At the airport, I almost always take a cab these days. I go to the taxi/ride share area and there are 100+ people trying to find their Uber/Lyft while there are normally taxis just sitting there waiting for riders. No line or anything. It ends up being faster to take the cab.

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Yeah, I now assume all those website claims are bogus. Prior to dealing with the dealer above, I went to another dealer whose website claimed they would give a free lifetime warranty with every used car they sold. They mentioned it many times on the website. I started negotiating with the salesman and asked about the…

We humans don’t make luck. We’re either born with it, or we’re not.

I found a dealer that had their own internal website with different prices than the public website. I went to look at a car and the price was $1K more than it was online. I said it was cheaper online, and the salesperson pulled it up on his computer and showed me the higher price on their website. I pulled out my…

I have a friend that just bought a new Dodge Ram this year. He said the AC was weak and even under the best of conditions could only produce air at 65F at the vente. (for reference, normal duct temperature on a 90F day should be 40-50F) He lives in Georgia and when he gets in the hot car at over 125F, it takes 10-15…

When all of the people making decisions live in and around DC, they tend not to think about such ‘small’ problems in other parts of the country. They probably saw a slide show where it would have cost them 1 MPG to run the AC and abandoned the idea.

While I don’t disagree, they do have their uses. My friend had an accident and it took out his head lights. We managed to use some walmar bar lights to get him back on the road for less than $30.

I’ve been trying to fill jobs in the hospital/research setting for people starting out as a lab technician or as a trainee. For these positions, the main qualification is having a degree in biology, chemistry or related fields. I am mainly looking in the southeast US, but most of the time we end up filling positions…

Now I see why you weren’t working on it. You were letting it age. Waiting for it to hit peak rust. 

It probably comes down to location. There are just not enough people qualified in the area. So we have to recruit from other states, which is hard.

Sorry for the confusion. I have pretty much worked for different universities for the past 15 years. I was referring to different types of jobs. One university I worked for offered people in the community a job and training, probably not great jobs, in an area where many people did not have work. No one showed up most…

It wouldn’t be a bad proposition, if it was 6 months of training. Even if they had the right education, we count on the first 3-6 months to be training anyway. But when they need 2-4 years of training, we’d be out of business before they got trained.

We offer competitive pay which is 20% or more higher than other places I’ve worked in the same field with full benefits and are consistently ranked one of the best places to work in the state. I will admit that HR ties our hands on pay. They decide they pay based on education, experience and other factors, and we…

It is more like poor education system when we are sending kids to college for an art degree when we have tons of job openings in other fields. It doesn’t matter how much we offer if the only people are applying to a job as a chemist are ones with an art degree, it will probably not work out.

You must not have tried to hire anyone recently. It is hard for us to get anyone to even apply for a full time job with benefits. We put out ads and get a couple of responses from people fresh out of school with no experience and a degree in the wrong area. It seems to be the trend. There are 1.6M open jobs in the…

Unfortunately, this is the type of guy that ends up winning much of the time IRL. There were better choices. Everyone but her could see it. This happens all of the time in real life, and it will keep happening until we stop rewarding bad behavior.

You mean the people the union pays to hold signs and protest, the union workers that shake down non-union workers, the people working directly for the union that helped the boss use the money as he pleases, the people working for the union that participate in racketeering scams (of which many have been found guilty),…

Well in Boston’s case it was hard to make it worse. Tearing it down made it go from oppressively miserable to just plain old miserable for the people that lived close to it. The rest of the city remains miserable.

The Chinese side of my family went through the cultural revolution, which is one of the closest to eat the rich moments in recent history. My grandfather was not rich, but was a taylor and had a business. They destroyed his business and took everything he had. I don’t think people realize how many people get beaten…