3 Ways Dutch Meetings Are Different Part 1 I GSUSE I S3Ep16 

"Smoking area's outside, DOEI!" I'm laughing my ass off, this is great.

I'm dutch and yes even my wallet is flat

As an Afrikaner from South Africa, I can confirm that we pretty much inherited this from the Dutch. Like them, if you put two Afrikaners on an island, they'll found two political parties and three churches.

Heb me kapot gelachen. Dit moet je met een korreltje zout nemen zeikerds. Of zullen we er over vergaderen?

"The country is so flat, that even a town called Seven Mountains lays below sea level." Touché, I died at that line XD

dutch meetings, are like forplay for men.. buisness buisness, cheese sandwich buisness buisness.. were done? ok smoking area is outside DOEI! this is honestly, how everything works in the netherlands

My professor at the university is German and she shared her first experience of teaching in the Netherlands.. if she asked the following question in Germany: does anyone have any questions or remarks? It was met with a a few questions or silence. When she asked the same question in the Netherlands this started a whole discussion among the students at which she was totally flabbergasted and didn't know what to do for a moment xD I'm happy we have the freedom to put questionmarks by everything we are told. To not take everything as true because one person says it is :)

"The smoking area is outside, DOEI!" Most accurate Dutch I have ever heard.

haha leuk filmpje, hou je sarcasme op dit niveau. niet veel hebben het door.

That was really good and true.. XD He also pronounced the Dutch words quite good if you ask me

If this video is to insult the Netherlands, i am from the Netherlands and i wouldnt wish to be from a different country. Our country is beautiful, rich, full of nice people, and in my opinion, we are the best European country. No country could stand up to us. We are one amazing country and nothing could change that! (No hate comments please.)

Ha, hilarious! But you've clearly never been to a Belgian meeting before. It goes more like this: Bonjour! Hallo! ..Bonjour! ...hoi... BONJOUR! SPEAK ZHE FRENCH! But you're supposed to be able to speak both Dutch and French... NON! I REFUSE TU SPEAK ZHE DUTCH, I WILL BOYCOTT ZHIS MEETING!

As a Dutch person who works in an office I have to say this is pretty accurate.

So we Dutch people are Bipolar.... pretty much actually

Not every belgian speaks french you know... Ever heard about Flanders? ;)

As a fellow dutchman, I laughed my ass off. I can relate this with my work and discussions with friends.

haha im dutch i tought this was hilarious and its kind of true also

I'm offensive and I find this Dutch.

It's a bit exaggerated, but so true, I live in the most southern part of the Netherlands where the culture is a bit in between the Belgian (Flanders) culture and the Dutch, and recognise a lot. Decision making in The netherlands can take ages, especialy with public planning. Projects like major roads can take 10-20 years of planning, meetings, public input, another 10 meetings, and plans not passing the council of state because not everybody is happy with the outcome, and the whole proces starts again. I have seen this happen exactly with a road that is to be built near where I live, planning started 23 years ago and they started building it 2 years ago. Also recognize doing bussiness in Belgium, you can't talk about bussiness before a meal and some bottles of wine/beer are finished. (altough this is changing because of ethics of conduct rules implemented by a lot of international operating companies)

So in America, when the boss says: "Let's do this the wrong way!", you say: "okay"? Hmm, productive...

All extremely true, but I'd argue that Dutch workplace meetings are the better way to run a company. I'm a Belgian who grew up there, so I'd probably be trying to endlessly pamper colleagues in restaurants over and over again according to your video. :p

As a Dutch person I love this message. I have been living in Japan for several years so far and it pretty much is a completely other spectrum and I have noticed several of these traits with myself. Sometimes for the better, sometimes maybe not. Especially when you sometimes think about the other person's feelings which is something the Dutch people don't really think about. But seeing as they are used to butcher each other, they often don't even mind. But, it is definitely better to end a meeting early (or on time) and think about it and come back to it the next day, rather than butchering the thinking process of everyone in the room by staying there for several extra hours and not coming to a single damn conclusion but leaving everyone frustrated for the rest of the evening, as far as there is an evening left for them. Whereas other cultures/people might not even give one damn about the thoughts of their employees to see whether they have something to add and just take their superiority position to make the decision and the "meeting" is more a briefing.

Brilliant! Love it! More!

im dutch and i find this funny and true.

Masterful, Mr. Shapiro. God knows the Dutch need critical comments "in your face", and that you will be amply rewarded for exploring your singular duality. Keep it up, half the planet's waiting for your good stuff.

I'm not sure how I ended up here but it's hella funny.

Dit is geweldig

Dit is serieus echt goud! We zijn ook echt mierenneukers. T is waar mensen. And to the guy making this video: Your accent there actually sounded like what some people here sound like when they speak english. (We are the best none native english speaking country in the world though. Just wanted to point that out, because I'm proud of it)

2:50 Exactly what we do. Doei!

As a Dutch person myself I can say this is accurate

Geniaal... Zo droog 😂

Hahaha, as an American who lived there, this is damn to the point!

