If you have watched The Fifth Element, you would know that cruising is as much a part of our future as personal hoverboards. 

“Louisiana State Police called the officers’ action ‘awful but lawful.’”

The Acura value proposition has always been this way. A very targeted offering with few or no options, all at a lower price than the competition.

The Key Lime plane got hit by the orange plane. Smoothie.

And understressed V6 is far preferable to a Turbo 4 in something this big. 

It’s almost like we are living in a Gilded Age and reaching pre-Great Depression wealth distribution....

You saved me a huge amount of typing - exactly what I was going to say. Hot hatches and cheap customizable stuff turned me into a car guy (Ford, particularly)....now almost all that is gone from them and I really don’t care about them as much anymore. That’s many years down the drain for me.

It seems that much like any business focused soley on the immediate profit, they’re forgetting how they used to build a customer base.

I’m actually eligible for the employee discount. I can tell you that it’s a pretty good deal. It’s supposed to be based off of dealer invoice, but comes out to an average of about $5000 off of the sticker price.

In case you haven’t noticed, and obviously you haven’t, prices have gone up for decades but wages have not kept up.

“High schools don’t seem to offer curricula that gets people ready for the trades like they used to.”

For unskilled labor yes. But this article is specifically relating to truck drivers with special hazardous endorsements. Let’s say the trucking company isn’t cheap - they offer to pay for all the training and $1 million bonus for each driver.

1-6 months to train the driver, pass exams etc..
Another 1-2 months for hazard…

This 100%. You can’t keep demanding loyalty and fealty while shitting on people every chance you get. My old job, our team was 37 people strong. They had to lay people off because the company as a whole wasn’t doing great, and had to choose 2 from our team. The executives didn’t talk to the team managers (of which I…

Just like ‘there’s a teacher shortage!’ Nope, there’s a shortage of master’s level educated people willing to work for $40K a year while not being given the proper supplies whilst getting shit on constantly.

Be willing to hire someone willing to learn and teach them, then. Don’t ask for someone that knows how to do it but only want to pay them $40K a year. I’ll do anything, but if I don’t know how to do it, I’m willing to learn. You need to be willing to teach.

Pay more, train more. The amount of corporations who complain about a shortage of this staff, or that staff, and you ask them about their training schemes and they just shrug. It costs money to learn stuff, not just the money to pay for tuition and training, but money to fund all the regular living costs you still…

Saw the perfect saying this morning:

Don’t worry -- you’re ever forgiven.

Oh snap! That’s what I get for trying to find something different than what Getty Images has. I was wondering why it looked a bit different and chalked it up me being tired. Oof.

Had an Olds Alero as a rental when they first came out and was very impressed with the performance, fuel economy, and looks. If you look at one from the side they sort of have the profile of a Mustang of the same time but with 4 doors.