Probably easier to exfiltrate confidential documents when printed, rather than digitally through the company internet which is logged and points straight to you.
If I print something confidential and take it home there's only the printer logs as proof that I printed it, but no proof that I also took it home (unless there's surveillance footage).
>Let alone pins it to their walls?
The man is proud of his work, wants to see it daily for motivation.
I do. I can't read any length of text on a screen. I pin stuff to the wall too, of quick sheet character. Like Emacs hotkeys, C operator precedence, pinouts, general specs etc.
Same. I recently bought a Kindle Scribe (would have preferred Kobo, but enh) to see if that would make it easier than constant printing and shuffling papers. It's alright. Better than a monitor, slightly less good than paper.
FYI, a lot of other nationalities besides German work in Germany. It's natural to find immigrants in almost every company, especially the big international ones.
WTF actually prints out documentation? Let alone pins it to their walls? I mean....seriously does anybody actually do this?