I have very limited experience with dealerships but mine was more annoying than horror. Went to the Ford dealership bc I wanted to test drive a manual Focus.

I wanted to buy myself a brand new muscle car when I got out of the military. I had saved up a bunch of money and could've paid cash for what I wanted. So I started looking around. Mustangs, just didn't have very good pull and the interior looked like crap. The Charger was a 4 door and not available in manual…

I had an appointment at my local dealership a few years ago, to look at the then-new sedan model. I was pretty optimistic. I caught the sales manager snorting cocaine in the coffee room and during the test drive some hoods firebombed our car, causing us to flip. The salesman tried to fend them off with a shotgun,…

Sounds like a case for a lawsuit, I'm generally against lawsuits but that is complete horseshit.

I don't have any really horrible experiences since I just walk if things are getting really bad. Lots of awful stuff but it's all been able to be dealt with by going to another dealer or just brute forcing through...so I'll just post this fun story of salesman incompetence again since people seem to enjoy it:

Back when Cash for Clunkers was going on, I was going to trade in my Ford F150 on a new Elantra (for $4500 in credit from CFC). I arranged all of the pricing over the internet, and only had to drive about 3 hours away to finish the deal. Got through most of the work at the dealership, and the salesman tells me there…

One experience I had has been well told in these parts.

Went to a BMW dealership walked, walked around and no one asked if I could be helped. I was looking for a 330i.

Due to a number of reasons, I decided that it was time to move on to another car. My DD, a 2011 WRX was getting to be a bit too small for the family, plus my wife refuses to learn to drive stick. Also, I just didn't like driving the car all that much. I decided to go the 'New' route because 2014's were getting good…

My Wife bought a new Nissan Sentra from Dubuque Auto Plaza and almost lemon lawed it because it had so many problems. The main issue was hard starting. Dealership couldn't fix it so Nissan flee in a special tech who figured it out in minutes. Needless to say the desler got a little heat from Nissan. Anyway, my Wife…

When I was 18, I went to a Ford dealership in Ottawa, Canada. I had saved up money for a while, and my parents offered to match the dollar. I was ready to buy my first car.

The “M” is for “mathematics,” idiot.

He doesn’t seem to know that the M is for Math. The chicks have obviously addled his brains with all their thinky-talky female folderol.

My wife, who started writing code back in the 80s, is blonde and let’s say, well proportioned. She likes to dress nicely and back then, she wore a skirt or dress every single day. She’d show up for work and initially she’d get some of those kind of comments from her peers. I know because she’d come home and talk about…

I actually conduct clinics at colleges about how to deal with exactly this kind of issue. Let me know if I can be of assistance if you want to pick it back up! I’ll tell you this though, it never gets better, no matter how good you are. You just get better at dealing with it. Having a network of women helps, having…

“We need to be more polite” “Women are fickle, moody, and easily slighted, can’t take a joke, and are basically ruining everything because they’re tired of being treated poorly in STEM fields.”

To everyone insisting that the first three questions quoted here are either “always rude” or “sometimes fine” and otherwise not about gender: you are willfully ignoring the context of the article. The author clearly included them because they were OBVIOUSLY motivated by gender bias when she heard them, not because she…

EVERY time I see an article where women are trying to share their experiences and issues that they face, a SWARM of derailing people - mostly men - flood the comments with the same crap. But I’ve said that to men too! But it’s been said to me! But I am going to focus on a pedantic semantic issue rather than the topic!…

Another good test as to whether something needs to be said: Is it kind, is it relevant, is it necessary? Good advice for speaking to both men and women, but I’ve noticed that statements that fail that test tend to happen all the time when it comes to women in IT. I lose count of the number of dudes at conferences who…

I’m a statistician and I used to get these kinds of comments from coworkers (mostly the older guys, the guys my age were okay), but now I work for myself and don’t need to deal with coworkers anymore. But I have had comments from some of the dads I run into at my kids’ school/sports events. I met my husband in grad…