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Originally Posted by Caymus
Could also be other reasons. Taiwan Semi is having trouble staffing their new Arizona plant because they claim that Americans are much lazier than native employees.
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My grandson worked for a brief spell in a Japanese owned auto parts plant in Tennessee. He was new and still trying to get into the groove of working an assembly line. He accidentally dropped a part and when a part was dropped it had to be discarded. A Japanese manager got into his face almost nose to nose and was screaming, at the top of his voice, at him because he dropped the part. Who wants to work under those circumstances. Based on my research and conversations with people who have worked in Asian owned companies with Asian national supervisors, this is typical management style.
The plant in Tennessee had over 400 employees setting up operations in preparation for manufacturing silicon. There was a waiting list of a few thousand people wanting to work for this company. There was no problem with lazy employees.
Hankook Tire has a plant in Clarksville also with over 1,600 employees and there have been no reports of lazy employees. LG, a Korean electronic products manufacturer, has a plant there also with hundreds of employees, no complaints of lazy employees. Nissan has a huge automobile assembly plant in Smyrna, TN employing hundreds of workers. Nissan has no problem retaining people or hiring new employees. My life experiences have shown me that when employees are paid a good wage with good benefits and treated with respect will work hard at their job. Lazy employees is too often a convenient excuse for poor management and poor treatment of the workers.