That reminds me of a couple of things from back when I worked at the auto plant. You can have such lovely accidents when dealing with certain things ...
We had a guy going to the cylinder area because he needed a new cylinder for the oxy-acetylene torch he was using. Not a problem - they're stored properly. But when your gloves are a bit greasy and the cylinder then falls over and knocks the head off ... It went through two concrete block walls and ended up out in the middle of the trailer parking lot.
We had a maintenance man repairing or replacing a high pressure hose on top of one of the stamping presses. Something went badly wrong, and the tank he was attaching the hose to decided to pop. Peeled the skin - and muscle - on his arm back like a banana. He was damned lucky not to get killed - as was, he was off work for almost a full year.
As for current job frustrations ... had a customer come in that was just sure that we could give him a bigger discount. All he'd ever purchased before were domestics - GM or Dodge - where they mark their vehicles up tremendously and then can give you huge rebates. Most foreign car makers don't play this game to that extent, and some of them - us included - don't play this game at all. So we only have about 7% mark-up from dealer invoice to MSRP.
Anyway, this guy was a complete jackass to me and my manager, even when we showed him the actual dealer invoice - he was convinced we could mark the car down another $3,000 or so - and he finally left in a huff. He e-mailed our corporate bosses and raised all kinds of stink about it. Fortunately, our general manager already knows our pricing and just said, well, tough noogies. We'll sell you the car at invoice, and if you don't like it, too bad.
What made this really frustrating and annoying was that then the guy contacted me AGAIN about buying a car. Apparently he'd done his research and found out that we were telling him the truth (what a shock - a car dealer that tells the truth!) and came back to buy a car. And then STILL tried to get us to give him free stuff for the privilege of selling him a car at a loss.
(11-21-2013, 12:53 PM)Jihadjoe Wrote: Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.
