Garment Workers Demand Pay Rise

[ken svay]

GGE is full of shit.
Low productivity rates can be caused by managements failings,poor organisation,poor machinery,cutting corners to reduce costs and simple things like an unreliable electricity supply.

[Gary Gilmour's Eyes]

Pleased to see k440s resident buffoon has joined the debate, together with the forum's most boring poster. My original post was deliberately provocative and designed to see if the responses were as mindless and cliched as I expected. I wasn't disappointed.
Ken may have an ulterior motive. Give them more money and they might buy some of those mini-skirts. Judging by some of his other posts, he has been living in a booze and drug induced fantasy world for a long time. Bar girls are good people and merely victims of circumstance? As Christopher G. Moore once said, if you're looking for a genuinely nice lady, check out the rice paddies, because you won't find one working in a bar-unless they are a very new arrival.
As I understand it, the figures on worker productivity came from the ILO-usually a bastion of political correctness- and accounted for differential working conditions. This is probably why they sanctioned the current minimum wage. GMAC boss Ken Loo correctly pointed out that the average-not minimum-wage is about $100 a month, including allowances, overtime and increases for experience.
$100 a month is a good salary here for people who have no education or qualifications and whose previous experience was as subsistence farmers. Compared with Western factory workers, they rank higher up the salary scale. Noone condones armed goons shooting protesters, but it is interesting to note they were trashing their factory after management agreed to meal and work travelling allowances. I wish my boss was as generous.
I recently read the biography of the guru of the New Age of Mediocrity-Steve Jobs. It seems his main talent was as a reality distortionist; a trait he acquired through too many acid trips in his younger days.
Old Steve would be proud of the mindset of his acolytes. Keep living in your fairytale fantasy world and keep chanting the mindless mantra:
The Rich are Evil.
The Poor are Perfect and must be Deified.
Opposing Views will not be Tolerated.

[vladimir]

Pleased to see k440s resident buffoon has joined the debate, together with the forum's most boring poster.

Uuh, you often talk to yourself and your alter-ego?

'deliberately provocative?' LOL.

[MoodyMac]

I'm 58 and still do a lot of stupid shit-just not as often. All the smoking must have stunted my brain's growth.

Thanks for your input GGE.

[shitegeist]

... resident buffoon ... most boring poster ... deliberately provocative ... booze and drug induced fantasy ... etc ...

Wait a minute, is this the same GGE who in a thread not so long ago had a big old fucking cry, along with some other sensitive soul, that "Shitegeist doesn't respect my opinion"?

Reasoned debate does not include denigrating someone with an opposing viewpoint.

What happened to you, princess?

[vladimir]

However, his informed post does raise a few thought-provoking questions which even I have to admit are valid:

1. Am I the buffoon or the most boring?, and

2. Which one gets more benefits, the buffoon or the bore?

[andyinasia]

Worrying trends

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012022754739/National-news/protesters-try-new-tactics.html

[vladimir]

Yes, agreed, once they learn that one strategy works, it will be very difficult to stop it gaining ground. However, you can bet that the significance of this has been missed/will be dismissed by the circus.
The worm has turned, it seems.