So, what's been happening?

The management style of the French is not something I enjoy being
subjected to. It's odd I've worked for Aussies, Brits, Yanks, Krauts
and Italians and I've had no problem with them; the French seem to
combine micro-management with hierarchical zeal; two of my pet hates.

 

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Have I mentioned that my line-manager is of the Frog persuasion?

Fortunately he appears to be mildly scared of me.

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Do you keep smiling at him and looking at his lips?

 

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I do smile occasionally. It's my mere presence that appears to make him
a little nervous.

I quite like it, really.

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I have no choice, our upper echelons are rife with them

Ours are hands off, but in turn hold you fully accountable when things
go down the U bend.

**** Getting fucking interested would be a start, you twat. ****

P.

 

6'6" and large bone structure.

 

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Sounds like absolutely ideal management to me.

 

you mean 11:48 CET, presumably.

 

that's about right, but don't forget the cronyism, complete disregard
for time keeping and pointless politiking.

 

in which case you're absolutely right.

Of course, they get their own back by constantly arranging meetings
that start at 14:00 CET on a Friday.

 

5'10", 83kg and a right pudgy fucker. Could do with losing 10kg or so,
but
need to find the motivation from somewhere (rapidly running out of 34"
waist trousers that actually fit, so the motivation may arrive soon.)

Exercise. *shudder*. **** that.

 

I think that the French still have a problem with their style of
management. It's something that is changing, as far as I can see.
American style management is becoming more popular, even if it is
resisted. IME, of course.

 

<G> That's why I try to get out for lunch at 11:30. It also means that
there are less people in the canteen too. Happens rarely though, that I
succeed (Unless we eat Couscous on the Friday...).

As it happens, one of my colleagues in the UK, recently moaned that
there was "never any bugger in the office" (French Customer Service).
I'm sure he was talking about lunchtimes.

 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That, I see from one particular colleague all the fucking time. Drives
me barmy it does, when he rolls in at 9:30 - 9:45 all the time.

Another one of my colleagues is the exact opposite, turning up at
7:30am. Regular as clockwork.

 

Hands off should not = disinterested.

P.

 

What's wrong with that? Perfectly acceptable start time, IMO. As long
as he works later in the evening too. Then again, Jude was just
moaning last week about a French colleague who thinks that 10:30 is
equally acceptable. There have to be _some_ limits, I suppose.

There's a lot of French working in Basel, most of whom seem to favour
an eight o'clock start, or earlier. Our normal 8:15 departure
therefore misses most of the worst[1] traffic, as it's past rush hour
by that point.

[1] For very low values of 'worse', of course. Our 30km 'commute'
takes 30 mins on a good day, 35-40 if the traffic is 'bad'.

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OK I know it's only a rough guide but given that you're not a weight
lifter or an athlete, at 6'6" and 108kg you are slap bang in the middle
of "overweight" according to this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/healthy_living/your_weight/bmiimperial_index.shtml

 

Have you been perfecting your "I'm slightly mad" look?

There are times when having that ability can be great fun and also
advantageous. I think my boss is mildly scared of me when to comes to
certain issues where I've refused to do things and they never get
mentioned again ;-)

I can imagine.

 

I feel your pain.

 

Just watch your calories. I've lost half a stone in the last month
simply by reducing my calorie intact from 2500-3000 per day to under
2000. My level of exercise, whilst substantially more than most
people's, hasn't changed at all.