Random Thoughts VIII: The Ocho
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Home. About 25 hours of planes, trains & buses.
Got caught up on Game of Thrones yesterday. Now back to work so I can spend the weekend helping migrate a client into our data center.
So...reading into this like the grandmother I am, should I infer that du hast eine Freudin in Deutschland?
Now that you're caught up, you need to go check out my thread with Samuel L Jackson explaining GoT
(shameless plug for thread hits...)
(but not really - don't care about that. just thought it was funny)
I started watching Air Force One last night but had never really seen or paid attention to the part where the **** hits the fan. I had to turn it off after they landed and the terrorists took over. I know it was for the theatrical plot but man that was bad.
It seems that German efficiency often battles the German love of paperwork. We recently had a consultant come over from Germany. I had some papers I needed him to sign and I apologized for all of the American federal bureaucracy crap. He responded that he didn't mind because Germans love their paperwork.
Nope I have lived in Iowa my whole life. Actually came up as trending on Twitter this morning
My daughter informed me last night that our high school won the state music listening competition. She did laugh. Hooda thunk there was such a thing.
Are they trying to kill people again?
That whole thing started at the sister hospital of the one where my wife went to have LittleWx and her whole appendix issue while prego at the exact same time as we were there getting her appendix out. That was fun.
My family went batspit crazy some months back when it was temporarily unavailable down there. I don't remember why...
was going to post this in the more relevant thread but it's way off the rails now.
asked French coworker if family is ok today. Said yes, they are not near Nice. Did have friends there but "they could run".
Very glad that their loved ones are safe but hearing them say that last bit was....troubling, I guess.
asked French coworker if family is ok today. Said yes, they are not near Nice. Did have friends there but "they could run".
Very glad that their loved ones are safe but hearing them say that last bit was....troubling, I guess.
Leider nicht. It's difficult to meet people over here especially when I'm only here for a short time. I'd love one, but that would also be a terrible long distance relationship to be in. But following a serious German girlfriend or wife would be the most likely way for me to come back to live over here.
I'm just going to say it. I have not been impressed with their bureaucracy. Maybe it's because I haven't dealt with the U.S. bureaucracy much, but I'm more impressed with ours. We work longer hours and I'd say we get things done quicker. They make the DMV look like efficient.
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A lot of that is just the culture. I am assuming they have a 35 hour week there as well and getting people to work any over that regularly is like pulling teeth? Then we don't blink an eye at 40+ and a significant portion of the population works 50+
The law firm I worked at worked a lot more, but yeah, it's open 32.5 hours a week. And I think we're overworked in the States, and they have a much healthy work-life balance, but I don't think it's onerous to have the office open from 8:00-5:00 every day.
I will say, they are nicer than the DMV (and I don't think the DMV is all that bad, but it's something we all know and can complain about), but they should be when they don't work nearly as hard
I never thought I'd compare myself to Leeloo watching the "history of violence" video, but that pretty much nails it for me with everything going on lately.
Too much hate in the world. Just too much ******* hate.
Too much hate in the world. Just too much ******* hate.
They don't believe in the modern model of indentured servitude as much as we do.
I've noticed that Europeans do tend to take hiccups in stride much better than Americans. I did have to do a short study of the German postal service and found that they deliver 95% of their letters within 1 day anywhere in the country and 99% within 2 days. When I needed paperwork delivered the short distance from Munich to Dusseldorf in 2 days their was virtually a 100% chance that they were going to get there on time.
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