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18914. thoughtful - 3/15/2006 4:30:36 PM Yes, yes wonks, but you're forgetting that the auto workers have been paid excessively for years with promised benefits packages that far exceeded those of most workers and work rules that have stifled productivity and streamlined management processes. (It took Saturn skunkworks to create GM's first auto that embodied quality and customer focus, and didn't corporate try to kill them off for years by absorbing them.) Now that culture is coming back to haunt them. The mgmt took those wage increases and trotted off to washington looking for protection like the voluntary restraint agreements and fighting the very regulations that could've saved them at this point...the CAFE stds. And I disagree, as from folks i've talked to on the inside, the arrogance of gm has never left them and it's been a key driver of their corp culture still. 18915. thoughtful - 3/15/2006 4:39:43 PM And as far as american workers competing with workers in other countries, check your data. The american workers at gm and ford are competing with american workers at honda, subaru, and toyota. 18916. thoughtful - 3/15/2006 4:41:49 PM As is often the case, the other night i was up very early and flipped on tv to find a show on bravo about weird web sites. One i remembered was this one...something oddly addictive about it:
the human clock 18917. Ms. No - 3/15/2006 9:24:47 PM This is the first I'd heard of this site but it sounds like a cool idea. My friend just sent me a link to her complaint page, if you feel like helping her out by clicking her page please use the first link, if you'd rather not but still want to look at the site, use the second link.
My Friend's Complaint
Or
The Squeaky Wheel 18918. thoughtful - 3/15/2006 9:33:09 PM very cool.
I know reading about products on the web has influenced my purchase decisions. 18919. Ms. No - 3/15/2006 9:58:03 PM I know that I'm generally happy to avoid companies and products that treat my friends and aquaintences badly.
I don't shop at Sears to this day because they denied my mother a Sears card back in the 70's because she was a single mother--- even though she had perfect credit and made plenty of money to qualify. They told her to come back in with her husband. 18920. Ms. No - 3/15/2006 10:02:50 PM I should point out that it's easy for me not to shop at Sears since they mostly seem to carry poorly made crap these days. A friend of mine is a Sears devotee --- it's the only place he'll buy his underwear because of sizing --- so I've had the chance to wander through and mostly the stores look shabby and the merchandise looks equally shabby. I'm always waiting for the zombie attack when I have to go shopping with him at Sears.
There's a K-Mart store like that in Hollywood that makes me look over my shoulder too, but that's mainly because the store is mostly underground and the ceilings are kind of low. Very unsettling. Full-on zombie invasion setting. 18921. anomie - 3/15/2006 10:15:42 PM I haven't used Sears since sometime in the 80s when they remodeled their stores in such a way that I never knew how to get from one section to another without walking in a circle around walls and partitions. It just wasn't worth walking through a maze to find something.
18922. judithathome - 3/16/2006 7:45:30 AM I hate stores like that...they do it so you have to be exposed to more of their crummy merchandise. 18923. Macnas - 3/16/2006 11:47:19 AM Alistair
Renault cars are still trouble on 4 wheels when it comes to reliability, the Megan and the Laguna heve zero resale value as a result. But don't take it personally. 18924. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 3/16/2006 5:22:14 PM For those of you who'll be in the NYC/Southern NE area this Spring . . .
An Invitation
18925. judithathome - 3/16/2006 9:08:32 PM Wiz, I sent a link to a friend of mine who lives in NYC... 18926. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 3/16/2006 10:28:16 PM Thanks Judith. Norwalk is a half hour train-ride away. 18927. judithathome - 3/17/2006 1:17:01 AM I just heard back from her and she lives 20 minutes away from the gallery. Or the town...not sure which. She's a leggy brunette. 18928. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 3/17/2006 2:20:37 AM Hah-I'll keep my eye out, but please tell her to introduce herself if she attends the opening or the talk/demo. 18929. arkymalarky - 3/17/2006 4:47:49 AM I hate stores like that...they do it so you have to be exposed to more of their crummy merchandise
It's the Wal-Mart Way. 18930. Jenerator - 3/17/2006 4:50:02 AM Sears has changed a lot. It's the creative force behind Home Extreme Makeover, and for that, I am willing to look past its lackluster clothing. 18931. judithathome - 3/17/2006 6:17:21 AM I don't see why being the creative force behind the show warrants them a pass, Jen. They still have some shoddy stuff.
Everyone comes down on WalMart for selling nothing but Chnese stuff but Sear's does it, too. Looks good on camera while those families are weeping over the new place to live but come back in 6 months and see how well it's held up.
18932. Magoseph - 3/17/2006 2:52:31 PM Maybe today is the day for Flexy to take off the splinth he still wears on his wrist--I suppose if the bad break is healed, we may go into rehab after today's doctor visit.
Have a nice day, everyone! 18933. alistairconnor - 3/17/2006 3:43:47 PM "splinth" is a nice neologism... would that be a splint made out of a piece of skirting-board?
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