http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2008/12/04/national/national_30090153.php
cue OTAY in 5, 4, 3…
That was the funniest thing I’ve ever seen here! Well done afoaf!
Aha!------Figures!
I don’t care where you live, but surfboards are damned hard to build well, no matter how, when or where.
Glass itch is glass itch and clothes once worn to the factory are just that, work clothes.
We’ll pay peanuts and flood the market while lining our pockets, isn’t that the American way, on the backs of foreigners.
Chinese mfgs. have raised the price of fins 20% recently, almost paralleling US prices.
I could certainly use some work here in the good old US of A.
F that sending jobs and money away from our shores, when we have the best of SURFING CRAFTSMEN right here
Today, China has declared that they will
raise the value of their currency (the yuan)
against the dollar. So much for cheap board
stuff from China!! This should help. The strike
in Thailand is still on!
Here’s hoping they keep striking.
Here a quote from an article/interview with Geoff Rashe in TW Biz:
“I think it’s getting back to the cottage industry that we all know and love; surfboards hand-crafted by surfers for surfers. It seemed like the whole thing was about to die, and look what happened. I’m very optimistic about this downturn in our economy. It’s like a big forest fire where everything had to burn down in order to fertilize the soil, let in some sunshine to all the little plants that were trying to survive under that big oppressive canopy, and generate new life. It’s really inspiring.”
http://business.transworld.net/2008/12/03/catching-up-with-geoff-rashe-of-m10-surfboards/
We won’t give in. 4% is plenty. unlike ford, gm, chrysler, aig, fanny mae, freddie mac, the Thai gov’t won’t give any bail outs.
Over 2 decades of making composite stuff with a 3,500 plus strong workforce.
Who here can claim 20 years of making anything surfboard related with a staff of more than 50? ( insert cricket noise here )
You were trained by an expert and probably left disgruntled, frustrated. After the smoke from the burning bridges cleared you started your own place and moved or hid from your slave driving mentor and you try to start with a clean reputation slate. Only when your mentors die or fade away into obscurity you sneak back and reminisce about your great craft, how important it is and how very special a custom surfboard can be. But who did you screw over to get here, to this very place of comfort right now?
Here’s to the CNC shaping machine! Never again to spend time and effort training up the novice for the lame excuse, middle finger, in your face, take this job and shove it speech.
Why are you in this shape, situation, alleged mess?
Try a mirror!!!
25% off surftech for all on line purchases.
HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS…cobra strike??? STD’s run rampant in Thailand so there will be many scabs to take over positions needed.
Whoa that’s rather raw…
Oh well, with the economics of the modern age, perhaps Cobra will start outsourcing to low-wage areas like… Detroit…
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You were trained by an expert and probably left disgruntled, frustrated. After the smoke from the burning bridges cleared you started your own place and moved or hid from your slave driving mentor and you try to start with a clean reputation slate. Only when your mentors die or fade away into obscurity you sneak back and reminisce about your great craft, how important it is and how very special a custom surfboard can be. But who did you screw over to get here, to this very place of comfort right now?
What the heck is that about? That’s really deranged…
…too funny
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STD’s run rampant in Thailand so there will be many scabs to take over positions needed.
Make sure you wear a rubber when interviewing the new hirees…
When Tinker took me on board at Challenger Surfboards my shaping abilities, if I could call them abiities, were very primative.
After the first two years of heavy indoctrination on how to get up to speed with real shapers, I found I was in demand by other mfgs.
At the first sign that the season was slowing down, I went out and started shaping with my newfound skills ( thanks Tinker, yeah right) for all the competition. Of course this went over like a lead balloon, with me throwing all the cheap shot, childish threats back at Tinker.
I went to California with my skills (got promply busted, Tinker told me I would get busted), started shaping for Bahne and Channin-Diffenderfer (picked up more skills), then moved back east.
Oh, this is the part when I run into Tinker again, or his fist runs into my face, years had gone by, but all my hot air was being let out of my balloon.
Gotta keep those slates clean, as my old man said, “son before you go out to set the world on fire, don’t slam the door too hard behind you, you might need to come back for matches”
What is really funny is that many of you all are calling it a strike. But the news flash is when the doors are shut by the management and you can’t get into work… that is called a shut out and we are now accepting applications for scab employees.
Kind of reminds me of the a great leader who did the same thing to the air traffic controllers.
The air traffic contollers signed a contract agreeing not to strike.
The strike is over a haggling point of $.02/hr…How much are those poor bastards getting paid to start with?
Don’t blame the workers. Blame the consumers.
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The air traffic contollers signed a contract agreeing not to strike.
Thanks for making my point. I can expedite your application at cobra for an apprentice position in CF molding or surfboard finish painting. The weather is kind of like Florida and you will be pretty close to Bert’s factory.
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What is really funny is that many of you all are calling it a strike. But the news flash is when the doors are shut by the management and you can’t get into work… that is called a shut out and we are now accepting applications for scab employees.
Kind of reminds me of the a great leader who did the same thing to the air traffic controllers.
Bad or good…the lesson here is with local manufacture…you at least know what to expect. With overseas B.S. you never do. So what about their quality and product…outside factors can shut down production or delay production in a business where what your selling on your racks is fruit rotting on the vine.
Shame on the name shapers for legitimizing these folk as the alternative or even replacement for domestic made. Randy probably already has his pay out and I would suspect is pretty much out of it now in anyway but name. Get rich quick like some of the shapers believed…never works. The guy with the vision rightfully got the benefit and the rest were just along for the ride.
The smart one’s kept their own manufacture as well as allowed surftech to produce…but if I were in the retail of name brand hyped product now like I used to be…I would be backing off imports…selling my stock and making ready for something new and fresh.
Also: Lockouts mean the so called satisfied production force didn’t exist or was being coached well. Like I have said all along…it’s always been dependent upon slave wages, third world living and mass ignorance or delusion.
There are no bad guys here. Only un prepared.
question is i here reject rate is more than 50% before shut out?
good luck whith scab labour
huie@compsand
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What is really funny is that many of you all are calling it a strike. But the news flash is when the doors are shut by the management and you can’t get into work… that is called a shut out and we are now accepting applications for scab employees.
It’s called a lock out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockout_(industry)