month after I had already left the job. Even funnier, the contract we signed was for August, despite the work in question being performed in July.

Maybe they wanted to avoid the whole PIP/legal headache. Maybe there was another reason. That’s just my speculation. Either way, I wasn’t interested in fighting a war over it — I just wanted to get paid for the work I had already done.

And thankfully, I did.

A special thank you to the kind Redditor who helped me put together the wezwanie do zapłaty. I won’t mention their username without their permission, but their advice was genuinely useful.

I also think part of the reason this worked out in my favour may be that this is an established company with a public presence, including LinkedIn, and that a PIP inspection could potentially have caused them more trouble than simply paying what I was owed. Again, that’s only my speculation.

I know plenty of people here, especially workers in construction and other industries, end up in situations where employers delay contracts, don’t pay properly, or take advantage of people who don’t know their rights.

So if there’s one thing I’d take away from this:
Always get your contract sorted before you start working. Don’t rely on “we’ll sign it later.”

And don’t be afraid to use the protections available to you. I ultimately didn’t have to involve PIP, but knowing that I could take the matter to PIP gave me some leverage, and in the end I received the money I had rightfully earned.

Lesson learned.

And to everyone who told me I was being an idiot for agreeing to the situation in the first place — fair enough. I learned my lesson.

(formatted with Apple Rewrite).

Hello everyone,

I’m the OP from the previous post that i made

https://www.reddit.com/r/poland/s/Wxl08Fzfr6

I ended up working for the company for around two weeks without ever receiving an employment contract. I repeatedly asked HR about it and was told it would be signed later, but it never happened.

I eventually resigned, partly because the contract kept being delayed. By then, I had worked for roughly 2.5k PLN

I requested payment for the hours I worked, but today the employer told me that because I left without notice, I am not eligible for payment.

I pointed out that I was never given a contract or written contractual terms despite repeatedly asking for them. The employer still maintains that I am not entitled to payment.

I have evidence of the work I performed, including working-hour records, company communications, schedules, and other documentation.

I’m now preparing a complaint to PIP (Państwowa Inspekcja Pracy).

For anyone familiar with Polish labour law:

Can an employer simply refuse to pay for hours actually worked because someone left without notice?

Does the fact that I was never given a contract or written employment terms change the situation?

What should I do after submitting the PIP
complaint?

Would recovering the unpaid wages require going to a labour court as well?

Thanks and Yes, I know i am a fucking idiot to agreeing with this.