Posts tagged Office from the Learn Dutch For Expats team.
Your Dutch class never taught the casual office banter of the kantoortuin. Here is the watercooler small talk and slang that makes you one of the team.
A Dutch functioneringsgesprek or beoordelingsgesprek can feel brutally blunt. Here is the difference between the two, how to prepare, and the vocab to hold your own.
Your Dutch employer keeps mentioning the OR. It's the ondernemingsraad, the works council, with real power over company decisions. Here is what it is and does.
Can't log in, or hit an error you cannot read? Here is the Dutch to describe a tech failure to the helpdesk clearly, from foutmelding to netwerk, so it gets fixed fast.
In a Dutch office you call the CEO by first name and openly disagree with your boss. Here is how flat the hierarchy really is, and the Dutch that fits it.
Your office runs in English, so your Dutch stalls. Here is how to enlist your colleagues, find a language buddy, and keep meetings partly in Dutch without slowing them down.
Dutch offices run on two things: endless overleg (consensus meetings) and the Friday borrel. Here is how the poldermodel works and the Dutch that makes you fit in.
Noon at a Dutch office: everyone unwraps a cheese sandwich. Here are the unwritten rules of the broodje kaas lunch, and the small talk that bonds you in.