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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (25718)11/25/2002 4:58:19 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
They have been wrong for 17 years! The capital-work social contract that made sense when the British, Italians and French would strike, lose days of work and consequence business to Germany, doesn't make sense anymore. I tell you again my own experience:

In 1985 I worked for Siemens in Nigeria. I told then I would be wiling to work for them. They called to Munich and told me they couldn't hire me. The workers' representatives in the board wouldn't accept. And any foreigner hired had to be approved by those workers representatives. What about all those Austrians working down there? I asked. They have German names no one spots them. That's why we hire them. They replied.

But you need me there, there isn't any German engineers to do what I do for your company. The problem is, the director continued, we have to give preference to the German engineers. Then we get a 40 to 45 year old unemployed engineer and tell him we want him to go to Nigeria. Very good money, tax free and all the goodies. Then the engineer says he would love to start working again, but, and he pulls a couple of papers from the doctors, he has this pain on his back that prevent him to carry even measuring equipment, besides the hot weather would also not going to be good to his lungs. So he couldn't go.

So there the company was. They couldn't hire me. And they couldn't get what was on offer. They said:

Here is what we do. You continue work for us like now. As a token of our appreciation we will give 5.000 DM bonus for you to spend on your holidays this month in Munich. I said thanks. I take it. I went to the pub and drunk a few pilsners because only when drunk the whole thing made sense to me.

I left them in 1991. Two years later I asked for my job back. They said. Now we can give you a good deal. We hire you as a contractor. They told me how much I would get. I said: "Ich bin Kampfsbereits, mein herr!"
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