Swedish Bureaucracy
The Swedes are a notoriously bureaucratic people. Personal numbers must be submitted, receipts must be accounted for, and if you use the wrong cover in your TPS report, you should expect a stern reprimand from your six bosses. From this cultural observation, one can infer that managerial positions are highly coveted among the Swedes; the master of bureaucracy is the master of life itself.
The Swedish word for manager is “chef”.
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This causes me to see the Muppets’ Swedish Chef in a whole new (somewhat disturbing)light. And he seemed to be such an easy going guy, too…..
You’d think that, but that’s just how he manages his underlings so efficiently.
Are you in Lund or Uppsala?
I’m in Lund.
Haha. The TPS reference is CLASSIC.
what is the word for union as in strike?
If I’m picking the right definition, it’s “fackförening”. There are about a billion choices, though, check out http://www-lexikon.nada.kth.se/skolverket/swe-eng.shtml
If any of you happen to know of a better online swedish dictionary, especially one that can translate blocks of text without any stupid trial periods, TELL ME. please. I’ll give you my first-born child.
That reminds me, I have to get me a first-born child. They’re great bartering chips.
It’s so weird someone from Uppsala keeps visiting my blog too… I thought one of them would be you (obviously)
Hmm… Maybe someone followed a link from my blog, or maybe my address is reporting as being from Uppsala. Dunno.