Quote from Eight:
Very muchly true... I was in Electronics R&D for decades... Iranians, Chinese, Indians, they would all root out the Americans and then refuse to deal with other departments unless they were "diverse"... and diverse means "undergoing change from Americans to shitheads from other countries". Lesbians did the same thing but their onslaught was against men... It was hard out there for an American worker... I enjoyed developing my skills to such an incredibly high level.. I really did that.. I could walk through the other territories and just tell them to kiss my f%^king ass and shove their politics up so far sideways that it gave them blurry vision... that was the only answer to the mess, Americans will never outpolitic foreigners that came from places where their next meal is very dependent on politics...
They were all looking for me to transfer some skill to them so I would, I would tell them about cold remedies, nutritional answers to their health issues, gave them good advice in getting on with daily life... never told them a thing about electronics or how to get anything done, not ever... the only ones I liked were the Russians and Eastern Europeans, at least I could relate to them... Iranians, Chinese, Indians... forget relating, if I sat at their lunch table the hackles on the back of my neck would start signaling danger to me...
The value of most of the third world folk seemed to be that they could not make waves, their visa was in the hands of their employer, "get fired, go back home" ruled their behavior... you could give them mindlessly stupid work and they would just put in the time... I saw a software project that would have been handled by three Americans grow to a whole building full of Indians/Orientals.. "the greater the confusion about the project the greater the number of workers" seemed to be the agenda from the foreign manager...
I'd like to have a small company in the us but it would not be diverse for diversity's sake.. diverse a little, sure, talent is what it is and it's very necessary but at the corporate level it's way more politics than efficiency...