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I wasn't surprised to find bad code there. I was surprised that my job didn't seem to include making it better. Unbabel is based in SF and is unique in offerin

I wasn't surprised to find bad code there. I was surprised that my job didn't seem to include making it better. Unbabel is based in SF and is unique in offering SF level compensation in Portugal. Perhaps I was naive in expecting them to honor our contract, it does seem like fucking people over is business as usual in Portugal.

ergodic 12y ago
Context: I lived in Lisbon four years and know one of the founders of Unbabel. I do not know you, neither your story. Regarding your comments: > That's one thing I really hated about Portugal, they just don't offer any information in English >Thanks, but from the experience I had with both my employer and my landlord in Portugal I'd rather not do business with any Portuguese people ever again. Sorry. >it does seem like fucking people over is business as usual in Portugal >Have you had any experience with the Portuguese state or legal system? I'd probably still be standing in a queue somewhere. Blaming the whole country for a 90 day experience does not seem very proportional to me. Again, I do not know your story and can not speak for the veracity of your facts. What I do know is Lisbon (and I have lived many years in Spain and Germany to compare with). From that I know that you are just being, at best, exaggerated and I wonder if you have been exaggerating other stuff too.
- paulojreis 12y ago
  Yet, as a portuguese, it's hard to dismiss his claims. The queues and slow state services, the "fucking people over" (mainly in employer-employee and vendor-customer relationships), the lack of information in english (unless you consider the restaurant menus as sufficient)... well, you run into this every-fuckin-day. He may be escalating his issues, but - again, as a portuguese - I don't think he got the wrong idea about the sad state of affairs here.

ergodic 12y ago

Context: I lived in Lisbon four years and know one of the founders of Unbabel. I do not know you, neither your story. Regarding your comments: > That's one thing I really hated about Portugal, they just don't offer any information in English >Thanks, but from the experience I had with both my employer and my landlord in Portugal I'd rather not do business with any Portuguese people ever again. Sorry. >it does seem like fucking people over is business as usual in Portugal >Have you had any experience with the Portuguese state or legal system? I'd probably still be standing in a queue somewhere. Blaming the whole country for a 90 day experience does not seem very proportional to me. Again, I do not know your story and can not speak for the veracity of your facts. What I do know is Lisbon (and I have lived many years in Spain and Germany to compare with). From that I know that you are just being, at best, exaggerated and I wonder if you have been exaggerating other stuff too.

paulojreis 12y ago
Yet, as a portuguese, it's hard to dismiss his claims. The queues and slow state services, the "fucking people over" (mainly in employer-employee and vendor-customer relationships), the lack of information in english (unless you consider the restaurant menus as sufficient)... well, you run into this every-fuckin-day. He may be escalating his issues, but - again, as a portuguese - I don't think he got the wrong idea about the sad state of affairs here.