That’s Men: Work hard, play hard . . . like the Germans
There is no shooting the breeze during the day at work – but then it’s play time
One morning in the last century when I worked on a building site in Rathcoole, I was told to meet a young German student who would be with us for some months. I was immediately baffled by his determination to talk about work and nothing but work. Any questions as to how he was getting on, how he liked Ireland and so on were answered by a question about the job and how the building site was organised. None of us knew what to make of him.