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> Funny how with Germany's extensive paperwork bureaucracy where every little detail must be recorded and tracked, the healthcare workers couldn't catch this gu
by BjoernKW 2y ago
> Funny how with Germany's extensive paperwork bureaucracy where every little detail must be recorded and tracked, the healthcare workers couldn't catch this guy earlier.
It's precisely because of this extensive paper-based bureaucracy such things happen, not despite of it.
German bureaucracy is a complete and utter mess. By and large, it's a self-perpetuating end in itself that doesn't serve any purpose other than keeping itself (and the people and organisations involved in it) alive.
Which is more, due to the Germany aversion towards digitization and digital processes (with a misconceived notion of privacy commonly known as "data protection" in Germany often used as an excuse) the data recorded by those bureaucratic processes basically is stored in a gargantuan pile of paper nobody is able to make sense of.
- fransje26 2y agoMy favourite example of the self-perpetuating nature of German bureaucracy is the story of the chinese tourist who, asking for directions in some administrative building, got mistaken for a refugee. It took more than a month, including placement in a refugee centre, before the administrative wheel stopped turning and it was realised that he was, in fact, only a tourist visiting Germany.
- OKRainbowKid 2y agoDo you have a source for that story? Asian refugees are pretty rare here, so it's interesting how they would confuse them for one.
- fransje26 2y agoHere you go: (I miss-remembered the duration. He was in the treadmill for two weeks.) https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/chinese-tourist-mistaken-refugee/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/chinese-tourist-mista... https://www.dw.com/en/chinese-tourist-mistaken-for-a-refugee-after-filing-wrong-german-paperwork/a-19459411 https://www.dw.com/en/chinese-tourist-mistaken-for-a-refugee...