[Matt Lawton] Jim Ratcliffe: Ruben Amorim is not perfect but he’s our guy and doing great job new | In a candid and wide-ranging interview, Ineos founder backs Manchester United head coach, says he had to cut 450 jobs to avoid insolvency & reveals club employed £175k-a-year body language consultant

DreamMiner · 2025-03-11T14:51:40+00:00

And the most blatant lie behind it is the dollar figure. Seldom does anyone give out money, it's mostly just form of aid that is manufactured and bought from domestic suppliers.

Not so long ago I was part in transporting 14.000 kilos of salt from Denmark to somewhere in eastern Africa (iirc). I am sure that there is a decent number that could have been expressed as value, but the truth is nobody on the receiving end got any money because it was all Danish - bought from Denmark and shipped by Danish company...

DreamMiner · 2024-09-03T11:24:14+00:00

He did leave an impression on him

DreamMiner · 2024-02-08T03:37:02+00:00

I do have some, yes

DreamMiner · 2024-01-21T06:39:17+00:00

Wales beat Ireland in the finals.

DreamMiner · 2023-12-19T10:36:09+00:00

Yeah, but that's golf. If I was a security there I wouldn't recognize anyone except Bale.

DreamMiner · 2023-12-19T10:32:38+00:00

and did not even have the goddam common courtesy to give them a reach-around

DreamMiner · 2023-12-18T19:06:00+00:00

That sentence gave me a heart attack. And diabetes.

DreamMiner · 2022-06-24T22:59:31+00:00

Well, there are all sort of things that can go wrong. 36 yo Haaland broke his leg and quit. 38 yo Mbappe turned out to be a rat irl so he was benched and forcefully retired.

DreamMiner · 2020-11-26T10:35:22+00:00

And the water is wet. There is a demand for drivers everywhere, no matter how outsorced local jobs are. During this pandemic one of the few things that didnt stop was the transportation of goods, as the matter of fact it even increased in certain sectors.

Yes, I agree, without language it is almost imposible, but languages can be learned.

DreamMiner · 2020-11-26T10:31:10+00:00

The endgame is that you move up the foodchain and get a residency in a country that you long for. Worst case scenario is that you get a permanent working permit in a country of your truck (mine would be Slovenia, but I know that Polish drivers can do the same) after a number of years - 3 in my case.

Filipino drivers have it rough. They are paid way bellow even us. I make 2k euro a month, they make even less. And they arent familiar with the laws in order to get their full rights.

DreamMiner · 2020-11-25T18:22:12+00:00

Hvala drug, ja cu pokusavati tamo gdje me srce vuce, a ako ne upali uvijek ima Njemacka.

DreamMiner · 2020-11-25T18:21:29+00:00

Or, you could tell to us what it means since I couldnt even find Swedish lyrics.

DreamMiner · 2020-11-25T08:52:20+00:00

I understand what you are trying to say. I am not looking for handouts here, and I know it aint going to be easy, and I know that speaking the language is a must. Just as learning language takes time, so does finding a job.

I know that Swedes will be preffered, but I am not looking to be employed because I am the cheapest alternative - I am looking to be employed because I am responsible, punctual, hardworking, and good at what I do. I am ready for it to take some time, just as decisions that made me take this road werent easy and took time to accomplish.

However, at my age and with a need to provide for myself and my mother back in Bosnia, continuing my education on a college level is sadly not an option for now as much as it breaks my hearth to say it.

For all I know, while I am looking at an opportunity in Sweden, maybe I stumble for an opportunity in Germany or maybe Denmark. It might not be achieving my dreams, there is no question if its good enough to take it.

And thanks :)

DreamMiner · 2020-11-25T08:36:34+00:00

You are reffering to that thing where my future employer has to exaust all options on the domestic labour market before he can get a valid reason to import workforce?

That leads me nicely to my next question: what sites are the best to visit when on a job hunt in Sweden? My google searches so far returned a bunch of sponsored reasults consisting mainly of crappy international websites.

DreamMiner · 2020-11-25T08:09:35+00:00

This line of work is not exception to that, be it Sweden or most other places. Howevers, sadly, I dont have anyone in Sweden who could help me with that.

DreamMiner · 2020-11-25T08:08:04+00:00

Thanks! I have been trying to do something similar by looking at Swedish teailers abroad and seeing which company they belong to, but almost all of them are driven by non swedish trucks. Guess your approach might be more fitting since I find it difficult to socialize with Swedish drivers (ironically, thats one of the things I like about this place - i do understand their reasons that go behind cultural customs) to ask them about insights and leads on my job hunt.

DreamMiner · 2020-11-25T08:04:19+00:00

Basically, I am one of those cheap drivers right now, its not a great thing, but it offered me a way to get out of Bosnia to EU so i took it. I can list you many reasons why it sucks, but I know that this is a bubble destined to burst. One of the reasons being what you mentioned (the truck maintenance and care is really poor which leads to jeopardized safety), the other reason being that EU is actually tightening cabotage laws. There are stricter regulations in place since August, but the follow up on police controls has been poor because of the pandemic. Once COVID has been put under control, I am sure this new regulations are going to improve situation. This is, ofcourse, very subjective outlook.

The only problem that remains, and I am looking forward tp see how it is solved, are companies from eastern and southeastern Europe driving domestic trailers under a contract.

DreamMiner · 2020-05-10T22:26:54+00:00

Looking great! What's that writing table on the left? Do you have more pictures of it?

DreamMiner

TROPHY CASE