Worked once with both French speaking and German speaking people where some fundamental components relied on communication between these native speakers, and wa

Worked once with both French speaking and German speaking people where some fundamental components relied on communication between these native speakers, and was conducted remotely. Germans in turn are very laconic, literal when speaking English and like to feel smug because of it. At some point the German director became furiously hysterical on hearing „no”. What a beautiful clusterfuck it was.