From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 1 05:25:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id FAA27824 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 05:25:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from solar.tlk.com (solar.tlk.com [194.97.84.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id FAA27819 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 05:25:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from travel.UUCP by solar.tlk.com via sendmail with UUCP id for freebsd.org!chat; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 14:23:23 +0100 (MET)) Received: by travel.tlk.com (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id ; Mon, 30 Dec 96 07:01 MET Message-Id: Date: Mon, 30 Dec 96 07:01 MET From: torstenb@freebsd.org (Torsten Blum) To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Cc: chat@freebsd.org References: <199612281939.UAA18233@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199612290105.LAA02177@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In freebsd-chat you wrote: >Ahh, well over here, you pay them _more_ when they get fired. And >then their buddies (because like termites or lice you can never get >all of them at once) hire them back as consultants at twice their >original salary. german "public servants" as consultans ? You must be kidding :) No, they go to companies like the "Deutsche Bundesbahn", "Deutsche Telekom", "Deutsche Bundespost" (or how it is called these days) and so on -tb