The Taxi Driver's Talk

I went to my company this morning by taxi, because my car was out of order this week. It's interesting to talk with the driver, if the driving job is his second career in his life. The one I met worked for a manufacturing firm before, he decided to drive a cab to earn a living instead of being a manager on production line, because he weren't willing to be assign to work in Mainland China by his boss.

The migration of manufacturing industries in Taiwan to China seems to be a ordinary thing these years, I always heared from the business managers I met, and it have been published frequently on newspapers and manazines. People who used to make profits by reducing the production cost are always seeking the more lower expense from the whole production process, and the labor cost and land cost always contribute more than other costs. It's not too difficult for understanding the phenomenon in manufacturing industries. The driver was one of the sufferers in the structural unemployment.

It calls for deep thought from his experiences of business trip to the firm operating in China, he told me that the people in China is very smart and enjoy contending for personal gain, because they are afraid of shortage in their living for a long time. He was also impressed by the expressiveness of the people, they could confuse right and wrong, if they want to. The management came from Taiwan are easy to be replaced by local people, because they are accustomed to use the tactic of "divide and conquer" to acquire the authority, it's easy to be observed, but not easy to stand still without eroding the foundation of trust between the members of management team, which was always composed of people from Taiwan originally.