Something stinks about this.
1. I think this is partially the nature of semiconductor-manufacturing (Be it TSMC, Samsung, or Intel). I think it is just tougher than being an engineer at a 50 year old soybean oil plant that needs minimal oversight to work at it's peak.
2. TSMC already has a fab in the US, so they should know all about US labor/environmental regulations.
3. It is also hard for me to imagine that TSMC staff would have such a poor opinion of American engineers since Americans make up a large percentage of their upper echelons/CR staff/vendor engineers.
4. It is also unimaginable that anyone would be smoking in the office areas when this is literally not allowed anywhere in the US.
5. Taiwan is struggling with many of their firms outsourcing to the PRC because Taiwanese workers "work less hard" and for more money than their mainlander or Korean counterparts, so it seems like weird claim to make in the first place.
If I'm wrong on this though, and this is the mindset that TSMC management has, then their Arizona fab is likely doomed to be one of the companies worst fabs due to such a poor culture. Here's hoping that this article is mostly hogwash, and that new fabs in the USA and to a lesser extent the EU/Israel prove to any doubters that American/European/Israeli engineers can still be best in class when it comes to making semiconductors.
I saw this particular article the other day but laughed at it. The author is lacking some basic ability to write a creditable report.
There are some serious problems he intentionally made into that article:
First:
Article title: TSMC’s U.S. Engineers Are “Babies” Say Taiwanese After The Former Leave For America
Who are the "Taiwanese" mentioned in the article's title?
What I can tell the "baby" calling was from two or three posters on the Taiwan's PPT website, something similar to the Reddit.com with tons of gossips. The author Ramish Zafar went ahead to label it as the common opinion of the Taiwanese or hinted the opinions are coming from TSMC employees.
In reality we can't tell for sure those PPT posters are real TSMC employees, real Taiwanese, a person with multiple accounts talking to himself/herself, a sabotage team sent in by North Korea's Kim, or a bunch of special agents dispatched by Darth Vader.
There are several Internet threads spreading in US with the belief that the Covid-19 vaccine came with small mind control chips sponsored by Bill Gates.
By the same token, Mr. Ramesh Zafar of wfcctech.com should write an article with a title: "Bill Gates is Controlling People's Mind Through Covid-19 vaccine Say American".
Second:
TSMC founder Morris Chang's photo is posted just below the article's title with a description named him as "Zhang Zhongmou". Nobody in Taiwan or US calls Mr. Chang that way. "Zhang Zhongmou" is a mainland China's spelling method.
I think Mr. Ramesh Zafar intentionally tried to tie this baby calling thing to TSMC or Dr. Chang based on an unverifiable Internet chat.
Why Mr. Ramesh Zafar wrote such poor quality article based on a shaky Internet chat? It's probably wasting our time to figure it out.