In an opinion piece for Euronews, Dr Nikolas Stihl, chairman of world-leading chainsaw maker STIHL, calls for reforms including a 40-hour working week without extra pay to safeguard Germany's prosperity and welfare state.View on euronews
The family entrepreneur from Waiblingen in southern Germany does not mince his words…
Family businessman Stihl takes a long-term view…
STIHL: €5.48bn in revenue and more than 20,000 employees
Just a small FAMILY businessman… The stilted way these pieces always try to humanize the people calling for more worker exploitation always creeps me out. Do they think the workers don’t have families or something?
This shit is always so funny to me - the name implies its about some humble family-run business.
You look inside and well - Volkswagen, Schwarz (the group behind Lidl, Kaufland, STACKIT, …), Audi… you know - small, harmless businesses.
I especially laugh at the arguments they make for working at those “family-run businesses”. If you were looking for a definition of gaslighting, you would have it right there.
Translated to english:
Family togetherness: Work in an environment full of trust and appreciation. Secure job: Benefit from long-term stability and high crisis resistance. Meaningful tasks: Take responsibility in projects with real purpose. Rapid advancement: Use flat hierarchies for your personal career.
I think they’re trying to justify his lack of compassion for workers because his company’s profitability is so personal for him and central to his identity (d’awww).
Just a small FAMILY businessman… The stilted way these pieces always try to humanize the people calling for more worker exploitation always creeps me out. Do they think the workers don’t have families or something?
Unfortunately he’s not an annoying leftist streamer, so we must pretend he got there through hard manual labor, and nothing else.
It’s always the fucking Swabians… They have a talent of growing really awful people around Stuttgart :(
https://www.karriere-familienunternehmen.de/warum-familienunternehmen
This shit is always so funny to me - the name implies its about some humble family-run business.
You look inside and well - Volkswagen, Schwarz (the group behind Lidl, Kaufland, STACKIT, …), Audi… you know - small, harmless businesses.
I especially laugh at the arguments they make for working at those “family-run businesses”. If you were looking for a definition of gaslighting, you would have it right there.
Translated to english:
Family togetherness: Work in an environment full of trust and appreciation.
Secure job: Benefit from long-term stability and high crisis resistance.
Meaningful tasks: Take responsibility in projects with real purpose. Rapid advancement: Use flat hierarchies for your personal career.
I think they’re trying to justify his lack of compassion for workers because his company’s profitability is so personal for him and central to his identity (d’awww).