The gas engineer

i'm going to tell you a funny story about a gas engineer. His name is John. I met him when I asked him for a gas certificate for one of my boss' properties. I don't know what exactly sparked the conversation (or his monologue rather)... but he kept saying how big contractor companies are hiring very cheap eastern european workers who are doing a crappy job because they all come here for a short while, live 7 or 8 of them crammed in small rooms and with the money they make they go back to their contries and live like kings. Him on the other hand, needs to pay for his qualification and to get certification and can't afford to do crappy jobs and can't aford to charge small fees because in order to maintain his lifestyle he needs to make £200 a day... I'm not going to discuss now the wrong stereotypes he has... or about stereotypes foreigner workers have about English workers (lazy, expensive, a pain)... It's just funny to see how upset some people are with eastern europeans... English workers (builders) absolutely hate workers from East Europe... It's quite a different attitude to the one of English intelectuals who are rather indiferent to eastern europeans... maybe because they don't feel threatened in any way? Or is it because they understand that the UK economy is aided by the in-flow of foreigner workers....