In need of advice -car stuff-
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Sounds like you spent most of your time in a corporate environment and much less time actually building vehicles. But to be fair, all managers in this country are professional finger pointers who have no clue what its like to actually do the work. And don't worry, we'll keep doing our jobs despite being blamed for everyones problems.
Only thing i agree with you is that i am indeed a gangster. Gangster of fishkeeping of course.
Now hold up ulu, you have the wrong idea about unions. Their whole purpose is to make it so that the employer doesn’t have all of the power like a dictator. They stop unjust firings and make sure that people get a fair days wage for a fair days work while without the union most of the employers are happy to keep the profits to themselves and not pay their employees more even while the cost of living keeps increasing to the point said employees are living paycheck to paycheck which is why employees are no longer proud to work for such a company. They took away the pensions, good benefits, and stuck everybody at a low wage just to line their own pockets while everybody that makes them money suffers.
How can you read that and not say that unions are a great thing?
Necessary evil, for us, but We stuck ourselves with them.
There are choices besides dictation and mob rule.
It takes an enlightened society.
That doesn't exist yet. We don't promote it.
Our society promotes gangsterism.
i was a union teamster, I was a mechanic, I became an engineer, & a programmer. Ran a welding business. Trained rookies.
I worked with old guys who started in the 1920's. I know the historical decline.
There are choices besides dictation and mob rule.
It takes an enlightened society.
That doesn't exist yet. We don't promote it.
Our society promotes gangsterism.
i was a union teamster, I was a mechanic, I became an engineer, & a programmer. Ran a welding business. Trained rookies.
I worked with old guys who started in the 1920's. I know the historical decline.
when I was a teamster I was the smartest and hardest working guy in the company. I was promoted from rookie to assistant manager in one year.
The first thing that I ever heard from the union, except a note on my paycheck about how much they were collecting in dues, was when they sent some 260 lb gorilla down to lean on me, so I would know who ran things.
It’s not the smart people. It’s not the hard workers. It’s the gangsters.
That’s the world you love.
Hahaha now the truth is plain.
Unfortunately its not the smartest and hardest working people that get promoted to management in this country. Its the people that do what the company tells them to, people that will step on their brothers to climb.
You may have paid your dues for awhile but you were no teamster. Its absolutely about the hard workers. The 1% of people that actually make the country work and the 99% of bullshitters, fakers, takers, and big talkers that lean on us. You would know this in your soul if you actually put the work in.
That’s an insult I will not let pass.
I never did such a thing in my life.
Successful companies do provide for and promote the brightest and the best. I don’t know what kind of loser companies you may have worked for, but this was not the case for me.
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When I was a child 1960, the joke was the only union more dangerous than the Teamsters union was the Soviet union. I thought it was a joke until I actually came under control of the union. Of course it was much easier to leave the Teamsters union. 
They only hit me up for an extra $200 on the way out the door.
to put that in perspective, back then that was about 350 gallons of gasoline!
I didn’t pay it, & they said I could never be in the Teamsters union again, yet I never shed a single tear. They charge you to join, they charge you to work, and they charge you to leave. Forget what happened to Jimmy Hoffa: if that’s not gangsterism I don’t know what is.
I’m not saying there are no benefits to belonging to a big gang, but just understand what it is.
Now I cleaned ball bearings with gasoline when I was six years old, and I have worked on machinery all my life. I fixed Ramblers in an AMC dealership while I was in school. I built engines. I welded. I fixed conveyors.
In retirement I work on machines virtually every day; but the end of the story is that I didn’t retire as a truck driver or mechanic.
I became the guy that built computer networks, trained the new engineers how to run the system, and what the standards were.
In fact, the only reason I ever considered taking a union job is that after the Vietnam war ended, most of the government aircraft contracts ended. I was engineering for Grove/Manlift, and When Congress pulled the plug, they virtually closed our factory overnight.
I took a job with a heavy equipment rental company, where I got to operate a huge variety of equipment. Except for the union BS it was actually an interesting job.
They only hit me up for an extra $200 on the way out the door.to put that in perspective, back then that was about 350 gallons of gasoline!
I didn’t pay it, & they said I could never be in the Teamsters union again, yet I never shed a single tear. They charge you to join, they charge you to work, and they charge you to leave. Forget what happened to Jimmy Hoffa: if that’s not gangsterism I don’t know what is.
I’m not saying there are no benefits to belonging to a big gang, but just understand what it is.
Now I cleaned ball bearings with gasoline when I was six years old, and I have worked on machinery all my life. I fixed Ramblers in an AMC dealership while I was in school. I built engines. I welded. I fixed conveyors.
In retirement I work on machines virtually every day; but the end of the story is that I didn’t retire as a truck driver or mechanic.
I became the guy that built computer networks, trained the new engineers how to run the system, and what the standards were.
In fact, the only reason I ever considered taking a union job is that after the Vietnam war ended, most of the government aircraft contracts ended. I was engineering for Grove/Manlift, and When Congress pulled the plug, they virtually closed our factory overnight.
I took a job with a heavy equipment rental company, where I got to operate a huge variety of equipment. Except for the union BS it was actually an interesting job.
Update: Toyota finally came up with a macadamia leather option for one of the its Crown trims. Very limited - was told there are 80 something in the entire country with most of the cars going to the SW part of the country. From what I was told by different dealers, there was a Crown in San Luis Obispo CA and another Crown in port in Portland OR headed to a dealer in WA. (I think that is the total available on the west coast) The scarcity made me want one even more. An Oregon dealer snagged it from the WA dealer for me, and we brought it home two days ago.
And the old boat -- after the end of last summer, we had the old carpet pulled out and gator step installed. Making changes to the ballast system, so we should have the biggest wakes ever this summer.
