I hate to bring this up but....

[Bikeman315]

I like some of her movies but never read anything by her.

For those who do not know you’re kidding.

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[Bikeman315]

Not only replacing us with illegal immigrants but with machines. Anyone one been in Walmart lately they have installed more self checkouts and reduced to five or six lanes where there is a casher and usually they only have two of those lanes manned. Walmart wants you to use the self checkouts and eventually that's all they'll have. No need to have ten people to run registers when you can have one or two watching cameras. I do not and will not use a self checkout.

Remember this?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brain_Center_at_Whipple's

 

[HoosierDaddy]

For those who do not know you’re kidding

For those who didn't know I was kidding (or read my sig): A Simple Desultory Philippic (the most difficult song title for charades).

 

[EcoVert]

Remember this?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brain_Center_at_Whipple's

I liked Robby the Robot better in Forbidden Planet

 

[HoosierDaddy]

I liked Robby the Robot better in Forbidden Planet

That's wasn't Robby in the Twilight Zone. But not surprised from a non-woke such as yourself who thinks they all look alike.

 

[Bikeman315]

That's wasn't Robby in the Twilight Zone. But not surprised from a non-woke such as yourself who thinks they all look alike.

Well, that’s not quite right.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Well, that’s not quite right.

Looks like IMDB is just as unwoke. Yes, there is a strong likeness. In fact only an extremely woke person can tell the difference.

 

[Jetnoise]

Everyone in the world benefits from the great products that are produced by American businesses and American people. Companies can't sell products unless they are able to make a product that is better than the products made by the competition. Successful companies employ a lot of people and produce products that benefit lots of people. Making money is something that companies need to do in order to hire people to develop and make more products. Economics 101.

I wish that was true

 

[EcoVert]

From Wikipedia

The original Rod Serling incarnation of The Twilight Zone - which was substantially filmed at MGM Studios - made extensive use of props and costumes originally created for Forbidden Planet, including Robby. The Season 5 episode "Uncle Simon" (1963) featured Robby, although his appearance was considerably different, combining the familiar body with an alternative head
The Twilight Zone

• Episode "One for the Angels" (1959; as a tinplate battery operated toy)
• Episode "The Little People" (1962); prototype head only
• Episode "Uncle Simon" (1963); fitted with simplified prototype head for this appearance
• Episode "The Brain Center at Whipple's" (1964)

 

[ugstang17]

I think the OP is correct. The top five where I work combine to make $50 million a year in base pay. They are severely underpaid and its the fault of the unions. This also effects their crony hire ins that they create jobs for. Those poor souls should be making 7 digit incomes as well. It's a shame they can only make half to 3/4 million in base pay. (sarcasm)

I fully agree that the problem is not with the nepotism and cronyism that overwhelms middle, upper and corporate America and creates a virtual inverse pyramid i many large corporations today, it is definitely the dwindling over paid middle income workforce that is destroying this country. (more sarcasm)

I should take a pay cut so that my CEO can own another vacation home. (even more sarcasm)

 

[obspsd]

GT500

 

[BlackandBlue]

Hows all that working out for GM employees? GM builds more cars in mexico now. Shutters American plants. And worst of all took a goverment bailout when the going got tuff. You wanna call the working man greedy for wanting a cost of living raise? When board members collect hundreds of millions in bonuses? Doesn't matter if the company is profitable or not? Look up the bonus the president of GM collected in 2009. When he went to Obama with his hat in his hand. Begging for a goverment hand out. Dont talk to me about these great American companies. If it wasn't for the bail out Ford would have been the last American car manufacturer standing.

What you are referring to is a government problem.

Like I said before unions are a symptom of a problem. Everyone wants to blame the CEO but the reality is the government gave him the power to do this.

Can anyone explain why I can’t make and sell a go cart with no air bags or safety devices besides seat belts and legal light, if I only produce 5,000 a year?

Because government regulation. But we sell motorcycles.

 

[Bikeman315]

GT500

Right, forgot what this post was about. I hope everyone who has ordered a GT500 gets it on time.

 

[ugstang17]

What you are referring to is a government problem.

Like I said before unions are a symptom of a problem. Everyone wants to blame the CEO but the reality is the government gave him the power to do this.

Can anyone explain why I can’t make and sell a go cart with no air bags or safety devices besides seat belts and legal light, if I only produce 5,000 a year?

Because government regulation. But we sell motorcycles.

Stockholders place too much trust in CEO's to make their stocks because they came from a certain stock or graduated from a specific college or are members of an elect elite group, fraternity, or order. CEO's today are college generated toads. They aren't the risk taking, back breaking, start ups of yesteryear. I give full dibs to a man or woman for starting up his/her own company and making a go of it. They break their necks to build it, sacrifice to see it through the rough times, and risk the money to make it happen. The good ones see to it their employees are taken care of because as they have grown and come to depend on additional help to make it happen, they (the smart ones) come to realize the importance of investing in their employees as well as maintaining the infrastructure as the company grows. To those true CEO's I salute them. And I hold no resentment as to how much they pay themselves as long as they are doing their people and the company they built right. When you establish a business and take on employees you take on a whole new responsibility. But that is not the CEO type we are dealing with today in corporate america.These are baby boomers nad tehir opff spring who went to college and studied business rather than living it and now they are entitled to a CEO position because of where they hailed from and from which fraternity they pledged. Their over entitled piss ants and leaches.

The governments fault? Of course some of this is BIG GOVERNMENTS fault. And we all know where that came from. At least those with their eyes open, heads up out of their smart phones and not wearing rose colored glasses.

You're darn straight I also lay blame at the feet of CEO's. Unlike the Captain of a ship (8 years enlisted Navy) the CEO doesn't take the responsibility and go down with it. They take a buy out and walk away. Case and point Hostess Bakery. Long story short, a union shop was told they would have to take a pay cut after the CEO gave himself and executives all bonuses and fat pay raises despite losses in profit. While the union would accept some cuts they refused to take it on the chin unless salary was to do so as well inluding corporate. His argument in reply? "Our raises even combined with our salaries are only a small portion compared to the hourly payroll". So when they went out on strike he locked them out, shut down US operations, and was then paid by the board a fat bonus to stay behind with a select handful of helpers to transition all operations to Mexico. We can thank NAFTA and four previous presidents for that partly as well as the CEO who jumped ship with a life preserver. That is a summation of the occurrence. Look it up for the details.

NAFTA was one of Reagan's screw ups. I loved the man but that was one miscue he made I shun him for. That said four consecutive presidents saw it through and kept it alive. We can only hope this one will not do the same as well.

What we don't need is government dictating salaries. And don't think that there aren't those seeking to do just that.

Sadly greed screws up everything. There is always good intent, but somewhere along the line someone gets greedy and wants more. It happens. And I define greed not as being successful and making more through honest work, but making more at the expense of others in this case. There are several types of greed but this is the one to which I refer.

 

[ugstang17]

Right, forgot what this post was about. I hope everyone who has ordered a GT500 gets it on time.

Guess GT500 owners will just have to wait possibly.

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