“Apparently full benefits and the ability to make up to $250,000/year won’t cut it.”

You need to insert that the shop steward, after not coming to a verbal resolution, will file a grievance on behalf of the employee with the immediate management to force a resolution at that level.

Right on!

Worth a watch of John Oliver’s piece on how trucking companies screw over drivers from a couple months ago

Everytime I talk to any ford dealer I am disappointed. I asked if they had real life paint chips, -“no but here’s a computer picture of the color maybe.” I ask if a certain 3.5 ecoboost engine is dual injection, -“ we have no idea.”

It is time for dealerships to go away. Online shopping has been established long ago.

In the last 20 years I’ve purchased 5 new vehicles. Not once during that time did I step into a dealership (except for service).

Like my recent chrysler pacifica hybrid buying experience. Walked in and said I want this color and model... The sales person knew less about the car than I did.

Not exactly sure how Ford is going to get this past the army of lobbyists and the state laws they put in place to make sure consumers are forced to buy cars from dealers... Didn’t Tesla run into a ton of nonsense because they had no dealerships when they launched?

You can make the service center experience as nice as you want, it doesn’t matter. I don’t want to go to the service center in the first place. I want a car that doesn’t have to get taken in for lots of service.

If they can make this happen, Ford will very likely have earned my next purchase. I have not been back to a dealership since 2007, when a Toyota dealership turned my simple, prearranged internet sale into a 4 hour ordeal of people trying to talk me into everything under the sun. They even summoned the Boob Lady to try…

Car Salespeople are going the way of travel agents and proofreaders.

Farley used the word “brutal” in talking about the transition.  If I read between the lines, I think he’s saying many dealers won’t survive in morphing into service centers. 

I’m fine with this.

This is the way.

It is, though I didn’t take advantage of looking out from that perspective that often at the time. When we flew out, it was around 2am local time in LA, so there wasn’t much to see. Also, I was too engrossed with experiencing 1st class. :-) I did make up for it by getting to sit in the cockpit in the jump seat from…

Well it’s not as if you can see where the pilots are from there. And you don’t notice the angle for long.

Having recently rented a wedding venue, I can say that $1300 / hr is pretty well in line with a nicely appointed rustic barn or a decent urban event space. Catering and bar costs stack on top of that.

In Air Canada’s business class, where the cabin narrows, there was one middle section seat left in the taper before only the outer rows continue to the nose. This was called the “Captain Kirk” seat by the flight attendants. I sat in that seat from India to Canada a couple of times - best seat in the house!

No one wants that atmosphere and aesthetic for a wedding. The cabin is 19 feet wide by 185+/- feet long. And that’s not to mention the loss of usable width in the cabin due to hull curvature. You’d lose a couple feet width for standing areas. Still, the square footage isn’t bad, but the layout is terrible for this…