See this picture? There are several cars in the lower right-hand corner. Those are cars of some acquaintances of mine. Today, as we were talking, one of the guys explained in great detail where he parks. How went on to talk about other colleagues of his who park next to him. Right next to him. Every single day. If one person is not there, no one parks in “his” spot.
As a matter of fact, there are a half dozen people involved in this unspoken agreement. There are no reserved spaces, no rights to a particular place, in fact this is a semi-public lot with hundreds of spaces. Every German around me was nodding like this is a good thing.
Another person spoke up. His office (a small German company), has a hot-desking structure, in which everyone chooses a desk when they come in in the morning. Except they don’t. Someone went out and had little towels made with each employee’s name on them. When the employee is not in the office, the towel hangs on the coat rack. When they are coming into the office, however, they reserve their office spaces with their towels.
I can be spontaneous. Just give me a couple of days.
Bella Stuttgart 