Well it's socialism they expect you to it for free and remember you will do it as patriotic as you can the more cringeworthy the better

With potatoes or money

First they should start their own KZfaq. Or you can try promote it by using paper mail or fax.

@@cane6171 that they r both equally nonsense

@@user_sysroot980 Hi Elon!

my condolences! 🙈

Scumbags. Find a another place to work. That's not normal

we must protest

How does it feel being a willing slave?

@@x12_79 are you french ? 🤣🤣🤣

In the US you are just a number in any company whether big or small

Really? Sounds god, i have suspected that german "global players" do the same shit, like evry global player.

same with french companies but denmark and sweden best work conditions in the world in my opinion

You know you can quit right?

well the US is completly capitalistic while germany has quite a few socalistic laws. but once americans hear socialism or even communism they get scared and rather get exploited by capitalism cuz its good. idk.

VERY ACCURATE LOL

Bro i havent worker any overhours my life can get vacation whenever i want and if i get sick bam a week at home for small tummy ache on monday if i still have it i can make it 2 weeks they dont even check so who cares

'Im from Austria theres only small changes from Germany "( our wifi is better)

@@reinsama5436 love the Mehlspeisen

@@reinsama5436 If austria is better than germany why do so many austrian painters wants to immigrate to germany

It's because german work ethics are super high employer and employees respect each other

@@MHG796 Genau

Yes, respecting workers will make them more productive while they work. Why be 24/7 reachable while being 10% effective when you can work 9 to 5 and be at 180% peek efficiency.

Elon Musk will straight up destroy that...

Well, the strong econlmy mostly stems from our broad minimum/low wage sector which allowed us to produce export oriented goods relatively cheaply and thus having a better stand in world markets. Sadly we also have one of the biggest wealth and income inequalities in europe

Yea we were told something of that nature before

Yes, and if someone infects the whole gang in a meeting, then the 'boss' can at least kick everyone out the next day, and (hopefully) himself the day after that. LOL Just a sick attitude to 'work'!

No wonder so many people want to be entrepreneurs or freelances

hahaha omg how is this real life?!

@@RadicalLiving Facts! They keep telling us that we have it so good.

that's insane >.< Maybe they gave her the hospital bill right away when she left the hospital and thought "damn, I need to work long and hard to be able to pay this" >.

Yikes. That mindset is slowly changing here.

How pathetically sad!

Well I once had a normal work day in the military including a night shift where I was doing guard duty... all with a fractured foot and crutches...but tbh I was forced into it because "it's just a foot you can still keep watch, speak and shoot and we don't want to change shift schedule".

@@DragonlordSVS Correct me if I'm wrong, but a downtown city office job recruiting for law firms is a bit different than being in/training for the military, no?

Rich has money to spend for family but no time to spend with them

@@musafir123 Material things will replace your family((

Before he even said that I was all ready to comment that no adult American has friends to even wish they could spend time with and if they did those friends would be too tired to see them

The "using colleagues as substitute friends" really rings true

Then I must be doing something wrong... I am poor and I have no friends :D

Are you ok? two weeks vacation? how can you not get burned out. I'd seriously collapse if I had only two weeks vacation.

Because the thing is that you simply will show better results during work time when you have more time off. Tbh so many people just fill in the space with zero effectivity because they hate being there. But bosses seem not to get that. They think they can force you to be motivated which is by it´s face impossible.

Yes all this at the cost of so much tax you pay, you'd never get rich in these countries. Not to mention maternal leave is just another tax burden on the ones that don't want to have children.

I had the usual 20 days in my last job but because I worked on bank holidays, other than Christmas Day, I should have been given them as extra to those 20 days to be taken at another time in lieu. I didn't get them. Most people get 20 days & the eight bank holidays as extra so 28 days in all. In England & Wales there are the eight bank holidays. There were only six bank holidays until the late 70's when New Year's Day & the first Monday after May 1st was added. More people now have to work on bank holidays because shops are allowed to open then. There needs to be one extra for the national saint's day so it would be St David's Day in Wales & St George's Day in England. I couldn't take my days off when I needed them so they would be carried over & I suffered from burn out.

Ugh! This the american dream everyone is talking about?!

We do the same in Croatia😂😂😂

Portugal too😁. Public holiday on tuesday or thursday absolutely sure a day of paid holidays on monday or friday.

yeah, and when you do it each year you can be sure that your colleagues won't appreciate that.

