i need king size rolling papers but i cant find any anywhere is it illegal in finland?

Hello everyone,

I am looking for advice here on what should I do for my little business.
I have full-time income from one company which is around 70k per year, I have pension and personal tax registered here.

Recently, I have a chance to offer freelancing services for another company which can generate around 30000-40000 per year.

I am considering between open OY and TOMINIMI.

As I understand, Oy still have to pay business tax 20% out of my sale.
For example, if I earn 1000e + VAT 25,5%.
I have to pay tax office VAT 25,5%
Business tax 20%.
And then I can withdraw money from company's funds as divident (with 30% tax) or salary (with personal tax).

People have been telling me OY is better as my full-time salary is already significant. However, as I am very bad at math and I am not sure which is the best way to make some extra earnings out of my situation. Please if anyone can give me advice of what can I do? Thank you so much

I am concerned about my safety, and the safety of employees in general at the Wihuri-Metro warehouse in Vantaa. I am starting to be afraid to go to work. Both management and the workers are to blame.

A few factors contribute to this, and all of them are related to one of the warehouse's main activity: picking—in this case, voice-picking, as the majority of the workforce is hired to do this job.

The factors I consider causing the problem are:

Overcrowded shifts

Lack of communication

Ineffective rules or no enforcement of rules

Gig workers, part-time /0 hour contract workers

Money incentive for faster workers- Performance base bonuses for faster pickers and also for example time rate bonuses such as Sunday 100% bonus.

The threat of no work offer.

Ineffective rules or no enforcement of rules:

There are operating rules and traffic rules inside the warehouse, but those are not enforced. When there are a lot of people who don't communicate and are desperate to work fast, they will do whatever possible to get those extra few euros per paycheck. Jumping out of their truck, in front of another moving pallet truck or forklift to pick up an item that is on a shelf on the other side of the aisle, when the right thing to do would be to just wait your turn, or drive in front and park and reach the place by walking, or drive behind the other truck, park and reach the place by walking, but jumping in front of another moving truck to get an item from a shelf "across the road" is something I see every day.

Not slowing down when driving near other people, or when crossing intersections. Why slow down, they need that extra 3 seconds, slowing down doesn't make money... well hitting someone accidentally will not make you money either.

Gig workers, part-time /0 hour contract workers:

A good number of voice pickers have this sort of contract. Wihuri has a performance target based on how fast you work, if you fall below that percentage, doesn't matter for what reason, they start not accepting your shift requests, and actively not offering you work anymore for a while. They say something like: because the target is 90% if you are working under target for a while, no more shifts offered until the production really needs more workers again. There's no let's try to find you another task at the warehouse (there are plenty of different tasks...) it's just boom, no more work. So of course the workers on these 0 hour contracts are desperate to keep on target, and doing all that crazy stuff mentioned above to reach it.

----So if you are trying to work safely and follow the safety rules given by the warehouse, you will usually follow bellow the target, just for doing the work like it should be done----

Management keeps sending notifications about work accidents, someone fell someone tripped, and someone was under a lifted pallet. And all these instructions on how traffic work, to be careful and all that good stuff... But how do they want employees to follow safety instructions if it will greatly put them at a disadvantage against your minimum performance target, let alone above-target incentives...when the vast majority doesn't give a crap about following those rules and therefore work faster and "getting more money" by not picking up empty pallets, blocking access, by driving however they want, and putting other people in danger.

Something that goes for everyone else when it comes to the performance bonus incentives, is the faster you work, your pay rate per hour can increase like 4 ...5 euros, so instead of 13,25/h you could work 16..17€/h for that amount of time that you performed above target. At the end of the month usually, you can earn a few extra euros maybe 40 euros or something more for the crazy ones willing to sacrifice their bodies and put everyone else in dangerous situations every day.

Lack of communication:

That is a warehouse where many positions have been adapted to accommodate English-speaking workers, who are half of the workforce. Great everyone has a chance to make money. Nonetheless, the problem is there isn't a common language enforced for clear communication. It's a problem when I say, "hey I'm driving my pallet truck around you", and the other guy looks confused and continues to operate a mast-forklift to elevate a half-ton weight full pallet above my head. He doesn't understand English, he doesn't have too. So now I accidentally drove under.

