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Jędrzej Kostecki's avatar

Germany needs to start talking about how unreasonable education requirements are for jobs here. Should everything but the most basic job require a multi-year apprenticeship? A half-time position as greeter at the Bundestag requires a year-long course, but they'd prefer someone with three years experience as head of house in a restaurant. For a 20 hour a week contract. An IT cloud engineer position at BVG requires C1 level German and pays 3/5 the going rate (under 50k).

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BerlinCompanion: Kreuzberged's avatar

Somehow reading the words “Friedrich Merz, the patriarch” made me burst out laughing. Thank you for this, Andy😂

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