Hedge funds fear bankruptcy after Porsche squeeze

[AtW]

I'm beginning to realise that it's no coincidence that Germany and Russia had totalitarian regimes.

What about Nu Liebor? They are almost as long in power than the Nazies and unlike the Nazies they will get away with it!

[DodgyAgent]

So all technological innovations from, say, Bosch come from IT folk mainly supplied from UK?

Just how many people from this board work in Germany? A handful, vast majority works in the UK (and some in other countries), so if we say 10% of UK IT people work in Germany "cuz ze germanz is so thick", just what %-tage of total German IT work that covers, do you think it's 90%?

I'd venture to say that a higher %-tage of UK IT work is done by Indians, then %-tage of IT work in Germany done by UK IT people.

Who is it that uses Bosch drills the most?
British DITYers of course
so our DIYers are in there designing their products for them, so its not just our IT boys its our home improvement dads.

Running a succesfull business and a succcessful country is all about delegation, controlling energy supplies, getting some useful oily rags to grind the organ, and cream off some nice little earner consulting roles.

We are the Accentures, PWCs, designers and ITers and the Germans and Indians get their hands dirty. If you think that the value here is in the getting the hands dirty then you are an even bigger fool than we already take you for

[TimberWolf]

if we say 10% of UK IT people work in Germany

Seems like a bit of a steep concession. More like a tiny fraction of a percent?

[sasguru]

We are the Accentures, PWCs, designers and ITers and the Germans and Indians get their hands dirty. If you think that the value here is in the getting the hands dirty then you are an even bigger fool than we already take you for

Game set and match to Dodgy.

Nice one

[AtW]

Who is it that uses Bosch drills the most?
British DITYers of course

So wealthy arabs that buy Rolls Royces and thus use them are now the people who make them?

Seems like a bit of a steep concession. More like a tiny fraction of a percent?

I was giving high enough figure to avoid him argueing about fraction of a percent, being so big for that case yet so small overall it was clearly disproving his arguement.

[sasguru]

I was giving high enough figure to avoid him argueing about fraction of a percent, being so big for that case yet so small overall it was clearly disproving his arguement.

That sentence summarises what the problem is with you.

[DodgyAgent]

So wealthy arabs that buy Rolls Royces and thus use them are now the people who make them?



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Why would they want to make them.

The last time the Germans tried to do things on their own was during the war, and we trounced them.

Also who are the recruitment businesses in Germany?

Why none other than Hays, Progressive, Huxley etc.. British agencies. We dont need to manufacture. we put the deals together wherever in the world they may be. This leaves the manuc=facturers with no control over what happens to their products or where even they are manufactured.

Germany is just another India with a language problem, without the business skills and ambition to take it any further.

[sasguru]

Why would they want to make them.

The last time the Germans tried to do things on their own was during the war, and we trounced them.

Also who are the recruitment businesses in Germany?

Why none other than Hays, Progressive, Huxley etc.. British agencies. We dont need to manufacture. we put the deals together wherever in the world they may be. This leaves the manuc=facturers with no control over what happens to their products or where even they are manufactured.

Germany is just another India with a language problem, without the business skills and ambition to take it any further.

Yes and if SKA was any good, atW would have to rely on British marketeers and City finance to make it big.

[expat]

So if Germany has so wonderful a manufacturing base then why has it not created the jobs to keep 4 million in work for the last 10 years?

Something to do with absorbing a large communist country smoothly into their economy? I'd love to see anybody else managing that.

As for so many British contractors working in Germany, I'd see that as a sign of the strength of the German economy (in creating more jobs than they can fill themselves) and the weakness of the British economy (in not creating enough jobs for its own people).

[DodgyAgent]

Something to do with absorbing a large communist country smoothly into their economy? I'd love to see anybody else managing that.

As for so many British contractors working in Germany, I'd see that as a sign of the strength of the German economy (in creating more jobs than they can fill themselves) and the weakness of the British economy (in not creating enough jobs for its own people).

Please do not introduce logic or fact into this discussion expat.