I had an issue at work, stuck all night on the phone trying to get a license activated. The first fellow I talked to was Australian, great guy. Really helpful, patient. He discovered the issue was indeed on their end.

I took a nap at my desk for an hour (the license was needed on an airgapped system sneaker-netted over via an encrypted drive so I couldn't do this from home and the deadline had arrived).

Woke up and called back, different fellow, European. Every answer, in perfect english, was about 3 words long on average in a very dismissive tone.

I'd rather move to Australia.

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gdhkgdhkvff 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That’s quite a takeaway from an interaction with only 2 different people.

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irishcoffee 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Oh, well I guess you can just read this forum to see how Europeans feel about Americans too, the Australian guy was the interesting one. I wasn’t surprised by the European.

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rbanffy 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Expecting a place the size of Europe or the US to be culturally homogeneous would be a huge mistake.

	▲	aggakake 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The US and Mexico share the same continent, and the populations are exactly alike!

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touwer 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

so all Europeans suck, eh?