you need at least a four year undergrad degree to work at Starbucks
.............. they even advertise so !
jh
On 8/16/2014 5:00 AM, wayne.harridge wrote:
Same here in Oz, exporting sh*t loads of raw materials and getting everything
manufactured in China, etc. Barista seems to be the standard career path here !
...Wayne
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From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Olympus Discussion Group <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [OM] Slightly OT: Manufacturing in Amerca
Sent: 16 Aug '14 01:12
We don't manufacture much in the way of consumer goods here in the US. The last consumer radio was made in 1968, possibly by General Electric. Motorola sold its Quasar television sector to Japanese investors in the late 70s, taking it in the shorts because they did not understand the Japanese quality standards in the contract.
Kodak has stoped making consumer digital cameras, even though they partnered with Olympus to develop the 8M imaging element that found its way in the E-500 (so I understand).
Earlier this year, General Electic (?) sold its railway signaling division to Alstrom, the same people who make the power units for the French (and Korean, and Spanish) TGV trains as well as for the Amtrak Acella that literally crawls through the Washington to Boston corridor at an embarassingly slow 65MPH.
Now, the local evening news has it that General Electric is in negotiations to sell its appliance division to AB Electrolux of Sweden. It was fairly recent that Chris Crawford posted a lot of photos of the empty GE plant in Fort Wayne.
We can't survive economically if we're buying all consumer goods from outside the country.
Will the last design engineer in America please turn off the lights?
Chris Trask
N7ZWY / WDX3HLB
Senior Member IEEE
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~christrask/
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