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LOL don't take it personally, but that is completely wrong.

Culture is not issued at your previous employer along with the company policies handbook, id card, and a dress code.

Culture is what you are, not how your immediately previous employer temporarily defined you while at work. My culture is I'm a northern European descended male living in USA, for my whole life I've been whats now called a "maker" for decades before being a maker was cool, religiously unaligned with any particular deity and live and let live with everyone else's imaginary man in the sky (and why is it always a "man in the sky" anyway?), educated in the classical "great books of western civ" sense, and my tastes in entertainment are vaguely European in outlook for example sex is great fun but violence is sick (I'm not a big fan of hollywood gorefest movies). And being a mostly German descended guy I have a pretty tidy front lawn in front of my house, that stereotype is often true.

Culture is not "$current_employer tolerates flextime so I could never work in the future anywhere else that doesn't have flextime because all human beings are permanently inflexible, oh wait, actually I've never worked the same schedule at two difference consecutive jobs so I guess it doesn't matter anyway"

Everyone knows 60 hour weeks means reduced productivity compared to 40 hour weeks, so I can slack off if I have to, to fit in with the other burned out sleep deprived zombies, but rest assured I'm only going to work like a demon for 40 hours and then surf the net for 20 because you get there the fastest by going slow.



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