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   Laura Manach :bongoCat: (cmconseils@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 16:53:39 JST Laura Manach :bongoCat:

   Happy New Year.

   Adopt the French work ethic.

   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: and MortSinyx like this.
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     Madeleine Morris (remittancegirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 08:14:43 JST Madeleine Morris

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     • Jim Vanderveen

     @jimv @cmconseils I grew up in Spain, but left quite young, and it wasn't until I returned and learnt adulty things that I realized it simply wasn't polite, when you met someone new, to ask what they did for a living. It's not quite taboo, but it's considered unfriendly and impolite and kind of rude.

     And then in made a lot of sense to me, that you meet people as people - not as earners or experts or workers. It's humanistic.

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     Jim Vanderveen (jimv@union.place)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 08:14:44 JST Jim Vanderveen

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     • Madeleine Morris

     @Remittancegirl @cmconseils I love this! "People are not their jobs"

     Screw work! Tell me about your hobbies, aspirations, family & friends.

     Minoru Saba repeated this.
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     Madeleine Morris (remittancegirl@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 08:14:45 JST Madeleine Morris

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     @cmconseils

     This reminds me of the cultural rules that when you get together with new Spanish friends, it's considered pretty rude to ask people what they do for work. People are not their jobs.

     You're at a table, eating and drinking. No one gives a shit what anyone's job is.

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     Cadu Silva :verifiedcat: (cadusilva@bolha.one)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 20:01:46 JST Cadu Silva :verifiedcat:

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     • Hardy, a Hiena :laUrsa:

     @Zugumba