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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 04:50 PM Original message |
How a college graduation gift can cost you your job |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 04:51 PM Response to Original message |
1. Oh, that's lovely. |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 04:52 PM Response to Original message |
2. idiot, guess he dosent want any of her family's business any more |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 04:58 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. solidarity with the young lady driving a car made by a company that hates unions? |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 04:59 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Nobody's perfect... |
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cherokeeprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 05:43 PM Response to Reply #5 |
21. And how many gifts have YOU returned because you had a quarrel with the gift's manufacturer? |
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iamjoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 06:14 PM Response to Reply #5 |
33. What's An American Car Anymore? |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 04:57 PM Response to Original message |
3. how many chrysler factory workers own "foreign" cars instead of chryseler products? nt |
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Hassin Bin Sober (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 05:03 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. If they do, they don't drive them to work. |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 04:57 PM Response to Original message |
4. Well, they just guaranteed that I'LL never buy a fucking Dodge as long as I live. |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 04:58 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Oh yea how many Dodges have you owned before? |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 05:59 PM Response to Reply #7 |
25. None. And now it's gonna stay that way, lol. |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 06:06 PM Response to Reply #25 |
29. What do you do for a living again? |
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 10:04 PM Response to Reply #29 |
63. The guy expressed displeasure with a product, and he's off your list? |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 11:08 PM Response to Reply #63 |
68. I noticed you didn't mention your product either |
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 12:18 AM Response to Reply #68 |
69. I'm just a piddling office worker, dude |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 05:07 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. Well, that's sure gonna get their attention. |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 06:01 PM Response to Reply #12 |
26. Given that NOBODY wants their cars, you never know. Maybe they |
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michreject (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 08:04 PM Response to Reply #4 |
53. BFD |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 04:58 PM Response to Original message |
6. Doesn't the dealer owner realize it was a GIFT to her? |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 04:59 PM Response to Original message |
9. What shitty, shitty people some are. |
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Hassin Bin Sober (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 05:09 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. The funny part is, this dealer is "supposed to be" one of those ,,,,, |
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angstlessk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
11. being in Detroit..I sympathize with the dealer...who wants employees driving cars |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 05:41 PM Response to Reply #11 |
20. That's the spirit! |
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angstlessk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 06:08 PM Response to Reply #20 |
31. this is a dealer not the CEO of GM...get over YOURself! |
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iamjoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 05:57 PM Response to Reply #11 |
23. Isn't There Some Middle Ground Here |
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angstlessk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 06:06 PM Response to Reply #23 |
30. i concur...making her park it out of the lot would be a way...letting her know they are unhappy |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 06:17 PM Response to Reply #30 |
35. Now there's a good little serf. |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 06:28 PM Response to Reply #11 |
38. That's stupid. |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 06:33 PM Response to Reply #38 |
41. A college graduate isn't capable of buying a car on her own? |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 06:39 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. Oh, my mistake! |
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RedCappedBandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 07:01 PM Response to Reply #41 |
48. Hardly anyone my age has the money to buy a new car |
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 10:07 PM Response to Reply #41 |
64. Yeah, because we know college isn't expensive...... |
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RedCappedBandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 07:00 PM Response to Reply #11 |
46. I've worked in food service all my life |
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jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 07:32 PM Response to Reply #11 |
52. Your example is rather interesting... |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 05:11 PM Response to Original message |
14. I wouldn't buy a Chrysler product if you paid me. |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 05:16 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. You tried the "driver's side mirror fell off" scam and Ford didn't fall for it? |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 06:15 PM Response to Reply #14 |
34. We had a Dodge Caravan years ago |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 07:19 PM Response to Reply #34 |
51. We had a piece of crap Caravan too |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 05:11 PM Response to Original message |
15. and how's Dodge doing? oh yes flirting with oblivion |
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KillCapitalism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 05:15 PM Response to Original message |
16. Fucking neanderthal. |
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Wednesdays (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
18. K&R |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 05:39 PM Response to Original message |
19. If they gave me a Chrysler product for free, I'd just sell it and buy something that works. |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 05:49 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. 90,000 trouble-free miles on his '07 Yaris? |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 06:13 PM Response to Reply #22 |
32. Wow, quite the rebuttal. I guess reading is not your strong suit. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 06:38 PM Response to Reply #22 |
42. Oh, and one more thing. Japanese manufacturers, upon discovering defects, |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 06:41 PM Response to Reply #42 |
44. So in your view the anti-union companies are the honorable people? |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 07:00 PM Response to Reply #44 |
47. Has nothing to do with being anti-union, I'm vehemently, even violently, pro-union, |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 09:09 PM Response to Reply #44 |
59. So now you have nothing to say? n/t |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 09:52 PM Response to Reply #59 |
62. When someone spends so much time talking about being vehemently, even violently, pro-union as you do |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 10:49 PM Response to Reply #62 |
67. Ah, I see. Well good luck, I'm sure a rugged individualist like yourself will do just fine |
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Buzz Clik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 05:57 PM Response to Original message |
24. When the only way you can boost sales is by extorting the staff, you know your product sucks. |
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pinniped (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 06:01 PM Response to Original message |
27. How the F can this be a legal cause for termination? |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 06:19 PM Response to Reply #27 |
36. "Right to work" and "At will". It is all in the employer's favor. |
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Kievan Rus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 08:19 PM Response to Reply #36 |
55. This is why "at will employment" needs to be abolished |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 09:07 PM Response to Reply #55 |
58. Corporations, as they were originally |
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WillowTree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 12:25 AM Response to Reply #55 |
70. "At will" employment works both ways. |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 08:20 PM Response to Reply #27 |
56. illinois is an "at will" employment state. |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 06:02 PM Response to Original message |
28. She didn't buy it. |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 06:21 PM Response to Original message |
37. I bought a Ford Ranger, brand new, a few years back. |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 06:29 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. Why did you push it around for? |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 06:54 PM Response to Reply #39 |
45. There was no telephone in the Liberty Tunnel, genius. |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 07:15 PM Response to Reply #45 |
50. It was easier to hand push a couple of tons of steel around than just walk out and make the call? |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 08:56 PM Response to Reply #50 |
57. You sound like a weakling. |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 08:16 PM Response to Reply #37 |
54. That's not how my Ford dealer is at all. |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 09:10 PM Response to Reply #54 |
60. There is a great Chevy dealer where I live now. |
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BuyingThyme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 10:09 PM Response to Reply #37 |
65. One Toyota Tacoma is worth five or six Ford Rangers. |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 06:31 PM Response to Original message |
40. That's really poor treatment by her boss, but she'll be better off w/the Honda and pursusing... |
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mnhtnbb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 07:01 PM Response to Original message |
49. My son took a lot of grief because he drove an Altima while working as a sales person at a GM dealer |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 09:14 PM Response to Reply #49 |
61. I work at a VW dealer |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-07-09 10:14 PM Response to Original message |
66. What an asshole employer. |
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