Supervisors of the largest German accommodation for refugees knock three times a day. They knock on a wall, and the next moment they push the white curtain aside. There are no doors. In one hand you hold a clamping board in the other one pen. You make a few hooks on a list of names and numbers, then go on.
When the refugees ask whether the supervisors could help with a call, they reject them. For that, say, don’t be responsible.
When the refugees ask for a connector strip, the supervisors reject. They are not responsible for this.
As children who want to paint, ask them to open a room in which pens and paper are, the supervisors reject. They are not responsible for this.
Such and other situations have a reporter of star And RTL, who was disguised as an employee in the northwest of Berlin for three weeks, experienced many times. She saw how supervisors do tasks whose meaning she doubts. For example, some control the presence of the refugees, even though the one QR code carries with them that is constantly scanned on the site-which makes it clear via a computer in which areas the residents are on the premises.
Our reporters ask what would happen if they did not do these controls.
“Nothing,” replies a supervisor.
“This is employment therapy,” says a shift manager.
Source: Stern
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