Originally Posted by littlehulkster
Originally Posted by JohnnyJohnson
Originally Posted by littlehulkster
I've always thought those sorts of things were highly overblown anyway. The fact is, cars are built by machines. The machines perform exactly the same regardless of if they're in Mexico, China, the US or Japan.
German car fanboys used to be particularly bad about that sort of thing, blaming the design faults in their cars on the Mexican workers when in reality a Mexican hand probably never touches the car until it's already finished.
The company I worked for outsource one of our labor intensive clean room environment to Mexico. They spent mult-millions of dollars on the facility and employed about 200. We had made the product in the US for about $90 they made it in this new plant for a little over thirty dollars. The problem was 4 out of 5 would not meet spec. They would not stop eating in the clean room was the problem even thought they had a huge modern lunch facility. They fired some people (management) and started over a month later they were back to square 1. They repeated this process 4 or 5 times. Every time it was the same they'd show up for a surprise inspection of the facility and everyone would be eating in the clean room. At fifteen months they wrote it off and brought in back to Washington State.
I have some very serious doubts that this actually happened. Were I to wager a guess, I'd say that it was a failing of management blamed on the workers in an attempt to cover their own [censored]. Mexicans aren't inherently stupid people, and Mexico is one of the world's largest exporters of aerospace parts, for example. A simple google search shows me that Mexico has loads of firms that specialize in cleanroom work. They can and do produce goods of equivalent quality to anyone else in the world. Furthermore, as I said, most of the work on cars is done by machines, and there is little to no input from human beings.
I find it much more difficult to believe that Mexican workers couldn't comprehend what a clean room was than I would an idiot boss trying to use racism to cover his own [censored].
Well it did happen and the Company was Boeing. The people that were let go first were management after they failed to follow process. Yes a lot you know!
Originally Posted by JohnnyJohnson
Originally Posted by littlehulkster
I've always thought those sorts of things were highly overblown anyway. The fact is, cars are built by machines. The machines perform exactly the same regardless of if they're in Mexico, China, the US or Japan.
German car fanboys used to be particularly bad about that sort of thing, blaming the design faults in their cars on the Mexican workers when in reality a Mexican hand probably never touches the car until it's already finished.
The company I worked for outsource one of our labor intensive clean room environment to Mexico. They spent mult-millions of dollars on the facility and employed about 200. We had made the product in the US for about $90 they made it in this new plant for a little over thirty dollars. The problem was 4 out of 5 would not meet spec. They would not stop eating in the clean room was the problem even thought they had a huge modern lunch facility. They fired some people (management) and started over a month later they were back to square 1. They repeated this process 4 or 5 times. Every time it was the same they'd show up for a surprise inspection of the facility and everyone would be eating in the clean room. At fifteen months they wrote it off and brought in back to Washington State.
I have some very serious doubts that this actually happened. Were I to wager a guess, I'd say that it was a failing of management blamed on the workers in an attempt to cover their own [censored]. Mexicans aren't inherently stupid people, and Mexico is one of the world's largest exporters of aerospace parts, for example. A simple google search shows me that Mexico has loads of firms that specialize in cleanroom work. They can and do produce goods of equivalent quality to anyone else in the world. Furthermore, as I said, most of the work on cars is done by machines, and there is little to no input from human beings.
I find it much more difficult to believe that Mexican workers couldn't comprehend what a clean room was than I would an idiot boss trying to use racism to cover his own [censored].
Well it did happen and the Company was Boeing. The people that were let go first were management after they failed to follow process. Yes a lot you know!
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