Know This Before Working In Germany!😂🇩🇪🇺🇸 #germany #learngerman #funny

[mariaz.-k.]

I work in a German hospital as a doctor and nobody minded, that I had 480 Überstunden

[doczooc]

I can attest to that thiy is accurate for an engineering job at Bosch. But there are other employers that do not care about the law as much.

35hour work week implies that Zach works in a company with IGM tariff. I do not think this is common elsewhere, but 40 is the legal maximum for a 5 day week.

[HK-ppig]

It is illegal to work off the clock in the US.
I was pressured to reprimand one employee for working less than ten minutes without clicking in her time.

[Biceman]

If you don't take leave our HR forces you to take it. People dissappear for 6 weeks sometimes just to use up some of their paid leave.

[sopel]

That's why we, Polish people, have so much work im Germany(10+hours+saturday😅).

[adithyasridhar]

It also depends on employer to employer. Mine is a small engineering firm. We work under Deutschebahn projects. We have 40 hours working weeks. Deutschebahn employees doing the same projects have 38 hours working week. Over the course of a year that 100 working hours difference.

[MaxMustermann-nduy]

In Germany, you can go to jail if your employee works for more than 10 hours/day or 48 hours/week, and, for example has an accident on his way home because he was tired.

[CedrusDang]

Work in Vietnam -- DHL . The culture just following the firms.

[janmantsch]

Worker is working to much:
Unions: Let us introduce ourselfs!

[declanmckeown]

lmao. And my boss got mad when I told him I'm not working 5 12s

[leonelbustosb]

I just love Americans been like “oh they have good conditions!” And I am in Denmark like, omg working in Germany is the worst. They work so long and innefective.

[leduk]

It is like that in most western european countries

[dwertkwert]

My boss send me Home. I have too much Paid Holidays left. Now i am 1 full Week at home (Paid) and then i get back to work for 2 Weeks jut to have after that another 2 and a half weeks paid vacation xD

[karigreyd]

Being in America this makes me jealous.

[splatterling]

German here. Wow. This is so wrong i can't even... do not believe this. It MAY be true if you are a highly payed employee at like Siemens.. but no, my bosses laughed in my face when i told them i worked overtime :D

[swirledworld]

Hmmm sounds great over there... maybe florida can send an air bus full of miggys to germany

[MisterMac]

The US version: "I'm going to have to fire you because you only worked 60 hours last week, and actually had the nerve to ask for overtime for 5 of them. I also see that you used 2 of your 5 allowed personal leave days this year, which is completely unacceptable. It may have been for life-saving surgery, but that's just not something we can tolerate around here... Now, before you leave I want you to complete the monthly TPS reports for not just your own but also the other six departments as well - and if it's not on my desk by closing time you'll forfeit your severance pay. Have a nice day, ya'll."

[yukeshm]

Meanwhile in India : foreign clients pressure us to complete project in short schedule and we are working nearly 12hrs per day..
Am i joke to you...

[emjizone]

Not so specific to Germany. The regulations on work are heavy in most Western European countries.

[ulrichkristensen]

I got alot of gleitstunden, and they say i can get them payd out, i want the freedom so i do not have to pay extra tax on my overtime