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-Rocky
My wife shops less and less at Walmart. She's been insulted by the cashiers so many times it's funny. Today she was buying a piece of clothing that was white and didn't want to put it on the moving belt for the register. The cashier licked his finger and wiped it on the conveyor belt to show my wife that he kept his conveyor belt CLEAN. He was reluctant to accept her handing the piece of clothing to him without putting it on the belt. Everytime she goes to _your_ store she comes home with a lowlife description of her experiences.
You need to upscale your employees at Walmart. Please pass that along to your CEO.
Maybe Wally World can employ some of the laid off UAW works some posters hate so much. They would definitely have a work ethic above the minimum wage at Wally.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Ooh, and get your kids a Wii and an Iphone, too!
**Edit...I didn't even see your McDonalds comment until after I made this post. But for eating there, I thank you. :shades:
(My secret vice is Burger King's Double Beef Whopper. I allow myself one of those per month.)
I relayed all the good things that happened to me at Meijers to the website email. I had found the employees helpful and actually acting like they worked there, unlike the local Walmart. I got an email response from the store manager. I am sure I made the day with a compliment for several different employees who did those little things and for once got a pat on the back instead of a complain for something they did wrong for an irritable customer.
I will buy at Meijers and pay more just so I don't have to take a bath when I get home. And Meijers employs many low ability/mildly handicapped workers in controlled situations giving them employment. I know they get compensation for employing them, but they really try to make them productive.
Just thought I'd continue the positive comments rather than the continual lambasting of the UAW.
Today the GM plan will be unveiled. It will be interesting to see what BO does for GM and Chrysler. His pork bill that his party gave him had so little real contemporaneous stimulation money in it, it shows how he's lost control as president to the little politicians. Will he force the UAW to eat crow? Will he tell GM to go pound steel? Will he play a populist game with the economy (the market's already down 290 points on the down, SP is 780 as they wait for the signing of the emergency stimulus that had to be done in a hurry but can wait 5 days for signature!!! grin)
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
-Rocky
P.S. I also ain't buying A-Roid's story he's telling us!!!
A Grim Future for the All-American Mall
Perhaps they will open up a sweat shop assembly line for ex UAW workers to assemble lead tainted chinese made toy's.....
-Rocky
-Rocky
I had heard this morning that Obama had already approved the extra GM money and the plan wouldn't be out until March. Could be anohter $4B down the toilet if they simply come back and nothing is accomplished between now and March.
UAW comments anyone?
The class warfare the globalists fail to account for will make it a wise option box to tick. That is, unless the martial law dreamed of by Paulson and his clique of garbage silences the opposition. I wonder if the UAW makes any armored cars. Maybe they should...definite growth potential there.
Nope. Not my cup of tea. I'd rather have a CTS.
The class warfare the globalists fail to account for will make it a wise option box to tick.
Class warfare! Haven't heard that phrase since my youthful flirtation with socialism. Now I'm getting nostalgic.
The union fears that if it takes too much stock, the trusts won't have enough to pay benefits for hundreds of thousands of retirees and spouses."
GM, UAW close to deal as deadline nears (Yahoo)
I mean it looks like a bunch of "close to an agreement", "Probables", or "Plans to downsize or close plants but not sure which ones or how many".
What this looks like to me is just BS to placate the government, as they are committing to NOTHING. It's a bunch of dreams and promises. This whole thing has sleaze pouring from it :mad:
In the 1960s and 1970s, many people said the same thing about General Motors. Now their ideological descendants are the ones pushing for the bailout of GM and Chrysler.
Corporations are business entities, nothing more or less. They exist to make money by providing a service or product that the people want. That is what GM did in the 1960s and 1970s, and what Wal-Mart does today. Wal-Mart has its good points, and its bad points, just as GM did during its heyday.
And I don't believe that Wal-Mart has anywhere near the market domination that GM did during its peak in the early 1960s, when it controlled over half of the new-car market. GM dictated everything from the price of new vehicles to their styling. GM even influenced the colors that were offered during that time. And that domination eventually led to the technological stagnation of the American auto industry, along with serious declines in build quality and reliability, which opened the door for the Japanese at the low end and the Germans at the high end.
If you do the math, then you'll see that 7.6% of 156 million is 11.85 million. That, plus 2.5 equals 14.35 million. That's pretty darn close to 15.6 million, and a FAR cry from your 10 million "Guess"!!!!
Now, I will give you the stimulus and infrastructure will help to keep it from 10%. But, if you can do this AND keep those 2.5 million other jobs, WHY NOT?????
