Comments by "" (@krollpeter) on "Type Ashton"
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I went the other way around, left Germany to work elsewhere.
The two biggest bummers for me were: 1. The Just-Do-It mentality vs. strategizing, and 2. The separation of private and work, or lack thereof.
1. I was shocked how often of my colleagues were happy with sloppy results. For many it is like ... once it looks like it's completed, they close that chapter. Even though there may be still a rat-tail of problem unsolved, or things being left that others had to do then, they do consider the work done once it looks fairly ok to outsiders. Making your boss think you did a good job counts more than actually doing a good job.
2. Besides of doing the company's work, it is not unusual also managing the house, family, partner, children or whatever from work. They hang hours at the phone and solve family problems. Another example is going together for lunch. There are groups, I should call them tribes. If you belong to them and participate, that can decide about your future in the company. Different tribes have different social rankings. Or the amount of drinking together. If you don't go along (most of the time), you will not be included in their circles work-wise as well. For us Germans, these things do not determine the value of a colleague. We want to be together with our real friends and families, that's priority.
Two pills that were very hard to swallow for me.
All the points mentioned are very well observed by you both!
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Referring to your list of medications, they threw practically everything at you being vaguely related to allergies and nasal symptoms. Hopefully there would be something that eases your situation. Or so. This is a rather poor practice.
I think most Germans don't have the slightest clue what you are talking about with your medical insurance in the US. It seems being a system that one need to study first intensively, before even getting an idea what's going on, and what I am signing in to there. Maybe you are used to it, so it's normal for you.
That kind of system is set up not to insure people, it is there to insure the insurance they would earn. People will need to plan their medical needs in order to not exceed yearly limits, etc. etc.. No wonder there are so many with health problems in the US, and the rotten teeth we see everywhere are legend. No wonder so many get financially broke, and sometimes from not even very serious medical issues.
Health system, education, public transportation, water supplies and electricity are base needs that should never be commercialized, most importantly the first two. This is another proof to me.
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