Die Bahn is an unmitigated clusterfuck[1]. The money comes and comes, gets wasted, yet no heads ever roll. I met someone who managed a local train station (net

Die Bahn is an unmitigated clusterfuck[1]. The money comes and comes, gets wasted, yet no heads ever roll. I met someone who managed a local train station (network) for a few years. He told me a story of hilarious bureaucracy, metric gaming (mostly for evasion of sanctions for missed deadlines), people just not showing up while being covered by their union, construction firms delaying construction because it's just "Die Bahn". Then he quit and was paid for months despite expired contract. Later he got a legal threat for owing them wages... Although pay seems quite good and you get 40days vacation, well good for them I guess. [1] You might even call it a slow-motion trainwreck badumm-ts