I'm not exaggerating when I say that I laughed at that for a solid hour. It happened at the reception and I was sitting in my chair trying to contain my laughter for that entire time.
People unironically believe that Texans are a bunch of uneducated hillbillies. Like here it is, DFW has a population of over 7 million people, a job market that is absolutely exploding, tech companies are moving here en masse (and I have a professional job at one of them), and the state has the 10th largest economy in the entire world. But people still hold the belief that we're living in the 19th century wild west. I thought we were having an intellectual conversation when it turned out they were just impressed I could tie my own shoes, lmao.
That may honestly be one of the funniest things anyone has ever said to me. I still laugh about it from time to time. My dad said he learned a long time ago to lean into it, so he'll say "howdy" to people from out of state and also tell them that DFW airport has the largest stable in the world because we all ride horses to the airport. He said they believe it almost every time.
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Hey lawlz, did you end up getting that Corvette?
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I put in an order for one but it won't arrive until May or June
Most dealerships are charging $20k-$40k over sticker price, it's fricking idiotic. I finally found one guy who would sell them at MSRP and would also submit an order for it to have the exact options I want. He works at a dealership in Ohio lol. I refused to go to a Texas dealership and be price gouged.
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That's because they can't get the parts to make them. The Corvette plant laid off 700 employees last month. The auto industry is in melt down.
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It really just shows how outdated these companies are. Tesla managed to pivot and only shut down operations for a couple of days. You can still get a new Model 3 in like 6-8 weeks.
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No it shows that the off-site companies who supply parts like transmissions and other parts can't hire new employees for the turn over rate. The supply chain problem in manufacturing is from not being able to put out the parts that are essential to manufacturing the finished product. It has nothing to do with an outdated company. It's all about people not going back to work after riding that unemployment untethered for over a year. So now it's causing widespread layoffs for the ones who did continue to work or went back after the initial layoffs.
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Why are they laying people off if they are short on labor?
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Because if your supplier can't supply the parts you need to manufacture the product then you can't make the product.
I don't think a lot of you realize the absolute crisis most u.s. industries are in right now. It's about to get really bad. Theres a reason r/antiwork blew up in membership and it's not just a meme movement.
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Most anti-workers are insufferable but I honestly hope some good comes out of this half-farce of a movement. Like, at the risk of sounding like a Ch*po, there's no reason the average white-collar or blue-collar worker should have to work 40 hours a weeks for the wages they do with the amount of automation of work we have today. Automation has made it so that more can be done with less effort.
So people are either accomplishing more through technology (mostly scripts or calculators for white collars, and robotics for blue collars) than the people doing the same job thirty years ago, but they aren't making that much more dough (accounting for inflation) and they also don't get to work less hours than the people doing their jobs decades ago despite being able to produce or accomplish just as much in a fraction of the time.
I'm glad that some people are starting to realize that this is bullshit, despite the fact that many of them are just lazy or have r-slurred ideas on how to fix it.
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That's fine and all but when it's just the majority of them refusing to work at even double the old pay the jobs offered (with sign on bonuses sometimes in the $1000s ) it's not a movement. It's taking a year off with all the money they saved from the fed supplement.
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Wouldnβt automation make their work worth even less?
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One of my relatives works in auto parts manufacturing and the management is on another layer of r-slurdom. They've been laid off twice in the past year from "essential roles" because the companies keep pumping out shitty parts that get turned away for QC issues by the manufacturers. So instead of listening to their QC, they just keep churning out shitty parts and fire their quality department to make up the loss in profit "because it's their fault this happened". (It's not their fault if they mark shit as faulty and they ship it out anyway to make management quotas.)
Anyway, the relative just quit their last job because the entire department got laid off and the remaining manager said he was going to "have some words" on performance issues. The relative told him to go frick himself and walked out the door.
edit: plz no dox
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Big peepee energy
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The C8? Darn dude, honestly congrats
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Thanks man, check out the new Hypersonic Gray color. It's fricking sick!
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Wow, that looks beautiful. I loved that almost brushed metal look.
What interior color?
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All black napa leather!
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