To all,
I edited out the personal stuff from a nephew of mine who runs a Mitsubishi
owned sub in Tijuana, Mexico.
Obviously the American market still dictates use of Wombat as he says.
Se excerpts below.
Norm
> We live in San Diego (actually Chula Vista) and I drive about 30 miles to
a
> town south of Tijuana for work. I'm still making elevators, only now I
> cannot understand most of what everyone is saying. I'm practicing my
Spanish
> though.
>
> In conversation we speak in terms of Kilos, Liters and Kilometers, but we
are
> building equipment and using tools for the US market, so its pounds,
gallons,
> feet and inches in the shop. I also carry around as many pesos as I do
> dollars (lunch money). I've also just recently gotten my pass that speeds
up
> my border crossing back into the US so I've reduced my homebound commute
by
> 30 minutes.
. I've got an extremely challenging job, President of a small
> Mitsubishi owned factory that has been losing money for the past 5 years.
> Mitsubishi bought it (5 months ago) in order to have a reliable source of
> Hydraulic elevators, and hired me (from Otis) to run it. I've got a good
> group of people down there, and most of the ones I deal with daily speak a
> lot more English than I do Spanish, so I get along all right. I do have
> great difficulty though with Japanese (zero)
