lol pippa, the greek builder I used put my cupboards up the wrong way...
I dont think there is a difference essentially, however I believe that foreign workers tend to have lower expectations of an employer than a brit, in one engineering firm there were women operating machinery who couldnt speak english, doing some very dangerous things, the manager didnt want to pay for safer equipment and he preferred the foreign speaking workers as they (in his words) didnt moan about it
I have to say as a brit, I wouldnt have done that job because
a) I couldnt afford half the minimum wage
b) It was a very dangerous job, there were people who worked their (all immigrants) that had fingers missing and other injuries, they never complained once...