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.
A year ago (or 40, hard to say as time flies effin’ fast) someone made that:
Bluetooth connected mustache pacifier with choice of taste.
It is a joke, based on discussions on a French twitch stream but the website is nice with some ironic bullshit function you would find on a real e-shop today.
Hey I’m fine and you?
Les Grottes is a bad neighbourhood??? lol that’s the first time I hear that, for most I know it’s a nice little alternative place, but never bad. Maybe the shooting place next to it but they are not bad people, just sad and sick.
I could try to come to the office yeah, never been there in my life even if I passed it so many times while living in the PDG. But nowadays it will be with Léman Express to the train station and then I’m fucked^^
I’m a con de citadin, I have no car :)
PS: Last time I went next to your office was to go flying at the airfield, there is a 100% french bakery next to it and I was having orgasms on just a baguette + beurre + saucisson sandwich. Almost stayed there eating instead of going to fly (priorities y’a know…). It’s amazing how close France is but we cannot have good bread and stuff without crossing the border…
I cannot say about moving from Germany to Swiss German Switzerland as I am a born and raised in the French speaking part.
I’ve lived a little in Zurich but I was more of a tourist there rather than totally knowing “how it is”, and I don’t speak German nor have any clue about their culture. I am friendly with my coworkers “from the other side” and they are friendly with us but we are different and I don’t know enough to judge them.
So just a few generalities:
Is it perfect? Of course not, we have dumb racists as well, we have some violence and people are getting more and more selfish like everywhere else in the world (it’s almost like there is some common influence, like internet and social medias?) Life is expensive, but good if you are not at the low income level, and it’s getting on par with our neighbors because prices went up for them but not for us.
It can be festive or quiet, depending on what you’re looking for and/or your age you’ll have a totally different experience (city center versus outskirts village versus country side).
Do I recommend it? Of course I do, this is my country and it’s wonderful. But I cannot say for your precise situation as I don’t know you nor your life.
As a Swiss I disagree. It can be the case in some places lost in the German part, they are after all “our Texans”.
But Switzerland is also French and Italian, cities are mostly leftists.
This is a country where a dude from Appenzel have nothing in common with a dude from La Chaux de Fond, not even the language nor the food. And yet it works greatly.
You can’t have an opinion on an entire country because you had shit neighbors in Wädenswill.
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.