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It's lunchtime in Paris.

Chefs are chalking up their menus.

New upsetting tables, wine craps or stacked, customers choose their or derves.

And scenes like this are playing out in bistros and canteens across France.

Meanwhile, in her office at the University of Strasbourg, an English teacher named

Caitlin Pliche furtively pokes her head into the hallway.

Looks both ways.

Seeing no one, she carefully clicks the door closed, returns to her desk,

and in the glow of her computer screen, she pulls out a salad.

And records this voice memo.

Hi, Rough Translation team.

My name is Caitlin.

I have a workplace cultural challenge, which is currently I'm sitting in my office hiding,

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