The Random Thought Thread

raggmann54

Strike lasts too long companies will just open up some shuttered facility in Mexico and ramp up…CEO will still have his mansion and the UAW can fight over who mows his lawn…Has anyone looked to see how many cars/trucks are sitting around waiting to be shipped??? Some models have 100+ days of inventory sitting on lots not shipped. Auto companies are not stupid…they built up a large inventory for this. They won’t have to shut down and pay workers to do nothing, they will just them strike and let the union deplete their funds on strike “pay”…

Par4QC

Bravopilot Apparently, yes.

azgreg

Par4QC
That can be done on a modest income if you handle your retirement investments right.

Bravopilot

azgreg Maybe, hard to agree on "modest income". Going through this now in trying to convince myself to retire.

johnnydoom

Other than a slow starting Georgia team, the SEC kind of looks like garbage so far this year.

garyt1957

johnnydoom Other than a slow starting Georgia team, the SEC kind of looks like garbage so far this year.

Glad to see Bama have a down year, or three. No offense to any Bama fans here.

Rickochet

Ask most UAW people walking the picket line details of what they are striking for and most don't have a clue just that the union told them to.

propman

Rickochet what else did you find out?

Bravopilot

Rickochet Works best this way for unions.

sdandrea1

Bravopilot Maybe, hard to agree on "modest income". Going through this now in trying to convince myself to retire.

Depends on lifestyle choices. You're smart enough to know what you can afford. 👍😉

johnnydoom

Bravopilot Going through this now in trying to convince myself to retire.

I'm not retiring until some employee approaches my boss and asks who the senile old man in the corner cube is that keeps mumbling that Reagan would bomb them into a new time zone. 🤪

Walterjn

johnnydoom hahahaha oh shit!!! That's too funny!!! Maybe start mumbling about Carter as well...

sdandrea1

johnnydoom I'm not retiring until some employee approaches my boss and asks who the senile old man in the corner cube is that keeps mumbling that Reagan would bomb them into a new time zone. 🤪

Tomorrow, eh? 😂🤣

propman

Must be a higher cost of living here.😆

Par4QC

propman I guess it is.

But this morning I'm feeling a bit ashamed that I even spoke out about/against all this striking deal.
I just watched an interview with a Ford employee from the factory that is out. She stated she could make the same money at a fast food restaurant, and they were all 'suffering'.....the strikers after just 3 days.

I guess having walked away from my $16/hr. job( no pension/no benefits) I just never realized how bad some people working in big factories lives are. And how lucky I was to make such enormous wages.

I'm also glad that Joey has jumped in to help the downtrodden, as it is his job.

GMAFB

propman

Greed starts at the top and it "trickles" down.😅

johnnydoom

Cooking is difficult with a curious and hungry cat in the house.

Rickochet

johnnydoom Cooking is difficult with a curious and hungry cat in the house.

I had a a bologna sandwich sitting open face on a plate on a coffee table. Unknown to me was our tomcat laying upside down on the lower shelf. A little paw pops up with one toenail and he snags the bologna slice and snatches it down to the lower shelf.

sdandrea1

Rickochet I had a a bologna sandwich sitting open face on a plate on a coffee table. Unknown to me was our tomcat laying upside down on the lower shelf. A little paw pops up with one toenail and he snags the bologna slice and snatches it down to the lower shelf.

Cats are amazing........clever, deadly, athletic, sweet, evil, funny....

Bravopilot

Who exactly approved the waiver for the limit of stupid people out in public?

Par4QC

Bravopilot It was declared 'endemic' many years ago.

Eguller

Bravopilot Who exactly approved the waiver for the limit of stupid people out in public?

it's almost to the point that it invalidates Darwin's work. 🙄

sdandrea1

Bravopilot

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