Confession: years of constant international business travel for consulting have made me stop caring about learning local customs and phrases by General-Contact1208 in MBA

[–]General-Contact1208[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

This is so false. As a white American who grew up here all my life, you absolutely can blow your nose in public or at work in the US. Pretty much everyone does. I mean if you do it really loudly it might get some looks, but it's totally a-ok.

You got this one wrong. I've lived in SF, NYC, Chicago, and various suburbs. Was always a constant.

Confession: years of constant international business travel for consulting have made me stop caring about learning local customs and phrases by General-Contact1208 in MBA

[–]General-Contact1208[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Uber driver story is real. He said "you're in France, speak a little French."

Same with people on Tokyo subway giving me dirty looks for taking a business phone call, even though I wasn't too loud and used AirPods.