Comment on TSMC Arizona struggles to overcome vast differences between Taiwanese and US work culture

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apple still tries to have the cherry up-beat customer services department in the UK and it doesn’t work. It’s a Saturday, no one wants to be doing this call, don’t pretend otherwise it’s weird.

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But in their case it wasn’t just that the Germans didn’t like it. It was illegal.

  I want to learn more?..

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    youtu.be/59AMOwlf6XQ

    Don’t know if it’s in the video, but as far as I remember it was about how working hours were calculated and about worker surveillance. And Walmart trying to control worker’s private lifes by forbidding sexual relationships between workers.

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    • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also things like selling their loss leaders below purchase price. The kicker is that they still lost the price war they started even though the German discounters kept things legal.

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      • UnsavoryMollusk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No German lawyers ? The amount of stupidity and arrogance is mind blowing

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And Walmart trying to control worker’s private lifes by forbidding sexual relationships between workers.

      Just why would they do that? And were that their concern, wouldn’t such people work better, not worse?

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      • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I guess the rational is that a breakup would lead to worse job performance.

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      • Fred@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Justification I’ve heard is that if one part of the couple is managing the other, or is promoted after the relationship started, then:

        • there is a power imbalance in the couple, possibly one is coercing the other (« I can’t leave him/her, they’ll make my worklife hell / get me fired »);
        • there is a risk the manager will promote their partner even if their job performance doesn’t warrant it

        Companies will want to both avoid this sort of things, and avoid being seen to enable this sort of things.

        I’ve once worked at a company that wanted to know about relationships between their employees and suppliers/customers’ employees, again because that might enable situations where a supplier / customer is treater favourably because of personal relationships

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  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    By law: 8 hours as the rule, never more than 10 hours for exceptions.

    By contract, they can go a little above the 8 hours.

    If they go above the 10, it can cost the company a lot even for a single case.

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So they didn’t plan even for such simple things. Wow.

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• blindbunny@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Welcome to Costco, I love you

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