I’m still trying to get my mind around this. Mattel has had to recall a million or so toys because of lead paint. I heard on the radio that the plant manager from the Chinese factory responsible for putting the lead paint on the toys committed suicide.
A gentleman in the business segment of the morning NPR news show was commenting on the suicide story. He said it was fairly common in Japan and Korea for business executives to commit suicide, but not very common in China. He felt that this was possibly a good thing. It might mean the Chinese were caring more about the quality and the safety of their products, and possibly a little less about the bottom line at the expense of everything else.
This is about the time my head starting spinning, or maybe that was from getting out of bed too fast. Continue reading “Chinese factory suicide a good thing?”
