March 27, 2004

Being the Office German

I really enjoy being the office German. It has so many advantages, you know. Because of the underlying assumption that Germans are ruder than Brits, it can be so easy to break taboos without having a bad conscience.

Take office sweets, for example. Colleagues bring back sweets for various reasons and different places: holidays, business trips, because they have too many at home or simply they want to lose weight themselves and decided you're not fed well enough. Usually, a formal queue is formed to make sure everyone is getting his/her share of the sweeties - until there is only ONE bit left ! Once the last lollipop is found in the jar this manic run for sweets suddenly grinds to a halt. "Surely, it would be rude to have the last sweetie.". This is exactly the moment when it can be so handy to be a German. - "Just 'ave it ! ".

Look Ma, no bad conscience !

Posted by Michael at March 27, 2004 11:11 AM
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Ich habe ein aehnliches Problem mit Mozilla, aber man kann das pop-up Fenster einfach groesser machen - dann ist alles im Lack :-). Ich habe uebrigens auch keine Probleme die restlichen Suessigkeiten zu essen ;-)...

Gruss SJ,

Posted by: Stefan at April 2, 2004 12:08 PM

hrhrhr ^^

never thought about this one i should get over there as fast as i can as well maybe then ill win some weight ^^

now something on german dont wonder...:

michael du musst mal was ändern wenn ich unter mozilla in die comments gehe dann habe ich dire auch mittelbündig un kann das formular wo ich meinen post reinschreibe un dei felder für name e-mail un url nich ganz sehen

man kann zwar glaub ich trotzdem schreiben aber es nervt doch schon wenn man das gfenster nich ganz sieht...

war gut wenn du das ändern könntest damit ich das forum acuh wie gewohnt unter meinem fav browser öffnen kann mOzIlLa =)

Posted by: sebastian at March 23, 2004 06:44 PM