Comment Re:Guys, 2020 is just sixe years from now (Score 1) 50
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It's so universal it's seen everywhere.
Managers should also be formally judged by their underlings. If they score low or fail to improve in problem categories, they get docked pay.
It can be an anonymous survey with 20 or so categories such as "Shows respect to me (employee)", "Explains my tasks clearly", "Listens to and thoughtfully considers my opinion", "Gives me meaningful and relevant work", "Explains the purpose of my work in terms of organizational goals", etc.
But third-world labor is often cheaper because those countries don't have and/or enforce labor, safety, and pollution laws. Should we trash the USA in order to compete with those used to living in trashy country?
Further, individuals here don't have the ability to change their entire country even if they personally wanted the trade-offs offered by such an Ayn Rand "paradise".
And why reward trashy countries for being trashy by giving them our jobs? We should encourage them to get civilized.
SCE's management culture may be particularly primed for firing its IT workers...One observation in this report...was that 'employees perceive managers to be more concerned about how they 'look' from above, and less concerned about how they are viewed by their subordinates.
PHB1: "This survey shows our employees think we in management are clueless superficial jerks. What do we do about it?"
PHB2: "I got it! Fire them all and outsource their work to new people who don't yet know we are clueless superficial jerks."
PHB1: "Brilliant! Let's vote ourselves a raise for this plan!"
So by this time next year a couple thousand of those 4 million will be dead.
"Couple thousand"? By your own numbers we should expect around 360 murders (48/100,000*750,000), most of which will not occur anywhere near where most people actually go. Tens of thousands work downtown and Ford Field, Comerica Park, Joe Louis Arena, Detroit Institute of Art, Cobo Hall, Wayne State University, several casinos and quite a few other attractions are downtown. Few people ever have a problem. Get a clue.
There's a lot more to avoid in Detroit than the snow.
Why would I want to avoid either Detroit or the snow? Literally millions of people go to Detroit every year without any incident whatsoever. Most of Detroit City is no more dangerous than any other major metro area in the US. An most people DON'T LIVE IN DETROIT CITY.
Plus I like to ski and skate. Why would I avoid the snow?
I know what the weather is like, the last year that we lived there the first week in February the temperature never got above 10 below, and six months later the first week in August never got below 97 (even at night).
Wow. One week of cold and one week of hot. However did you manage to survive? [/sarcasm]
Wuss.
That's not how they're made. See, you start with a blow-up doll...
If other countries start creating "tiger kids" en mass, then the USA may be forced to accept the idea in order to economically compete.
Resistance is fu......oh sh8t!
A computer that has run for three years. That's so cute!
I'm sure that's true if you're counting traditional engineering fields, meaning not including software engineers. I'm not sure it would still be true if you included software
Not as much software as some other places but that is changing FAST. Cars are getting a lot of software these days and so is the equipment used to make them. Plus a lot of software companies have a presence in the area including Google and some other big names. University of Michigan produces a lot of pretty good software talent and places like Ann Arbor are great places to start tech ventures.
Software is just a small, though important, part of technology. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook hardly comprise the entirety of the technology universe.
It may not be as bad outside the city, but in my experience, it was nearly so.
Bullshit. Where did you live? Oakland, McComb an Washtenaw counties are all very nice places to live.
I take it the executives of these companies will be living somewhere the weather is livable and the food is decent.
The weather in Michigan is tremendous unless you are a complete wuss about a little snow. If you actually like to go outside the weather is terrific, particularly if you like boating. Never more than 80 miles from one of the Great Lakes anywhere in Michigan. In the summer I never been anyplace with better weather. Detroit Metro has about 4 million residents who think you are a big old wuss.
Furthermore there are terrific food establishments and markets in the Detroit Metro area. Roast, Zingermans, Eastern Market and lots lots more. There are high quality grocery stores and farmers markets everywhere. The fresh produce is tremendous.
Wanted: People who are smart enough to work in tech, but dumb enough to live in an unsafe place.
Wanted: People who are smart enough to work in tech AND smart enough to actually get facts before making stupid public statements.
Seriously, few people actually live in Detroit City and that isn't where most of the jobs are - most live outside and it's perfectly safe most places. I'm pretty sure there are neighborhoods in San Francisco and Boston and Austin that the tech workers avoid. No different in Detroit.
The problem is, Texas has been electing politicians that while they apparently are exactly what Texas thinks is good, look to the rest of the non-red country as not so hot.
You mean like how the rest of the country elected George Bush twice?
a lot of car makers can build cars in the USA profitably. even small cars. except GM and Ford
Given that Ford earned $7.2 Billion in net income in 2013 and GM made a $3.8 billion profit over the same period I think GM and Ford will be very surprised to hear that they cannot make cars in the US profitably since most of their profit comes from US operations.
part of the problem is the factories are old and there is no more room to expand.
You don't need to expand factories to make the efficient. Inefficient factories get shut down and those that remain are doing just fine. I have visited numerous Ford and GM assembly plants (as well as Toyota and Honda) and for the most part they are as efficient and profitable as those of their leading competitors.
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