Cars We Drive!

[ridethecliche]

As someone living in a socialist haven, I can say the idea of workers unions and someone the right employees have are great, but it has become completely side tracked and the unions are way to powerful.

The city councils and government used to hire everyone on tenure like contracts basically making everyone from gartners to CEO's unfireable. I have a family member who is employed on a contract like that and he and all his colleagues basically worked like this for years 4:30 someone on rotation showed up stamped everyone in, went back home and slept to 7:00-7:30 and showed up to work at 8:00, 10:00 hour long breakfast break, 12:00 hour long lunch, 2-2:30 nap, 3:00 go home/ go work for your self. It stopped when the boss set up cameras after 10ish years and started threatening with firing them for fraud.

Minimum wage is a double edge sword as it will eventually lead to mass layoffs.

Yeah, obviously stuff has swung too far in the other direction. I think unions need some stuff changed. Doing away with them is not the right answer imho, because labor policy in the US is still very much in favor of the employer in many states. I think employees that are documented as having issues following directions/tasks should be fired. There should be a process in place for that obviously.

 

[Texasmade]

I'm glad all this union talk is taking over the car thread.

 

[ramuman]



I'm glad all this union talk is taking over the car thread.

Time to start posting jalopnik stories:

http://jalopnik.com/why-googles-new-job-postings-dont-mean-its-building-its-1758718894

 

[Find Finn]



I'm glad all this union talk is taking over the car thread.

It's that or talking about GF love of e-coli.

 

[ramuman]



My dream car in the whole world ever since I was born was Volkswagen Golf R

My friend and I were a few beers in two weekends ago and talked about what car we really wanted in HS (outside of the absolute fantasy of a Ferrari F50 or the like). We both agreed it was an A80 Supra.

 

[jet]

You seem like an odouls kind of guy.

 

[ramuman]



You seem like an odouls kind of guy.

**Click fo gangsta ish**

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZBHwArxMS...iedgv50MQ/s320/n547402873_1810526_5805770.jpg

I'm wondering, what gang are you exactly part of? It's, by definition, a group of people who do things that push boundaries.

Are you arranging protests on political issues, are you kind of the cool West Side Story guy, are you more Nas or NWA, are you something gangsta ish?

Maybe you're a gaudy douche who apparently eats fancy sushi and doesn't post anything specific about cars, other than automatics suck over and over. There are a subset of humans that do that, so my apologies if you are, because that's also a gang, I suppose.

 

[Find Finn]

You are aware you have moved to his hood and he knows what you drive right? So he will essentially be able to have everyone he knows troll the **** out of you irl.

 

[jet]

He's from cali now.

 

[ramuman]



He's from cali now.

Not used to the gangsta life though.

 

[Firefox]

I'm very much enjoying my stick shift Mazda 3 GT. Lots of pep and a fantastic turning radius. Wish it had more space in the back for the rear-facing car seat. It's also 100% paid-for, so that's pretty great.

I have the same but the sport (hatch) automatic. I would have gone with manual but my wife can't drive standard. It replaced my RX-8. Although the RX-8 was a lot of fun at speed and on curvy roads, the Mazda 3 is a great everyday city car. And is probably about twice as fuel-efficient as my RX was.

 

[CBrown85]



I have the same but the sport (hatch) automatic. I would have gone with manual but my wife can't drive standard. It replaced my RX-8. Although the RX-8 was a lot of fun at speed and on curvy roads, the Mazda 3 is a great everyday city car. And is probably about twice as fuel-efficient as my RX was.

I've got the hatch as well. It didn't really add that mix extra space and I swore I wouldn't get another hatch, but no matter how hard I try to get out, they just keep dragging me back int

My wife can't drive stick either, but she can drive her own damn car.

 

[Thrift Vader]

The UAW = best thing to ever happen to Japan's auto industry.

are you talking about the huge strike years ago, and the now fairly decent working conditions? very good companies to work for.

(have sought work through 2 manufacturers- denied because i can't pass the Kanji reading test)

My friend and I were a few beers in two weekends ago and talked about what car we really wanted in HS (outside of the absolute fantasy of a Ferrari F50 or the like). We both agreed it was an A80 Supra.

you had "Gran Tourismo", right? Mine was the Tommy Kaira M20. closely followed by the Mine's Skyline. -until i learned about GTR's being heavy............

 

[HRoi]

My fantasy car in HS was the MR2 Turbo. Bought that ****** right after graduating college.

Well, the Ferrari F355 was the other one. Still mulling over that one

 

[Piobaire]



are you talking about the huge strike years ago, and the now fairly decent working conditions?  very good companies to work for.

(have sought work through 2 manufacturers- denied because i can't pass the Kanji reading test)

I'm talking about the roadblocks the UAW kept in place for decades that allowed Japan to blow open the US (and Canadian) markets to foreign competition. The UAW was not the only player, as much of management sucked too, but the UAW was certainly a major player in blocking reforming efforts.

Think we've decided to extend Mrs. Piob's lease a few months and get into the late fall to see what all the 2017 models bring. She's serious about not getting something as big as the XC90 so we'll be seeing what 2017 brings to the XC60 (it doesn't have all the new toys of the 90 at this time) and maybe something worth looking at from Infiniti or Rover? Since she wants to go smaller an LR2 might be worth looking at. We looked at the Evoque prior, and outside of issues like crappy interior materials, it has the non-existent rear windshield like the X6 from BMW.