I laughed way too hard about this 😂

Love it. Great work. Now let's meet and discuss shall we?

Hillarious!!! :)

Very funny indeed and your Dutch accent is perfect. Business business cheese sandwhich business! I will use that in my future meetings

Who the fuck is this guy? His dutch is really impressive!

Sprak hij niet de stem in in die video van Zondag met Lubach over Trump? 😂

Geweldig!!😂

Geniaal Greg! doei!!! lol

Nice and true! Also the dutch pronunciation is spot on

Too accurate, I have to confirm. Why all Dutch people are offended by this I dont get though 😂

Hahaha that last part is so funny....get your coffee quick and lunch is 20 minutes to stuff a cheese sandwich... haha...very accurate!

Dude, even though I’m Dutch, you’re throwing all kinds of shizzle dizzle and facts that I didn’t know before right into my head😂😂🤯

I am from Zevenbergen! Ahaha xD

hahhahaha DOEI!! Amazing

Wow dat laatste stuk was geweldig

Geniaal XD

Love how a lot of the Dutchies in the comments are hurt in their special place of pride or whatever about your comments (I'm Dutch as well). Grow up and stop taking things so seriously! I loved the "DOEI" ;-)

Why is everyone do triggered? I'm Dutch and I find this funny eownwiwbu

The ending was hilarious

You speak Dutch amazingly Good!

The Netherlands may be flat, but the average cupsize is D ;3

Hilarious!

haha zo herkenbaar

Super!

i´m dutch and this is reality in my country

If you aint Dutch,you aint much.Hup holland Hup.!!!!!!!!Hi Hi

Lol the end "would you like a sigaret, yes the smoking area is outside DOEI"

I found my new favourite channel!!

This was fucking funny. x'D My sides.

Hahaha love this! DOEI

brilliant!

Yep, thats pretty accurate. Thanks for getting it right ;)

Like if you like the Netherlands

so... basically you hate the dutch? Or was there some other point to this video?

Spot on!

Haha, really recognizable. Business is just business in The Netherlands. Also the hierarchy you were talking about, in some companies there is this hierarchy. But me personally, always had the option to 'talk back', as long as it was with respect and good arguments. Anyway, I also expect respect and good arguments from my superiors.

I'm from the Netherlands and this is not true😂

Wow I'm Dutch and the most of the content was total bullcrap Or in Dutch Ik kom uit Nederland en het grootste gedeelte was totale onzin!!

Funny video although the beginning and the end of the video are a bit contrasting !! Are meetings dreadful with a lot of questioning or are they dynamic, to the point and decisive ?🤔

hahaha ik kom uit Zevenbergen 😂 die had ik niet aan zien komen

Surprisingly recognisable and (hence?) funny

you are soo funny! out of my experience with working with belgian and dutch i can only confirm your observation :) keep going!

Lol, great video.

“The smoking area is outside, DOEI”.... well done, sir.

Bravo! Haha that was hilarious because it's true!

that ending was brilliant.. Well, i got my coco.. DOEIII

So true, haha. It's still a mystery to me how to get any commitment about anything in a Dutch company. Basically if still one person disagrees the whole project is at risk of stalling. Even if the CEO says it needs to get done. I've heard the phrase "well the CEO doesn't know shit about this" more than once, lol. Oh and I'm Dutch too.

that 'Doei' was amazing haha

Ik ben TRIGGERED!

well done

This is way to accurate

I'm Dutch, and he's spot on. Good pronunciation of the Dutch language too. Take a "Stroopwafel" for that!

this is so f*cking accurate! every bit of it! but i do also love every aspect of the way we have meetings, when i was the intern i would argue with the boss without feeling any hesitations. the part where we don't have ranks ia also very true, i would greet the king the way i would greet my new neighbors.

The “doei” at the end XD

XD this is so true but so funny!

That last part 😂😂😂 ”DOEI” This is also kinda true 😂

2:48 SPOT ON

When asking a French coworker whether he would like to spend time with the Ines he love, or have an extensive lunch with colleagues and be home late he admitted that the first option was his preference. However, he used to go home early after arriving late, so net het spent less time at the office than contracted. No wonder that the French productivity is low

Laughed my balls off. I'm dutch and i really recognize that style of meetings, it is annoying AF. Especially when it comes to the meetings of the government.

haha Seven Mountains. I actually used to live there, its more like one hill with 7 main Streets to get onto it XD

This is kind of correct, but also kind of stereotypical. Anyway, in spite of these quirks, or maybe thanks to them, we Dutch have been able to build an incredibly successful country that finds itself in the top regions of nearly every measure of a country's success you can imagine, be it health, wealth, education, freedom, etc.

Don’t miss the Dutch meeting at the end, hilarious!!

I actually live in Zevenbergen (Seven Mountains) and seeing it mentioned made me laugh so much

This guy is really good.... 100%

Amazing HAHAHa

And yet we are the most productive people I Europe. So we must be doing something right.

Haha ik lach me suf! 😁

Your Dutch prononciation is actually pretty good