Post by Baron von Lotsov on Nov 29, 2023 13:23:47 GMT
I hear Germans are pretty bad when it comes to paying through the nose if you have one of their machines and you need some service. It's the old captive market trick. Any firm that practices such dodgy practices should be punished severely by the buyer. Over in China you can just download an alternative program, put it onto flash memory and plug it in. If the controller goes up in smoke you whip it out and just plug another one in which has the right drive spec for the motors and away you go. They don't have one "competitive market", they have three: one for the complete robot, one for the spares(controllers, stepper motors etc) and one for the software. No blighter can hold you to ransom, and another thing is a firm might be ace building robots but crap at software, so the interchangeability of everything means output is cheap and good. Indeed I would reckon British factory managers do not like robots because they see them as machines and any machines in this country will empty your bank account, like the dreaded printer scam where ink is more expensive than gold by weight.
Regarding the 80% wage figure, it was a passing comment which I think was on a GB News clip. It might have just been a policy proposal, but it sounded to me like it was going to or is happening. I confess i know nothing about all this employment legislation crap as very fortunately I do not have to deal with it. I do know British productivity is one of the lowest. When looking at that the numbers to look at is real GDP per hour worked, not per capita, because we get variations on hours per week and percentage of country in work etc.
While perusing the BBC review of this morning's papers I picked up a story on the front page of The Times
This story (reported in several other papers too, but i'll stick with The Times) says Sunak is coming under pressure to scrap the "Shortage Occupation List" a scam whereby so called difficulties in recruiting home grown staff allow employers to recruit immigrants for 80% of the GOING RATE for the job.
The amount actually paid cannot be less than the minimum wage amount per hour, and the amount actually paid must exceed the amount (whose actual value i now forget) set in our current legislation below which the person will not be permitted to legally migrate to the UK. Those rules have actually worked against a musician friend of mine who within the last fortnight emigrated to the Phillipines in order to marry a woman he has known for some years who has roots there but whose IT skills do NOT command the required rate for her to be allowed to enter this country legally and be married here.
Whilst most of the beneficiaries of this scam are brain surgeons and makers of weapons of mass destruction who demand high prices for their skills which is why there are moves to undercut the locals in this fashion, I suspect part of the reason for the pressure to scrap the scam is that thanks to Jezza The Hunt's latest NMW hike, certain occupations on the list at the lower end of the scale cannot now be paid 80% of the going rate as that would actually fall below the new NMW
Amyway, the point was it's not 80% of the NMW. Although i wouldn't put it past GB News to have said it was
Thanks for explaining. I don't think GB News said 80% of the national minimum wage, but more like included the 80% in the same sentence as "low-paid workers" which in my town anyway, they all seem to be paid within pence of the same figure which is a tad above the minimum wage. If they are say paying 30p above the min wage they will see that as a point to advertise. The NWM is jobs they don't specify the pay. It shows how one can be mislead by someone telling the truth.
When will the day come when they have a production facility full of robots with a few jobs at double the NMW in a nice lean factory.
Anyway, here's a look at happy robots at work.