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Originally Posted by 3rdPedalAddict
I know people who have to work in Germany a couple months a year and they tell me that the work mentality over there is different as night and day. People's mentality over there is like clockwork. It's ingrained into their dna. Would you like to have chocolate made in Switzerland by chocolatiers who've been making chocolate for many generations or would you like to have chocolate made in England by regular people under a guided process? Japanese people have a passion for small electronics. Italians have a passion for design and the way they work with leathers is on a different level. It's a different skillset than that needed to produce a performance automobile. The main challenge to a company is to hire and train good employees efficiently. There is no way to develop a guided process that transfers know-how to an underqualified person 100%. That percentage number can vary and the lower that number is, the higher the profits are. If people keep buying and accepting less then that's the direction things will go.
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I think this is a reasonable viewpoint, and definitely makes sense. I see the same sort of thing in my work life all the time - aka, just because you train someone on something doesn't mean they understand the content in the intended manner.
Practice makes perfect - and I would guess that factories with consistent processes and long term employees have the most imputed knowledge, and therefore produce better results over time.
This is the same basic reason I discarded the "dealer-installed" CF roof idea from the outset. There's no way I would let
my car be the guinea pig.
That's not to say that the new locations cannot be successful - but I would expect some sort of learning curve...