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This show, as a Brit who had been to Germany as an exchange student, reaffirmed what I already knew: https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/entries/648b5763-1d44-35b6-

This show, as a Brit who had been to Germany as an exchange student, reaffirmed what I already knew: https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/entries/648b5763-1d44-35b6-a03b-f383b769e29d https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/entries/648b5763-1d44-35b6-a0... The Germans, once they get going, have maintained the protestant work ethic that much of the UK workforce lost in the 1970's. They're not perfect and still mess up things like the Berlin Airport when corruption kicks in but the average Mittelstand worker gets the job done at a top-tier level and as quick as possible, especially when something is important.

luckylion 4y ago
I'm fully convinced you'll find teams with that work ethic in the UK as well, and it's not common in Germany, otherwise projects here would be done in a tenth of the time all the time, but they're not. It's much like when a building collapses and you believe people to be under the rubble, you're working at a different pace than if you're knocking down some old factory and then look to clean up the bricks.