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The mindset of some German/Swiss/Austrian companies really seems to revert to the whole "Aryan Superiority" thought process.

A very good friend was on the BMW Board of Directors. He had to fly over to Germany several times yearly. They always arranged for his travel far in advance, and they always paid about 3 times what he would have paid if he had purchased the ticket. He pointed that out to them, and asked that he be allowed to buy his own ticket and have it reimbursed. They very gently but firmly told him that his travel arrangements would be done as they were done for all directors. He pointed out that it was costing the company 3 times what it should. They replied that they would re-evaluate when the time came to renew the travel arrangements contract with their travel agency. Nothing ever changed. It drove him nuts, because he is an extremely conservative financial manager, even watching someone else waste other peoples money drives him crazy!

But that seems to be the mind set of many of those otherwise well run companies.

Bill I' come from German decent and worked with my family of Deutschman for many years, and to call Germans stubborn, head strong and difficult to work with is a complete unabashed truth. I have to laugh at your comments because of all the memory's of my father and 2 brothers trying to accomplish the most mundane project which took longer to argue over than to accomplish.I have to agree with your assessment. :]