explain their high unemployment rate however. (And why they keep opening plants in
the US and Canada).
William Robb wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter J. Alling" Subject: Re: FA 35mm f/2 European prices please
I was making 75k (63 with bonuses), he was making about 38k (depending on how the exchange rate was going). Wages aren't the only cost of doing business. The cost of actually hiring an employee in Germany is immense, it takes approximately 6 months to a year to hire someone and longer to let someone go.
Perhaps this is why German stuff tends to be better engineered
William Robb.
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I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
--P.J. O'Rourke
