L4sBotAug 17, 2023

The world's largest chipmaker promised to create thousands of US jobs. There are growing tensions over whether US workers have the skills or work ethic to do them.

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The world's largest chipmaker promised to create thousands of US jobs. There are growing tensions over whether US workers have the skills or work ethic to do them. - Lemmy.world

The world’s largest chipmaker promised to create thousands of US jobs. There are growing tensions over whether US workers have the skills or work ethic to do them.::Jobs at the TSMC semiconductor factory in Arizona could require long hours and total obedience. Americans may push back on the company’s culture.

Show threadErikDegenerikAug 17, 2023

“If an engineer [in Taiwan] gets a call when he is asleep, he will wake up and start dressing,” he said. “His wife will ask: ‘What’s the matter?’ He would say: ‘I need to go to the factory.’ The wife will go back to sleep without saying another word. This is the work culture.”

Fuck that shit, that’s not work culture, that’s exploitation.

Show threadGreenBottlesAug 17, 2023
I work in the US and I’m on call 24 hours a day basically doing it work it’s not that crazy
Show threadAggressivelyPassiveAug 17, 2023

Unless you let yourself get fucked over, you’re not on call 24/7/365 and for the time you are on call, you should get some sort of compensation.

They want to pay you shitty for 8 hours and than let you work 12-14 plus being on call for the rest of the day.

Show threadDamage
Here in Italy “being on call” is a contract clause, it’s often a rotation roster between multiple similar employees, and requires extra compensation
Aug 17, 2023 at 2:33pmWeb