I need more cement/Deutsche Bauarbeiter suchen Arbeit in England
am 18.04.2006 von http://transblawg.eu
The Independent reports:
German builders are heading to the UK in a reversal of the Auf Wiedersehen, Pet emigration of the British building trade in the 1980’s and 1990’s.
Thoughts are being given to cultural and language training:
Andreas Thiele, managing director of E & E Fertigteile GmbH, knows first- hand about the cultural differences, having once worked for an English firm.
“There’s a different kind of honour code there. The spoken word is taken much more seriously in England. We Germans tend to be overly legal with everything spelled out in written contracts. Over there in the UK a handshake and word of honour will do,” says Thiele.
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