French Corporate Culture

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My company was small, part of a group. The group has been bought out by a French company. The new company is quite large and very corporate.

I now have a French boss. He seems nice but I find it hard to get on with him at all. He doesn't laugh at anything. I can work out if it is a culture thing in that he doesn't get English humor, or is it that it is French corporate culture - you can't have fun at work.

There is now massive empire building going on in all departments, every director needs to ave at least 4 manager / heads of something, even though the teams are quite small.

Anyone got any experience of French corporations?

I have worked for large corporates before but this is quite different and I feel a bit like I am struggling to fit in

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cat with a hat said:

Dis-organised / no fks given

Yes certainly have seen that. Can't say too much but lets just say no one cares where clients walk out the door and take a fk tonne of cash with them

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We are currently run by the existing British arm of the company and the CEO is English so haven't seen much of the long boozy lunches.

Vaud - I am seeing what yo mean about the banter and sense of hummour. Previously in senior manager meetings we would quite often complain about our clients and be rude about them. When I did that last week the look I got was like I stood up and windmilled my cock around.

There is definitely a "jobs for the boys" culture I have seen. Despite fking things royally people get promotions in the re shuffle.

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Vaud said:

To be honest I find the idea of insulting clients in meetings a bit off. You might be that client next week... maybe I have picked up that from my colleagues.

Fair point. Although you haven't met some of our clients. I will NEVER be that client!

Put Duolingo on my phone and practicing some French already.

I hope the respecting weekends and holidays thing spreads. The number of times I have been disturbed on a day off is huge.