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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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[–] gramathy 39 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What the fuck needs to get done by a chop engineer on short notice at midnight anyway

Or are they just calling line workers engineers to avoid paying overtime

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

When I worked in electronics manufacturing, production engineers were frequently out on the floor. Common issues were:

  • a machine was placing a part incorrectly
  • assembly workers couldn't understand blueprints
  • materials were getting damaged in a process that shouldn't have been a problem
  • a custom design tool/rig was not acting like it was supposed to
  • there's something clearly wrong with a process (like it was designed for one person and not an assembly line)

If anything major (or potentially major) came up, production completely stopped until the problem could be assessed by an engineer. Assembly workers weren't allowed to fix things and they couldn't estimate the cost of continuing to run a job with defects. Our engineers didn't work 2nd/3rd shift though, so every time a job had issues we'd have to drop it and leave it for first shift. A downed line for 8+ hours is a LOT of money and for a bigger company would warrant calling someone in.

(I think the bigger issue is not "work ethics" like the article said or "need" like you said, but that the US has rules and pay requirements for on call employees)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Call me an engineer and you need to pay me a lot more though so that doesn't really make sense.