In my opinion: An outsourcing company treats the possible 'outsourcee' as a potential customer. If the customer want imperial (or customary, or whatever) then at the fear of losing a contract the external company will work to achieve such demands. To use a similar example (not exactly the same but..) - I've seen official 'pint' glasses with 'made in france' etched into the base! ;-)
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 05:02:49 -0700 From: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:47863] Re: Letter to the North Denver Tribune To: [email protected] While I am pro metric, I have to point out the devil's-advocate side of this scenario. If your employer works in metric, it is easier for him to out-source the job to China and India at a fraction of the wages. An insistence that the design be in Customary is a form of job security (providing the whole product can't just be imported). I wonder if any opposition to metric is based on that? I do agree that doing engineering calculations in metric is MUCH easier, but for job security, could I learn to love slugs? Hmmm! From: Pat Naughtin <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, June 19, 2010 2:56:07 AM Subject: [USMA:47861] Letter to the North Denver Tribune Dear All, Wow! What a letter at http://www.northdenvertribune.com/2010/06/metrics-a-cost-saving-way-to-measure I particularly liked the line near the bottom that read: In terms of measurement, the United States insists on continuing to speak Latin, when the rest of the world has moved on to English. I would like to know Randy Bancroft's email address so I could congratulate him on his letter. Cheers, Pat Naughtin Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, see http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html Hear Pat speak at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lshRAPvPZY PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, Geelong, Australia Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com/ to subscribe. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/