@@jilsephony8403 I always check with my closest coworkers first, we arrange our free days together before even presenting it to the boss. Since I don't have kids I let the ones with kids to choose the best dates first, plenty left for me. Anyway, there are some selfish colleagues, but they are minority.

@@jilsephony8403 but not always the same person, during the year. And depends the place you work, 2 or 3 can do it at the same time.

Uhhhh I think france is the only country which takes a lunch break longer than 1 hour

Germans are very efficient. They get their work done quickly & well so can then afford to work shorter hours. Or that's what we get told.

@@rachidb9624 The rest of Southern Europe does because it's so hot in the summer they are unable to work in the middle of the day both indoors & outdoors so work split shifts. I think they revert to more normal working hours in the winter.

@@lemsip207 Efficient? Work done quickly? You probably never lived in Germany :D

@@ev-olution8597 When it comes to construction work, yes, they don't get work done quickly 😂

Keep whining

😮😮😮

woow..

That's why the US will break beautifull soon, once great, now getting garbage, pushing and pushing just digging and digging down, not just for immigrants but also for the sons of the land.

Christmas break is a religious holiday. Your friend could sue that company for religious discrimination, since she wasn't given the full time to observe it.

Well in UK it depends on where you work, my workplace was fine about lateness and sick leaves.

and that's why portugal is poor :)

@@echochamber1234 you’d be surprised when you find out how much they’re paying for their rent xD

@@echochamber1234 Poor in money, rich in happy people :)

​@@Knitschi656 ill take that over corrupt monopoly in America.

Germans are so sweet, aren't they? 🫒💚

welcome to the place where people actually matters not the money first.

It's smarter that way - the longer you are happy and healthy, the longer you will be productive and satisfied employee. Life is beautiful and we should all enjoy it together. This is the true win win strategy.

Sounds like a big culture shock Did you told them that time is money and work hard play hard?

that sounds so so nice.

Yes then there is all the big tech companies popping out in the US, nowhere else, and people wonder why!

@@liloolo these companies just eat people. It's self enforced slavery.

it's a real shame they can't understand how much it will boost employees productivity, it baffles me how some big companies are stifling unions, that's backwards, almost medieval don't understand how that is actually happening in the so called west.

@@liloolo Spotify is from Sweden;)

Same is true in Germany...the negative impact of a bad boss is universal

Basically, this is the baseline in Capitalism, kind of like the social contract that has been west capitalist economies have adhered to since the beginning of the 20th century. Capitalism doesn't work if you don't have well paid and well rested workers, anything else is either corporatism or extreme capitalism (laissez-faire, free market or for some "pure' capitalism), which, essentially, doesn't work. Capitalism needs both state regulations and social safety structures to remain truly free, even if this sounds contradictory. Because "free" in capitalism, means EVERYONE being "free" from poverty or from malicious competition to reach for their maximum potential. The US and their lobbying system, where companies buy out politicians legally, along with the art form levels of division propaganda (neither the left nor the right make sense in the US), have driven their system straight to corporatism. It is actually devolving to one side of a coin of which the other side is China's export capitalism (capitalism in foreign relations, communism in the interior).

That’s a pity. I know what living with regret feels like.

They do in that US as well. This my strategy in fact if the company will allow me to get away with it. I would never take whole months off though. I just want the time there in case I need it sorta like a bank account.

Banking them in case you really need them or to take a longer vacation is one thing, but the work culture is so sick in America that in companies where people actually do have sick days they bank them just to not take them and get paid out, companies hate this because they see it as double dipping, and it’s bad for other employees because even when you are offered sick days there’s still a culture of shame around using them and then the employer will just reduce sick days because no one is taking them. We do this to ourselves because we’re fucked up and fetishize burnout and working while sick even when we don’t have to

He could've used the Days off to Visit like, Greece or something.

I had the same issue here in Texas. I was told to take a vacation, as it was mandatory.

😂😂😂

It’s a bit of an exaggeration, but not that much.

This is not even remotely close to accurate

@@AUniqueHandleName444 its pretty much shows the differences pretty accurate. for us germans the situations in america seems so extreme arful when we hear about it, that hans here probably should never show up at work to put that in the right perspective

I heard that immigrant kids are forced to work manual jobs in Germany when they grow up is it true???

