I tried to bankrupt the US of A by having token paid by their taxes. But it refuse to answer legitimate frog language questions about the best croissant.

Merde

I shall ask if there is a government program or agency for classifying the best croissant and bakery across the US, for food safety reasons, obviously.

July and August vacation are the normal schools holidays. So it’s mostly families with kids who takes those months.

Other people would ideally try to avoid those months because they are packed and more expensive, so they are available to work.

But it will vary from jobs to jobs, maybe in some sectors business is slow so the company is closing and you are forced to be off, like it can happen around Christmas.

Same goes for lunch time, some of us have to sacrifice themselves to work because capitalism and rent to pay.

Entering the school is a bit annoying but you don’t need anything else besides having a brain and resisting stress. Not knowing if you will succeed is stressful but that goes for any school, and this one is paying you to attend it, not the other way around.

The workload is easy, I’m at the EU airways crossroads and working ATC is easy, I feel like I’m always on days off and I work less than 5h a day. Honestly it’s one of the best career you can do besides being rich and not working.

Maybe it’s because I’ve been doing that for more than a decade so it’s natural now.

And mostly, Europe isn’t FAA, I can’t tell for them but from what I’ve read it’s a shit show over there.

Seems better yes, in EASA airspace ATC is around 100k when starting your career and 220k near retirement.

I bet FAA is within those numbers.

In Switzerland that’s less than a rent in “large cities”.

For the cantons (regions) that have a minimum wage, this minimum is at 4000 and while possible, living at 4000/months in Geneva or Zurich is considered poverty. You can do it but it’s a constant fight to find low prices and save money, it’s survival, not living.

Ironic that a non American metric shit ton of those AI posts are made by foreigners living in Muslim countries (or not). They do that because hate brings views and views bring money.

So the old Bob and Sarah are sharing AI slop made by an Indi or Muslim dude on another continent that they’re unable to place on a map.

Oh I knew that, I’ve seen it before getting to the age of 43 kiddo :)

I just never saw the French attitude because I was French (still is), hence the “merde”.

My name isn’t from that cartoon (Pépé le putois) but from a certain plant… I was a teenager when I choose it. Now that I’m an irresponsible adult I tell people that it’s Skunk the animal and I use cute skunks as profile pictures.

But that’s a lie, let it be our little secret 🤫

Merde…

Ah the famous lay and admire toilet.

Fucking ML dudes…

Who disabled my instance blacklist? Thanks for the reminder tho, I’ll correct that mistake right now.

For the last 20 years I’ve been eating only once a day (working shifts) so I’m trying to reintroduce a breakfast other than coffee with milk.

To facilitate it I’m trying the “everything smoothie” with milk, banana, cereal, protein, frozen fruits.

Lunch: water

Dinner: The everything rice with vegetables and chicken or fish.

I’ve just fallen on the floor randomly, I blame you.

My wenis is ok tho.

WTF is wrong with people, can’t they just fucking mind their own business, look elsewhere for a 30 second scene in an Hollywood movie. Everything available on the IFE is fair game.

Star Guitar by the Chemical Brothers.

Since then I need to have perfect synchronization between sound and sight, I’d love to have the real world in sync with the music I’m listening to. It would be my own personal musical.

Air traffic controller. A shit ton of money for a shit ton of days off and holidays.

My highest degree is from the aviation school so it’s kinda useless outside of aviation.

Same for my pilots friends, none of them went to university/college but rather straight to flying school after the mandatory diploma you pass at around eighteen (Baccalauréat in France).

It is great but the downside is that if we want to change careers we can only become business owners (aka, create our own jobs) because nobody wants us and we don’t accept their “real world” shitty work conditions.

I want what they are having at the Palais de l’Élysée (the French presidential house).

A huge table of the best of French food made by awesome chefs, from starters to desserts.

Wait what? There is a Cœur D’Alene in Idaho?

