less hours than many cube types worse pay tho

Post #265,449 by boxley 8/20/06 11:16:43 AM Reply	less hours than many cube types worse pay tho until we charge a tax at the borders over workers conditions we will continue to see this. thanx, bill Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 50 years. meep
Post #265,452 by SpiceWare 8/20/06 12:47:34 PM Reply	I'm sure the cost of living is less A friend of mine at work recently transferred to our facility from the Flextronics facility in Aguascalientes, Mexico. All his friends back home told him "your going to be soo rich!". He's found out that while he makes more, day-to-day living expenses cost more than back home - ie he was used to paying $2 for a haircut. Other things did cost more in Mexico though - electronics can be twice as expensive, even though they're often stamped hecho en Mexico(I've always thought that to be really strange). Darrell Spice, Jr. Trendy yet complex\nPeople seek me out - though they're not sure why\n[link\|http://spiceware.org/gallery/ArtisticOverpass\|Artistic Overpass] [link\|http://www.spiceware.org/\|SpiceWare]
Post #265,538 by tonytib 8/21/06 1:43:19 PM Reply	Much cheaper haircuts here are $10 (typical Asian salon) to $18 (good American barbershop - still the best haircut). So, yes, a $2 haircut does make a difference. On the flip side, working in Thailand, lunch cost under $1 per person (240 baht for six people). China is also much cheaper. Despite China's housing bubble, housing is still much cheaper. An existing 1000 sq ft apartment in central China is about $50,000. The US is a high transaction cost society. Some of that is good, but a lot of it is unnecessary (try to go into business for yourself, and see how helpful the government is). Europe is even more extreme, with all the new RoHS, recycling, and energy saving requirements. It may sound good on the surface, but it also reduces innovation - the whole PC business would never have happened in an environment like Europe today. Also, many of the requirements really don't help that much (e.g. lead in electronics isn't a big problem (1% of lead usage), and the billions of dollars spent going lead free could have done more good elsewhere), and I suspect exist partly because they sound good and partly because they help protect existing, well capitalized companies. Tony
Post #265,543 by SpiceWare 8/21/06 1:58:17 PM Reply	ugh, RoHS We had to implement RoHS here. Our location doesn't have any customers in Europe, but we had to because of corporate requirements. Darrell Spice, Jr. Trendy yet complex\nPeople seek me out - though they're not sure why\n[link\|http://spiceware.org/gallery/ArtisticOverpass\|Artistic Overpass] [link\|http://www.spiceware.org/\|SpiceWare]
Post #265,517 by drewk 8/21/06 10:18:51 AM Reply	Tax won't do it ... or at least won't do the right thing I've been saying for a few years now that we're hypocrites for simply exporting human and environmental abuse then buying the results. Just don't allow it to be sold here. Would really help with exporting our industry, too. (Yeah, that's how I got to this idea. Solving the hypocrisy is just an ex post facto argument.) Thing I like about this story is that it shows a single company can decide to do this. It's time for the feds to implement it for everyone. === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]

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