​@@Thorfinn47. no

@@lmaolol8892 , explain

@@Thorfinn47. it is optional, if you'd like you can, but if not then do not. May be you meant volunteer's work because it makes more advantages for graduates to go to unversity

@@lmaolol8892 , no that's not what I mean, I am talking about job , I heard that most immigrant kids are not allowed to study engineering and medicine etc , at age 10 only they are forced to go for other lower fields. They don't get chance , by age 10 only they are forced to go for manual jobs like electrician, mechanic , construction worker etc, universities don't allow them even if they have same score as native Germans , and they are raised to replace the labor shortage for Germany , ?? What do u explain about this

Me too, I was looking for this comment :))

I worked for a German company in the US and it was relatively chill. But still if you took one whole week off that was considered a long time.

Interesting, what field did you work in in Australia?

so you live in an inferior country Mexico instead of CANADA ?

@@chillis8267 nah you got that backwards It's called Chinada now.

@@2GringosOnTheGulf so the presence of Chinese people disturb you ?

I'm so glad!

I thought slavery was over in the States.

@@scout8112 Not in this particular factory. 😅 It's a slavery of mindset. People allow themselves to be bullied and used, because they are afraid.

Was there no union in your Factory?

@@scout8112 Actually, in the States, it is still legal to enslave a person if they've been convicted of a crime. Many southern states require that prisoners work without pay, and often it is hard labor. In the rest of the U.S., they'll pay you around 20 cents an hour when they require you to work.

Wow, thanks! Glad you enjoy what I put out there 😸

On the other hand, in Russia the probation is 1 to 3 months, but your employer can easily press you into quitting "by your own wish", and that's how most layoffs happen there

​@@Klash1100 ​ That's life, my Russian comrade. Some people always gonna get an advantage of you, until you stop this by yourself. The truth is that Russian labour law protects employees from the case you described, but it up to employee to protect themselves by this law. So forcing an employee to quit "by your own wish" is no more than a threat without anything behind it. It's a pity that not many people know this.

@@Klash1100 The same happens in Germany a lot. For some ugly cases don't forget to get Rechtsschutzversicherung :)

As someone from a neighbouring (to Russia) country currently "freelancing" for a Russian company (I would probably considered an employee by German standards), that tracks, but it's way worse in Central Asia. The 3 months probation period is only there so that your employer can pay you less, and you have to mess up _a lot_ to be fired during the probation period, but at any time your superiors can ask you to resign, and if you don't, you can be sure your work life would turn into utter hell. And if you try protecting yourself in court, remember that your company has more money to hire lawyers and give a few strategically important gifts.

I mean in America they can fire you at any time so it's a lot better and usually if you fit into the company the 6 months go by rather quickly.

This is why more jobs should unionize in the US, it is the only way besides large-scale reform that workers in the US can have more rights. This is coming from a European though...

This is what I want to do when I graduate college tbh

Yes, so very true. Public service employment within the United States is very generous with leave. Also, all the holiday time. One of the very few sector that is out of the norm.

The sick days are limited? That sounds pretty awful to me. In Germany you need a sick note, but if a doctor says so you can take time off unlimited. But I guess it's good for US standards. Also something which many in the US should do is follow their contract and actually demand that the companies abide by the labour laws. For example everything after 40 hours per week needs to be compensated by a factor of at least 1,5. If something isn't in the contract you should not do it. And at minimum wage you should give minimum effort.

I'm an American working in the U.S. I work at a laboratory that is a quasi-government-private enterprise. I get three weeks off a year for vacation and I forget how much for sick time. It's a lot, more than three weeks. I use at most a day or two of that each year. I'm maxed out as to how much vacation time I can have on the books (six weeks I think). I don't like being away for too long as it forces your coworkers to do extra work, and even though I'm not in management, I like being there to voice my opinion on matters concerning tasks I'm involved in. Lastly, vacations, if you actually go out of town, are VERY expensive. I took my family to Lake Tahoe, which is only about three to five hours away from me by car, and spent over $2k for five days. We didn't even ski or snowboard. If I were to try visiting another country as many Europeans do, I'm sure it would cost me about $10K, easily.

That's why Americans have been protecting germans since the last 80 years and germans have no army to protect themselves even against Poland.

