Have you ever experienced working with someone from a different country or culture and somehow it just feels…odd? It is needless to say that people from different cultures act, speak, dress, communicate, and work different-ly, but that does not mean that there is a ‘right’ or ‘wrong’. In this paper, the researchers demonstrate that intercultural competences are of great value in today’s multicultural companies, because they help us understand people with different backgrounds so that working with someone from another cul-ture suddenly does not feel odd anymore, but is exciting, mind-opening, and even informative in a way. We just need the right tools to see and un-derstand the differences. The example of the employee who was born and raised in Thailand, and is now working in a Dutch company, shows readers that their cultural background hugely influenced the interpretation of the Dutch behavior. Taking advantage of the Hofstede Model and the Erin Mey-er Culture Map gives people like this employee the opportunity to make themselves aware of their own interpretations and why they think and act the way they do. They can place themselves in dimensions to see the bigger picture. After they have understood themselves, they can start to interpret other’s behaviors without major prejudice and widen their horizon to then find their place in this globalized world.