I guess if you want to produce better coffee than Starbucks (who wouldn't ?)
you would need to employ somebody with a PhD !
...Wayne
> -------Original Message-------
> From: John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [OM] Slightly OT: Manufacturing in Amerca
> Sent: 16 Aug '14 12:59
>
> you need at least a four year undergrad degree to work at Starbucks
> .............. they even advertise so !
>
> jh
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> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> -------Original Message-------
> >> 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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