Valid point. "Too many unskilled Indians and not enough qualified chiefs"...were my exact words when tasked with supporting productivity improvements in a Thai/U.S joint venture years ago.
Right now we have about 10 Thai workers painting our condominium building. On average there's only one person that's actually working at any given time, as the others are busy fidgeting around with trivial things, sitting around talking, eating food, etc., and for the most part, just wasting time. Yesterday I asked who was in charge, and a young girl pointed over to an older guy who was sitting on the tailgate of a pickup truck pushing buttons on his smart phone.
Not only is this company being totally unproductive, I found that they were also using the wrong paint primer...not applying full coverage to several walls...and the bamboo scaffolding they constructed looked like it wouldn't support a 5 lb. monkey let alone humans presenting a major safety concern.
This is Thailand!
Getting skilled (and responsible) managers and supervisors is a major gap over here - no doubt.
It's the Thai Labor Ministry that's supposed to be figuring these things out and coming up with solutions...and because they're not, it only leads me to believe that they're just as unskilled (and irresponsible) as the labor-force. I hate to make it sound so negative, but that's just the way it is.
There's plenty of unemployed Burmese boys who would love a construction job building roads in Thailand, but finding a Thai company that even knows how to build a road the right way is next to impossible.
