Reply to: Working with other nationalities

[HairyArsedBloke]

I am the very model of a modern major-general.

The news you brought us about the binomial theorem and the facts about the square on the hypotenuse really cheered me up. However, have you found out what is meant by “commissariat” yet?

[Charles Foster Kane]

Southern Italians work hard too, stop being so prejudicial.

[Diver]

A pity that 70% of the people in the north come from the south. I think hard working is a general characteristic of italian people. Sure if I was living in Calabria and there was no work whatsoever I would enjoy being lazy too under. After all the ability to enjoy yourself with what you have is another great characteristic of italians.

and New Zealanders apparently

[Francko]

There are in fact 3 : North Italy (Milan/Turin), Middle Italy (Rome etc) and South Italy (Naples/Sicily).
The 1st one is like the best of Northern Europe (Germany) in productivity and performance, the 2nd a bit like Greece and the 3rd a bit like North Africa.
So Francko is right wrt to Northern Italy (La Liga country).

A pity that 70% of the people in the north come from the south. I think hard working is a general characteristic of italian people. Sure if I was living in Calabria and there was no work whatsoever I would enjoy being lazy too under. After all the ability to enjoy yourself with what you have is another great characteristic of italians.

[Charles Foster Kane]

Slight overstatement.

There are two camps of Brits:
- The over aftershaved barrow boys who think they're god's gift to mankind but fail to do anything of note
- The genuinely hardworking and compentent ones that work hard, play hard but never get the recognition they deserve

Oversimplified.

[Dow Jones]

Useless

No mention of Nigerians, so I'll poke my head above the parapet and say that they're a bunch of bullsh**ters who learn IT from a "Blagging IT for Dummies" book and then wing it on the job and keep their jobs because they work for pennies.

Don't get me started - only good for scams, nothing else.
Useless f c uk wits.

[ladymuck]

Brits - Great.

Slight overstatement.

There are two camps of Brits:
- The over aftershaved barrow boys who think they're god's gift to mankind but fail to do anything of note
- The genuinely hardworking and compentent ones that work hard, play hard but never get the recognition they deserve

[ladymuck]

No mention of Nigerians, so I'll poke my head above the parapet and say that they're a bunch of bullsh**ters who learn IT from a "Blagging IT for Dummies" book and then wing it on the job and keep their jobs because they work for pennies.

[NotAllThere]

Brits - Great at Yakking,

Brits - Great.

[sasguru]

Brits - Great at Yakking, terrible at delivering
case in point - terminal 5 @ heathrow

Yes, the cult of personality (which is really an instance of the cult of celebrity) has taken hold. But usually the emperor has no clothes.

[Spacecadet]

And what about us Brits - how would you generalise our behaviour?

Brits - Great at Yakking, terrible at delivering
case in point - terminal 5 @ heathrow

[Churchill]

And what about us Brits - how would you generalise our behaviour?

I am the very model of a modern major-general.

[BankingContractor]

And what about us Brits - how would you generalise our behaviour?

[tay's PA]

I work for a Kiwi. He has large chips on both shoulders.

[sasguru]

My experience is that the calibre of the people working at the highest paying jobs in the area are higher than average.

One of the pharma companies here had a policy of paying higher than the average market rate. The people I worked with were fantastic. The policy changed, the people who could leave left left because they could get more elsewhere. OTOH, management had an easier time, because the muppets left behind were easier to bully.

Yes it's the money that does it. Although I have met some real muppets in the City with rich and/or influential parents.