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> The other initiative, called Foxconn Future Leaders, targeted recent college graduates > Employees ..., no matter what role they had been hired for, were to
by Jon_Lowtek 6y ago
> The other initiative, called Foxconn Future Leaders, targeted recent college graduates
> Employees ..., no matter what role they had been hired for, were told to figure out what Foxconn should do in Wisconsin themselves.
> The new management seemed increasingly open in its disdain for the local workforce. “Why are Americans paid so much and do so little? I can’t tell you how many times we heard that,” said one employee. “It was certainly a toxic work environment”
> the office began to fill with people who had nothing to do. Many just sat in their cubicles watching Netflix and playing games on their phones
Well its obvious: politic and corporate are at fault: should have hired at least some people who actually know what the job is they got hired for, not just slackers and slavers. This is far too typical for large corporations: no real plan, hire cheap, have n-layers of management where everyone pretends everything is going well, but since no one has any clue the whole thing grinds to a halt, fails and burns once the initial inertia runs out.
- jariel 6y agoThis is not what happened clearly. Foxconn didn't know what to do with the facility at all and had no material plans, it was like expansion without a cause. The hiring had no purpose other than to probably break even on the subsidies, which I don't think they met profits from, so it was a big debacle from start to end. The 'problem' was Foxconn didn't have a business plan for the facility. The 'subsidies' meant that it took way too long to fail.
- Jon_Lowtek 6y agoIt is easy to say "they just hired to fill a quota" when the only person who seems to do any actual work is the person hiring to fill their quota.
- imtringued 6y agoThere was no goal other than to get some subsidies and handshakes with Trump. Anyone who was hired was there to game some arbitrary hiring quota.