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Because the costumer wants some of the developers on site to see that they are actually working on his problems.


Which is great, because now the developers can do their side jobs while their customers provide them with coffee.


Except they can't tell if they are actually working on their problems.


shouldn't customer care about results instead of how they are delivered?


Yes, we Germans generally stop at red lights (even a lot of pedestrians do so). I guess most of us respect most of our traffic laws (except for speed limits).


I think the only speed limit generally not observed is 60 km/h in construction sites on the motorway, which seems to be interpreted by pretty much everyone as »Continue driving 80 km/h«. Otherwise, at least around here, it's just a few drivers that go faster than allowed but the vast majority keeps to the limits.


That's actually not correct. One example from Düsseldorf: http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/duesseldorf/duesseldorf-... (2/3rds of drivers in a 30km/h zone are breaking the speed limit).

30 km/h and even 50 km/h are respected pretty much nowhere except where there are stationary traffic cameras. I ran across an article recently (can't seem to find it again) where 90% of German drivers voluntarily admitted to not keeping to the speed limit.

For most people, breaking the speed limit does not seem a big deal. Then they run over a kid and say "I didn't mean to do that"! Well, they did in a way - keeping to the speed limit is not hard.


Yeah, but it was also nice to see him struggling with his nervousness. Just like the rest of us. Maybe he's just human too.


"And the company and the executives pay taxes from the bottom line" ... this is sarcastic isn't it?

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg_Leaks] [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-05-22/google-joi...]


So by your logic, since some companies and individuals evade some taxes, it follows that no companies and no individuals pay taxes?


My dad had kind of a typical (?!) depressive career: he worked a lot. First, he had a tinnitus and some years after that he had "burnout". 6 months after my dad retired he tried to jump into death. After 2 weeks of coma he was like mentally switched. It was christmas and we told him that he'll be grandpa in a few months. Now, 5 years later he says that this helped a lot. He still does therapy. He found the therapist that fitted him perfectly. Its still work to do but he works on it. The therapist told him that he has a trauma like many Germans which were born in the generation after world war 2. The trauma is the root cause and he has a chance to overcome this trauma. We will see. My wife's uncle didn't worked his first depression and recently - about 10 years after the first breakout - he's depressive again.


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