At this blog there has been an earlier writing about Open Windows. This is a little addition to this. Some may consider it very minor, not perhaps even worth mentioning, but for me it is.
Think about sitting in an office where people open windows every once in a while without any kind of consideration to the colleagues, ie not even a "Somebody minds if I open the window for a while?"
You ask them kindly to please close the window since even though it is supposed to be spring the degrees outside are under 10 degrees celcius and some of us just simply freezes, might have allergies or are physically sensitive. They do close the wondow. They do! Just after this though (READ:) they put on the electrical fan, blowing directly into the backs of the colleagues. YES!!! May I ask - have I missed something? Where goes the border of being collegial and egoistic in an office of more than fifty people?
The winds of the East may certainly make you both cold and trembling...
Credits are not mine this time, but I can say It happened to me also...
... I don't need to comment ...
ReplyDeleteI can't comment on "holiday's after shock", so I'll write here: no, no, no! Germany is never "normal" wherever you go! Bayern, Thüringen, Sachsen, Hessen, Niedersachen, at the end it's all the same...
ReplyDeleteHello Christian ! My name's Liliane and I'm Roberta's friend fm Brazil and I've been reading your blog which by the way, congrats ! Regarding to your "holiday's after shock" post sorry to hear you're ill and hope you get well soon ! Christian what I'm saying next is not refering to your health, I really wish you all the best but about the other stuff I would like to tell and remind Rô that we hv a popular saying which is : there is nothing so bad that can't get worse ! hahaha please, cheer up guys!!! Don't take it all so serious even if the fun of it is to laugh of ourselves. A warm hug fm Brazil to you guys at the gray German !
ReplyDeleteThanks Liliane, nice to hear some feedback outside of Germany. I have been thinking about writing also about less "serious" or annoying German things, so I'm planning to write a little about a little bit of everything... Which means also some good laugh and differences from the rest of the World. By the way, I just came back from a Saturday in the Bayern Woods... and all the persons I saw and talk with were Smiling =P
ReplyDeleteA hug and a big smile from the rainy East Germany!