Maybe itβs the industry Iβm in but every office Iβve worked at was stacked with Ibuprofen and filled with enthusiastic users. No idea who these βdonβt use Ibuprofenβ Germans are and where they work.
yes. they do just suffer. one time when we first moved to Germany my husband got a migraine at work and asked a coworker if they had an ibuprofen, which is a very common thing to do in the US if you need a painkiller. he might as well have asked them for heroin. she was appalled. she said βif you feel sick you should go home, lay down, and drink some teaβ. he said βbut i donβt want to do that. i am working on something.β βwe have sick leave, unlike in America.β βyeah thatβs great but i donβt want to go home and sit on the couch with a headache!! i want to not have a headache!!β he left work, got ibuprofen from the pharmacy, and went back to finish the day with no headache. itβs just a total culture clash. we fundamentally cannot understand each other here.