corporation destroys ANY product if it's imperfect. (not walmart)

[Deja Q]

Disgusting.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7693586/site/newsweek/

May 9 issue - Humiliation was a company tradition. Each day at the Chinese appliance maker Haier, workers lined up on the factory floor before the start of their shift. The supervisor called out the name of the employee who had made the most mistakes the previous day—say, leaving a screw out of a refrigerator, working too slowly or scratching a fridge door during assembly. The guilty one then marched to a set of large green footprints painted on the floor, faced his or her co-workers and endured a several-minute-long lecture.

Hardly an example of a 'culture of life' and this is the shit *co and his fascist friends approve of. Always do your best, but we're human.

Worse is this:

...A quality zealot, he once took a sledgehammer and ordered workers to help him smash any refrigerator with the slightest flaw, bringing some employees to tears. "Haier was importing technology from Germany ... I personally went there to meet with the Germans and compare products," Zhang recalls of his first trip abroad in 1984. He was embarrassed: "From speaking to the Germans, I realized that the quality of the goods represented not only a company, but the whole country. I figured I couldn't raise the entire worth of China, but I could raise the worth of this company."

Here's the funny part: The fucker is a COMMUNIST. THAT'S COMMUNIST. Corporate America wants to be in league with Chinese COMMUNISTS. Communism is somehow bad yet our corporate leaders freely deal with them. I hope Nixon is rotting away right now. It's not even the good communism. It's the anti-people and anti-freedom version.

An avid Jack Welch fan, Zhang is also an influential member of the Chinese Communist Party. He makes only about $800 a month, and last year earned a little more than $3,000 in bonuses.

(In undervalued Chinese currency. He's still filthy rich over there, the article doesn't make accounts for standards of living, amongst other things.)

And this is a hoot, expect this to happen to American workers next (those who have jobs):

Haier was among the first big Chinese companies to focus on customer care. Several astute servicemen noticed that Chinese customers—as they became able to afford nicer apartments—were scolding workers who scuffed their floors with muddy shoes. Haier ordered its workers to wear shoe covers when they entered a home. In a country where customer service was nonexistent, it was the equivalent of an American cable guy's showing up with tea service for two.

[orwell]

1. I Guess

cruelty knows no ideology.

[uncle ray]

2. yeah, but,

he was treating them harshly to make a BETTER product! here employee's are treated like shit, and products destroyed, and it has nothing to do with pushing workers to improve quality. china's quality of life is improving, ours is getting worse. our companies don't care about quality, they care about the bottom line.

[Deja Q]

3. yeah, but,

it's a sheer waste of planetary resources, amongst other things...

We can't just try to do something, see that there's a minor blemish, and then destroy the enite bloody thing because it's not good enough!

This appearance-obsessed discardable "culture" of ours goes way beyond too far.

And the bottom line is wrong. People need to work to raise the quality of life for all. NOT sock it to some in a filthy rat race to become leader, which in turn allows them to be filthy toward many more people.

Sam's Club is no different; plasma/LCD tv sets get totally destroyed if a customer returns it.

People, especially Americans, are so disconnected... :-(

[jmowreader]

4. It doesn't look like he does it ALL the time

This seems more like a one-time "get your shit together, I'm not accepting defective products" exercise than something they do routinely.

If he did it once and it worked, then okay, I can deal with it--cheap Chinese crap is endemic and if someone can end this syndrome, that's great.