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‘It’s the same daily misery’: Germany’s terrible trains are no joke for a nation built on efficiency (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] nyar@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The myth of Germany efficiency is slowly becoming unwound.

[–] laenurd@lemmy.lemist.de 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Slowly and with lots of unplanned breaks in between.

I've never understood why people think that anyways - if you've ever had the pleasure of interacting with German bureaucracy, you would have lost that view instantly.

[–] DrunkenPirate@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, it‘s no better over the ocean. A German colleague of mine just settled in the US and civil servants attitude and bureaucracy is the same shit. Bureaucracy seems to be an international culture.