This morning I watched "American Factory," a documentary filmed by the Obamas' production company. Fuyao Glass opened a factory in Dayton, Ohio, USA. The Chinese management model is in full conflict with American culture. Chinese workers are naturally hard-working and have a spirit of collectivism. The American management visited the Chinese factory and observed the whole team, standing at attention, counting, applauding, and shouting slogans before going to work. One of the management was envious of our common way of fighting chickens. After returning to the American factory, he tried to emulate it. The situation is very funny: tall and strong foreigners are standing up and down, managers try to compress and simplify the process, and turn it into agitation and greetings. The dozen or so people facing each other look at each other, not knowing how to respond. Chinese management manages American workers with little encouragement as Chinese teachers and parents do for students. Cramming, I hope you bury your head in the questions, don't ask some questions. Naturally, American workers are not used to this kind of simple and crude management, and some of them raise the banner of trade unions. Supporters and opponents protested each other across the road. Fuyao Glass paid lobbyists to lobby workers for the benefits of not forming a union. In the final election results, the factory overwhelmingly won, and no union was formed. After watching the whole documentary, I have an impression. It is purely a speech and a point of view, but the Americans are good at expressing it. Except for a few executives in China who have skilled speech and coping skills, everyone else is clumsy, and the words they say are dry. Failure to express demands and ideas clearly makes people feel rude, simple and ridiculous. At the end of the film, a flexible and powerful robotic arm replaces some of the workers on the assembly line, which is more efficient. These robotic arms will replace many manual jobs in the future. After get off work, the workers in Fuqing, Fujian, China, and the American workers in the Dayton factory, surging like a river, rushed to their homes, where they could stretch their legs and relax. The screws on the modern assembly line work day after day in exchange for a livelihood. Cao Dewang, chairman of Fuyao Glass, sighed that the time of hard work seems to be happier, and the new era of high development is accompanied by huge losses. Development and loss, this is how this era is, there is no pure perfect happiness.
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