least competent people

[cimorene]

citing the high quality of the workforce in ontario, toyota decided recently to build a second plant in the province (this time in woodstock) even though ontario was offering only about half the subsidy offered by mississippi and alabama to build the plant in one of those states.  a trade association executive said the industry had learned from nissan and honda, which had found the workforce in the us south to be often untrained and illiterate, and that, in alabama, trainers had to use pictorials to teach some workers how to use the equipment.

-chuck shepherd's "news of the weird" in the oct 05 funny times

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[syredronning.livejournal.com]

Cool ;) *snicker*pimping the link in her irc chat*

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i have a feeling someone had to use pictorials to explain how to teach math and health to the gym teachers they had doing that at my high school...

[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

And yet they STILL won't vote for a tax increase for education. "I got a job at Nissan and I couldn't read, so y'all don't need to learn how to either!"

[cimness.livejournal.com]

it's like americans are allergic to tax increases. the dumber they are the less they want them. i guess the dumber you are the less you're able to comprehend why education is important, too. "can't we just use more standardised tests instead? but the president said we could!"

[hollsh.livejournal.com]

Go literacy!!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

there was a shirt in the same issue of the funny times that said "CANADA: it's looking better all the time".

[hollsh.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha, sweet

[heartofslash.livejournal.com]

Hee hee.

Hey, I think my brother said something about being transferred to that plant eventually...