Your first weeks in a Dutch office are disorienting in a way nobody warns you about. Feedback arrives without a cushion. Someone interrupts you and it isn't rude. A decision gets made by six people agreeing rather than one person deciding. And then someone says "dat zien we dan wel weer" and you have no idea whether that's a yes.

None of that is in your onboarding pack. It's in this one.

Inside the cheat sheet:

• Why Dutch directness isn't rudeness — and how to stop reading criticism as an attack

• What actually happens before, during, and after a Dutch meeting

• How feedback works here, in both directions (yes, you're expected to give it to your manager)

• Coffee, birthday cake, and the social rules of gezelligheid at work

• Seven Dutch phrases you'll hear this week, and what they really mean

• A one-page do's and don'ts you can keep open in a tab