It's a problem when someone says (suomeksi): Voisitko siirtää kuorma-autosi sivuun? Haluaisin ajaa läpi ... and the other one looks confused and says what, can you say that in English? He doesn't understand Finnish, he doesn't have too. So now the other guy is stuck blocking a passage with high traffic of mastlift forklifts and pallet trucks, can't move forward or backward.

It's also funny when you try to communicate with words and gestures, and they don't even reply.

I wonder what goes through their head?: " I don't understand you so I will not even reply" just keep doing what I'm doing"

The same goes vice versa for English speakers but those will usually try to explain that they didn't understand something, at least.

A special note for brown-skinned Finns, oh they despise you if you speak English to them haha, I wonder what goes through their head " I am a proud Finn, didn't you know that, you must not disrespect my language" 🥲 Sorry Mohammad I'm just trying to make sure you don't step backward while I'm driving my pallet truck near you. So maybe at least look if someone is trying to speak to you, no matter what language it is.... a smashed leg has got to hurt, and then you can't work at a warehouse anymore.... so maybe don't pretend you didn't hear someone trying to speak to you please ...!?

It's such a bad environment you can feel the generalized lack of empathy.

Now considering everything you read above, picture an overcrowded work shift, a full warehouse. Aisles full of pallet trucks and mast forklifts all driving fast not understanding each other, barely being able to move sometimes, people jumping around in front of other people, you bend over to pick something from a lower shelf, and someone else desperately trying to get something heavy from a shelf above you, daily close calls, and unreported minor accidents.

So Wihuri if you are seeing this, let's implement a clear communication system. Let's teach your employees how to communicate. Let's not threaten employees falling below target, but focus on the contradictions that are creating some good people to fall below target just to make sure they are safe. Let's not turn a blind eye to the safety of people at your warehouse.

So if you work with voice picking at other warehouses, how is your experience?

Hey, i am an 17 years old student in Espoo. I am looking for a job the last year and dont understand which company could take an underage person to work. Could you give me a place what you know or worked for where i could apply in Helsinki/Espoo?

Would love your expertise. I booked the Hilton Strand and am going in January for 3 days. Given it's winter, would love your suggestions on a few fun places that are good to go to.

Any great restaurants/bars also? Thanks so much. I read through a few threads already but more people seem to visit in the summer!

As the title suggests I’m wanting to come to Finland to meet a girl I’ve met. She’s really amazing and I wanna come to Finland. I don’t have a passport yet but I know I need one. I’m from America. And I read online that I need a passport, return flight home, and documentation of insurance and hotel stay. But I plan to stay with my girl. -so basically what I’m asking is it okay for me to not have a hotel? If I were to be asked where I’m staying that I could say I’m staying with her?

I'm looking to make a purchase in Finland who will only deliver to a Finnish address and have it sent on to Germany.. I can't find any legit mail forwarders and I'm wondering if it might be due to language barrier. For instance if I google for something in German I will get german companies but if I googled the same thing in english I wouldn't get the same hits.. If anyone can recommend a company please let me know!

hi, moved back to Finland recently. I make around 60k/annum and everyone seems to be bugging me about getting on the property ladder. I have about 30k saved up at the moment certainly enough for a down payment. But it just seems like such a huge commitment also I don't like the idea of having debt. I would still be a first home buyer so I get the bonus thing, but doesnt it make sense to just put the extra income into appreciating assets like indexes instead of paying down a mortgage? Am I being unreasonable here? Does anyone have any similar experiences or opinions on this matter?

Im going to Finland in about a week and I havent planned what I want to visit yet. Any suggestions?? (close to Helsinki)

Hi, I am someone who eat a lot of honey daily and olive oil. I have tried so many different brands so far. I don't find that sweetness yet in the Finnish honey. I don't know how to explain this but I find it very difficult to eat it and enjoy it. Like for example I bought once sidr from yamen ah god what a 🍯 once Turkey but it was Syrian if I remember well. Could you plZ recommend what you think it's the best Finnish honey ? Something not from the normal store. From local or internet.

