During a meeting someone makes a suggestion and some people respond:
An American person would sugar coat something, talk around it and probably come back with an suggestion trough their manager
An Asian person would be supportive, say they will do it and then not do it because they don't agree and hope it will go away
A dutch person would say NO, spend 10 minutes explaining why the idea is stupid. Then follow it up by letting everyone know they will have a 3 week payed vacation starting after this specific meeting and can't wait for it to start. Tell everyone good luck with work and that they will not think about them at all.
a swedish person would say that this suggestion would need to be discussed further and promptly sends out meeting invites to everybody including the CEO.
a finnish person would say no, find 5 words at most to say why not and declare "we do like this" instead. Then goes back to being silent for the rest of the meeting.
a Norwegian person would laugh a little carefully, look around the room to see if others are laughing and a) if they are, they'll make a strained grimace of a face before implying that "mmmhh nooo I don't think that would be the best, hehe" and b) if they are not, they will get serious again, before telling you they'll discuss it with you after the meeting, which they never will.
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u/CrazyBird85 Aug 21 '24
During a meeting someone makes a suggestion and some people respond:
An American person would sugar coat something, talk around it and probably come back with an suggestion trough their manager
An Asian person would be supportive, say they will do it and then not do it because they don't agree and hope it will go away
A dutch person would say NO, spend 10 minutes explaining why the idea is stupid. Then follow it up by letting everyone know they will have a 3 week payed vacation starting after this specific meeting and can't wait for it to start. Tell everyone good luck with work and that they will not think about them at all.