Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 12:07:05 -0500
From: Sandi & Scott Spaeth <vespags-AT-stlnet.com>
Subject: Re: Favorite quote on Tiananmen Square


At 10:53 AM 6/4/99 -0400, Chuck0 wrote:
>"In a study published last year the World Bank expressed concern that
>China's productivity levels were the lowest in the world. Well, not one
>of your democrats at Tiananmen Square was able to applaud this. Me, I
>would have shouted aloud 'Long live the Chinese workers, *the worst
>workers of the world!* Well done, comrades, the more productivity you
>lose in your factories the more human activity evades the world of
>work'. ..."
>-- Hsi Hsuan-Wou, "Letter to a Chinese Dissident" (The Raven 37)


Oh that's good.  As an american factory worker, THAT'S the sort of achievement
I can look up to.  In fact, in the last few days, with the model change coming,
production has been *way* down. A supervisory intern was getting kind of
uptight about it, so I had to explain that as far as the line workers were
concerned, we didn't want to build any trucks, we're just there for the weekly
paycheck.  Well what if they close the plant, he asks?  Then they pay us
anyway, and provide money so that we can go back to school for 'retraining'. 
But, they just dumped $480 million into our plant, so we won't lose our jobs...
management however is not so secure.  At that he walked away.

Fuck 'em.

cheers,
Scott

cheers,
Scott
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