Comment by lnsru
1 year ago
The attitude isn’t changing, I can assure you. Few people see what’s happening for real in the country. The other ones are living in the delusional small nice Germany preparing for 1972 Olympics. If you ask about limiting uncontrolled immigration you’re already Hitler’s son. If you ask about basic product improvement, that makes production cheaper you shouldn’t rock the boat, because it was always done that way. Example from last week: we have here a trainee in the field of electronics. Electrical check of the office equipment is due for many years. My proposition: buy the trainee a device, that does these tests automatically, send the trainee through the office to conduct tests and save 15000€ not hiring external company with the same 1500€ tester. No, can’t be done. The trainee is bored to death toying with some cables and circuit breakers. The lack of flexibility will kill the country.
The thing is that now many countries can process metal precise enough to satisfy customers. Maybe it’s only 75% of German quality, but at 40% of the price it’s unbeatable. Looks like, that German companies are sabotaging themselves. Volkswagen and defeat device. Bayer and Monsanto acquisitions. I have no explanation for this. Maybe as you say German arrogance.
Bizarre how you shoehorned a complaint about immigration into this. How are migrants responsible for choices made by blinkered and conservative Mittelstand owners?
It's easy to blame outsiders -- migrants, Chinese, Americans, Russians -- for problems that Germans brought onto themselves. It's exactly this belief in German cultural supremacy that makes serious introspection impossible.
Sounds like an insurance driven decision.
Not really. It’s complicated in Germany. But normally a company has somebody named official electrician. It can be outsourced. And this electrician has a right to delegate some tasks to somebody else. So in this case trainee gets the right to do these automated tests this time or all the time in this location. I know this, because I am hardware developer in my day job and self employed electrician at night.