I work with American workers and trust me, as a workforce we're not all that hot. We got people calling in sick, sneaking outside for what amounts to DAYS per month to smoke, leaving early, and generally not giving a s##t what they're doing. If the Taiwanese people take pride in the products they're turning out and they are making an effort, then good on 'em. That's a heckuva better attitude than 90% of the "gimme" workforce over here is doing. Sheesh. This video game generation is capable of, well, playing video games. Reminds me of a machinist that was talking about Japanese, German, and American machine tools. He basically said to stay away from anything made over here. Lathes, drill presses, name it. He said if you had your heart set on American tooling, make sure it was from the 1950s or prior. Steer clear of anything modern.
A buddy of mine works in a factory environment. He said when the bell rings for morning break everyone goes on break (naturally). Then when the bell rings to go back to the floor, everyone heads for the bathroom. A whole extra 15 minutes is wasted because nobody pissed during the "official" break. Even if there was a few "honest" workers that hurried back to the floor, actual production couldn't take place because the majority of the workers are still in the locker room.
If the Asian folks are cranking out a quality product, then I'm not ashamed to buy it. The "made in" labeling is a farce anyhow, by and large. There's a lot of re-boxing that goes on and "made in USA" is stamped on a lot of stuff that's actually made elsewhere and finished here. So even the most anal of the "look for the union label" crowd can't really be sure of what they're buying.
I carry my Seki Spydies with glowing pride. Same thing with my Taiwan made Gayle Bradley. Same with my Golden made Military. All of them are quality products. Excellent bang for the buck.
There are a lot of reason that you see these things.
Management is letting them get away with it for some reason, whatever the reason is it falls back on management.
There are also those types who have been with the company for awhile so they feel they are entitled for some reason. The old I have been with the company for (Enter number of years here) and they have a following believe me.
All it takes is one or two bad apples to cause issues and from what I have seen time and time again management never seems to deal with those people. They always seem to know someone or are buddies with someone or they were hired by (enter upper level person here) so they will still be around for a long time.
Then there are the one who are so worried that they will do 1 second more work than another person and that also gets around so everything gets slowed down. We all know who they are, they are the ones always complaining about someone else instead of doing their job.
Then there are the clicks, the click never really does any real work, it's the ones outside the click, those 3 or 4 that pickup all the clicks slack and ends up taking the blame for the 8 in the click. Usually a member of management in also part of the click.
Then we have the ears, you know the ones who run to management about everything and anything. We all know who they are and they cause more headaches than they solve.
Then there are are the ones who are more worried about what management is doing than doing their own work. They are constantly complaining and trying to cause problems.
Then there are the Micro Managers who are so power hungry and controlling they kill moral completely, they are usually complete jerks that never should have gotten to were they are in the 1st place and they treat their people like crap.
There is something called company policy, they need to stick to it 100% of the time being consistent so the employees know what to expect and show no favorites.
There are also managers who associate with employees outside of the workplace, HUGE mistake and that should never happen. That leads to a lot of problems from what I have seen over the years.
There is a lot of BS that goes on in the workplace other than work and that's were the problems start and management is usually the cause of most of it because they let it go on and or they are part of it.
If people would just do their jobs instead of worrying about anything else other than their jobs they would be a lot better off in the end, but that's way too much to expect in today's workforce.
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I forgot one.
The is always one person who feels they deserve that position that was filled by another person and they will cause problems and conflict anyway they can. From trying to turn the other employees against that person to stabbing them in the back to making sure they look bad anyway they can. I used to get rid of them 1st thing as soon as I found out who they were because they are a huge problem, that is if they weren't protected by someone higher than I was.
