Funny, I've worked for both British and American startup-owners, and I could certainly relate to both charts (yours, and the OP's). I liked the British style more, but that's maybe I'm also Romanian and as the OP also showed we're kind of used to being negative about all things :) Whom I didn't like at all were the French (I did work for such company for a year or so), but maybe that was caused by my former bosses having graduated from École Normale Supérieure which made them a little, how should I say, arrogant.
Sorry to hear that (I'm French myself, but have worked in US and now in Netherlands). Apart from arrogant bosses, do you have more gripes about french's work culture? I think we are pretty pessimistic in general, especially compared to americans :-) But I think that's more of a european trait (we call it being honest).
Nope, not really :) In fact, I'm a pretty big fan of French culture in general (being able to read Balzac or Stendhal in original is certainly a treat for me). About the French work culture in particular, my other "small" complaint is that I think the 35-hour week is not going to work. I went to Perpignan as a tourist in 2007 or so, and I was a little bit surprised that the only "tourism info center" had a 1h-break in the middle of day, with nobody left to answer requests. That's not a French-only problem, though, I saw similar issues in Barcelona or in Greece.
That's funny - living in the U.S. (and having almost not contact with Brits, and too much with Aussies), most of these are still true to me. (In fact, most of them I've used or heard in the last week, intended in the British sense.)
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