We had two of those shit phones, Moto replaced them twice free, but they stayed in a boot loop, the worst mobile phone of that many I had starting with Blackberries. Motorola to close Fort Worth smartphone factory If I was in my teens or 20's I would love to get a fucking shit job standing for eight hours a day assembling fucking "smart" phones. Raise your hand to take a Piss break? Clock in and out for your 10 minute breaks and 25 minute lunch?
this happened 11 years ago. is motorola making phones here again? work sucks,,,,,that's why they pay you. compared to shit i have done it dosent look that bad to me. but iv had some really shit jobs.
Many years ago, I guess about 40 now, we had a plant here in our town that made panty hose for various companies including Sears. Employed about 30 to 40 people at a little over minimum wage. It was put out of business by the fact, as the plant foreman told me, that the Koreans at that time were making about as much a month for 60 hour weeks as he was paying for a couple 8 hour days. Then they didn't have any taxes and were using modern equipment that he couldn't afford to buy. Have two major companies left in area, one with about 1,000 employees owned by the German's. The other is owned by the Japanese and has about 1,500. One makes medical equipment and filters, the other ball bearings ect. In both cases the American owners sold them off and instead of Wall Street buying them and out sourcing the production to another country, they were purchased by foreign owners who modernized the equipment and paid decent wages. Both have remained in business for many years and expanded and both are very proud of the quality and innovations in their product lines. In many ways our short term focus on a quick buck by companies like Blackrock and Baines Capital has destroyed our manufacturing base, We can compete in the world market, but in many cases our capital management system prevents it. One of our largest exports, airplanes, are sold based on quality and innovation, but they are using skilled labor in a late 1800's techniques, with modern equipment, to build them. There is no mass production per se, just hand assembled airplanes. Boeing management is trying its best to destroy that market by having parts for the airplane being made all over the world and losing control of the quality control on the airplane. Yes the sub paid India programming people did not do the quality of work that the higher paid US employees used to do and airplanes crashed. The computer revolution began here, Wang, Digital, IBM, Nixdorf, Bull, NCR, Western Electric, Burroughs, CDC, and hundreds of sub contractors all had plants within a couple hundred miles from here. All gone now. Plant near here built SCR and had spent millions on the chip making building. Out of business now and they tore the chip making plant down to expand the parking lot for the old office buildings that supported the chip plant. I am 87 so it isn't really going to affect me and I found a niche, repairing power tools, that kept me fed as things fell apart but it doesn't look good for our country if someone doesn't get it turned around right quick. The democratic solution, as Mrs Thatcher put it, works well until you run out of other peoples money. From the looks of the national debt and the finances of many states, we are close to "running out of other peoples money". One group wishes to change that system, the other insists that if we just double down it will all work out OK.
Back around 40 yrs ago ,, I was truck driving,, hauled a lot of textiles around NC, SC, and TN,,, bales of cotton , rolls of fabric from knitting mills ,, etc . I guess it was the NAFTA deal ,, that sent untold numbers of mom&pops into bankruptcy. They couldn't compete with the cheap stuff from south of the border . Even the big outfits probably laid off or lost at least 1/2 of its sales and workforce. And it's never returned. I believe Trump is bringing back some of our manufacturing,, industrial and energy fields ,, etc . But if he's not succeeded by another America 1st believer ,, we'll just sink again .
Motorola was a solid American company I worked with their radios and satellite gear they were went big in digital satellite when they bought General Instrument to get DigiCipher. They made solid phones sat gear and mobile 2-way radios. Google bought them for the patents broke it up selling off the divisions. A lot of people want smart phones to be made here and that would be great but a company with a ton of money tried and failed miserably. In high school I had a shitty $1.85 an hour summer job at a Stokely-Van Camp cannery driving a tank truck full of brine and dumping it in open fields which was better than in the cannery. If there was a break down in the cannery they made the inside workers punch out and wait for the repair to punch back in.... That experience showed me I was not going work a shit job for a shit company for shit wages.
