Why @blaze@sopuli.xyz
German efficiency.
I know you’re being sarcastic, but for the sake of people still believing in German efficiency, believe me, it is nothing but a myth.
The inside experience is more one of a Kafkaesque nightmare full of Byzantine bureaucracy where you keep filing all sorts of complicated forms, get them rejected because of a comma in the wrong place, re-file them (of course in triplicate), get them rejected again because of a comma in the right place, re-file once more, only for a deadline to have expired just before, and when you’re finally done with the mountainous amount of paperwork, you’ll be told by some official in no uncertain terms that, despite all the forms, you don’t get to be a cool bug as in a proper Kafkaesque nightmare.
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Fire station work no fire alarms
Oooooh boy
Yeah.
Even if it’s not required, someone should have considered the schadenfreude and PR disaster from something like this happening.
The “This won’t ever happen to me” vibe is very strong in Germany. We even have a fire service related joke term for it. Let me introduce you to the “St. Florians-Prinzip”, the “principle of St. Florian”, which is centered on the idea of praying to St. Florian, the patron saint of firefighters, to spare your own house, but light someone else’s on fire instead:
Oh heiliger Sakt Florian,
verschon unser Haus,
zünd’ and’re an.
(This principle is also often used to describe NIMBYism)