Shaving a few workers off unemployment

EFE, via Latin American Herald Tribune (Caracas):

MEXICO CITY – U.S. consumer products giant Procter & Gamble began construction of a $250 million plant for making Gillette razors and razor blades in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato.

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The company said that this complex, which will create 2,400 new jobs, will supply the Americas as well as some countries of Europe and Asia.

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He also said that the new Guanajuato complex will be able to win certification as a “green building.”

It will use water efficiently and will be fitted with rainwater collection techniques and devices for treating waste water, thus avoiding discharges into the sewer system.

It will also have a lighting system with mechanisms to use the greatest amount of solar energy possible.

P&G, which in 2008 had global revenues of $10.96 billion, has eight plants in Mexico.

I’d like to think I had a small (very, very small… as in cellular level small) in this good news.  When this plant was in the negotiating stage, I was hired to tutored P&G’s Mexican legal representative in English conversation skills.  Her biggest challenge was that she was a very proper Mexican lady, and needed to practice the technical terminology needed to discuss solar power and water recycling, which weren’t all that much of a challenge.  What was… and what I like to think helped save those 4200 jobs, was the hard work she put into overcoming her natural Mexican good manners, and learning to swear back at gringo lawyers who didn’t quite understand the importance of a green plant in Mexico.

So, do your part for the Mexican economy… shave more often… god-dammit!