Punctuality [Surviving Germany]

In this video, I attempt to unravel the mystery that is the German attitude to punctuality.

I fail.

Music:
Gaslamp Funworks by Kevin MacLeod
http://incompetech.com

Sound effects:
http://freesound.org
http://soundsnap.com

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• german
• culture
• society
• punctuality
• timekeeping
• stereotype

[TremereTT]

It's no obsession, you learn this as manners!

on the other Hand companys and workmen choose these wide timeranges to be on the save side...

Everybody feels offended by this practice of the workmen business.

We don't date like twelfish or tenish...that is just inpracticable to the max...I wonder how anglo-saxons are able to do anything this way, except of waiting all day for everybody...

I'm pretty sure that it is offensive in nearly all countries to break your word let people wait.

[rewboss]

@TremereTT But I have to wait anyway. Half a day I can't arrange any appointments. I have to get up early in the morning and I can't leave the house until mid-afternoon. "Between 6.30 and 2" is ridiculous. "Between 12 and 2" would be possible, surely? And if something unexpected happens, well, that's why we have telephones.

[TheWelly888]

There's a good reason why no workmen can say exactly what time they will arrive - they have other jobs on before you and too often they take longer than expected with these earlier jobs. eg if a plumber was going to change a washer in your tap - it may turn out that the tap top is completely stuck which turns a planned 10 min job into a 40 min job!

I like the use of the phrase,"normal countries"! lol

[rewboss]

@TheWelly888 Yes, but "between 6.30 and 2"? How many jobs do they have scheduled before 6am? And if they are running late, why can't they phone? I mean, I have things to do as well.

[HaploidCell]

I am German.

And I approve this video.

[niklas218]

Well, being Germany myself I can only confirm our "obsession" with punctuality (obsession in quotation marks because I certainly don’t think it exceptional). We just can’t accept buses being 10 minutes late, because what is the whole point of drawing up a timetable in the first place if it isn’t being adhered to anyway?

I really like your videos btw, you’ve got a great sense of humor (the one we Germans tend to lack)

[tavin15]

Der Schnitt bei diesem Video hat mir sehr gefallen, vor allem die Endeinstellung war schön auf die Musik abgepasst.

[loralietful]

I knew Boss and He's Her

[packjim56]

What's wrong with punctuality? Maybe I should move to Germany. I hate waiting for buses. Sometimes I will go to the bus stop a full hour ahead of schedule, and take an earlier bus. Because I know the bus, I would normally need to take, can't be trusted. I guess waiting for workmen is an unfortunate universal problem and there is no real solution. Even in Germany. Pity that.

[TremereTT]

@rewboss I think you are right in case of the workmen....it's not customer friendly....and bad service...

ooh another stereotype...

[BuckeyeExpat]

You know the funniest things are the ones that are true. I have been living in Germany long enough to get a really good laugh at this one because its true!!! :-)). Next you should do one on the German nicities, like all the people in the waiting room at the doctor's office saying 'Guten Tag' to you (or in the lift) but not those same people at the pharmacy or backery. Or how about one on the German skill of ditching in the queue....They are world champions in that one

[AmelieBrooks]

*hihi* that is so truth ... I am german and I *gahr* reeeally struggle whit this "punctuality system" from 10 Situations to be, at point, I am ... Once maybe 1half XD ... I must be made to be a workman workwoman ... or there is something else then german in my gene pool ;o) ... very like this kinda Vids please more !