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Working for a Danish company in Germany

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Mapleleafdude
Whats it like to work in a Danish company? any information would be nice.
PES
High taxes, if you are employed in Denmark. Otherwise you'll be working for the most satisfied folk in Europe.
HellesAngel
And Danes tend to form a closed circle, shutting foreigners out. That said they love a drink and it can be great fun.
Mapleleafdude
Sorry, meant in Germany for a Danish company so the taxes aren't that much better haha blink.gif
Mapleleafdude
QUOTE (HellesAngel @ Mar 29 2008, 6:37 pm) *
And Danes tend to form a closed circle, shutting foreigners out. That said they love a drink and it can be great fun.

Well they do have there own motorcyle gangs so maybe HellesAngel...

really?
Eugene_ac
I have read the same about Swedes in the Toytown for Germans in Sweden. People tell in that forum that it is very difficult for foreigners to get a job in Sweden. Someone posted that his wife had difficulties because she had a German first name, I think Heike, although her last name could have been Swedish. Maybe you should look into that...
HEM
Curiously the local newspaper (for an area just outside of Hamburg) has had a number of job adverts for Danish companies - mostly in Denmark.
PES
I saw a TV show of Polish butchers who work in Danish slaughterhouses and make the same wages (30Euros an hour) as their Danish counterparts. They say the Dames treat them with a great deal of respect.
tom_a
QUOTE (PES @ Mar 29 2008, 8:20 pm) *
I saw a TV show of Polish butchers who work in Danish slaughterhouses and make the same wages (30Euros an hour) as their Danish counterparts.

That's more than 5,000 € per month based on a 40-hour-week. Not bad for semi-skilled slaughterhouse work, I'd say! huh.gif
HellesAngel
QUOTE (Mapleleafdude @ Mar 29 2008, 6:39 pm) *
really?

Yes, although they're usually great fun to be around there's a strong feeling when working in Denmark that only a Dane can do a job properly and while foreigners have their uses they're not to be left with responsible work. I worked for two years in DK in a small telecoms company, that ultimately went bust, and think I got a fairly good insight into how Danes think. It all seems to stem from them being a small country and so wanting to preserve their gene pool, which of course ultimately won't do them any favours, so they try to protect everything (from their wonderful social system upwards) so that only Danes get access. In my experience every country in Europe has a newspaper that's full of scare articles about foreigners coming in to steal from the country's benefit system, and the reason why most foreigners choose our country, but the Danes believe this like a religion. I've also heard of them forming Danish mafias abroad when small groups of them work at the same company.

Still, if you're working outside Denmark then this won't be so apparent, and I made many good friends up there and had a lot of fun with them.
PES
QUOTE (tom_a @ Mar 30 2008, 8:47 pm) *
That's more than 5,000 € per month based on a 40-hour-week. Not bad for semi-skilled slaughterhouse work, I'd say!

True, and one they spoke with flew home twice a month for weekends visit to his family.
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