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Bracing for recession, German bank tells employees to tighten the belt, zip the fly.
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  • Actually is has more to do with income taxes

    In Europe that glorious monument to fully functional socialist taxation, Executives are compensated with non cash benefits like a car, free tuition, expensive perks, a nanny, free vacations. Because giving them money is just giving most of it to the government. So in order to incent people to come work for them they have to engineer all sorts of financial arrangements that avoid the taxman.

    At least they still have beer in the vending machines at my company's corporate cafeterias in Germany.

  • Sorry, but I had to say it

    So, no T&A on the T&E?

    Awwwww.

    (okay, I'll go quietly)

  • Bangen und Wanken zum Banken

    For sure Deutsche Bank make joke. How can expect executive to pay for own screw up or make happy happy without watch instruct video first? This is how executive compensate.

    Svutlana

  • You meant "recession", yes?

    Sorry to nitpick, but the first line refers to the "reception" as the reason for all the cutbacks on messages or whatever. Might want to fix that.

  • Yes, i meant "recession"

    As the author of this post, I would like to say that i am preparing for the recession by dropping randomly incorrect words into my posting. (Now fixed, thanks to the previous posting.) I am preparing for the "reception" by cooking a dozen pigs in a blanket! see you in the banquet hall!

  • So does that mean...

    ...the market will respond with restaurants where the service includes "service"?

  • Legalized

    Of course, you do realize that in Germany prostitution is legal, licensed, and regulated, right? As a progressive person, it seems to me that this would seem to be the preferable situation vis-a-vis fair and equitable treatment of the (largely) female workforce within the industry.

    Of course, that attitude wouldn't accomidate snarky, puritanical items such as this.