My two most frustrating email situations are both caused by not understanding the role of asynchronous business communications:

“You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Loose Wheel”

“Here - take the wheel!”

So that’s actually at the heart of the matter. GM made the near-disastrous decision to overweight trucks and SUVs for the North American market.

The U.S. may be the second largest market, but that doesn’t mean the rest of the world follows U.S. trends. If it did, then China (#1 market) and Western Europe (#3) would have followed the road of over-sized trucks and SUVs.

This is an interesting point - everyone always (I know) says they’d gladly pay extra, but when consumers vote with their wallets, they support low-cost carriers and then complain about the cramped seats, lack of amenities, and the fees.

they’ll find a way to maintain those profits

Let each passenger pay for what they use and nothing more

...with the U.S. CEO wanting more SUVs and vehicles he felt were suited for the American market...

Yeah, we have a different cultural mindset here in the U.S., but there’s still plenty of “I’m smarter than you therefore I rule you” to go around.

So, management decided to lay off the Horn

It’s been shown that a 6 character pass code helps terrorists

That facial recognition database isn’t going to just build itself...

demanding expensive solutions to problems that happened once in forever

In a related story, the FBI has requested that Facebook add this as a feature

Should be required reading for all Kinja commenters

There - fixed it for ya

It’s the same in the U.S., ATM fee plus the fee from your bank

They’re asking for an iOS update that would defeat the passcode security.

Win10 lets me know when it’s running an update because my wireless starts dropping out randomly