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Never really thought about the different unspoken rules in different cultures. I do understand that there are differences in English and Polish culture during greetings – one you’re expected to say you’re good and the other says shit’s terrible.

Add the fact that a neurodivergent person has to further navigate through these cultures and unspoken rules. Do we just end up being sociologists? lol.

Trying to also analyze my mom and her friend talking – they’re pretty direct and I think it’s a great thing to be able to be direct and to the point rather than beat around the bush on the topic. I think there’s also the mixture of being Ukrainian which might beat around the bush and Polish culture that’s direct.

Though I think back to a Polish classmate at Iona telling me her dad was opening up a firm. Funny that I remember it was Grade 9 Geography class. (She had recently immigrated from Poland). And I asked “oh what kind of firm?” She just said a firm. LOL, bruh, I’m curious what kinda business he was opening up… but never found out. Not being weird about it just curious like how do people get into entrepreneurship or determine what business they want to get into. I’m not a business person, the logistics of it all is too much. Anyway – was she masking? or was I being too direct and curious and that was too weird for her?

I did find business university courses too dry. Doing a minor in HR was dry as heck. OHS was a good balance that attracted my curiosity with applied science. Not sure what it would be like now. If business courses would gain my attention or not.

Side thought – why are companies so archaic?

• Huge on paper or excel
• No or missing process
• Manual processes
• Expect workers to do more but don’t want to invest in resources that don’t work or expect them to not do the admin work but the processes don’t work
• You give them input but they say we don’t have the money or they implement something without your input and it doesn’t even work; garbage input; garbage output
• SharePoints that make no sense; either don’t have the necessary information or you can’t find their SharePoint
• or obsessed with PowerBI; PowerBI can do so much, but basing all of your content into it, it gets messy

I think about a worker comp company implemented and it was supposed to be a very innovative company supporting US and Canada but based in the US. What wasn’t disclosed was they didn’t even have personnel in Canada and outsourced this service to a third party. Their software? Not intuitive. Didn’t give the data you wanted. And those who would have needed to use this weren’t even included as stakeholders.

Quintessentially exhausted of inefficiencies.