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oldtanker · Jun 3, 2014

Found this in an email

Rick

jon f mn · Jun 3, 2014

I wonder how many recognize the crap they made
themselves. lol

Steve A W · Jun 3, 2014

My Uncle was an english teacher at a private school
in Japan in the '70s.
I remember My Gandma complaining about trying to
find presents for My Cousin that weren't made in
Japan!

Steve A W

Alan K · Jun 3, 2014

LOL!! My brother and I were at a flea market one time and he found a cast iron truck that was made in Taiwan....they misspelled Taiwan...lol

Donald Lehman · Jun 3, 2014

Gotta laugh at that statement Jon. My wife worked for many years in a mill that supplied engine and transmission gaskets to a big 3 US auto maker. This particular auto maker was 78% of the mill's business. The management hired a motivational speaker occasionally to do the standard "Rah, Rah, Sis Boom Bah" thing to fire up the workers.

One year this particular speaker starts off with: "I understand that --- is your major customer?" "Yeah, what's yer point, Bub?" "Well how come I only see two --- products in the parking lot?" "Becuase we know what kind of garbage goes out of this mill and into those --- engines and trannys!"

Kinda took the enthusiasm outta the poor guys Rah, Rah, speach.

jimg.allentown · Jun 3, 2014

Not to pee on the charcoal, but I think that people that have no pride in the product that they produce do not deserve their jobs. If I were in upper management, and I heard an employee talking like that, that employee would immediately be fired and paid. Wonder why our jobs go to third world countries? Wonder no more. At least the foreign workers have some pride in what they do.

oldtanker · Jun 4, 2014

(quoted from post at 14:44:24 06/03/14) Not to pee on the charcoal, but I think that people that have no pride in the product that they produce do not deserve their jobs. If I were in upper management, and I heard an employee talking like that, that employee would immediately be fired and paid. Wonder why our jobs go to third world countries? Wonder no more. At least the foreign workers have some pride in what they do.

My first job after I retired from the Army was in a small factory. We produced garbage. It wasn't the workers (they were nothing to brag about), it was management trying to beat out the competition by making a product at a lower price. So they got cheap on engineering and parts. I changed jobs as soon as I could and the company was sued out of existence do to their cheap product starting fires within a couple of years.

But American buying habits in general is to get the most product
for the dollar spent. Most Americans no longer demand quality and are unwilling to pay for it. So companies cut corners or move production off shore to compete.

Rick

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