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 Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 8:40 am Post subject: Wouldn't it be cool if we could build airplanes this way? |
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Bob & guys,
Yes, it would be nice if we could do this, but Ford, and practically everyone else, knows we can't.
Here's a little anecdotal tale why I think we never will;
As a hard working sophomore in high school, around Sept/Oct 1969, I bought a BRAND NEW
1970 Ford Mach 1. It was canary yellow, and a real beauty. I picked it out at the dealer's
receiving yard, it had just been delivered by train to their 'holding' yard". (I made good money as a waiter)
After driving it a couple of months, I let a friend of mine drive it, and he proceeded to punch it,
spin out and smack a curb. Great!! I took it to an alignment shop to check for any damage.
After a thorough check, all was okay. However, what WAS noticeable, and rather telling was, at the top
of the wheel well, obviously written during the car's assembly, someone wrote in white crayon
"FORD STINKS"!!!
I didn't happen to agree with the employee. But his words were revealing.
After spending 95% of my working career as a contractor, about all I've known is self-employment,
and I have had a couple of hundred different employees working for me over a span of 35 years.
My impression and experience of having that many employees is EXACTLY that of the Ford Corp. I
have had employees deliberately; steal my equipment, steal my customers, destroy my equipment,
sleep on the job after I leave, claim hours of work they didn't do, and dozens of other methods of
sabotage.
It's a sad fact, but the American workforce has brought the mass-exodus of corporations on themselves.
It will never get any better, either. (My apologies for straying off the electronics forum....blame Bob)
Mike Welch
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| Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 11:05 am Post subject: Wouldn't it be cool if we could build airplanes this way? |
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All a result of an entitlement-oriented society.
Do not archive
Steve Thomas
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On Jan 10, 2011, at 8:33 AM, Mike Welch wrote:
| Quote: | Bob & guys,
Yes, it would be nice if we could do this, but Ford, and practically everyone else, knows we can't.
Here's a little anecdotal tale why I think we never will;
As a hard working sophomore in high school, around Sept/Oct 1969, I bought a BRAND NEW
1970 Ford Mach 1. It was canary yellow, and a real beauty. I picked it out at the dealer's
receiving yard, it had just been delivered by train to their 'holding' yard". (I made good money as a waiter)
After driving it a couple of months, I let a friend of mine drive it, and he proceeded to punch it,
spin out and smack a curb. Great!! I took it to an alignment shop to check for any damage.
After a thorough check, all was okay. However, what WAS noticeable, and rather telling was, at the top
of the wheel well, obviously written during the car's assembly, someone wrote in white crayon
"FORD STINKS"!!!
I didn't happen to agree with the employee. But his words were revealing.
After spending 95% of my working career as a contractor, about all I've known is self-employment,
and I have had a couple of hundred different employees working for me over a span of 35 years.
My impression and experience of having that many employees is EXACTLY that of the Ford Corp. I
have had employees deliberately; steal my equipment, steal my customers, destroy my equipment,
sleep on the job after I leave, claim hours of work they didn't do, and dozens of other methods of
sabotage.
It's a sad fact, but the American workforce has brought the mass-exodus of corporations on themselves.
It will never get any better, either. (My apologies for straying off the electronics forum....blame Bob)
Mike Welch
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