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Does Your Boss Time Out Your Bathroom Breaks? These Guys In China Did!

Richie Phillips — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 13:33:35 +0000

You think YOUR boss has ridiculous rules and regulations? This takes the cake! According to Newser.com , the owners of a factory in China timed out their workers bathroom breaks, and limited them to two minutes a piece. But a slight revolt broke out at the Shanghai Shinmei Electric Company. The workers didn’t take to [...]

Chaos In Bejing Over The iPhone [VIDEO]

Richie Phillips — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:21:05 +0000

Apple has a little bit of an image problem in China right now. It seems that they had an iPhone Sale fail that you would have to see the video to believe. The place: Bejing, China. The day : Jan 13th Time: 7am Scene: Total pandemonium Hundreds and hundreds (and hundreds) of customers line [...]

Chopsticks Made In The USA And Sold To China! [VIDEO]

Richie Phillips — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:34:38 +0000

Hey. It’s only fair. We have so many American products that are produced in China. Why can’t it work both ways? According to a recent Fareed Zakaria GPS episode on CNN, there is a factory in Georgia that makes chopsticks and sells them to the Chinese. Why? I guess they are out of wood there, [...]

Some Apple Stores in China Are Fake! [VIDEO][UPDATE]

Richie Phillips — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 12:42:02 +0000

You read it right! I’ve seen stories before about how China occasionally (and allegedly) rips off the design forAmerican products, copies the packaging including logos, and passes their merchandise off as the real thing. But this takes the cake! This video tells the whole story, but if you don’t have time to see it, I will summarize. [...]

Hey China–Pick Up Your Space Garbage

Jake Thomas — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:52:27 +0000

China has become a real pain in our butts here in America. They flood our market with cheaply priced goods and put a ton of our own manufacturing base out of work. Now they are putting our astronauts in danger in space because their space junk from their cheap satellites is floating around up there. [...]

Hire Someone To Sit Thru Your Next Traffic Jam

Richie Phillips — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:06:18 +0000

That’s what they’re doing in China. We better get on the stick! We’re falling behind again. When you’re stuck in traffic on the way to work, how can you be productive? You need to get there. So why not hire someone to sit in your car and pull their hair out, while you are scooted [...]

The Chinese Say Western Mothers Are Inferior

Richie Phillips — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:54:28 +0000

This will get some watercooler talk going today! I'm sure we'll be fighting it out on the morning show at some point as well. According to the Wall Street Journal, there's at least one Chinese mother who feels that their country is MUCH better at raising successful kids. How? By not taking any ....crap! I guess that's the best way to summarize this article. This is a MUST read.

North And South Korean Tensions Escalate

Jake Thomas — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:41:38 +0000

Just when you though it was safe to get ready for the holidays and unwind, look at this. In response to the recent North Korean agression, South Korea held a 90 minute artillery firing drill according to Reuters. South Korea went ahead with live firing drills from a disputed island on Monday, local media [...]