re: Anybody work with the Brits?

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Anybody work with the Brits?

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My company had quite a few Brits among the mix. They tended to be high performers and very well liked by management. In fact many were managers.

I worked with an engineer from Wales back in the day. He was a nice guy but a bit odd

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Brits?

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I deal with them quite a good bit in my area of work. I ask every one of them their favorite "Cockney" slang line. I get mixed responses. Some die laughing and will give you a good rhyme. Some are very perplexed as to why you would ever ask it and generally give you a kind of nicely disgruntled denial.

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Some die laughing and will give you a good rhyme. Some are very perplexed as to why you would ever ask it and generally give you a kind of nicely disgruntled denial.

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that's because they either embrace it or think being Cockney is trashy

Have colleagues in the UK, as well as some engineers I work with often who are employed by one of our vendors. Good people but certainly focused.

I always try to use "cheers" when getting off the phone with them, but they try to use "goodbye". It's like a politeness war.

im not super fond of Leeds

I attended manchester uni and studied Landscape and New Town Planning. We had to present our projects to various governmental entities. These were designs of parks, etc. and the brits would get up there with a 24"x36" presentation board with nothing but writing and maybe a graph. They really didn't want to engage with the audience but just turn their back and read out loud what they had written. We yanks (there were 6 of us from LSU) would have full color sketches and would try to describe our concepts and reasoning extemporaneously as the questions came. For our final project one yank was teamed up with 2 brits. My 2 brits and I argued over the design approach and presentation graphics so they told me to do the sketches, I'm not sure they could even sketch. When we presented they had their own "text" board and a separate "design" from mine. Of course the professors like my deign better....at least that's my story.