Originally Posted by
Yomama1999
That's great!
I just want to point out that working with Dutch people outside of the Netherlands, and working as a foreigner not speaking the language in a Dutch company, are not the same.
It is, the dutch are open minded, talkative, liberal and adapt to other cultures. If the Dutch are abroad, they adapt and mingle. However, if you come to the Netherlands and feel entiteld, not included, play the victim or whatever, then indeed the dutch will signal it and their directness will show. We don’t do b*****.
Within KLM Cityhopper the working Language has been changed 25 years ago to English, due to Air UK Integration. Even now in (online) meetings, manuals, all the documentation, training, the language is English. Even KLM is changing to that.
In all my time with KLC we always (!) spoke English if there was even one UK crewmember. I cannot remember of any UK flight- or cabin crew that made effort to learn a bit Dutch to have conversations. More so, there were UK people that did not want to shake hand „because it not being part of their culture“. So who had to adapt? Again, stop playing a victim, like the Netherlands is so hard. Indeed with that mindset you won‘t get very far. It is all up to you.
It is interesting that the Brits have this mindset, whereas the Norwegians that joined in the 90‘s all immediately learned dutch and integrated. Nowadays I can hardly see if a colleague is Norwegian, besides the name.
If you like to laugh, have fun, always find a reason to celebrate a first,- or last flight of a crewmember and make „Memorable Experiences“ then join. If you want to sit on your hotelroom and not integrate, then don‘t.
And yes, we are proud or our company. As said, it is not the golden sinks or 99 cent tickets that draw passengers. It is the genuine interest and going that one step further for our passengers, that give KLM the right to survive, coming from such a small home market.