Posted on 03/10/2005 2:40:02 PM PST by ambrose
And all the oil-exploration rights are belong to us!
If my Dell was made in China and shipped to me within three days my hat is off to them.
So did my second son. For Christmas. He gave some line of BS about how it would help with his college work but we both know it was to play games online.
"If my Dell was made in China and shipped to me within three days my hat is off to them."
LOL - Yeah, they leave the important work, like mounting a hard drive ( made in Singapore ) and packing it in the cardboard box to the good old American workers.
Thanks for the update FD. I think the Captain needs to get back to the States as soon as possible!
I worked for Dell that this location. Muslims there get all the time they need to go pray. This must had been either a new policy change or a single manager out of dozens there that wouldn't let his people go pray.
Most of the employees there were temp contractors that worked there less than a year. Any more than that and Spherion and Dell would have to hire them permanently and/or give them benefits (that sucked horribly) which they don't want to do.
And as far as the IT jobs there going to foreigners, there are no IT jobs there. It is a manufacturing plant that runs nearly 24 hours a day with 12+ hour shifts and basic hourly pay. Only after 50+ hours do you really see any real money. But your body is so tired from being worked constantly doing the same hand movements all day long that you don't have any energy or time to spend your money. I still, 5 years later, have wrist problems from assembling the components into the systems at a rate of about 45/hr. That is the chip/RAM/mobo, all drives, cards, plugs, and screws inserted in 90 seconds or less by yourself and sent down a line to be tested.
As for no IT jobs there. They could train monkeys to do any job in that place and probably would if PETA wouldn't get on them for it. Like being a dishwasher, most of the citizens that worked there either didn't like the hard work and quit, or had no education at all and knew that was going to be the best paying job they'll ever have so they stayed there.
I'll never buy a Dell computer for purely personal reasons.
I couldn't stand the idiocy that was there. It was classic Dilbert in an assembly line setting.
There was commotion about it at first, but after the (PC) town council approved it everything quieted down.
This was Hamtramck, MI, BTW, which was traditionally an almost entirely Polish community but which has been transformed into a multi-cultural polyglot in the last decade or two.
The issue did get on the ballot after the council action, but it was upheld 1462-1200. Sounds like the Poles are making the best of it, I see there is a Polka Band there called the Polish Muslims. ;o)
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