Chrysler Employees Who Don't Driver Chryslers Cant Park Near Building

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Originally posted by: trmiv
If you started at the company and already had a newer car, I can see not driving a Chrysler. But if you already work there, and are buying a brand new car, it makes sense to buy what your company makes. No sense giving money to your competitors.

But when you work there and know 1st hand how crappy the cars are, would you really want to buy one?

Why would you want to work for a company you have no faith in in the first place?

ideal thought - but it's not that easy to find a job in a huge company... you think it's easy for that employee just to jump over to an equally-sized competitor ?

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Originally posted by: trmiv
If you started at the company and already had a newer car, I can see not driving a Chrysler. But if you already work there, and are buying a brand new car, it makes sense to buy what your company makes. No sense giving money to your competitors.

But when you work there and know 1st hand how crappy the cars are, would you really want to buy one?

Why would you want to work for a company you have no faith in in the first place?

ideal thought - but it's not that easy to find a job in a huge company... you think it's easy for that employee just to jump over to an equally-sized competitor ?

I never understood this excuse, as it's just an excuse for failure.

If you are unhappy in your job, you'll advance slowly, if at all. You'll be miserable for the rest of your life.

Happiness and success have one thing in common: Both require risk and ambition to achieve. Staying put simply because it's "safe" will result in nothing but failure and bitterness.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Originally posted by: trmiv
If you started at the company and already had a newer car, I can see not driving a Chrysler. But if you already work there, and are buying a brand new car, it makes sense to buy what your company makes. No sense giving money to your competitors.

But when you work there and know 1st hand how crappy the cars are, would you really want to buy one?

Why would you want to work for a company you have no faith in in the first place?

A Paycheck like the vast majority of people.

I can get a paycheck from any number of places... including myself.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Feldenak

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: geno

Originally posted by: slag

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: Brackis
1. Employees are likely too get a discount on chrysler vehicles so it would be smart for them to drive a chrysler anyways

2. Sounds smart

1. It's never smart to buy a Chrysler.

2. It's never smart to buy a Dodge.

:roll: I would bet my family has owned 4 dozen DC products and we have never had a dud, ever. I myself have owned 8 without any problems that i haven't caused.

We had a plymouth reliant (what a name, heh) and a Dodge Aries K car. Both were huge pieces of dung.

Those "huge pieces of dung" nearly singlehandedly pulled Chrysler out of their grave. Somebody somewhere liked them, and allowed Chrysler to actually dig themselves out of a deep trench in the 80's

Allow me to spell it out for you. Chrysler cars were utter crap in the 80s and barely slightly better in the early 90s. Chrysler only started producing cars that people actually wanted to buy in the '00s. Their quality is still suspect as far as I'm concerned and I know people who own Chrysler cars as late as '02 that are complete piles of crap.

You can buy one if you like but I for one am not so blind as to buy a POS just because I work for the company that makes the POS.

Only a complete fvcking moron would argue that we are not free to buy whatever car we happen to like and I would resent the hell out of any company that told me what I can and cannot spend my hard earned money on. Chrysler can go fvck themselves. :|

Chrysler isn't telling anyone what they can and cannot buy. They are telling people where they can park if they aren't driving a company product.

Not directly, but they sure are doing so indirectly as are their idiot employees.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: 32fear

Originally posted by: Bootprint
I'd drive an old pre-Chrysler Jeep and park it on the lot, just for spite.

You stole my quote. I'd drive a CJ5 and claim, 'well, you own em now...'

LOL. My coworker refers to his Cherokee as his "Benz."

Your coworker is a little short on brains isn't he? :laugh:

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Originally posted by: trmiv
If you started at the company and already had a newer car, I can see not driving a Chrysler. But if you already work there, and are buying a brand new car, it makes sense to buy what your company makes. No sense giving money to your competitors.

But when you work there and know 1st hand how crappy the cars are, would you really want to buy one?

Why would you want to work for a company you have no faith in in the first place?

A Paycheck like the vast majority of people.

I can get a paycheck from any number of places... including myself.

That's rocking good news Amused🙂

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Originally posted by: trmiv
If you started at the company and already had a newer car, I can see not driving a Chrysler. But if you already work there, and are buying a brand new car, it makes sense to buy what your company makes. No sense giving money to your competitors.

But when you work there and know 1st hand how crappy the cars are, would you really want to buy one?

Why would you want to work for a company you have no faith in in the first place?

ideal thought - but it's not that easy to find a job in a huge company... you think it's easy for that employee just to jump over to an equally-sized competitor ?

I never understood this excuse, as it's just an excuse for failure.

If you are unhappy in your job, you'll advance slowly, if at all. You'll be miserable for the rest of your life.

Happiness and success have one thing in common: Both require risk and ambition to achieve. Staying put simply because it's "safe" will result in nothing but failure and bitterness.

again, ideal thought, but not easily (or always) executed. You're jumping ship and you don't know if you can swim out there. Safe is safe. Being content with where you are with your career. It doesn't mean bitterness towards them just because you don't believe in the products your company sells. You can't deny that many people simply don't care or need to... especially because their career may not be so important to them.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Originally posted by: trmiv
If you started at the company and already had a newer car, I can see not driving a Chrysler. But if you already work there, and are buying a brand new car, it makes sense to buy what your company makes. No sense giving money to your competitors.

