Paris as a whole no, but the touristic parts definitely.

amusement park staffed by surly employees.

This is a common remark by tourists, and funny enough, people who've looked into it have concluded that Parisians act that way towards tourists precisely because they don't define themselves as employees who are only here to serve tourists. They'll get to you when they get to you, they'll speak to you like normal people and not servants, they don't actually care about the quality of whatever product you're getting because they didn't make it and they're not involved in the resolution of your problem, and they'll send you off if you get pissy about it. They are not the staff of your amusement park.