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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. (www.businessinsider.com)

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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.::Jobs at the TSMC semiconductor factory in Arizona could require long hours and total obedience. Americans may push back on the company's culture.

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[-] ErikDegenerik@lemmy.world 320 points 1 year ago

"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.

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I work in the US and I'm on call 24 hours a day basically doing IT work it's not that crazy

[-] marmarama@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you're on-call 24/7/365 without a break, and it's not because you have equity in the company, then find a new job.

If you don't, then your health (physical and mental) will eventually force you to leave anyway. I did it at a startup where I was employee #1 (no equity for me), just me and the founders, and I nearly had a nervous breakdown from it, and ended up quitting from stress. Afterwards I decided I would do no more than 1 week in 3, and life got better after that.

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

we are just a small company and that's the reason for the demand of my time but the way that we do things I don't really work after hours very often at all unless it's scheduled situation or an emergency you can do this in a way that is healthy for employees you just have to have policies that protect the workers

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