Sadly a thing of the past…
Comment on ICE is 30 minutes late again. I'm really pissed about that.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 4 hours agoThat sucks. I saw the DB as a model of envy.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
Comment on ICE is 30 minutes late again. I'm really pissed about that.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 4 hours agoThat sucks. I saw the DB as a model of envy.
Sadly a thing of the past…
trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
The DB was great (albeit a little bureaucratic), while it still was the Bundesbahn, a public institution, run like every other government office. But when they became the DB AG, a shares based for profit company (still held by 100% by the government), it became a shitshow, because now their mission of providing reliable public transportation changed to making maximum profit and paying their C-suite (typically former politicians or their buddies) ever increasing bonuses for doing fuck all or even less than that.
That’s the way many German public institutions went thanks to rampant privatisation caused by all mainstream parties adopting the neoliberal agenda. They are now a shadow of their former self, delivering sub par service for outrageous prices while making a few individual very rich.