Wrong Rocky, ask anybody from the littlest state, WE are the most corrupt!!!
Been there, done that (though not as the steward). There isn't enough joy in the world to keep a hundred operators happy, let alone a thousand!!!!
Tick tock ....
When I started there it was all 3CL cord boards 3 full lineups. Every call in and out of Alaska was manual in 1970-71. Then we installed an NT500. The UAW workers should have seen the writing on the wall when big companies started going South in the late 1960s. North Electric, Northern Telecom, ITT. All due to repressive labor agreements in the Midwest.
Hard to imagine little Rhode Island is so corrupt. Can't be as bad as Chicago.
teachers make 15% more per hour than UAW.
I think mechanics at the dealership charge $55 an hour.
The people left at GM are doing their job very well, and deserve at least 85% of a grade school teacher's pay.
I want to see the hammer fall elsewhere. Like my insurance company who just raised my home insurance 12.5%. In the face of falling home values they raised my required insurance amount. What about materials? The transport cost is way down.
Or on gov't workers who don't even have a job to do.
What's up with the post office needing to cut back one day of service and raise stamp prices when gas is down to when stamps were 37 cents?
All done through the Unions, Right?
I have a close friend from Greece that is in the Tourism Ministry. He said he would not do another show in Chicago because of the way the Union controlled the convention center. They damaged his Parthenon and would not accept responsibility. He could not move his chair without calling for the Union. The Unions are getting a bad name everywhere and many times it is deserved. The mob connection to the Hoffa Teamsters is the reason the Alaska Teamsters stayed independent for decades.
-Rocky
I took a starting teacher pay of $25000 and divided by 186 days and 8 hours per and got $16.80 per hour.
If I take $55000 and do the same I get $36 per hour.
Of course teachers are professionals just like doctors and lawyers and indian chiefs.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
2011 Saab 9-5...The brand that was suppose to die many deaths but somehow keep afloat. I personally would keep Saab, GMC, Cadillac, Buick, Cadillac, and ax Saturn and Pontiac!!!!
http://blogs.edmunds.com/straightline/2009/02/spy-photos-2011-saab-9-5-spotted-i- n-scandinavia.html
-Rocky
Not around here and they only get it for 10 months. In addition they have to have a degree and be working towards a masters or additional hours.
-Rocky
-Rocky
You do not seem to have a clue how the insurance industry works. EVERY occourance ANYWHERE (8/11, Katrina, earthquakes, floods) all end up being underwritten by a HUGE conglomerate of insurers. In other words, every time a hruacane hits Florida, the insurance rates in iowa will be impacted. If a ship full of sugar is hijacked... the insurance rates in North-Dakota will be impacted. That is just how the insurance industry works.
-Rocky
The plan that GM submitted today says that Chevy, Caddy, Buick and GMC will be left standing (in the US anyway).
The link to the 117 page report is on AutoObserver.
The document also says:
"In addition to the above, GM‘s management and the UAW have reached a tentative agreement regarding modification to the GM/UAW labor agreement. This tentative agreement is subject to ratification by the UAW membership. The terms of the tentative agreement are not being disclosed pending such ratification. "
-Rocky
" Hard to imagine little Rhode Island is so corrupt. Can't be as bad as Chicago. "
Those that hail from Illinois will argue the point, and recent news does cement their argument. But in the grand scheme corruption and congress go hand in hand. I offer up for corruption candidate the Bayou state. Quote from Billy Tauzin, Democratic Representative. Known as a conservative Democrat, he once stated that half of the State of Louisiana was under water and the other half was under indictment.
Laissez les bon temps rouler !
-Rocky
LOL, Rocky!
Jimmy Hoffa was a no good thug gangster. His son may have some redeeming qualities yet to be seen. Hoffa loaned out millions of the pension fund to the mafia. That was the reason those that started the Alaska Teamsters did not want to be considered part of that gang of thieves. If they ground Hoffa up alive it was too good for him. You have a real warped sense of what is right and what is wrong.
Isn't that where the Democrats warehouse a lot of votes? Seems they were more concerned about FEMA getting down to New Orleans than to Kentucky when people were dying in the dark and covered with ice. Where was that bunch of losers from CNN?
Can't blame it on the UAW. Or were they after those Toyota plant workers in KY?
-Rocky
-Rocky
PS
Mexico was safer before Clinton forced the drug trade up through Mexico... It is no wonder that Michigan is in such dire straits with the kind of thinking I am hearing from you. Not that CA is any better. It is the same lame mentality in both states that have caused all the problems. And Unions including my Teamsters and your UAW are a big part of the problem.