I completely understand. When I buy beaters, I do not care much about nicks, dings and fixes. When I buy a new car, if it takes any damage in a collision or demonstrates a failure point, it goes straight from the shop to autotrader. New cars are supposed to be perfect for a lot longer than a year and a half. Once…

There was a time long, long ago when manual cars had better MPGs than automatics.

Excellent write-up. Yes, a car breaking down at a crucial life moment, when you’re really depending on it, can sour a relationship. I’ve bought enough troublesome cars to know that.

This article reminds of of trying to find online recipes and reading someone’s life story before getting to the point.

If they’re not willingly paying the ‘market adjustment’, are they really as wealthy as they think they are?

Maybe he didn’t want to wait over a year for PTS or perhaps there were no PTS allocations at the time. PTS is a flip of a coin. One month, they’ll have 2 PTS allocations, then no PTS allocations for 6 months, but allocations for the regular colors are available. That’s just how the Porsche factory operates.

Uh, maybe not you. Certainly not I. But lots of other people do, many here in sunny South Fla., just to save the paint on their expensive cars from the unrelenting sunlight.

I do wonder if the wealthy take “market adjustment” more willingly than us plebs

For street driving the wing does nothing more than attract attention and hurt fuel economy. Removing it for the street and bolting it on for track days seems like a perfectly logical thing to do

$300k + $200k “market adjustment” probably. 

Look at it as paint protection for that (maybe) paint to sample order.

It’s been a thing since the firs gen RS, to the point that there are companies making trim panels to give it a finished look when the spoiler is taken off. It’s a nice look I think, it was the Touring before Porsche invented it. This one looks nice too.

The guy didn’t get a 911 ST allocation. Far be it for me to tell someone what to do with their $300k car. At that level, they can do whatever the fuck they want and us broke motherfuckers can sit here and judge. He can’t hear us over the glorious 9000 RPM induction noise.

It seems like this is exactly what the 911 S/T would be for. Maybe the owner had an allocation for a 3RS but not an S/T and wanted to meet in the middle

Yes, of course a German Elon would do this.

I use my sick hours when I want, sick or not. If you don’t want your employees to use sick days, then you shouldn’t let them have it at all. Then watch your staff move on to other companies that respect employees more than you.

The thing is, sick time is part of compensation. You want to see fewer “unsubstantiated” sick calls, then offer buy backs. “Use it or lose it” is the worst; I left 265 hours of sick leave on the table (over $20k in value) when I changed jobs years ago and I still feel like a chump. Meanwhile, I’ve worked other places…

You’re upset at an employee using all the sick time that he’s allowed? A whopping 14 days out of the ~250 working days in a year?  

If you only want them to take 5 or 8 days a year, then only give them that amount. It is absolutely your right to set the amount of sick/vacation days employees get, but see how many employees want to come work for you. If they are allowed 14 days off a year and don’t take all of them, then are you paying them…

If they have enough management to spare for home visits and shirk their actual job, sounds like they have too many in management.