Economy of Germany – Henry Poon's Blog https://blog.henrypoon.com Tue, 04 Oct 2022 21:04:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 83044199 125 Years of Bosch https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2011/03/16/125-years-of-bosch/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2011/03/16/125-years-of-bosch/#respond Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:49:48 +0000 http://henrypoon.mooo.com/blog/125-years-of-bosch Day 63

This year, the company celebrates the 125th anniversary of the company’s founding as well as the 150th birthday of Robert Bosch. Because of this special occasion, the company created a photo book, known as Global Impressions of Bosch and in it, are 125 photographs of Bosch employees from all over the world taken at the same instant.  This book was given to every single employee, or associates as the company calls us, as an appreciation for all of our hard work.  I flipped through it, and I have to say, there are some really nice pictures.  I also found the pictures online in the form of YouTube videos (link at bottom).  I really like the idea of getting all the pictures at the same instant.  They managed done to pack as much as they could about Bosch at the exact same time.  It’s like they say, each picture is worth a thousand words.  With 125 pictures, that’s like 125000 words.

YouTube Videos: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=global+impressions+of+bosch&aq=f

Bosch News: http://www.exportapr.boschsecurity.com/content/language1/html/4863_ENU_XHTML.asp

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After being here for a little while, I’ve come to notice a bunch of things here that are just a lot different that what I’m used to in Vancouver, and I’ve made a list of these things here:

Old-style architecture with beautiful roads of cobblestone

Cool retro looking keys

Keyholes that you can actually look through

Tobacco companies are allowed to advertise and packs of cigarettes are readily available and cheap (about 5 euro)

Ads for Google Chrome but not any other browser

Obscure looking vehicles

Rides on the metro cost about 3.40 euro, which is about 4.50 CAD and about the same as Vancouver

For the rest of them I don’t have pictures for, but here they are:

  • Lots of people of middle eastern descent, mostly from Turkey
  • Nobody claps, but instead pounds their fist on the table repeatedly
  • Some people wear their wedding rings on the right hand
  • Car brands that only exist here (Citroën, Alfa Romero, Opel, etc.)
  • Some people here actually drive Fords instead of European cars, but it’s the only American brand here that I’ve seen
  • Since people don’t like using the 1c and 2c coins, they tend to round up transactions to the nearest 5c, which is probably why the cashier asked me if I had a 5c coin
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