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Oh, petit bonhomme, c'était une vilaine blague. Je sais bien que tu as le sens de l'humour bien au-dessus de tout ça

Oui, j'ai un sens de l'humour bien au-dessus de ma taille (fort heureusement).

Mon Nain, je viens juste de tomber sur ça en consultant un site. Tu apprécieras sûrement...

I was due to present to the Belgian management team of an international IT company. Not wishing to be the typical Brit presenting in English, I carefully prepared and turned up with a French presentation and proceeded to present 45 minutes in French. (I meant it as a surprise so hadn’t warned anyone.)

We broke halfway through my presentation for coffee and the country manager asked me if I would switch to English. “Is my French that bad?” I said. “No," he replied, "it’s just that we are all from the Dutch speaking part of Belgium and we are not clear whether you are trying hard or just insulting us.”

Ouah ha ha, d'ailleurs, pardonnez-moi si je suis totalement hors sujet... Le texte ci-dessus fait partie d'une liste de situations très embarassantes dans lesquelles se sont retrouvés des gens qui devaient faire une présentation. Lire aussi celle-ci, vraiment trop pissante !

I once attended a customer presentation with 200 people in audience where the presenter forgot to switch off their wireless connection and Instant Messaging (IM). Half way through the presentation, the IM notification window popped up… “Wet Patch has just signed in.”

Et une petite dernière pour la route

I was giving a corporate presentation in Chicago one year, having flown across from the UK to deliver a controversial project proposal to a new sales group. I’d just finished reading a presentation guide that suggested only using images – no text or charts – on slides and I decided to put it into practice.

Unfortunately, I was suffering from jet-lag, compounded by a lack of detailed notes, and I struggled to remember what the pictures were meant to symbolise. I spent a humiliating hour in front of twenty senior executives, saying things like, “err…. and that’s a picture of …. hmmm … a chair … which … err …..”