Toyota says Americans too Stupid.

[RODSCALIP5]

I don't know how much of this is true, but Ill post it anyways

http://www.thegreenrabbit.ca/content/view/279/50/

[Matthew]

wtf

[Prodigy]

haha.. it's bogus.

[orlandomsp]

HA HA, that's great... it says that Nissan has had to use "pictorials" to train it's illiterate emplyees. (rofl2)

[RODSCALIP5]

Here is a CBC article:

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/business/050630/b0630102.html

First they raise prices because they feel sorry for American Car Makers and now this, looks like they are going in for the kill.

[Roywhitep5]

lol canada is the new mexico

[CanMP5]

Makes sense to me..., it seems as though educated Americans can get great jobs right away leaving menial labour to the illiterate.


Whereas in Canada, you can get an amazing college/university education and be unemployed in your field for years. That's why so many American companies recruit from our universities and so many grads head down south. We just can't find readily available field-related jobs up here.

Another thing is our immigration system has so many education based criteria to meet, that we end up having a highly-educated immigrant workforce. Mix that with unemployment and you begin having doctors and engineers as janitors.

This is no joke, I used to work for a Best Buy/Future Shop and our cleaning staff were former medical doctors and engineers from Ecuador. It's that bad! They come into our country with no family here and with several children, that to update their education in their field, with the ridiculously high-priced tuition, will send their family straight to the projects.

Hence, the easily-trainable factory worker...

[seanmcsean]

well what do you expect if you put up shop in mississippi and alabama.. especially if you are recruiting blue collar factory workers.

that's like making london the dental hygene capital of the world.. it just doesn't make sense.. you can't expect people to be literate when you put your factory in an area of the country where education and income brackets don't align all that well!!!

[Kooldino]

American literacy rates are the lowest in the Western Hemisphere at 67%

Where's the BS flag?

[SciFiMan]

It's union people so they probably had to. It's just a web news site; I'm sure the reason for Canada is the same reason most autos are made up north or in Mexico is the health care costs and costly union labor contracts. For low skill labor stuff like car assembly it's just to expensive to be in the USA.


HA HA, that's great... it says that Nissan has had to use "pictorials" to train it's illiterate emplyees. (rofl2)

[JOS3]

americans are lazy.