The company will file for bankruptcy, they will sell the IP to some foreign company who will take the brand and start to deliver the kind of products you’re all saying they should build, but then no one will buy them because they won’t be made here.

This. Also, make periodic backups because there’s no promise anyone is going to give you leisurely access to your data after you find out you’re getting canned, OR when you give notice.  

This dovetails nicely with your article yesterday about how you can go to college in many EU countries for free...

you can make it boot up, but not log in.

My god, this was really, really close to the marketing equivalent of nostradamus....

how big of a bowl? if they eat the whole thing, do I refill it? how many times do I refill it?

In the business of what? knowing what all 12k + dealerships are doing? I would absolutely believe that you know your dealership/group, but how can you say that you know what the entire industry is doing?

FWIW, i’m under the impression that the author of the article very rarely is the one who actually writes the title of the piece.  

I would agree with this sentiment, with one exception.  If the dealerships are using the money to pay “draw” salaries to salesmen, that will need to be paid back, I think that’s bordering on fraud (in the case where the loans are forgivable).  

There are soooooooo many people taking the opportunity to be a jerk in sooooo many situations right now.

it’s not an awesome idea to keep an aerosolized bottle of anything in a car that will get extremely hot inside. 

Remember back when we wistfully opined about how we thought airlines should change their evil ways post lockdown? 

I’m not crazy about cable, at all. But I feel like it’s a case of the “tallest midget” (pardon my uncouth language). If you take all the shows you want to have access to, and you buy the streaming service that each show is limited to, eventually you’ll Probably end up paying the same amount as before.  Not to…

Because that would be canabalizing YouTube’s ad revenue.

When I saw all the articles in March talking about how we thought air travel should be reshaped after Covid, all I did was roll my eyes and sigh. And reading the comments revealed a lot of earnest folks who really thought this was going to lead to some sort of sea change.

The biggest issue I take with these fucking yahoos is that it creates a problem for those people who actually have a legitimate reason not to comply. This is the same reason I loathe people who claim to have “severe Food allergies” who in reality, don’t.

Hellz no.

While I’m someone who doesn’t like to be tattled on, and definitely doesn’t like to be told what to do, I’m going to be the wet blanket here. I encourage you to not try to be cute with your compliance with the complaints as others are suggesting.

For all automakers operating in the U.S., there were more than 605,000 configurations built in 2019, excluding vehicle color, according to J.D. Power. Thus, each unique configuration accounted for an average of only 22 retail sales.

1stGear - MeThinks this has less to do with “us” and more to do with “them”. The entire car dealership “experience” is mainly predicated around leverage and control. In order to do that, they need to get you TO the dealership. Look at the shenanigans that Tom McParland has to deal with when trying to negotiate…