Cowboy Caleb the liberal arts, grown-up stuff & random mischief

haa.. chill dude.. i kinda understand how it feels. my attachment work at the SIP is kinda fucked up too. but im juz so glad that at least i can talk to my mates who are having their attachment in suzhou too. if not i believe i would end up like u dude. how long more is ur work in china?

Talk to you wife lor…. dude.

Get ready for a rough ride. After being in Spitland for 8 years, I can tell you that these folks have no loyalty to you.

All the BBQ, birthday cakes are just you being taken as a free lunch.

When you mess with the number of grains of rice in their bowl, they will bite the hand that feeds.

Well, at least this is my case here. Hopefully it’s different for you.

Good luck.

V: Pardon my intrusion but that has gotta be one of the dumbest suggestion ever. Sorry.

hey man. you’ve been complaining for years now.

stop being a pussy and quit already bitch.

ahh cbn, u need to stfu and fuck off other peoples blog. get a life out of ur pathetic one.

its ok la,

just pick up that knife by the pantry and slice thru one of the veins. The insurance pay out should be good. remember to leave a note to show ur demented state of mind.

/wrists

The reason why DG is because it’s way cheaper than GZ or SZ. Then along come the new employment contract law that satisfy neither employer nor employee.

Employer angry at sudden extra cost. Employee angry because raise doesn’t translate to more money in hand (cannot keep up with inflation, and soc insurance/cpf/epf things only benefits you when you’re already in da shit).

“Remember days when we force you sleepless/OT/bang onto the (covered-up)problem until it’s fixed? Remember those days when we spent hours helping your English homework? Remember the time spent explaining to you how to do things the correct/logical/engineering/the-rest-of-the-world way and not the C**** way?

Remember that when you pad your resume biatch! Remember that your college didn’t teach all this nor prepare you for the world competition and we did. Remember all those lessons at your next better-paying job and try not to give your new boss ulcers”

There… I almost feel as altruistic as Bill Gates already ….whistling..

Grant > I think you summarized it pretty well. So what’s next? Move the factories to outer mongolia? Shipping is going to cost a pretty penny….

hehehe to the next communist country - Vietnam!
I hope we don’t run out of communist country with a port too soon

like you said, the moving inland idea wouldn’t work too well if it’s nowhere near a port

they’ll need to increase productivity and efficiency by using modern tools (not only hardware but also soft tools) instead of relying on brute bodycount only (always reminds me the story about how much cheaper it is to place SMT components by many hands than by machine)

I’m pretty sure if we look (or dare to look. Gives you nightmare at times), we can always find somewhere to improve efficiency, to get less people but who can do more and do it right and to use their common sense.

Most of the time we’re actually stuck with Unbelievably Retarded Absurdly Stupid Situation and spend donkey years trying to fight that fire. The photo you use is strangely appropriate.
(”have you followed up on the lead time? can they deliver it? huh, can they even manufacture required quantity with 2 puny machines? NO! DRIVER LOST HIS HANDPHONE IS NOT A VALID EXCUSE FOR NO MATERIAL!”)

One person should be able to do the work for 2. Let one go, pay the remaining good employee 1.5x. Give him/her 0.10 increment annually until the 5th year. OK here’s where I run out of idea and buy motivational posters….

I think it’ll come to a tipping point where investing in canggih tech is cheaper than human. And at that time, wage and purchasing power probably has also risen to a point where it’s worth sticking around China for the domestic market

Uncle CC, hope you are feeling okie.. Take a break, have some beer.. :p

Hey Cowboy,

Sounds cheesy, but hang on in there k? =)

Don’t fucking get there. The bosses throw you to the wolves, just fuck it up and push them to the wolves instead, let them deal with that shit.

What can get worst after you already been through the worst? If the offer given by the other party is good.. Its time to go already!!!!

My advice…. the Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence…. trust me, it will be, no matter what reservations or doubts you may have…. The door is always open at my company………. just make the call… anytime!