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Replying to: PMO (May 01, 2009 3:39 pm) -Rocky |
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Replying to: tlong (May 01, 2009 4:15 pm)  -Rocky
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Replying to: marsha7 (May 01, 2009 5:28 pm) I know that is what you want me to believe. I however would be willing to bet there is a lot more attorney's drinking and drugging than your average UAW worker.  gagrice:, well, does he pass the course???...considering he's repeated it over a hundred times, I think he deserves an "A"...and no, rocky, we do NOT believe in social promotion here, you have to earn your grade... Nope I'm still happy to take my "F" which stands for Fantastic Finally, some common sense out of the boy... Maybe in our fantasy world Bob!!!  To another poster (I can't keep up with 50 posts since my last one)...my Regal was traded in when I got my 2000 Intrepid...I kept the Intrepid until Nov 2004 (end of lease) when I gave it back and had to get another vehicle...since I had already traded my 2000 Sable (anyone notice the chain of UAW-made Big 3 cars...where is the union cheering squad for old Bob???)...for the 2004 Crown Vic (still have it, 4 more payments and it is MINE), we gave back the Intrepid for a 2004 Dodge Ram 1500 Hemi 4 door (the real Marsha is a farm girl at heart and wanted a pickup truck...in case you don't know, rocky, what Momma wants, Momma gets)...so, 4 payments to own the Crown Vic, 20 payments to own the truck... With all the hate you've shown us WHY does you and the real Marsha7 keep buying domestic cars??? If they are such pieces of crap and are unreliable you keep going back to the well for more don't ya???  Imidaz: Yeah, I knew that lawyer joke, about the billable hours making him 83...please be careful I have a weak ego, lawyer jokes offend my sensibilities...yeah, right... I know you are very sensitive so we will be more careful in the future!  Oh, the reason this marriage works is that the real Marsha has the same opinions about the UAW as I do...rocky, care to come over for dinner??? As long as I can bring Virgil Bernero!!!! rocky: is it just me, or do you seem to have a lot of contact with ex-girlfriends???...one works in a dealership, one is applying for the same job you are, Beth sells more cars than most dealers...have you ever tried asscoaiting with anyone besides ex-girlfriends???.. Tammy and I agreed if something ever happened between us that we would remain good friends. I consider her next to Beth my other best friend. Tammy and I's biggest problem was we were to much a like and both are very head strong. She is very Pro-UAW and comes from a family of autoworkers like me and loves cars thus one would think it would of been a perfect match and we are as best friends only. Beth OTOH as you know is the opposite of me in a lot of ways but one thing we both have is excellent communication skills. Also remember Beth is just my best friend and we've never hooked-up or anything. We have only dated each as best friends. Going to hang-out with her this evening in fact.  ......On a positive note though Tammy got a call for the security job at the Nuclear Power Plant and I'm very excited for her. I don't hang-out or date any other women. I'm very picky and maybe after my divorce is over next monday I'll expand my horizons a bit. I will say it again because I mean it...rocky's ideas about capitalism and the auto industry need to deal with reality, and I think he is nuts... ...but since I am somewhat of an upfront kind of guy who tactfully voices his opinion at any chance, I have deep respect for those who voice theirs and accept the consequences...I really believe that so much in American business and industry, in a macro sense, would be much better if bosses were more openminded to subordinate's ideas, and more subordinates felt the freedom to speak their minds...yes, sometimes really stupid stuff comes from the mouths of subordinates and the untrained...but an openminded boss should always be on the lookout because sometimes subordinates, in their innocence, will spew out some of the best ideas for improvement, simply because their untrained minds are not stuck in the "we must do it this way" mentality and their fresh look from an "outsider" is often the "out of the box" thinking that will improve the operation...that is how I ran my business in Detroit, and my employees always knew my door was open to new ideas, or a different way of doing things...I would question them further, either to draw out the flaws in their thinking process, or to develop their thinking to institute improvements... Well I have a lot of respect for what you just said pal. We don't agree on much but on some key area's we do. I am probably going to have to remove my former employer off my resume because I'm not convinced they are giving me a favorable review when employers are doing reference checks. My boss at the dealership might be holding a grudge against me. I have only spoke to just one former coworker since I left. My boss before that was good friends with my last boss and he won't return my phone calls or text messages and I left there dealership on good terms because it closed and he went so far to write me a letter of recommendation. So I have nary a clue what is being said about me.  I never understood why bosses were afraid to listen to subordinate's opinions, because some great ideas come from sources we never dreamed of...I have never feared my employee's minds, and I have no idea why some bosses are so unwilling to listen... Well I've witnessed Bob some bosses take the employees idea and make them their own. If you came up with a great idea you could get movie tickets or a gift card, etc, etc, thus that use to piss some of my coworkers off as it did me as I had that happen to me once before. It wasn't a good idea at the time but 6 months later it sure was when the boss implemented it and took all the credit for the idea.  OK, enough of that...now back to my favorite sport, rocky-bashing... LOL....I think it is your favorite past time!!! Good luck on that security job interview... No interview just nearly 4 hours of testing and filling out application paperwork. I would love to land the job but my ex g/f got called thus I hope she gets it. I made her go so she now owes me big time!!! -Rocky
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Replying to: rockylee (May 05, 2009 9:44 am) |
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of course I'm a long time Coast to Coast with Art Bell and George Noory listener. How else do I keep up with flying chupacabra's, the landing on the moon by NASA was all staged, the 1997 strange unexplainable lights over Phoenix, Area 51, etc.? Gald to see you're back, hopefully gainfully employed again soon, too!  A.I. shouldn't be worth what he was in that Den-Det trade. When that trade happened I was on the phone getting hooked up with new cell phones. The girl working for Verizon in Iowa I think it was was a huge Piston's fan. She put me on hold while she went to go tell a co-worker what had just happened. She couldn't believe Det. let Chauncey go for A.I.
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Replying to: marsha7 (May 04, 2009 10:30 am) Today they make some half-way decent cars. Challenger is good thus far, 300 is old but still decent. Ram is finally as good as GM & Fords trucks. That's about it!!! -Rocky
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