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:

https://thefrenchtototte.net/

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:

• Living in Switzerland is like being privileged. Everything works nicely, the country is based on respect and balance between ideals.
• The country if always in some top 5 for stuff like security, quality of life, happiness or whatever.
• When the world around us is getting more and more selfish and crazy, not being hidden in Switzerland is a bad move.
• Switzerland is kinda the Japan of Europe, and a fucking postal card.
• Our flag is a big plus.

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.

Salut voisin 👋

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.

Oh lol he’ll get reelected then (I don’t know the guy at all, just a few jokes about him I’ve seen on Lemmy)

I know that, but some might pressure you to work the night shift “or…”

People living around bars also want to be able to sleep sometimes.

Closed bar also means less drunk people in the streets. In my city you cannot buy alcohol “to go” in shops after 9pm and bars close at 2.

After that if you want to continue partying you go to night clubs.

Anyway, a wise drunk dude once said “nothing good happens after 2”, and from experience he was right.

The same reason half of Europe has closed shops on Sunday, worker protection.

You need strong laws to not have businesses abusing and pressuring peoples to work the shity 14h shift till morning for earning a peanut.

And workers protection law + North America are not often put in the same sentence.

Also it’s generally not worth it business wise. Paying salaries and more from 2 to 4 (or 6am or whatever) to sell two beers means losing money. You might have a few festive nights here and there, but most of the weeks/months you’ll have an empty bar so even the owners are not pushing for it.

Yup, and actual Friday will be Monday for me :(

When you work shifts (7/7 24h) weekends are whenever you are off duty and Friday can be on Tuesday.

So yeah, it is Friday somewhere for someone.

I think the prices are more or less the same today.

But we don’t go to Starbucks or fast food often, the coffee culture is the same as France and Italy so not Starbucks. And fast food is often the hangover food so not something you do every week.

Since Covid and inflation worldwide, some prices are actually cheaper in Switzerland. With a Swiss income it is a very perfect country to live in (not with a basic low 4000 chf/month tho, at least not in cities)

From the git above, it downloads an official MS iso and debloat it to create a lighter one. It’s the same as installing a normal iso and then removing stuff like one note etc, except that those are not installed by default so no need to remove them.

Specialized software from laptop brands (asus or whatever) are useless shits. You only need the drivers and an OS.

You can install Tiny11 as your base Windows OS https://github.com/ntdevlabs/tiny11builder then use a debloat like the ones linked in this thread or this one https://winutil.christitus.com/

I made that on my gaming PC (I use tons of non Linux compatible stuff for flight simming) and zero problems. It’s even riced to not look like Windows DE and act like i3wm.

I work in ATC and we have several desks with around 12 to 18 screens. Not in that layout tho, but on a much larger banana form.

They are used at different support positions so not ATC radars. Mostly for monitoring but also used with keyboard and mouse.

The applications goes from technical surveillance of ops systems, to flow capacity (airspace capacity), meteo broadcast for all airports (ATIS) or ground-ground telecommunications of aeronautical data.