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To: elmatador who wrote (126709)12/21/2016 2:33:13 AM
From: Elroy Jetson   of 217485
 
The Kulturwandel Seimens needed was an Ethik change in response to to 2006 discovery that hundreds of employees had embezzled Millions of Euros by creating shell companies they paid out to for fictitious goods and services.

It was no surprise Siemens management initially said this was no big deal, because that many people can't get the same idea if this wasn't a practice winked at by management - most likely to help employees avoid tax on their income. At least that's my best guess what was going on.

In this case the ethics culture change had to happen with the top management. If the change didn't happen, it was because top managers made it clear they weren't serious. It was all just a show for shareholders.

I don't think your co-worker in Jakarta wasn't really concerned his children learn to speak correct German, that's a token. He wanted his children to grow up in Germany to be German, rather than an expat German-Indonesian. British children who grow up in Africa or Singapore are not really British to British people and are kept at a distance like all foreigners His children might develop unique abilities and skills growing up in Jakarta, but all he knew for sure is was how they would not be German.

I have a German friend who went to High School in America, then to work in England and America. Now of necessity he lives in Berlin and he's surrounded himself with English-speaking friends because he really can't easily speak proper German and he can't stand German culture. From the woman collecting the annual television broadcast fee or waiver at his door, because he couldn't be bothered to fill out the form online or by mail, to the fact that by law he has to have his name on his door at all. These things wouldn't be important to me, but being half-foot in and out it's just intolerable to him.

I don't think any parent wants to have their children feel there is no place called home in the world, no matter how much you travel when you are working.
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