Flex Day Field Trip

Flex Day Field Trip

October 12, 2008 Flex dayGarment Factory
Questions
1. Name one idea you have after this visit that connects to the idea of using resources!
2. Name one idea you have after this visit that relates to the word 'population'.
3. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the top score, how would you rate the quality of the work environment you saw here, and why?
4. What does the word 'export' have to do with today's visit?
5. What do you think the level of safety is here? What makes you think this?
6. How old do you think the workers here are, on average?
7. What is one question you still have about the garment industry here in Bangladesh?
8. What types of issues does this factory cause or help solve in terms of resources here in Bangladesh?
9. What might you say about economic issues based on today's visit?
Do you think the products being manufactured here help or hurt Bangladesh?

Answer one of the above questions and add two points of observation or reflection from the day abouts the two places we visited (Sterling Styles factory and Up2Date apparel office). Also you can compose a question that you may have from our flex day adventures. You should post these three items on your blog page.1) answer a question 2) make two observations or reflections (or write your own questions that you may have) Three things in total!

I will answer Question 3:
On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the top score, how would you rate the quality of the work environment you saw here, and why?

My answer: I would say 6 for the quality of the work environment. I would say this because they wore masks, they had 1 hour for lunch, they had a medical care room, and a day care for babies and kids. But they didn't wear shoes and this is bad in a place were there are needles and complicated machines that could fall or drip harmful liquid.

I have two questions for the observations for the day.
1).How much do they get payed , and if it is per hour if so what are there work hours?

2).Do the workers live near by and what kind of houses do they live in?

One thing I noticed was that they didn't smile once and I smiled at them to try to get them to smile but they just didn't smile.