China's entering workforce say "No, Thank You"

China's new Generation Picky about Factory jobs


By WILLIAM FOREMAN,
Associated Press –
6 mins ago, 3/13/2010

GUANGZHOU, China –

Factory worker Chen Qinghai frowned as he looked at a tall bulletin board full of help-wanted notices
from companies making everything from photocopiers and DVD drives to mobile phones and car parts.

The 19-year-old saw nothing that interested him.

"I wouldn't want to do any of these jobs," he said.
"The pay is too low, and there's no chance of advancement. You'd just be stuck there."

Chen is part of the reason many factory bosses in southern China's Pearl River Delta —
the nation's biggest manufacturing base — are complaining about a severe shortage of workers.


There are many reasons for the worker shortage in once-booming coastal regions like the
Pearl River Delta. Farm-friendly policies are keeping many people on the land, while other migrants
are finding jobs closer to home as poor interior provinces become more prosperous.


But another key reason is the changing labor force:
More than half of China's working-age population is made up of laborers such as Chen,
young people born in the 1980s and 1990s.

Their attitudes and expectations are vastly different from those of their parents, who hunkered
down on assembly lines for little pay and helped turn China into a manufacturing juggernaut.
Many younger workers won't do the sweatshop jobs their parents did. They grew up with
greater prosperity in families limited by the one-child policy. They are more used to getting their way.

"It's true that we're less willing to eat bitterness," Chen said with a chuckle, using a popular
Chinese phrase for enduring hardship.
"We're better educated. We know we have rights. Times have changed."



"Their demeanor is also different," Levy added. "They can actually look the boss in the eye
when they're talking. They don't cower when the boss comes around.

They're becoming more and more like American workers. I like that."

good, maybe the mexicans will start to go there

but, but, who's gonna make all the crapola for Wallyworld?

phluFFy wrote:

but, but, who's gonna make all the crapola for Wallyworld?

the dot heads

some things are so easy to reform that the old stuff could be replicated in a instance ,
best to go create new , instead of repeating all old times







try your animal magnetism to reward the special forces that shall free societies apart
for a moment enough to prosper mutually


GO WIN-WIN inny macros

uhmmmm...what's an "inny macros" and what should I feed it ?

Bring the manufacturing jobs back. There are plenty of Americns that want the jobs. I know they won't all come back because the factory is located there because they use the product there. But there are a lot of products that could come back. But I have a feeling all the cloths you are wearing that comes from Asia will in the future too.

Joebert wrote:

Bring the manufacturing jobs back. There are plenty of Americns that want the jobs. I know they won't all come back because the factory is located there because they use the product there. But there are a lot of products that could come back. But I have a feeling all the cloths you are wearing that comes from Asia will in the future too.

can it be cost competitive though? their labor is so much cheaper

not for much longer apparently, it makes sense and I'd wager more countries will follow. We'll either all make too much money or no one will make anything, eventually the powers may stop trying to control everyone and everything in the unfair manner in which they are comfortable with, maybe by 3010 ?

yangying wrote:

not for much longer apparently, it makes sense and I'd wager more countries will follow. We'll either all make too much money or no one will make anything, eventually the powers may stop trying to control everyone and everything in the unfair manner in which they are comfortable with, maybe by 3010 ?

it will be intersting. with china revalueing their currency. the US adding anti dumping tarrifs.

KK wrote:

yangying wrote:

not for much longer apparently, it makes sense and I'd wager more countries will follow. We'll either all make too much money or no one will make anything, eventually the powers may stop trying to control everyone and everything in the unfair manner in which they are comfortable with, maybe by 3010 ?

it will be intersting. with china revalueing their currency. the US adding anti dumping tarrifs.

Are we in for another wild ride on Wall Street. Will this all make AMerica stronger? Time will tell I guess.

Joebert wrote:

KK wrote:

yangying wrote:

not for much longer apparently, it makes sense and I'd wager more countries will follow. We'll either all make too much money or no one will make anything, eventually the powers may stop trying to control everyone and everything in the unfair manner in which they are comfortable with, maybe by 3010 ?

it will be intersting. with china revalueing their currency. the US adding anti dumping tarrifs.

Are we in for another wild ride on Wall Street. Will this all make AMerica stronger? Time will tell I guess.

it will get the world even more pissed ay america

Make international corps match wages for foreign workers with US wages and they'll start hiring US workers again. Okay sure but I can dream can't I?

JJjava wrote:

Make international corps match wages for foreign workers with US wages and they'll start hiring US workers again. Okay sure but I can dream can't I?

of course we have no say over what they do.

KK wrote:

JJjava wrote:

Make international corps match wages for foreign workers with US wages and they'll start hiring US workers again. Okay sure but I can dream can't I?

of course we have no say over what they do.

You're rubbng it in now... it was a good dream wasn't it? ... I'm not listening...

JJjava wrote:

KK wrote:

JJjava wrote:

Make international corps match wages for foreign workers with US wages and they'll start hiring US workers again. Okay sure but I can dream can't I?

of course we have no say over what they do.

You're rubbng it in now... it was a good dream wasn't it? ... I'm not listening...

I say we go back to the quota system

KK wrote:

JJjava wrote:

KK wrote:

JJjava wrote:

Make international corps match wages for foreign workers with US wages and they'll start hiring US workers again. Okay sure but I can dream can't I?

of course we have no say over what they do.

You're rubbng it in now... it was a good dream wasn't it? ... I'm not listening...

I say we go back to the quota system

We have a system?

I say we go back to the quota system[/quote]

We have a system?[/quote]


we used to