Applaud, or not?

We were having our company annual information session in a castle.

The environment was perfect, peaceful with green scenery, except that it was raining.

So we were restricted to a conference room, with top managers at the front row, and employees following behind.

A manager finished his PPT presentation and the next one was ready to give his speech.

I was going to clap my hands, but I noticed that nobody moved.

I looked at my coworker who sat beside me, he shaked his head, dispproved of what I was trying to do.

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And I was just trying to applaud. We do this when someone finished a speech, right?

Well, not when the person is a manager, and in a company internal meeting, appearantly.

So, during the whole presentation, several managers stood in front of us, informing us on various issues, but non got any applause. The only applause we got that day was when someone provoked the managers with questions difficult to answer. Yes, the spirit of challenging the authorities is in the blood of French people.

Anyway, later, I was having lunch with a group of coworkers, and the coworker who stopped me from applauding told everyone what I was trying to do. They all said no no to me. I defended, that  it was out of politeness!

Yes, I'm the weird one, again.  lol