Saturday, June 17, 2023

Four Things: Saturday: 17 June 2023

 1.  Over the past two weeks, I've spent a fair amount of time in downtown Wiesbaden, gone to several grocery stores, and been to the regional garage.  One thing you notice in walking around.....a lot of 'help wanted' signs. I've probably seen at least forty signs up....looking for both full-time and part-time people.

In general, if you just hold your hand up.....even if you were with marginal experience, lot of folks are now desperate and as long as you speak decent German....you can probably get hired.

I noticed an ad in the local news for the Frankfurt airport....to run the water/sewage truck around and handle incoming/outgoing planes.  Pay is listed as pretty good.  

2.  I noticed this week....some CDU conversations being discussed in the news....party is now divided along lines of former-Merkel supporters and the new party boss (Merz).  It's not a unified party, and Merz wants to lean the whole party to a point more right-of-center (Merkel was a center-center-type politician).

3.  Data collection shows some huge drop in building permits in Germany back in April.....largest drop since 2007.  Worrying some gov't folks.

4.  Tesla manufacturing company in Germany has lessen production....temp-workers were dismissed this week. Whatever the goal was....has changed course for production numbers.  

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