Its actually Intertrode, but calling it Penetrode was one of the jokes in the movie.

I once worked at a software company where a salesman made a huge sale that would have netted him hundreds of thousands of dollars in commission. However, between the time that the customer agreed to buy and before the PO arrived, they changed the customer into a “corporate account”, under which no commission was paid.

I heard everything is peachy over at Initech since the restructuring.

So, sounds like instead of an Apple store experience, Tesla is pushing a Best Buy experience to employees?

Yeah, not sure of any company that uses the FLSA Sales exemption test for what amount to Inside Sales/Customer Support staff. Also, if they want to truly have a different model than the dealership one, put more comp in base vs. variable, and manage out poor sellers via agreed-to KPIs.

ok so, now I’m convinced his design successes at BMW and Aston were 4% Henrik genius art vision and 96% corporate “the fuck is this? do it again Henrik!”

The larger wheels and wider P-Zero tires rubbed when I’d turn into a medium speed bend.

“design genius Henrik Fisker”BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

“...a love letter to the idea of internal combustion...”

If I had $18k to spend that poorly, I’d honor the spirit of this jab and spend it all on maple candy and cheap border weed.

It goes beyond just marketing, it is more broadly cultural. The vehicle in the U.S. is the instrument used by people to satisfy personal needs such as attention and recognition. I am okay with folks pissing away their own resources, however I am not okay with these same folks getting handouts and sympathy for…

Priorities. I own well over $100K in cars. Last year I bought a “winter” home in FL (actually 3-season and I became a resident for the tax savings) and was approved for a $300K mortgage. I bought a perfectly lovely 2bd/2ba house for $90K. I have zero need for a $300K house, and all the attendant expenses that go with…

Sadly, I wised up on cars, I guess having kids and stuff does that, but they are such a piss poor investment - I now have a 10 year old corolla, been paid off since day 1, and I thought it may have been time to replace it (its not..I dont think so at least), and found a barely used Hyundai Elentra GT (the 5 door wagon…

I will boycott Jalopnik if this doesn’t get COTD.

A Fonz?

But a good way to get back on your feet is to miss two car payments.

some quick math: Google indicates Ford has 202,000 employees worldwide. Now I have no idea how much their executives make, but for easy numbers, let’s say it’s a billion total (but in all honesty, its probably far less than that). If you were to totally nix their salaries, that would only net the employees $500 each…

Well I think it started when Wall Street valued Tesla more than GM, Toyota, Honda and other companies with actual profits.    

An interesting thread in all of this is that investors are finally getting a bit fed up with automakers’ tradition of working in secret.

Except China.