Posted on 06/22/2005 8:50:15 AM PDT by GOP_1900AD
Assuming that you worked at a US (or other Western) based firm, what would you do if a Mainland Chinese "firm"* acquired your employer?
What would you do:
1) During the "courtship" period
2) During the "consumation" period
3) During the "integration" period?
Please share your ideas!
* By way of operational definitions, as I see it, there is no such thing as a firm - in the traditional Western sense - in Mainland China. To one extent or another, every enterprise headquartered there incurs some form of involvement by either local or national government. CCP representatives are placed within each company in various roles. ErBu and other PLA or federal intelligence agents are also, often, assigned to individual companies. At best, a "firm's" life in the PRC is a fascist existence, but more typically it is a hybrid of that, and a more traditional Stalinist state owned enterprise.
I'd go with the Lemon Chicken.
They always bread and deep fry the Sweet and Sour and that gives me heartburn.
Take ronger runches.
Start learning Chinese.
How about if they build a plant where you live:
http://www.bebeyond.com/KeepCurrent/Recommended/Haier.htm
It's Haier, the refrigerator, beer maker company. You might know them as the one that sells the wine coolers in Bestbuy or Fry's.
Work.
Bump.
Start seeking employment elsewhere, because once they know what the job is and how it's done, you're out anyhow.
Are they paying a competitive wage? That's the question.
Please share your thoughts on this virtual brainstorming thread!
I knew we could count on you.
Seriously, this would be my first choice, also, followed by identifying the most likely successful domestic competitor, and dusting off my resume.
More on this later.
Remember, suicide is painless.
The Chinese are cheap, cheap bastards. they continually try to screw everyone they deal with.
I would seek employment elsewhere.
Ask for lots of General Tso's chiucken, extra spicy, in the cafeteria.
Are you caught up in the Maytag / Haier situation? If the deal goes through, as soon as Haier gets a handle on the Maytag technology and production processes, there's a high probability that they'll close down the American plants and move production to China. Unless the US decides to slap some heavy import duties on Chinese goods .......
If a line worker, lower management or mid-management employee...I would look for other options during the run up and tranisition period, arrange for them while continuing to do a good honst job, and then give my notice professionally as soon as I found other employ.
LOL!!!!
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