Just a quick one this time around …
A few years ago, one of the secretaries (if that job description is even allowed to see the light of day anymore) in the department wanted to rise up the pay scale and, this being Germany, could only do it upon achieving “further qualifications”. (In Germany, everything is based on having the appropriate, documented qualifications and apprenticeships. Everything. Even therapy animals have to go through a three-year apprenticeship that they might not pass in the end, begging the question if they would then need their own therapy animals to recover. I am not making this up. (Well, the last bit about them maybe needing their own therapy animals, ok, but not the first bit. Still, if the last bit were true, you could imagine that there must be quite a waiting list.))
Anyway …
One of the mandatory courses that had to be taken was called “Introduction to German bureaucracy”.
‘Nuff said …
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