[rescue] [geeks] Looking for a sysadmin gig in Houston/remote

[John Floren]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 3:11 AM,  <microcode at zoho.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 01:10:48AM -0700, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>> You would think that by now, someone would have noticed that the high tech
>> companies in Japan and South Korea often have long term employees who know
>> all about the company, or engineer types, as CEO.  And they often kick
>> their USA based competition in the butt.
>
> I don't agree with this at all. When you have no regard for patents or IP
> and people are willing to work like dogs and regularly kill themselves if
> they fail the corp. mission the culture is very different. Do they still not
> put doors on the bathrooms?
>
> They are great at ripping off stuff and making improvements. Their
> manufacturing is something we could learn from. Their development and
> engineering process is not. There is relatively no innovation there,
> individual accomplishment is not valued, productivity is extremely low in
> white collar jobs, and they work their people literally to death.
>

This isn't the 1950s, Japan does more than clone American TVs and
transistor radios.

The salaryman lifestyle is still pretty bad though.

john