Culture clashes in Manufacturing and elsewhere

On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 10:26:02 +0100, D wrote:

The company should have offered language classes for everyones safety!
This sounds like swedish/danish cooperative ventures, where each group
insist that the other can understand them, since the language are so
close. This never works.

On 2025-01-13, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

Some of the extra material on the Bron/Broen DVDs mentioned that :) One of
the Swedish actresses mentioned being on a bus in Copenhagen, hearing a
girl say 'skumfidus', and thinking it must be something dirty.
 ...
The molding plant I referred to had moved from Connecticut to rural
Georgia, attracted by cheap labor. They had not taken into account the
difference in work ethic. As the week progressed the work force thinned
out. By Friday there weren't many people besides our crew and the foreman
who had relocated from Connecticut. I think he was in his 40's but had a
heart attack, possibly brought on by dealing with the frustration.
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The town was dry so we had to go to Athens, about 30 miles away, for R&R.
The university was there so it was a little more civilized. Madison billed
itself as the only town Sherman didn't burn on his way to the sea.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison,_Georgia
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This was the early '70s and southern rock was just starting to take off. I
had long hair and a beard and after staring at me for a while the busboy
at the local restaurant finally worked up the courage to come over and ask
'Are y'all one of them rock musicians?" About 10 years later Athens would
spawn R.E.M as rural Georgia caught up with the US.

See also the documentary movie "American Factory" about how a Chinese
owned multi-national car glass company tried to open a factory in a
former GM plant in Ohio. (Around 2015, IIRC)

Or the 1985 comedy "Gung Ho" about a fictional Japanese auto company
setting up shop in Pennsylvania.