Eh. My experience is that 99% of people who tell me to be direct eventually get offended because I'm too direct. I've noticed that Americans claim to be laid-ba

Eh. My experience is that 99% of people who tell me to be direct eventually get offended because I'm too direct. I've noticed that Americans claim to be laid-back and casual, but in reality they're very formal, it's just that they're not posh. Fortunately, I've developed the skill to communicate both efficiently and professionally, I'm the master of practical corpo speech that gets shit done, but it's so radically different from my natural way of speaking that nobody who only knows me privately believes that I'm even capable of taking part in a work meeting without causing a scandal.