Work culture in netherlands

[twolips]

Anyone over there at the moment?

What's it like to work there? Early starts, shirt and tie, short lunches, long days, misery? Or laid back, long lunches, turn up when you like just get the work done jeans and t-shirts?

Do english people get a hard time over there for being outsiders?

[AlfredJPruffock]

You ain't much - if you ain't Dutch

[Mich the Tester]

Anyone over there at the moment?

Yep

What's it like to work there? Early starts, shirt and tie, short lunches, long days, misery?

In banks yes, everywhere else it’s more relaxed.

Or laid back, long lunches, turn up when you like just get the work done jeans and t-shirts?

No long lunches, about half an hour, but as long as you get your work done you’re generally OK.

Do english people get a hard time over there for being outsiders?

Rarely, but the permies whinge a lot about ‘expensive external people’.

[original PM]

not all joints n blowjobs then?

[Francko]

Anyone over there at the moment?

What's it like to work there? Early starts, shirt and tie, short lunches, long days, misery? Or laid back, long lunches, turn up when you like just get the work done jeans and t-shirts?

Do english people get a hard time over there for being outsiders?

"There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch."

[Andy2]

can you do drugs during lunchtime ?

[hyperD]

I worked at a refinery in Dutch-land and they had these incredible toilets. None of these shoe-splasher troughs where you get to compare sizes and hum while trying to avoid the bladder shyness.

They had these totally sealed cubicles (not the saloon door types where you can peer in or burst through them like some demented John Wayne character).

Fantastically soundproofed as well so no inhibitions about squelches, plopping sounds, straining or rustling of toilet paper. And fantastic air-replacement systems so you could leave a 10 pinter + curry in there and you could come out of there without the humilation of having to do the "walk of shame".

However, I suspect it was often advantageous for certain other recreational activities.

[EternalOptimist]

I worked at a refinery in Dutch-land and they had these incredible toilets. None of these shoe-splasher troughs where you get to compare sizes and hum while trying to avoid the bladder shyness.

They had these totally sealed cubicles (not the saloon door types where you can peer in or burst through them like some demented John Wayne character).

Fantastically soundproofed as well so no inhibitions about squelches, plopping sounds, straining or rustling of toilet paper. And fantastic air-replacement systems so you could leave a 10 pinter + curry in there and you could come out of there without the humilation of having to do the "walk of shame".

However, I suspect it was often advantageous for certain other recreational activities.

Man, this sounds like my kind of place, do they have warmed seats as well ?
I just left a load of frozen bum skin stuck to the dunny seat in Altrincham town centre. Damn them chorizo sausages.

[Jeebo72]

can you do drugs during lunchtime ?

Prob not, that's why we all end up working in the city forever...

[Mich the Tester]

can you do drugs during lunchtime ?

No. I once worked with a German guy at ING who got stoned one lunchtime and was escorted out of the building by security.