Yup. He got the “you’re not a team player” talk.

Yeah this happens at all kinds of companies. New employees come in with best practices and trying to do the right thing but are often shot down and had all fucks given drained from their soul by bad management. After a while they just succumb to company culture in order to preserve their job and not be viewed as a…

It happens all the time in the manufacturing world. The CPG manufacturer that I work for has 8 manufacturing sites in North America that all directly compete for work. When R&D creates a new product, they put it up for bid by each of the plants. Whomever can make the product at the targeted scale, for the best price…

You dumbass...just a few names to refresh that little brain of yours:

Agreed. And this is a German culture problem, not just a VW problem. They badly need to relax and take themselves less seriously. You lead the world at nothing but being jerks.

Singer 911

This is the most idiotic comment I’ve seen the entire time I’ve been commenting, and it’s been quite a while. Congratulations.

It’s not yet known exactly what specifically Vahland wanted to do differently than his bosses...

He then popped up and said “Must be something...i8!” as a large curtain dropped behind him, unveiling the latest concept of BMW’s groundbreaking hybrid-composite sports car of the future.

Are you referring to your local state representative and senator, who passed the dubious law? Or the police officer who risks his life every day to enforce it?

My father in law has had a string of yukons and blames Obama for high gas prices any times it's over $2.50 a gallon. It's his daily commuter.

You deserve every joke made about you.

People who drive giant SUVs and bitch about their poor gas mileage. What the hell did you expect?

Totally agree with Reason 1. You don’t know until you drive em, but god some of these prototypes are rough. They’re not cars, they are tools. Tools being used to design the car. And they are used very aggressively.

They yell, “Come quickly! And bring your wrenches. We only have precious minutes, if we are to beat Citroen from Algeria to Mozambique!!!”

“Il est temps de faire français!”