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

• barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “What do you mean the rest of the world doesn’t follow US laws?”

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well, that’s quite strange math, the amount of breakups between Walmart employees is expected to be less that the amount of relationships. Facts from the former are mostly a subset of facts from the latter actually.

      Unless we consider the possibility that couples come to work at Walmart and break up there, but couples rarely form while already there.

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  • Fred@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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