Yes, there're exceptions but leave time and other benefits are very generous in order to compensate for the lower salaries one would get working in the private sector.

I worked for country government for a good while. I had great bosses...until I didn't. My good boss left and one of my peers got the job. He and I are both German-American and we got along like oil and water. I swear that bastard plotted all weekend on how to make my week suck. I left to work in the private sector and made almost 20k more from day one. That was great...I had another German-American boss and we got along just fine....until he got replaced and the shit started all over again. Now I work for myself and don't have to put up with anyone's crap.

So glad!

Me too! 🤣

We have a British friend (here in the US) who was diagnosed with breast cancer. Because of the chemotherapy, she missed too much work and they fired her. Our health insurance in the US is tied to our employment, so she also lost her health insurance. (There existed COBRA which would have cost more than $2,000/month--difficult to pay if you're unemployed.) Luckily, she kept her British citizenship despite living here for almost 40 years. She went back to England and lived with her sister while she was getting affordable treatment.

I'm American. It sucks to be American. If you take off work for a week for any reason, you will more than likely be replaced. The American mentality is that you as an employee are an asset but if you get sick, you are a liability and you will cost the company money. American laws do not give leeway for employees to take time off. There are laws that should theoretically protect employees from abuse but, they have no teeth (can't really be enforced) because big businesses pay politicians to ignore poor people's rights. My siblings left America and said it was the best decision they ever made. I'm leaving America as soon as I get the chance.

You quit and get a new job. Maybe like if you break your back in a car accident or something and they liked you before you can take unpaid leave and then reapply at the same company and be given preferential treatment in re-hiring. No one would even dream of taking 5 months for depression unless they live with their parents. And you would never tell the company that. If you need to not work for 5 months because of depression you quit and get a new job and you lose your housing and move in with family, if you don’t have anywhere to go you just keep working. Don’t even think of getting one unpaid day for depression, you lie and say you have the flu and maybe if you haven’t called in yet this year they’ll let you have like 1-2 unpaid days. I’m sorry but I’m actually a communist American and “I took 5 months off work for depression” sounds like a made-up strawman from the right like “well if we let anyone have medical leave people will abuse it and take 5 months off work for depression” and the left would be like “oh my god no one would ever do that, that’s ridiculous, all we’re saying is you should get 4 weeks leave if you break your back and can’t walk” (and we all understand without saying that if you want leave for mental health you have to just lie and say it’s something else if you want to come back without being bullied). And then Germany enters the chat like “well we do that” like what the fuck is going on over there?

Thank you so much 😀

@@RadicalLiving We are treated more like a cog in a machine than a human being in many places in the US. Getting vacation days is rare and it’s frowned upon from many bosses. You’d be extremely lucky if you get more than a week off a year for vacation. I don’t even work yet because I’m 16 but this is what I’ve observed from many people.

I have family in Germany and they have done that numerous times. they've seen far more of the U.S. than I could ever hope to see in my lifetime and I was born here.

If they have an unused vacation must be paid out policy then yeah, companies would rather you use it than double dip.

Thats probably the first time anyone ever said that about Germany :)

@@maroszukaro9082 I've been wanting to move there for a few months now, it started when I wanted to move in with my ex gf, but then we broke up over a month ago, but that didn't stop me wanting to move there. Finding this channel recently only made me love germany more

I'd like to go and explore Germany as well :) this channel really made me more excited than ever haha Would you like to live anywhere in Germany, or Berlin specifically, like this guy? ^^

@@MerryMoss well after seeing him, berlin is probably a very cool place and would be nice to live in, but I don't really mind where, I've also been thinking of moving to bavaria too as I know someone from there

Just don't be late to a meeting/appointment ;)

same in Latin America (when working for an American or Canadian company) , I had a cooworker who has getting his Chemo sessions and working the very next day.

@@Linoxus indonesian government basically selling their soul to the chinese right now,slavery 2.0

So canada is like the USA?

That is why America is a megapower and germany is not. Germany cannot even protect itself against Poland.

Y’all don’t work all day on Friday?

@blackroserevolution3989 I finish at 1pm on a Friday but if there is no work to do I will try and get away before lunch. I'm a manager of aircraft mechanics and if there is no work to do then I send my staff away when I can and I'll be the last to leave.