Note: I don't like Tattarihunaja 😂

Planning to visit Rovaniemi late December, we were thinking of doing a hiking tour at the national park. Pardon my ignorance but since the day time is incredibly short, we will be hiking in darkness most of the time, what's the point of it?

Not really recommended right?

If I wanted to take a train from Helsinki up north what is the cheapest way to get up there? What’s the name of the Finnish transportation system? Or the website

Hello there! I am a 17 year-old lukio student (10th grade) and I recently got really interested on welding. They are high paid and I like working with metal. Is there a place to get a training, like an ammatikoulu or something like that?

Thanks and sorry for the weird question!

Looking for more budget igloo recommendations in place of Kakslauten

So, i’ve seen this meme today i can’t find who the guy portrayed as „most succesful musician” in Finland is. Please i need to know, i won’t be able to sleep at night :D Greetings from Poland

Got a notification from Posti that my parcel is ready for pickup… in Järvenpää (K-Citymarket). The problem? I live in Tikkurila. I tried calling their customer service, but after being stuck in a queue for 15 minutes, I gave up. Thought I’d try their chat—same story there. It got me wondering: am I the only one dealing with this, or do others have even worse Posti horror stories? What’s been your worst experience with them?

Hey r/Finland,

Very quick backstory: My and my gf (35,28) currently live in Belgium and without even going in to it… it’s a shit place to be and we want out for a while now. We went on vacation in Finland and ended up in the town of Ranua. Basically, it’s one of those love at first sight moments so now we’re looking into the migration process as a thought exercise to see if it’s feasible.

Housing here is dirt cheap and with some more saving we can basically outright buy a house in Ranua but the migration process is a bit confusing.

You need to prove that you have a job and/or resources and a place to stay. But how does that work? We’re guessing you need to apply for a visa before you can buy a house but how can you provide a plan to stay somewhere if it all hinges on your migration request to be approved?

I have a remote job and earn enough to support the both of us until for the foreseeable future especially if we sell our home in Belgium and buy one in Finland.

Bonus question, I work in IT so internet is important but from what we gathered with translation tools, all of the broadband here is basically 4G or are we missing something? (I guess there’s always starlink 🤷)

Many thanks for any input on our half-baked plan 🙏

(TL;DR) A 3rd year IT with previous internship in software development, switched to Cybersecurity, ranked among highest in Finland on different CTFs, and still not a single simple IT trainee position. I am so disappointed right now. Seeking for advice to start my career Cybersecurity.

Hello fellow IT/Comp Sci student, a bit about me, an international student (South-East Asian) studying and living in South Savo region. Spent my first 2 year in uni studying software development, did an unpaid internship. The internship is terrible, no mentoring, all we got is an GPT-4 premium so we can abuse to create project for them, but at least it is something to put in CV. Meanwhile, found myself super interested in Cybersecurity, prior knowledge from software development and school allow me to catch up with it pretty fast. Doing HTB, THM, some other CTFs and pretty success, this gain me lots of confidence. Started to apply for some simple IT help-desk and technical customer support trainee. All I got is "unfortunately" and ghosted, not a single interview LOL. The only time I applied abroad, I immediately got an interview but I lacked of customer support experiences so I didn't get it. But guys you got the point right? What is happening? I chose Finland as it is IT heaven, marketing as an innovative country, tech savy and the incubator for young talents. My friends in France, who I can tell is even less skilled than me receive 3 different offers, he also an international student. I am grinding for certifications right now, with the hope to increase my chance to get hired.

Please, if you have some advice for me to kick-start my career in IT, highly appreciated. Especially Cybersecurity, I am very passion about it!

