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However, I believe there is a cultural dysfunction concerning what is "good enough". I believe that In Mexico, the boss does all the thinking, workers are generally hired from the neck down. So, if the boss directs someone to do some clean up and hands them the keys to his truck, they will pick up exactly what they understand him to have said, throw in the concrete chunks and left over pieces of sod and proceed to the nearest place with vehicle access to off load it all. He didn't tell them to take it to the dump, nor did he give them money to pay for the dump fees. I believe that in the culture, there is much more practice of "who you know" rather than "what you know", leading to many incompetent relatives and cronies placed in positions of responsibility - centuries of this have dumbed down a whole nationality of people who are not any less intelligent than anyone else. And, you don't question the boss. A couple of years ago a contractor who hires illegals told me that there is not a Mexican on earth who will tell you he doesn't know how to do something. So, he gets around the problem by saying "this is how I want you to do it", and demonstrating. I've talked to a few more contractors and tract supervisors, it's generally the same story. So, whoever hired those people I observed blowing leaves and trash back and forth in Canoga Park probably hired people off the corner who claimed to be professional landscapers, and he probably gave them some addresses and told them to mow the lawns and get the leaves out of the yards. He probably didn't tell them how to accomplish the desired result. Nor did he watch them to make sure they actually did it.
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