After yesterday's piece on Stuttgart having an audit....finding that of the 17k city employees....a 1,000 are not necessary....my German wife got into this topic.
Her belief? If you visited the top fifty German cities....they all have a 5-to-10 percentage 'overage'. Her belief as well...if you did trim and let people go....this 100,000 group would have issues/problems in finding new work....permanently unemployed is the outcome (her thoughts).
I pondered this unique problem.
In most cases....my belief....for each six workers....you probably have a manager, and for each three managers....there's some division chief.
In a shop of ten folks....there's probably three workers carrying the work-load....doing around 75-percent of the work. The remaining seven are mostly to fill the gap and 'look' busy.
In my days in the Pfalz....someone brought up their German wife wanting to open a cafe, and needing a business license. Various trips to the town 'rathaus' were failures....mostly because of the clerk in charges of licenses. Eventually....she gave up on this idea...in this one particular village....selecting an alternate site a couple of kilometers away, and on the first trip to that new clerk....all papers were squared away.
I'm not saying all city employees are 'problems'.....but the system over the past forty-odd years has corrupted itself.
So the curious question....would the SPD, Greens, CDU, AfD, and Linke folks....be willing to cut 100,000 city employees across Germany? I would say......no.
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