I'm a QC manager at a manufacturing plant and I can tell you that the reason you get bad shit is because of lazy QC implementation or buying some of the cheaper parts from China. We've implemented a plan to check every item that leaves the assembly line in several key critical areas and rarely do we ship anything that is straight up fucked.
I hear you. Right now I'm involved in an interesting project and I've run into countless issues because many of my providers source the cheapest crap from China.
Granted, China also makes high end electronics, but suppliers in this particular line of business just tend to rebrand some noname garbage as their own and call it a day. It's mental. I'm talking about very simple, relatively cheap but essential components that cannot be trusted unless you know the real source. And don't get me started with things like custom, small scale injection molding or circuit printing. Utter fucking madness.
I ended up buying 90% of the pieces from local manufacturers at a 20% premium or so. I'm happy to support local business -specially since they happen to sell better quality products and I can phone them right away if something turns out wrong-, but there are so many suppliers peddling absolute garbage imported in bulk from Alibaba.
I'm super pissed. I've been officially working at this new job last month (before that I worked 6 weeks for free for them since internship) and was waiting for my money to arrive. so far nothing. I asked them about it and they pretty much said it was due today. but instead of the money I receive an envelope I need to send back with my personal details in order for them to make the payment. you normally do this shit before the first payment is due not after or right at payday?! at least that's what I'm used to. plus I was under the impression they already had all the details they needed. I was asked to send in my taxnumber way before. I just want my money now. if I have to wait another month now I'm gonna snap.
Ow. My symphaties. I've run into that situation many times working with American companies since American accounting/taxing is some veritable lolstuff, but I thought that German employers wouldn't fuck it up that bad. Raise hell. Demand a full payment ASAP or
there will be a next time.