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Some Australian idiot keeps trying to sabotage me. This idiot has taken 4 years in useless masters which should have been done on 2. They do this because they want to stay in Berlin so bad but have no job for the visa. They are 30+ by the way
Went to college with a really effed up girl. She must have grown up in an abusive home or something from the way she acted out. Extremely passive-aggressive (even for German standards), like she'd loudly criticize things the profs would say but if they asked her to repeat it loud enough for them to hear it she'd say she was just talking to herself. A nightmare for group work. She didn't have a job throughout the entire time she was studying. Then when she graduated she was immediately given a job as head of finance in some company. Feel bad for anyone working under her.
I can see putting up with Berlin for the low prices ten years ago. But for these prices? LOL
Germany is great to laugh at from afar, but HELL to live in.... thank god I left,
Ai Wei wei said it best when he said germans love the comfort of being oppressed
Nothing is good here. Want to find a good yoga class? Forget it. How about a decent job? No. How about a stable place to live? No to that also.
I liked you, but I left. left because I had to save myself. I still think about you, but I don't want my life to be so difficult. Here I am worrying about everyone I know during corona, wondering what their futures will be like. Im also now in a new place here, feeling PTSD from Berlin and nobody understands me. I'm starting to think I just shouldn't mention Berlin to anyone. Now I have to pick everything back up in my life. I worry I made the wrong decision for leaving Berlin but I had no money and couldn't have stayed there. But I hope you and everyone else will be ok.
Now I have to rebuild my life ... I am very broke. I wonder if this is why people just don’t leave Berlin? Because then they have to start over, worse than they were before they left? But I know I could rebuild faster here than coast at that level there . Still the amount of bad things that happened make me wonder if that place was cursed. My life was so much better before
Op here - My hopes and expectations ... well I mean. There was so many poop there. I know that many warned me before but I didn’t listen. I guess just the random things that happened to me during my time there piled up to the tune of being broke, worn out, depressed, afraid
but i think it is easy to get lost in the grind and forget that there is still life and happiness out there, berlin just makes you feel bad for wanting it and for knowing about it. German culture is about systems and templates and forever repeating cycles of monotony. Its about being Max Mustermann and not questioning why. Its about knowing the rules before anyone tells you. Its about feeling nothing, expressing nothing, existing just to be on time and to produce efficient work that looks how it is supposed to. It is suffocating.
did you know berlin was built on a massive swamp?
It's really no wonder ISIS and other terror organizations are able to so easily find people here willing to be radicalized. This country is so completely messed up that no one is normal anymore.
WTF is with their awful, disgusting sprüdel water? It tastes like sewer water, and smells like a wastewater treatment plant. Absolute shite.
Do you want to waste your life?
Move to Berlin.
On the train heading to work and there is a man maybe 35-40 years old literally slurping a caprisun like a six yr old (with sound effects and all )
People move to cities all over the world. NYC, LA, TOKYO, LONDON, PARIS, ROME, Singapore , etc. So why is it only in Berlin these pompous clowns really think they hold some kind of power over us and we want so bad / must be forced to BE like them?? What makes them think we moved to Germany so we must want to be German? Do Japanese people think that when you go to Japan? British in London? Stupid germans
I can keep talking about this topic forever. This is because they have no idea how to deal with diversity and people from outside of Germany. This nation consists of people who have amazingly low social skills and narrow minds. I mean, I managed to learn the name of the person who works next door, after a year I started to work. There was no effort to welcome me in the company. They don't wonder and care who you are. They just come to work and leave after 8 hours like robots. People do work at the same company like 10 years on avarage. This is not bad essentially but we all know the reason for this in this country. Too afraid to change.
Is It different outside of work ? Of course no. They don't know how to communicate. They came up with some poop terms like "Integration". Do you know what integration means ? As far as I know, two machines / systems can integrate with each other. People don't. People do get familiar with changes and adapt to them. Have you ever heard anything such as Integration from the government of UK, US, Australia, Canada ? No, are they stupid not to use this term ? Of course not but they know, the first rule of immigration is feeling at home without enforcing anything. How many of you call Germany as home ? Let me guess, none.
