Here is a big part of the problem.
The warehouse was a great education for me. I learned more about race working at the warehouse than I would have learned reading books for 10 years. Even a stint in the diverse United States Navy did not prepare me for what I experienced. While our military may be filled with non-whites who are not qualified to serve and are semi-literate nuisances, they generally mean well. At the warehouse, however, I met every type of personality from the Mexican and black inner-city.
At first I noticed small things, such as the unwillingness of the blacks and Mexicans to pay attention to detail. My job was to check orders to make sure they were accurately pulled—that the right parts went to the right customers. The pullers were mostly Mexicans, and they routinely made mistakes. There is nothing wrong with making mistakes, but Mexicans could never admit they made one. Whenever one would pull an incorrect number of parts or the wrong part, or no parts at all, I would spend five minutes trying to explain the mistake so they could go pull the order correctly. By the end of my time at the warehouse, I started getting the parts myself; it was quicker and less aggravating.
Mexicans did not care about company property. They routinely drove forklifts into walls and into the metal racks holding auto parts. This happened at least once a month, and it was always the same people, yet they continued to operate the forklifts.
Whenever we had our 15-minute breaks (30 minutes in Mexican time), I noticed that Mexicans sometimes sat on breakable parts, such as gaskets. Explaining to one of them that you should treat something with respect even if it didn’t belong to you was like talking to a brick wall. Their attitude was that it wasn’t theirs so why should they care if they break it. If something breaks, oh well, the white people in charge have a lot of money and can fix it.
Maybe they were just too high to operate forklifts or care about breaking things. My colleagues routinely did drugs, mostly marijuana. One employee who smoked dope regularly was fired when he failed a urine test. The other browns and blacks were outraged and could not comprehend this. I tried to explain that there are consequences when you violate company policy. The other employees blew me off. This incident taught me that many people don’t understand—or don’t care—that breaking rules can have negative consequences.””
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MISTAKE
noun
noun: mistake; plural noun: mistakes
1. an action or judgment that is misguided or wrong. "coming here was a mistake"
informalslip-up, boo-boo, blooper, boner, goof, flub
•go wrong, err, make an error, blunder, miscalculate; informalslip up, make a boo-boo, drop the ball, goof (up)
verb
1. be wrong about
Companies in our area are hiring Somalis. I think there is some sort of government program involved with their hiring.
and these new hires are crashing some of the departments. They wont work. They wont take direction. They are entitled and sit. Not all but most.
So if they don’t work in a department, then the other workers, refuse to work. Managers are faced with departments full of people who are refusing to do their jobs.
For a department goes as fast as its slowest worker.
We keep thinking that people from other cultures will have the same work ethic as northern Europeans. But they don’t.
I was raised and I raised my children in that culture. But that is not the culture of Mexico, or of most of the countries in Africa, or Mediterranean area and the Middle east. Heck it isn’t the culture of the American black and Mexican ghettos. Or some parts of the white underclass.
We are expecting people to behave like striving white American men and women. Not to be.
China has a similar work ethic as the US, but not the same moral underpinnings and social contract
India is similar to China in this regard.