Companies offer incentives to try to tempt workers from Philippines and elsewhere amid high demand
Miko Coner Galeng has spent the last month and a half undergoing a crash course of quintessentially German skills and virtues: pünktlichkeit, the art of being on time; mülltrennung, the importance of recycling waste into different bins; and stosslüften, or “shock ventilation”, where you open a window and turn off the heating for five minutes to let fresh air into a room.
Two years ago, Galeng’s only direct contact with German culture was a sausage stall called Wursty Wursty in his hometown of Manila. Now the 29-year-old Filipino works and lives in a care home for elderly people in the heart of the Ruhr valley and can fluently express surprise at a mishap with a full-throated Ach du liebe Zeit! (“Dear me!”).
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