hamei wrote:
skywriter wrote:
It's like watching a drunk trying to walk.
Which, watching SGI flail around or Matt post ? :P
To be honest, all American businesses are stupid now. We get called in sometimes when some jerkoff company has totally blown up an order with a Chinese company. I guess they are too incompetent to make the parts themselves, but that's another subject. So the last time I kind of jokingly asked, "How's your Chinese?" to this highly trained college-educated purchasing dork and his response ? "That's no problem, we get the waitress at the local restaurant to talk to them when we need help."
Seriously. I couldn't make this up. My fevered imagination is not as insane as the people you have running your country. And you guys swallow this shit hook, line, and sinker. It's effing nuts.
Perhaps you have forgotten than the only reasons we are dealing with China is because the cost of goods is much cheaper than we can produce them. Specifically the general unregulated environment causes enormous environmental impact, which costs lots of money to avoid. While I find this practice deplorable, I'm glad it's not in my backyard. As for the imagined behavior of your canonical American businessman in China, what do you expect from a purchasing agent anyway? They're not the brightest bulbs in the bunch wherever they come from. Besides, why isnt the supplier speaking English anyway, they're the supplier! Oh, yes I forgot, that would cost money to train these Chinese people. Can't have that, a peasant saved is a peasant earned!
I'm just waiting for Brazil to finally to come to the table and undercut China. Dont forget there's always Africa someday. By that time we'll be drowning in pollution from low cost manufacturing anyway, so who cares.
BTW it was SGI.
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