But when you work there and know 1st hand how crappy the cars are, would you really want to buy one?

Why would you want to work for a company you have no faith in in the first place?

What is "money" alex?

 

[JulesMaximus]

I'd buy a 1986 Plymouth Reliant for $300, one full of rust and that smokes a lot to drive to work in and park it right up front every morning.

 

[rh71]

BTW, I told my mom to buy an Eagle Talon back in '96 (yes a copy of the Eclipse but the Eclipse doesn't make that distinct transmission noise when you shift, does it...). I fully regret it, seeing how many times she's been stranded on the road by herself. Most recently, 2 weeks ago. :|

 

[Amused]

Well, I guess we can tell who's going to be miserable in 20 years sitting safely in the same cubicle kissing the ass of someone 10 years younger than they are and saying, "shoulda, woulda, coulda..."

This isn't "idealism." It's a fact. And it's what I did with my life.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Originally posted by: trmiv
If you started at the company and already had a newer car, I can see not driving a Chrysler. But if you already work there, and are buying a brand new car, it makes sense to buy what your company makes. No sense giving money to your competitors.

But when you work there and know 1st hand how crappy the cars are, would you really want to buy one?

Why would you want to work for a company you have no faith in in the first place?

ideal thought - but it's not that easy to find a job in a huge company... you think it's easy for that employee just to jump over to an equally-sized competitor ?

I never understood this excuse, as it's just an excuse for failure.

If you are unhappy in your job, you'll advance slowly, if at all. You'll be miserable for the rest of your life.

Happiness and success have one thing in common: Both require risk and ambition to achieve. Staying put simply because it's "safe" will result in nothing but failure and bitterness.

Oh c'mon, you're over simplifying a situation here. Here's a hypothetical example. Wife's going to college to get a law degree, I'm supporting her down at the factory while she goes to school. Kids are at a good school we like and we own a home there. All our family are in the area. Should I quit my job, uproot my family, derail my wife's education and move us 3000 miles so I can work at a Toyota factory? Or should I quit my job period? I might not be able to even find anything that pays that much, much less something that I enjoy more.

I agree ambition is important, but there's many different ways you can exercise ambition. And sometimes, eating sh|t for awhile so things are better later is what you have to do. Afterall, thats pretty much the definition of ambition.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Amused
Well, I guess we can tell who's going to be miserable in 20 years sitting safely in the same cubicle kissing the ass of someone 10 years younger than they are and saying, "shoulda, woulda, coulda..."

This isn't "idealism." It's a fact. And it's what I did with my life.

If you mean me, you're absolutely wrong. Within 5 years, I will have my own business... already have the idea and partner. I said "some people" for a reason. And I don't know why you keep insisting on "miserable" or "bitter" even so. Obviously even "still-motivated" people like me can understand others' positions about their careers. Not everyone has to give @ sh!t. It's not like it's their kid and must see it through to absolute success.

Anyway, if EVERYONE did things as they should, we wouldn't have anything to complain about. How's that for fact of life ? Things will happen like they shouldn't.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Originally posted by: trmiv
If you started at the company and already had a newer car, I can see not driving a Chrysler. But if you already work there, and are buying a brand new car, it makes sense to buy what your company makes. No sense giving money to your competitors.

But when you work there and know 1st hand how crappy the cars are, would you really want to buy one?

Why would you want to work for a company you have no faith in in the first place?

ideal thought - but it's not that easy to find a job in a huge company... you think it's easy for that employee just to jump over to an equally-sized competitor ?

I never understood this excuse, as it's just an excuse for failure.

If you are unhappy in your job, you'll advance slowly, if at all. You'll be miserable for the rest of your life.

Happiness and success have one thing in common: Both require risk and ambition to achieve. Staying put simply because it's "safe" will result in nothing but failure and bitterness.

Oh c'mon, you're over simplifying a situation here. Here's a hypothetical example. Wife's going to college to get a law degree, I'm supporting her down at the factory while she goes to school. Kids are at a good school we like and we own a home there. All our family are in the area. Should I quit my job, uproot my family, derail my wife's education and move us 3000 miles so I can work at a Toyota factory? Or should I quit my job period? I might not be able to even find anything that pays that much, much less something that I enjoy more.

I agree ambition is important, but there's many different ways you can exercise ambition. And sometimes, eating sh|t for awhile so things are better later is what you have to do. Afterall, thats pretty much the definition of ambition.

You misunderstood me. I have no problem with eating crap while working for something better.

We all do it in our first jobs at least.

My problem is with someone who makes a lifelong career out of a job that makes them miserable.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: geno

Originally posted by: slag

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: Brackis
1. Employees are likely too get a discount on chrysler vehicles so it would be smart for them to drive a chrysler anyways

2. Sounds smart

1. It's never smart to buy a Chrysler.

2. It's never smart to buy a Dodge.

:roll: I would bet my family has owned 4 dozen DC products and we have never had a dud, ever. I myself have owned 8 without any problems that i haven't caused.