So I won’t make this too long (or try not to). I moved to Finland in February 2024 and went through everything for healthcare and received everything in June. I have health problems from prior to moving here and the doctors in the US were starting test due to family history of stomach /cervical and uterus cancers and such (three of my grandparents died of cancer and also my great grandparents and my mothers aunts and a couple of my aunts and cousins). My insurance in the US went out a month before I moved so I figured I’d just continue here. I also have medications (pretty strong ones that I don’t even know if they give them here in Finland) that I take for anxiety and depression that are finished and I need more (my symptoms are severe). Do I just wait a year for another diagnosis from Finnish doctors? I also have severe appendicitis that in the US I was told if it swelled up again I would need surgery stat (I am having the symptoms of it again badly but still able to stand unlike last time in the US so I don’t think I need emergency room just yet.) I have all of my diagnoses signed by my doctors and through the official Kaiser Permanente (one of the most if not the most popular and best healthcare systems in the US) log in with my MRN numbers and official seals. Now here in Finland after explaining this to the doctor I have, I’ve been given normal blood work testing ( cholesterol, blood sugar, thyroid etc) for 6 months as my symptoms and mental health get worse. Is it normal for it to take so long for them to even look at my previous diagnosis to see what kind of start to treatment I can get? Like I said, I have everything they need for my diagnosis but the doctors aid said I need to bring it in person but they never call me back. I still don’t completely understand who I give the diagnosis too as when I went to the doctor in person she said I need to give it to some other specialist then in turn they give it to her to evaluate? Idk because her English was kind of broken and when she explained it to my husband in Finnish it was still confusing. I just would like to know if anyone has been in this situation or would know how to go about getting diagnosed with the evidence. It was a bit longer than I expected lol but I’m not seeking medical advice that was just a back story to show the severity of the situation. There are a lot more symptoms I showed the doctors to which my husbands friends who are doctors said that it is alarming and there are test the doctors should’ve done right away.

I've been living in Tampere for half a year, and I've only seen sand (or something similar) getting used to prevent slippery roads.

I've been in Lapland for the weekend, and temperatures rose to 0 for a day, and with some added rain - everything became pure ice. Why don't they use salt to remove it?

Long story short, we are looking to move to Helsinki/Espoo, so our son can carry on his education in Finland (1/2 Finnish), as he's in the UK at the moment and we would like him to experience his home country, as the family base there is huge compared to mine in UK.

So onto the first issue, I'm English and its uncertain yet if I can relocate with my current job and go remote (not sure if the company has a satellite office in Finland), which is another question, the company I work for has many offices all over the world, just not in Finland, would it be feasible with me working in Finland or would I need to contract as the company would need a presence in Finland to pay taxes, or me paying directly if contracting?

Second issue, if the above is not possible, what is the current market like for a person who:

20 odd years in Finance (investment mainly)
16+ years in Development (stopped pure dev work in 2016 and moved to Business)
11+ years in Consultancy as Hybrid Expert in most asset classes, with knowledge of coding, so assume PM/Technical BA specialist.

I'm usually in the Data Quality, Financial Crime arenas, but I am expanding my knowledge with ML/AI, and blockchain.

So is Helsinki somewhere that I can command a decent (5k+) a month salary after tax, or will this move put us into an issue where I could be stuck trying to find a job locally or remotely?

My OH can move internally with her job, so that is one area that we shouldnt need to worry about, the issue is moving from never worrying about money, to suddenly remembering we are not doing so great anymore is nerve wracking, and I dont want to stop this move unless we are really going to cause ourselves a world of pain.

I'm (24M) moving to Helsinki for a few months (maybe longer who knows) in February with my Finnish Girlfriend while she's finishing up college.

I'm wondering what the opportunities are like for English speakers and what the Irish community is like there. I'm a qualified civil engineer but I've also worked in bars, restaurants, construction sites you name it. I wouldn't be against giving any sort of work a go.

Also I've been "learning" the language for about 6 months on Duolingo, so I know some extremely useful phrases like "Minä olen hyvä velho" & my personal favorite "itket ja sipuli nauraa"

I have a decent grasp of the basics from that, but I would appreciate any tips or resources that help with improving my Finnish.

Kiitos :)

As someone who recently moved to Finland from the US, I just wanted to say it's nice to see kids biking or hanging around places by themselves or with their friends. Especially after hearing about the mom from Georgia who was arrested because her 10-year-old was out for a walk.