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Originally Posted by boody

Being from Alabama I can say we have some incredibly stupid people here, but in saying that I'm sure that everywhere else has there share too. My original home town is probably no more than 15 miles from the Honda plant. The plant brought a lot of jobs to our area. The people who filled those jobs ranged from rather unintelligent to very astute. I know of several people who left their jobs to work at Honda simply because Honda paid more. The plant pays very well for our region for the amount of education required. I'm not saying that training was not difficult for the work force in our area. We have very few industrial jobs where I'm from and for most people it was a new thing. I do think that the whole using pictures to train illiterate workers would be very rare.
I currently live probably 15 miles from the Mercedes plant. I don't know anyone who works there, but I do know that the plant did have a huge impact on the local economy. The University Police have several, several Mercedes M class' to drive around in. I would think that the work force for Mercedes would be very similar to Honda's. I do know however that nearly all engineers employed at the Mercedes plant are German. (Being an engineering student that wants to work in the automotive field that is not a good thing for me.) Through this long rant the point I'm trying to get at is I seriously doubt that South Eastern U.S. employees are harder to train than any other region of the country or world given their circumstances. Granted citizens of a more industrial regions may be easier to train. That may be the case in Canada and if so go ahead Toyota, but I don't think they should base their reasons on people in the south being illiterate.

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