We had a plymouth reliant (what a name, heh) and a Dodge Aries K car. Both were huge pieces of dung.

Those "huge pieces of dung" nearly singlehandedly pulled Chrysler out of their grave. Somebody somewhere liked them, and allowed Chrysler to actually dig themselves out of a deep trench in the 80's

Allow me to spell it out for you. Chrysler cars were utter crap in the 80s and barely slightly better in the early 90s. Chrysler only started producing cars that people actually wanted to buy in the '00s. Their quality is still suspect as far as I'm concerned and I know people who own Chrysler cars as late as '02 that are complete piles of crap.

You can buy one if you like but I for one am not so blind as to buy a POS just because I work for the company that makes the POS.

Only a complete fvcking moron would argue that we are not free to buy whatever car we happen to like and I would resent the hell out of any company that told me what I can and cannot spend my hard earned money on. Chrysler can go fvck themselves. :|

You are free to spend your money on whatever you want dickwad, you just can't park it by the building.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Amused
Well, I guess we can tell who's going to be miserable in 20 years sitting safely in the same cubicle kissing the ass of someone 10 years younger than they are and saying, "shoulda, woulda, coulda..."

This isn't "idealism." It's a fact. And it's what I did with my life.

Also, happiness is subjective. Some people are perfectly happy being administrative assistants, working on a farm, or driving a truck. Maybe they have a wonderful family, and the job gives them plenty of time with them. Maybe they actually enjoy simple work. Who knows? Just because they aren't living your dream, doesn't mean they aren't living theirs.

 

[rh71]

have any kids, Amused ? Curious.

That's one thing I'm wary of ... if I start my own business and be mr-career-man like you suggest everyone should, I won't have time for my kids because the hours are different. People have different priorities. Maybe being mr-yes-man at their current safe-job is ideal for them... even if they don't stand by their company's products. To that, BFD.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

try parking your car at the Goodyear plant with BFGoodrich's on it. Good thing you can get a discount at the company store for your new set. You'll need it.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Maybe they actually enjoy simple work.

Good gravy. If I could get paid $50k to have my old job as a machine operator in a print shop, I'd take it in a heartbeat. It was mindless and physical. Just sing along to the radio, get into a rhythm and the next thing you know it's time to go home. There's none of the absurd corporate nonsense of having to constantly out-do yourself. If you are outrunning the machine, you are working at optimum efficiency.

:beer: to simple work!

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
try parking your car at the Goodyear plant with BFGoodrich's on it. Good thing you can get a discount at the company store for your new set. You'll need it.

More dickhead employees.

BTW-I have Michelin tires on my wife's car because they are better than the stock Bridgestones. How do you like them apples? I support a French company!!!

I only buy Japanese cars also. 😛

Edit-I'll ignore your other stupid comment.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: Amused
Well, I guess we can tell who's going to be miserable in 20 years sitting safely in the same cubicle kissing the ass of someone 10 years younger than they are and saying, "shoulda, woulda, coulda..."

This isn't "idealism." It's a fact. And it's what I did with my life.

Also, happiness is subjective. Some people are perfectly happy being administrative assistants, working on a farm, or driving a truck. Maybe they have a wonderful family, and the job gives them plenty of time with them. Maybe they actually enjoy simple work. Who knows? Just because they aren't living your dream, doesn't mean they aren't living theirs.

My whole original point is their being miserable in their job. I guess that went over your head? 😛

 

[rh71]

there are plenty of career-driven people who are miserable at their job. You think a lot of people who own their own businesses like working all day, everyday ? It's about the money too... not always to better themselves.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
try parking your car at the Goodyear plant with BFGoodrich's on it. Good thing you can get a discount at the company store for your new set. You'll need it.

More dickhead employees.

BTW-I have Michelin tires on my wife's car because they are better than the stock Bridgestones. How do you like them apples? I support a French company!!!

I only buy Japanese cars also. 😛

Give me your PayPal info so I can send you over $.35 so you can call someone who actually cares.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: rh71
there are plenty of career-driven people who are miserable at their job. You think a lot of people who own their own businesses like working all day, everyday ? It's about the money too... not always to better themselves.

Again, the money is not the point. It's being miserable in your job that is the point.

If you love your minimum wage job, and don;t mind the poverty, more power to you. If, on the other hand, you find something you love to do that makes you lots of money, good for you too.

But staying in something you hate will make you, and everyone around you miserable.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: rh71
there are plenty of career-driven people who are miserable at their job. You think a lot of people who own their own businesses like working all day, everyday ? It's about the money too... not always to better themselves.

Again, the money is not the point. It's being miserable in your job that is the point.

If you love your minimum wage job, and don;t mind the poverty, more power to you. If, on the other hand, you find something you love to do that makes you lots of money, good for you too.

But staying in something you hate will make you, and everyone around you miserable.

OK, how did we get to someone living in poverty working in a job they absolutely hate from working for a Company where there were rules you didn't like?