Imagine other stereotype foreigners for every taste.
The short worded German.
The Frenchman who burns the boss' car to send the message.
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The German may not use a lot of words but he's got just one that carries the whole meaning. It's just in German.
Its also a very long word.
I have a question on that.
Why is it Highschool Cheerleader captain And not high school cheer leader captain or just Highschoolcheerleadercaptain?
High school is correct when used as a noun.
Highschool is correct when used as an adjective (referring one who is in high school)
Cheerleader is a verb being used as a proper noun, and because this is one concept using multiple words, we mash the words together, like with High school.
Main cause of this is that German (more accurately, a predecessor to German) has a strong influence on English, and is the core of the language before it was first romanticized with the Norman conquest.
"Maybe" may be my favorite example of words we mash together
They are a single word because a highschool is not a school that is high, the 2 words being together have more meaning than themselves. I don't see how that would apply to cheerleader though, since they are quite literally leaders of the cheer.
They are separate words because a highschool cheerleader is literally that, a cheerleader of a highschool. And a highschool cheerleader captain is the captain of the cheerleaders of a highschool, no more meaning.
Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung
The short worded German.
I don't understand this one. Have you seen how long German words are??
Maybe they ment shirt paragraph because its just one word.
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That's a court jester.
(Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
Now imaging when the American isn't telling the king off, he just dances and falls on his butt a lot.
So... The American is a drunk college student?
I think it’s just Todd.
From Mario?
No silly, you're thinking of Toad. Todd is the past tense form of "tell"
Nah, that is "told".
Todd is a synonym of shit.
Man, I'm really qualified for this job. Where we're they at on career day?
Was just about to comment the same thing.
The crazy thing about it is not that there is a role for someone to tell management it is going the wrong direction, but that the system expect management to actually hear and act upon those observations
I read it more as management had identified the issue and implemented this loud American role to get around the cultural issue of employees not speaking up. In other words, that management wants this input.
Of course, if the loud American role is being pushed by upper management on employees of lower level managers, then yeah...
I do think hiring an American for this role would be pretty crazy. I do doubt if this whole thing is even real
Yeah I found that same thing. It does seem like bs.
"With all due respect, and remember I'm saying with all due respect, that idea ain't worth a velvet painting of a whale and a dolphin getting it on."
It's neat I heard a little Ted Lasso in that lol.
Everyone knows this is not true, right??
While not exactly true, foreigners are given much more allowance to mistakenly break social expectations. However, the more fluent in their social hierarchy you become, the more you're expected to abide.
But no, that doesn't mean you get to be the "~~dude~~" "rude" pitch hitter if office politics. It means you don't need to take your boss out drinking, leave earlier, etc.
If course, that's at the trade off of a stagnantcareer without much hope for long term growth.
China does have the phenomenon where they hire white people to wear suits to work events to make the company look international and important.
Edit - great autocorrect.
For real. Has nobody heard of the tradition of Gekokujō?
It means "low becomes high." It's the Japanese tradition of killing your superior and taking over if they give stupid orders.
For some reason I pictured a Peter Griffin kind of guy giving them even wackier advise.
That is the gamble with confident Americans. Sometimes we’re going to suggest something that makes everything simpler and/or better. Other times we’re going to suggest something batshit insane.
Ahhahha northern European firms do something similar with Portuguese.
We are known for not planing and just improving everything last min. (Most of southern Europe too kinda.) Or at least we just are more used to then them.
So they have a firm full of Swedish, Norwegians and Germans and they make the plans for the future.
If the plans go to shit they call in the Portuguese to improve something salvable
That's great! Just so you know, the word in English for coming up with something as you go is spelled "improvise".
I was like deam this guy is going after me for a typo in a non native language.
But then I read my post and realised I fucked that word twice 😂😂😂
Wish we had loud Americans in America
We do. Where have you been since Obama became president? For government shutdowns, all started by Republicans 🤡
That's not telling your boss off
Oh I see.
Well, I've told my boss off when the decisions he was about to make suck.
And I'm American.
So, friend, at least there is one loud American doing it. Let's start a movement!
Heyyy fuckin cowboy fuckin cowgirl how the fuck are you doin?
I don't believe this. Where is your proof, OP?
Can't you see it, it was said by someone on Tumblr who heard it from some professor who has a friend who is one.
What more would you need??
You can go the British route and just set up an entire slack channel dedicated to complaining about the boss.
I imagine the interview:
Boss: you don't meet any of the requirements.
Applicant: I don't need any of the requirements. Be happy that anyone applied for this shithole!
Boss: say no more, you're hired!
I was that guy at my previous (American) job. I pushed back on the COO all the time in meetings with others. I recently learned that he got fired. Doesn't mean I was right, but it does mean that he was ineffective.
Reminds me of China where they would hire Americans to just attend meetings with them to give their side an air of importance. They wouldn't even say anything beyond "Hello". "See? We have an American."
The modern day Jester
I would stop being an introvert if I could do this for a living.
I am an American, but I am pretty sure I might be called a "Quiet Japanese."
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