Comments on: Why does worker abuse continue? http://survivingtheworkday.com/2008/01/05/why-does-worker-abuse-continue/ spirituality in the workplace Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:49:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: h sofia http://survivingtheworkday.com/2008/01/05/why-does-worker-abuse-continue/#comment-1257 h sofia Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:42:14 +0000 http://survivingtheworkday.com/2008/01/05/why-does-worker-abuse-continue/#comment-1257 We are surrounded by these products. Some things - unless you pick them up second hand - don't seem to be produced anywhere BUT China. It's as if when someone comes up with a new product, the first thing they do is go to China to find a manufacturer. (I actually know a designer who did this when he decided to make his own line of beautiful, practically weightless running shoes). The only way the no china diet works is if one really commits to changing the way one consumes. And it's hard. I went to the store to buy a new coffee/tea mug (the insulated kind), and although there were at least 30 varieties of mugs, I could not find ONE not made in China. If I want to spend $30 on a coffee mug (heaven forbid I lose it), I could probably find one made in Switzerland or something. Or I could look for a grody, used one, which probably wouldn't be too hard; I'd just have to get over seeing it as grody (it's the plastic lid that grosses me out because it's porous). Or, I could hold out hope that I'd eventually find the one I'd had for years and lost (A BurlyGirls.com mug), and just keep using it. Which is what happened. I have no idea where the cup was made, though. We are surrounded by these products. Some things - unless you pick them up second hand - don’t seem to be produced anywhere BUT China. It’s as if when someone comes up with a new product, the first thing they do is go to China to find a manufacturer. (I actually know a designer who did this when he decided to make his own line of beautiful, practically weightless running shoes).

The only way the no china diet works is if one really commits to changing the way one consumes. And it’s hard. I went to the store to buy a new coffee/tea mug (the insulated kind), and although there were at least 30 varieties of mugs, I could not find ONE not made in China.

If I want to spend $30 on a coffee mug (heaven forbid I lose it), I could probably find one made in Switzerland or something. Or I could look for a grody, used one, which probably wouldn’t be too hard; I’d just have to get over seeing it as grody (it’s the plastic lid that grosses me out because it’s porous). Or, I could hold out hope that I’d eventually find the one I’d had for years and lost (A BurlyGirls.com mug), and just keep using it. Which is what happened. I have no idea where the cup was made, though.

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