In Germany, on job posts there is statements like "native German" or "native level of German" is mandatory. Why is this problem ? If you say "native German is mandatory" then you just discriminate people who are not native Germans. This country claims to be foreigner friendly or at least they try to attract skillful foreign people. What a massive joke !
I have been living in Germany for almost 6 years and all foreign people I know only get in touch with other foreign people here. Is this coincidence ?
As they (Germans) usually do, they ignore problems and isues when they occur. Isn't It too easy to blame foreigners for everything ? You can't find a job even you are eligible to perform It ? This is your fault Äuslander because you can't speak perfect German. Do you critizise something in Germany ? Ohh Äuslander, you don't know anything about Germany. This is the best way to do because we Germans do It in this way since forever. I can keep going but If they accept they fail to live with foreign people, they have to face and accept their mistakes which they NEVER do.
I will be leaving this country as soon as pandemic is over remarkably. I assume, I have to spend slightly more than another year here, then I will leave. I am so regretful to waste my second half of 20s in Germany but I will recover in the new place. That's my biggest life goal.
"As they (Germans) usually do, they ignore problems and isues when they occur. Isn't It too easy to blame foreigners for everything ? You can't find a job even you are eligible to perform It ? This is your fault Äuslander because you can't speak perfect German. Do you critizise something in Germany ? Ohh Äuslander, you don't know anything about Germany. This is the best way to do because we Germans do It in this way since forever"
THANK YOU for writing this, this is IT. They always say this and are the ultimate gaslighters!
" and what they also say is "if you dont like it, leave" there is never "Im sorry you are going through this" or "it must be difficult for you trying to adapt into this society"
they also like to say "things are different here than in your home country"
but the creepiest part of it all, is that they all repeat the same phrases, they all think as a group, as if to shut down the foreigners or different opinions .... but why exactly are they defending germany so hard.???
This place made me feel like to have a mental breakdown.....
my German ex used to blame foreigners for gentrifying his neighborhood.Then at the same time, refused to work more than 3 days a week to pay his 250 euro a month rent. When the rent was raised to 650, He started a lawsuit with his landlord. He didnt think, wait, maybe I have had such a deal this long, I could have saved money by this point to buy a place or even, save in general. Or how about "maybe I should work more than 3 days per week". But yet, what did he do, blame the foreigners. Because germans are lazy, cheap, and entitled.
and you cannot make this up.... in any other country, what I just wrote above would be considered xenophobic, people would not say that, at least not out loud, and this guy was "left", yet casual racism is the norm, but wait no you cant call it racism becuse you are "racist" then against germans...hahah does that even exist no... we should just leave these people alone so they can inbreed further in their perfect culture because that is their ultimate goal some of them when we get harassed everyday, for us to leave.
Pretty much the only food germans can’t fornicate up is beer and I don’t drink beer and I also don’t eat sausage or carbs
German food is the worst. I hate it when foreigners who've never been to Germany tell me that 'German bread is the best'. No, it's not. It tastes worse than sawdust and is made in a factory. Germans have no taste for anything good. The're fine eating cardboard as long as it's cheap. Cheapest nation on earth.
Dry-ass bread here. They can't even make a decent soughdough bread. It all tastes like they just poured vinegar into the dough before baking. And all the poor little kids in strollers I see eating dry rolls because their parents are dumb or poor or (more likely) both.
Germans go on and on about how great workers' rights are here but I just don't see it. Almost no one with a modern day career is represented by a trade union. Almost no companies have those fabled German workers' councils. Hell, every job I have had here included a clause in the contract that said "any overtime worked is voluntary and will not be compensated with extra money". Even when I was in high school working a part-time retail job I'd get time and a half for overtime and for working on holidays. Here I get jack shit.
same here - each of the 3 jobs I've had here has not paid overtime and says it's 'our choice' to work overtime. Who does overtime by choice but paranoid, microcontrolling Germans. This place makes me want to throw up. I HATE myself for moving to this smutty shithole.