[sdiy] SW OT: Electronics workplace advice

[Happy Harry]

The USA is nothing but a greedy pile of dogs killing each other
over a bone that will not feed even one dog. Those who have money will sell 
out their entire company to make their personal retirement, and screw the 
employees who worked for 25 years... "Shit... they got their paychecks if 
they weren't smary enough to screw everybody like I was..."  There is no 
responsibility from the owners of the companies to their workers. Loyalty is 
now non-existant on both sides of the fence.  Workers are perlaced with an 
immigrant force who can have their visa revoked if the the company calls 
immigration and saye they are no longer needed... virtual slavery!  (The 
immigrants are still grateful... the standard of living is better than the 
third world).

We in the USA drool when we hear of the decent working conditions in
the EU.

Sorry. Life sucks these days. Still, I have food, a roof, and DIY. Why
worry about being a street person when I retire... I'll probably be dead by 
then anyway !!!

H^) harry


>From: "Rob" <cyborgzero at home.com>
>Reply-To: "Rob" <cyborgzero at home.com>
>To: "Martin Czech" <czech at Micronas.Com>
>CC: <synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl>
>Subject: Re: [sdiy] SW OT: Electronics workplace advice
>Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:04:10 -0500
>
>
>
> > Are you negative due to your experiences? Or are the USA so very much
> > rotten? I can't believe.
> >
> > m.c.
>
>The negatives are due to experience. This particular corporation is full of
>older folk looking to sign their names to various "new" (mostly "reckless")
>ideas before they retire so they can make their mark, collect their bonus
>and promotion, and bail out. Meanwhile, profits are down a record amount.
>Should not have happened in a boom economy, but we have tried to outsource
>too much from too many mainland-chinese based govt owned and controlled
>businesses, who do nothing but use our expertise in design to make a 
>product
>for us, which they promptly, against all the contracts, sell to a higher
>bidder. They then have delayed our project now because they need to keep up
>the volume quotas up for their new buyer!!! Mind you, we had an exclusivity
>agreement, which says they cannot sell this item to anyone else. Period.
>Try taking them to court.. They are owned by the Chinese Govt!!  .. BTW, I
>am one of the ppl caught right in the middle of it all, so I bear a LOT of
>the attacks personally and my soul is wieghed down quite a bit knowing we
>are doing something that, personally, is already completely unethical, and
>now we are getting screwed for it..
>
>The person who invoked the debacle I am involved with just retired, btw. Of
>course, he prlly knew "nothing" about asian culture or doing business in
>china. OTOH, asian culture, negotiation, interrogation, and languages were
>my specialty in the military.. Do you think they even ASKED me after I let
>it be known that my boss and I knew something about doing business there 
>and
>what they needed to look out for? Nope.
>
>As for the 15 yr old girls thing: our ethics only says that we must obey 
>the
>labor laws of the country in which our facility operates. In plain english,
>it says "no child labor".. Well, a 12 or 13 year old in many countries is
>considered an adult. Legal? Yes.. Ethical? Prlly not.
>
>Anyway, I am taking off of work today to go look for another job. The more 
>I
>talk about it the more stupid I realize this all is..
>
>Ah well, Ill be lucky to make half what I make now even with all my
>qualifications.. At least I won't have ethical issues and I won't be a
>mean-spirited bastard from holding it all in for so long and saying "yes
>sir/no sir" when I should be saying "hell no! are you crazy!". I have 
>become
>impossible to deal with according to many ppl.. I would like to be my old
>self again.
>
>Rob
>
>

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