You are!

haha true

US companies sometimes have a worse reputation than Chinese ones, and that's frightening

@@Habakuk_ Very embarrassing... I would move to Europe or some other country but I love it here warts and all too much to leave.

It's mindboggling that such a contract is even legal. In Germany the courts would shred it to pieces.

@@Quotenwagnerianer They would not only shred the contract, but also courtmarshal the boss for violating german worker rights. If an entire company would operate like that, it could close afterwards.

Well, in case you don't see the difference in your situation vs being pregnant, you aren't spending hours in pain and then another who knows how long pushing a human out of you or getting the human taken out, and then you might need stitches depending and then that human is there so you have to take care of it and it hurts to walk and go to the bathroom and you might need to have emergency surgery after you have the baby on top of all that. But yeah, pregnant people don't at all need over a week off...

@@HollowWaterso Nothing in my comment was a knock against pregnancy. My point is that people can obviously be gone for 3 weeks and come back to the company just fine. Anything you choose to read into it beyond that is your own perception and nothing to do with my intent.

Pregnant people only go away for 3 weeks??? In EU its a year minimum...

@@Martlns they usually go for a few months in the US, depending.

@@TheAntinowherelane you do know there are jobs you can get where you have more than three weeks off at a time? Without asking? Also, there’s while some jobs don’t let you take more than a week off, at least jobs let you take multiple days off throughout the year(which is the kind of job I currently have). I’m just saying there’s a big difference between going to Japan for 3 weeks and being out on maternity leave, even if they say you will miss too much. If you think being denied that is toxic (as 2 weeks should’ve been what you tried to ask for), then like I said, there are other jobs that offer longer vacation times.

whohoooo welcome aboard!

But they will make you work all hours if you are salaried. 12/14 hours, weekends? Doesn't matter as the employee doesn't get anymore pay and they work you to death until "the job is done". No protections in the US and unions here are seen as "promoting socialism".

That's why you get it in writing.

That's the price they pay for protecting free loaders like germans who have no army to protect them.

@@francoislechanceux5818 German worker rights exist since far longer then the last 20 years. They already existed when germany still had a massive army and not few date back to the german empire when germany had the worlds most power army. It has more to do with culture and not military.

@@axell964 The only time Germany has the most powerful army was under Hitler. And there was a lot of FORCED labor.

@@axell964 The only time Germany had the most powerful army was during the nazi period. There were also a lot of forced labor in Germany. Do you know that? Also, the USA has never had a dictatorship since its existence more than 250 years ago.

It was better before it was privatized.

Sure, you can compare with those in the Kremlin, almost all leaders get massive money without end and do not 'deliver'. What happens to the people (customers) is secondary. Track maintenance has been neglected for decades, and is now falling flat on its face.

Because it belongs to a private corporation.

Because it was privatized. While that's not nessecarily leading to a worse situation, in practice more often than not it does.

Perhaps the German tendency to religiously follow rules and procedures leaves them at times inflexible in responding to all the little things that cause delays.

There is more money in the streets of Luxembourg than there is trash blowing around the streets of New York City, so it's really an artificial reality.

Hans does...

You do.

Not only you....

Same

You're definitely not the only one who's attracted by the working conditions and therefore, the waiting time for even getting your first appointment for a visa is sometimes over a year, the backlog is huge. Some people uproot their whole lives and get stranded while waiting for a reply, it's super congested.

The German government is actually working on a reform for the process of immigration to make it easier for foreigners to get a job here , because we have huge need for skilled workers basically almost every sector is held back because they don't have enough people to get the work done. The debates are still ongoing, it's not certain yet how their new concept is going to look like, but it is meant to make things easier and quicker.

And just to clarify the video, you have 6 weeks of sick-time in a row with full salary paid by your employer, if this exceeded you still won't lose your job, but then your health insurance will pay you part of your salary until you get back to work. And what happens when you get sick again in the same year, well again up to six weeks of full payment and so on. In case let's say in the time your sick, still less than six weeks, you get another issue not allowing you to work, this would be seen as a new reason to stay from work giving you another 6 weeks with full salary. But expect your employer to demand some kind of investigation to proof that it is actually a new illness or whatever and in case you could not , things go as described in the beginning. At some point though you still could lose your job because you simply miss too often, but still it's pretty difficult for employers to get you fired for that.

Thanks for the support Alex! Much appreciated, now i can sleep longer on my pretzel