Now I’m curious and wonder how you guys try to pronounce that very French name (with a strong R at the end of cœur)

Edit: I watched some videos and most of the people seemed to say “core da lane” with a different emphasis on lane. And one fella saying “coor d’alane”

In French it’s Coeur like beurre, and Alène like À laine. Anyway, it’s cool to have a place named “heart of” something

The wine seems to be a BDN Bordeaux, which I suspect is AI for BON Bordeaux (Good Bordeaux).

Next time do Better Bordeaux, I hear it’s the best.

Oh don’t worry about efficiency. ReallyZen is talking about the efficiency in the official administrations.

Like getting your driving licence converted to a Swiss one, renewing your passport and stuff like that.

The baseline is that you pay for it but it is done in a minute (driving licence you get it the same day you go to the automobile office, you just wait 30 minutes max and they give it to you. Passport is something like during the week. Not 2 month, one week.)

This kind of efficiency. And don’t worry the workers in those administrations are not overworked at all^^

In the private sector it is somewhat the same, nobody is being pressured for efficiency, you just do you work professionally and that’s enough. Some companies might pressure their staff (because the boss is dumb?) but then they will have a high turnover and might fail in the long run.

Honestly I wouldn’t think too much about fitting at work. It is somewhat the same as the rest of Europe. I cannot compare to Germany but as a comparison with France the job market is a bit more sane in Switzerland as the country does not push for long university studies and a shit ton of the work force comes from “apprentissage” (alternate between school and work). Whereas in France doing this type of school it is frowned upon and seen as “dumb people not capable of going to university” so you end up with stupid requirement like having a BAC+5 to work as a receptionist in an empty warehouse. Switzerland will put more emphasis on experience and capabilities (but as always, not everywhere, not all companies are the same).

Work is just work, work culture is probably similar to Germany so everything is squared out, mostly. As everywhere, you can find a job where the boss is lame and the management is a shit show. I’ve seen bosses that use company money for drugs and forgot to pay employees but I’ve also seen the opposite. Generally speaking in bigger companies everything is written and respected.

“fitting” and “job culture” is different between Zurich, Geneva or Lugano and I’d say it is more about fitting in life rather than at work.

If you go to Swiss-German, as you (probably) speak hochdeutsch you will have to quickly learn the local switzerdütsch. At first people will adapt to you and speak hochdeutsch, but after a while they will switch to switzerdütsch and assume it is your job to learn it (and yeah, it is). Whereas if you live in Romandie or Ticino, as you don’t speak French or Italian everything will be in English until you are able to speak the local native language (but in the end, yeah you have to do the job of learning the local language same as with switzerdütsch)

Fitting in Switzerland is quite easy according to me, just do the same as the others. If they are quiet in the train, do the same. If they are laughing around a beer, do the same. But the general rules are quite easy; Don’t put your feet on the seat in front of you in public transports, don’t litter, don’t be a dick. After all it’s only about being respectful to people and stuff.

Now for the clichés. Sometimes you can hear about the Röstigraben which don’t really exist but still exist in some ways. If you look at videos from Emily-National or Camille Federale you might often see us, Romands (french-speaking) describe the german-speaking with the word “square” and the hand movements that describe that (and honestly, it’s not always a bad thing to be “squared”, specially in a professional environment). The opposite is they say that we drink too much and like to party.

For example, there is a joke that a former federal counselor (aka, president) said about the French part while in fact he never said that, not publicly tho.

(to read with a strong German accent):

“Les Romands toujours rigoler, jamais travailler.” Meaning: “The Romands always laughing, never working”

All of that are clichés and jokes, in reality we are different but friends. And same goes with foreigners, approx 40% of the total population is not Swiss, that is a huge number for any European country. If they were treated like shit and not accepted by others would they still live here? (and again, you will find some dumb racist fucks, like everywhere with human being. But this is not the norm).

PS: I cannot vouch for the Camille and Emily videos on Watson as I’ve only seen a few in French but the links I gave you are in German and I don’t understand.