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April 6th, 2016 
Awake Goy Whilst the German work ethic is well known and respected, no one wishes to imitate it. There is an unnerving sense of ant-like self-discipline about Germans that leaves most of us aghast. Taking a holiday at a Belgian camping site we Brits were snootily dismissive of a group of young Germans setting up their tent next to ours. Talk about carry-on Camping, upon awakening the difference between our two groups was hilarious.
We bleary-eyed Anglo-Saxon sad-sacks stumbled out of our dilapidated bivouac about 6.30am. By this later hour the already scrubbed and smartly dressed Fritz, with well-oiled precision, had dismantled and stowed their tent and belongings. This procedure took the Teutonic mob about five-minutes. An hour later and we hapless Englanders were still trying to figure out how to take down and pack our gear. In the end, uttering words no self-respecting German wishes to hear, we threw the lot in the back of the car.
This goes some way to understanding how Germans manage to produce far more than we do, yet work fewer hours. How, we ask, is a nation that works only 35 hours each week and enjoys 24 days of holiday each year on full pay, able to maintain such a high rate of quality production. They’re so darned good at being cost effective and efficient they even bail out their fellow Europeans when their economies fail.
Many young Spaniards are looking to employment in Germany. A large British expatriate community is already bedded in. What changes are newcomers likely to find in the German workplace? They will find a working regime that might have them doing a quick right-about-turn and then returning to their home country. The laid back laissez faire of the Spanish and some other Europeans will not be tolerated in the German workplace.
When employees turn up for work in Germany this is precisely what they do; they actually work. To shirk is to earn the wrath and scorn of colleagues. You just don’t do Facebook, read Renegade, and make personal calls or gossip when at work.
Nor do you pretend to be busy when the boss comes in. Sure, such behaviour is frowned upon in much of Europe, but it is tolerated. In Germany there is zero tolerance shown towards idleness. Interestingly, the indignation likely to be directed at work dodgers will come not from management but from fellow workers.
A young German woman on a working exchange job in England expressed her bewilderment. She says;
I was in the office and the people are talking all the time about their private things like ‘what’s the plans for tonight’ and constantly drinking coffee.
The Germans retire at 65 whereas in the UK there is no longer a set retirement age. This means you stay on the hamster wheel until you fall off it.
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