last i heard, they were all hiring, but only at $15-18/hr, starting in overnight shifts, previous experience required(guess where they got previous experience, and why they’re no longer working there).

I think that’s a big part of it. No one seems to be watching. Like there are regs and safety standards for this shit. And “not adequately welded together” certainly doesn’t meet them. If GM started doing shit like that some one would go to prison.

The freaky bit is that a lot of the commercial box trucks, big rig…

instead we have total corruption of the media into a sellout “exposure for dollars” money making machine. They just want more money every quarter, so they sell their ‘journalism’ to the highest bidder

Bahahahah. 

So, were you born stupid or did you have to practice at it?

A friend who had a house built in a boomtown development referred to it as “a drywall tent,” and later was involved in a neighborhood-wide lawsuit because the builder turned out to have chucked the construction scraps, including rather a lot of drywall, into holes in backyards and covered them with dirt rather than…

Ffs, I knew some moron would see “capitalism” and think I was Karl Marx reincarnated.

I work in repairing facades in NYC - new buildings are utter garbage. Dealing with a luxury apartment building built in 2012 in which nearly every apartment leaks. More of the brick needs replacing than may be kept, and the apartments feel flimsy AF inside.

And like the article points out, this ain’t new.

Best two days of RV/Boat ownership: the day you buy it, and the day you sell it.

Thank you for saying this. My mom lives in a 55+ neighborhood and she tells me there’s a huge difference in quality between her builder, and the big development company that split construction in the development. Of course, the big development company then built a huge swath of family houses nearby, which means those…

I think it’s a bit more specific than just typical cut costs to juke margins BS. And like the article points out, this ain’t new.

My parents just went through something with their 10 year old RV that finally has them replacing it. The frame suspension failed catastrophically. The camper basically collapsed on the…

You’d think that manufacturers selling a product that costs as much as some houses would be a little more focused on quality,

I bet it’s tangential, but not a primary cause. The main cause is what makes most things go to shit in a capitalistic society - C-suite idiots chasing this quarter’s profits above every other concern. Cheaper materials used, cheaper labor sought, less attention paid not only to QC, but to the assembly process itself.…

I was trying to think of a subtle way to say this - but I wonder if this is a reflection of the meth /opioid addiction epidemic that has strongly affected Indiana and surrounding states? I was in southern Indiana for work just before the pandemic and the client was telling me that they have over 50% turnover in their…

So what’s the worst, buying a Boat, RV or Motorcycle? I always go with RV because I deal with their owners at work. They let them sit for years then decide to go camping then blow a tire because tires dry rotted after years of sitting and the owner was too ignorant to do PM or a precheck on the vehicle. Many of the…

Came here to say exactly this. Expect that something will need attention each and every trip. If you travel with this expectation, those times where nothing goes wrong will be just that much better.

Disagree - my parents bought a Winnebago Travato (based on a RAM Promaster) and it’s great!

Surprised Subway wasn’t higher on this.

First off, she’s great.