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Post by Svartalf » Fri May 31, 2019 12:04 pm

eat it.
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Fri May 31, 2019 1:27 pm

rainbow wrote:
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I can't tell a thing, I don't conduct business, I'm retired, and I was back office personnel back when I worked.
Fairy Nuff. I do some business with French people, and they do sometimes come across as somewhat arrogant.
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Great lunches though. That is why the Dutch are not popular. We dont do lunches and only at best sandwiches and coffee/tea but we will have four meetings a day. The Belg only manage one.
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Post by Svartalf » Fri May 31, 2019 1:31 pm

beg pardon, I don"t quite understand your meaning...
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Fri May 31, 2019 1:40 pm

Doing business in Europe:

Dutch business culture

You can look up other countries as well.
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Post by Svartalf » Fri May 31, 2019 1:52 pm

oh, business meetings, I didn't get that, I thought you spoke about meals taken as groups. Depending on the time needed, French businessmen can certainly cram 4 meetings a day, not counting business lunches and dinners.
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Post by Sean Hayden » Fri May 31, 2019 2:25 pm

They can fuck off too. Four meetings a day? You're crazy.

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Post by Rum » Fri May 31, 2019 2:42 pm

I used to try to limit it two two maximum. Didn’t always succeed. ‘Standing’ meetings were trialed briefly. Effective in keeping them short but not at all popular!

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Post by Scot Dutchy » Fri May 31, 2019 3:43 pm

We had those as well. Never worked. We had breakfast ones with only coffee. We did 99% of our work for local and national governments. Lunch was often a "sandwich dashboard" bought at a motorway petrol station. We dont have service areas a la UK.
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Post by Svartalf » Fri May 31, 2019 4:09 pm

Breakfast with only coffee... that's torture, we need the meat products and cheese and bread.
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Fri May 31, 2019 5:10 pm

Well some project managers had other thoughts on the matter.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Fri May 31, 2019 6:46 pm

Breakfast is for wimps.
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Post by JimC » Fri May 31, 2019 9:13 pm

Meetings? Bah Humbug!

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Post by rainbow » Tue Jun 04, 2019 11:23 am

"We are your largest partner. You're our largest partner. A lot of people don't know that," Mr. Trump said to May as the meeting began, noting that he believed there was a "great opportunity to enlarge that, in light of what's happening."

Mr. Trump's declaration got the facts ironically wrong, however. The U.S.'s biggest trading partner is the European Union collectively, not Great Britain on its own, which is only the second largest economy in the trading bloc behind Germany.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Jun 04, 2019 11:26 am

Trump: "A lot of people don't know that" === "Someone just told me that before I came in."
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Post by pErvinalia » Tue Jun 04, 2019 11:31 am

He just makes it up as he goes along.
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