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also buy fax machine, dozen ring binders, and paper shredder before you start that business
by lifestyleguru 1y ago
also buy fax machine, dozen ring binders, and paper shredder before you start that business
- isoprophlex 1y agoAnd the right color pen. God forbid you fill in an official form in the wrong color pen.
- lifestyleguru 1y agoI would think it's a joke but once literally had an office clerk in Germany scratching with fingernail my signature to check whether it's by pen and in the right color.
- petre 1y agoThere's a reason why Kafka wrote his novels in German.
- woodson 1y agoBecause he was German Bohemian? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudeten_Germans#Austria-Hungary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudeten_Germans#Austria-Hungar...)
- _zoltan_ 1y agono, because bureaucrazy in Germany is rampart.
- throwawayoldie 1y agoHe didn't live in Germany.
- imp0cat 1y agoHe actually lived in Berlin for a few years before he died. But you're right, he spent most of his life in Prague. However, his native language was German. Certainly an interesting man. I highly recommend checking some of his work (ie. The Metamorphosis).
- petre 1y agoActually The Trial more closely resembles what the OP went through.
- knallfrosch 1y agoSignatures that can be erased easily aren't a great fit for a legally binding document. For more information, you can check whether the ink complies with DIN ISO 12757-2 and/or read up on "Dokumentenechtheit" [1] [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dokumentenechtheit https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dokumentenechtheit (It hasn't been translated to other languages yet.)
- lifestyleguru 1y agoApparently my every signature ever has been ISO compliant without me even knowing about that norm.
- olieidel 1y agoAlso: - A printer (the most important equipment of any German startup founder) - Envelopes for letters - A stamp with your company name (some companies and agencies you deal with require you to stamp things, because a stamp obviously proves, beyond any doubt, that you are acting on behalf of your company, because obviously no one would be able to create a similar stamp with your company's name on it, right) - A virtual office address at a coworking space (because you're receiving physical mail, and also there are weird tax reasons not to register your company at your home address) - A mail-scanning service (because you don't want to walk to the coworking space every few days to pick up your physical mail) - A mail-forwarding service (so that the mail gets forwarded from your virtual office address, which now has exactly no purpose at all, to your mail-scanning service)
- djoldman 1y agoGiven that this kind of thing seems to be widely reported, are there any significant efforts to reduce the friction all this causes?
- olieidel 1y agoPretty much all political parties loudly announce that they'll reduce bureaucracy, but, judging by the outcomes, not much has happened so far. That being said, it's probably overly simplistic to blame political parties for this - there's a lot of e.g. county/state-level bureaucracy in Germany which gets in the way of making any sort of constructive changes. It's a bit like blaming the CEO of a bloated company for not making it "agile" in a short period of time. Sure, leadership is important, but the reality is, it's.. complicated.
- ExoticPearTree 1y ago> Pretty much all political parties loudly announce that they'll reduce bureaucracy, but, judging by the outcomes, not much has happened so far. I do not believe that this will be possible in our lifetimes. Germany cannot function without a very high degree of bureaucracy. It's like asking fish to breathe out of water.
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