Yep I am in the woods camping and overlanding a lot and I have to say that I have had more close calls, violent threats, and near misses with MAGA men than I ever have had with bears.

Let’s suppose things get so bad for Boeing due to their own trashing of their quality standards and shipping defective product that demand dries up and Boeing goes bankrupt. The Boeing management jackasses will descend upon DC screaming and crying for a bailout—absolutely guaranteed—privatized profits combined with…

It’s usually optional, the unions for younger workers are often useless, and it’s usually the left wing parties that are often, but not always affiliated with large unions that got the workers protections not the unions themselves. There is both a left and a right in European politics unlike the US where you just have…

Australia’s redundancy laws are that:

Most people get NO severance when fired/laid off/whatever.

2 months severance for a salaried position is pretty standard. but for an hourly job? that’s actually very good, relatively speaking.  

Why a Union and not actual laws that provide protections to workers, works pretty well in the EU. 

I’ve survived a handful and was apart of another.  None of the packages were the same.  Some companies can be generous, others very much not.  If there are waves of layoffs, they can get progressively worse in package offerings, sometimes not.  You never know until it happens.

In my line of work, I’ve seen many many many severance agreements. And exactly 100% of them contain similar clauses along the lines of “If you accept this severance, you can’t turn around and sue us”. Tesla is shitty, but this is not a shitty Tesla move, it’s an “every employer in the country” type of move. 

“Brutal. That, folks, is why ya need a union.” Yep, but real brutality is not getting severance at all, which is how it is for plenty of US workers. This is high profile though, so none would be big news, but if they thought they could get away with it they would.

“Apparently, in order to get the payout, laid-off workers have to sign a contract that stops them from participating in any lawsuit or mass arbitration against the automaker”

Manufacturers followed government mandates into the abyss of financial folly. 

Put down the goddamn phone and drive your fucking car.

Oof.

Plenty of people, stop being a dick and look outside once in a while.

Did you read the article?  He used the sign after he was unable to get any buyers from his online ads.

Why wouldn’t you?  Takes like a minute to make (or $1 to buy and fill out) and would increase your chances of selling.  Last vehicle I sold, I used both online ads and a physical for sale sign.

Good luck finding a dealer with the foresight to spend the extra $$ to have a yellow Mustang in inventory.  After all- most cars are configured and ordered by dealers, not buyers - and their motivation is to move merch which translates into the blandest, dullest and overall least offensive colors available.

I’m really curious about Spiro’s assertion, “This isn’t something you’re allowed to ask by the Court ...” Makes me wonder if there was a discovery order limiting the scope of the deposition or what. In discovery depositions, you can generally inquire into all manner of things, usually including the witness’s state of…

Butter can do as lube in a pinch.  Not seeing the problem here.