I told a customer off about child labor/outsourcing

I was working and this tall, tanned man came up to ask me about kids' watches. He was dressed expensively and looked like he had money to keep up a gym membership.

In a tone that suggested he expected me to be impressed, he started telling me about his "great new invention"--a child's safety watch that has an alarm on it. All he wanted, he said, was a cheap kids' watch to send to China as a prototype for the manufacturer.

"You're making them in China?" I asked.

"Yeah, but they're developed and engineered here in America," he replied.

"Watches for kids, made by kids," I blurted.

Mr. Entrepreneur launched into a hasty explanation about how his manufacturer "works with the whole family," how "it's a different culture there," and how "if the kids didn't work their families would starve."

I hope I at least gave him food for thought...

Tucker

So he admits it. How would he like it if HIS kids had to work and not go to school.

Until we started caring about kids and passed laws against it.

Yep, a different culture, that's for sure.

This guy had the attitude where he'd probably think, "They're in prison for dong something wrong, might s well put their time to use" or similar crap.

Tucker