Posted on 03/08/2014 6:51:24 PM PST by Astute
by now those pass through the eye of a needle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants
According to this they only have two plants in Asia. But in my own experience you can hire competent foreign engineers at a fraction of US wages.
Also, fewer US born engineers are graduating each year and more and more foreign engineers are graduating from US colleges. American kids, on average, no longer want to do the work required and/or do not have sufficient background from our public school system. (But, they know all about gender studies and “fisting.”)
At the ANCS 2013 conference last October, 1 Malaysian and 2 Chinese researchers from Freescale had a presentation right before my slot. I wonder now whether it was any of those guys that was on the plane.
My brother works for Seimens. He is constantly all over the pacific rim for work. When my wife saw that a Malaysia air plane went down she asked me where my brother was. I knew he was home for a couple of weeks.
I know the same about family owned businesses. The father and son never fly the same flights for that very reason. If something happened to both of them, the company would be in a world of hurt.
Outsourced American jobs. Prayers for the victims but still.
“I was an HR staffer for CoWorx at a Foxxconn cell phone refurbishing plant here in Texas, so I’m aware of that. I’m bemoaning that more US citizens and naturals don’t get those jobs.”
If it makes you feel any better, my guess is Honda has more US employees than Japanese and for Sony, it is probably close to 50-50.
Then of course you have Transocean which is 100% USA deepwater drilling company which is headquartered in Switzerland but all that is in Switzerland is a small office where once a year they hold a board of directors meeting. Apparently, for tax purposes it is better that they be Swiss.
And of course you have the many US employees of the Bahamian company Tyco that is really a US company but in the Bahamas due to tax reasons.
“especially for companies that have corporate jets.”
I think the USA discourages corporate jets. It looks bad.
It is better to have a few employees die in commercial plane crash than to look like you are a 1 percenter or Obama and his thugs may come down on you.
It was Freescale and the project was 11 new radio frequency weapons. High tech weapons of war.
Depends on what level they were. 20 supervisors or managers big problem. 20 R&D people terminal for the company.
> It was Freescale and the project was 11 new radio frequency weapons. High tech weapons of war.
Maybe it was another high tech weapon that took them down...
“Sounds ghoulish, I know, but most companies I’ve worked for in the past 30 years had strict policies about upper management traveling together, for just this reason.”
The company, I worked for, came to the same conclusion about 30 years ago. If possible, they would break up the number of workers to the same destination with separate flights. They started offering an extra night or two, paid by the company to split up the groups. The single people and people in bad marriages loved that option.
We have tens of thousands of offshore employees. Hate to be the one to break it to you.
Because Americans won’t work for slave wages?
“It sounds very possible that the plane was shot down, due to the suddenness of the situation with no distress call.”
As I posted to another thread, the plane was brought down by a localized EMP emitted from an Aichi M6A, launched from a Japanese I-400 submarine.
So did mine. We lost a team of engineers back then, and Corporate immediately declared we'd never again have entire teams on the same plane. Years have gone by, and the suits that decided that have long since been replaced, including the CEO. The new suits figured they were much smarter than the old ones. Until a couple days ago, we were pretty much back to the old ways.
BTW, that company is Freescale.
You’re not “breaking it to me” FRiend. As I said up-thread, I worked as a human resources staffer for a temp. company at a Chinese-owned cell phone refurbishing plant. I saw Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese employees come and go every day.
Yes, I saw that as I read downthread.
I’m glad that I didn’t know any of the coworkers I lost this weekend. I have a number of friends in Beijing, at a design center. The email I got yesterday from the CEO (and antoer from our Corporate Crisis Management Team) indicated the employees were all from KLM and Tianjin, and I don’t know any of those folks. I stay in my cave in Tempe.
Still, it bugs me that there were so many employees on the same plane. We were supposed to have a policy dating mack to the Motorola days forbidding that.
Actually it was Global Foundries that built the new fab in Malta, NY. IBM's plant in East Fishkill, NY is about 12 years old.
There are more than 50 chip fabs in the USA.
I doubt it would make much difference. Now if you took out the leaders of their R&D team or the top of one of their manufacturing sites that would be very different.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.