The Three Euro Story

 This story was kinda laid out in Focus today, and it take about 20 lines to tell this some comical story.

We'll give this guy involved.....who is a music-club-bar owner.  The establishment?  Mal Anders.  We should give the guy a name for this story....of 'Huns'.  

Huns runs a small operation....mostly rated as the second best music-club-bar in a town of 8,000 people.  I should note that he serves pizza, and traditional German food.

Huns had been pretty screwed over 2020....with closure fitting into the landscape a good bit because of Covid-19.  

In December....some federal folks had created a fund to help small business owners like Huns with 'gifts' of Euro.  Normally, it was supposed to make up for losses.

On the 26th of December....Huns sat down and did the paperwork, then hit 'submit'.

A week passed, and it came back approved.  Huns was pretty happy.

Then Huns looked at the sum (he'd been hoping for several thousand Euro).  The sum?  THREE EURO.

Huns picked up the phone to call his regional office.  They basically said there wasn't much they could do, but forward him onto a state 'hot-line'.

That led to another forward action....in Dusseldorf.  There, the state representative said there wasn't much he could do.  So they forwarded Huns....to Berlin.

The Berlin guy said there wasn't much for him to do, and gave Huns a news number back in the regional office (near the village).  It was a new number and new person.

That didn't help, so they forwarded Huns to the state office of NRW for Economics.  They said they couldn't help and then gave him a new number in Berlin (federal folks).  

At this point, Huns had wasted four hours of the day....trying to talk over THREE EURO.

Finally, he gets this email from a federal person (Berlin) that suggests....yes....'there is probably a problem in the system'.  

No one says what the reaction of Huns was, but I'm guessing it's anything you'd want to talk about in front kids.

The problem here....for the entire previous year (2019)....Huns had actually missed that whole income situation by THREE EURO, so he could only ask for three Euro.

What happened here?  I went back and looked up the grand opening of Mal Anders (Huns 'club')....31 October 2019.  Yes, he was only open for roughly two months of 2019.  

The stupid form?  Well...he has to put in the total profit of the year, and these dimwits in Berlin are not capable of grasping....when he missed the profit of 2020 by three Euro....they are missing the other ten months of the year (2020). 

The situation now?  There has to be a correction in the system for this type of mess....but until then, as the Fed guy said.....you have to make due with three Euro.

The odds that this will come up as a national chat forum topic by Monday night?  I'd say it's a 50-50 chance.  It makes the Merkel government and the fix-it stance look pretty stupid at this point. 

The common chat topic.....no one wants to take responsibility for a problem or fixing it?  Well...this episode proves that point.