MelanieHasA Mustang

How very strange. I am familiar with several working class families and none of them are paid to sit around with almost full benefits when their services were no longer needed. In fact, a few of them were layed off recently and guess what they did? The went out immediatly and sought another job!

Oh my goodness, how ironic! A dear friend from Grosse Pointe sent the following link earlier and here you are discussing it! Get Off My Property! It appears that neither gentlemen in the story took advantage of any fitness facilities that Ford Motor Company may have provided. And people wonder how stereotypes come about.

Oh my dear little minion. How cute you are with your own self importance! Meanwhile, 18,000 applications poured into Toyota for approximatly 2000 non-union assembly line positions here in Indiana. I will say, however, that I must congratulate you and your fellow workers for the fine job you are doing. I recently purchased a Lincoln MKZ and it just seems put together so much better than my previous Ford, Mercury and Lincolns.

My thoughts exactly. Or perhaps a fear that he/she is concerned at being observed tilting one back during business hours and is thinking of ways to justify it if confronted. What an amusing little thread!

Oh dear. Another example of an ingrate. My dear, as you are obviously vertically challenged and were offered assistance to perform your duties, perhaps you should cease attempting to find a way to expect others to move the ramp created specifically for your needs and show your appreciation by removing it yourself. That or perhaps a pair of Ferragamos may be a better answer. Oh - I just realized you probably don't know what those are. They are expensive shoes that can be bought with higher heels. They are not available at Payless. Taa ta!

I think that theory is quite obvious based solely on some of the members on this board! It is also obvious that some on here never fully evolved.

Bravo Messr. Bored of Pisteon! My initial impressions of you were incorrect. You are indeed an intelligent individual for taking the brave steps you did. Those individuals such as Messr. Captain 327 and Dork 271 obviously do not possess the where-for-all to care for themselves and instead, rely on an outdated and dying institution to make their personal decisions for them. Well, I must run now. The hustle and bustle of the holidays are indeed in full swing! I must supervise my maid's wrapping of the final holiday gifts before I jet off to Buffy Huffingtons annual Holiday Souire. Rumor is that some of the more influential members of the Ford family may make an appearance. I will send them your best. Taa taa!

How special. A worker bee feeding his face and allowing the refuse to fall into a part when he/she is supposed to be concentrating on their job. Or perhaps this is a new promotion? A free leftover Happy Meal with the purchase of your next Ford Motor Company product.

Oh my! Those people act as though their light sabers are some form of a flashing device used for sexual gratification! That explains the sour temperament of many of it's worshipers.

Greetings! Mademoiselle/Messr paris, bravo for an insightful and telling post! Unfortunately, some of those people do indeed believe they are more important than they actually are. I do believe, however, that a larger incentive might be in order this time around so as to speed the process of eliminating un-needed worker bees. Perhaps a stipend of say $150,000 and a year of free health insurance would take care of the unfortunate situation. Well, time now to dash. I am jetting to New York this afternoon for a week of shopping, fine dining and meetings at the Ford Foundation and have yet to direct my maid to pack my belongings! Taa taa!

Such wonderful accolades at last. Obviously it was a stroke of genius for the Ford Motor Company to commence production of three of their most popular automobile lines in Mexico in order to achieve these kudos. I myself am very pleased with my new Lincoln MKZ.

Well, well, well. It appears Messr EnergisedBunnie's batteries have run out with the demise of his ill-conceived campaign. Once again, an employee who thinks he/she is indispensable is brought down to size. Taa taa!

Well, well, well. I see the IQ level on these forums have not gone up any over the past few months.

How utterly funny this little forum has become since I last visited!!!!!

Never mind this little titmouse, Messr. Scotty. Poor OAC Sparky in fact is bored with his drab existence and frustrated that he has never been able to satisfy a woman. To overcome his shortcomings, he attempts to be clever on internet chat boards with those of a higher quality than he. As you can see, his efforts are in vain.

Bravo sir! I finely written and well thought out observation.

My goodness! Such vitrole from some of my little workers! That isn't very nice talking to shareholders like that.

$90,000 a year to take piece A and attach it to part B? And people question why the American Car Companies are in such dire straights. NAFTA is our only hope of saving the industry.

Oh my dear little man, you and your cohorts have yet to "spank" me as you would like to believe. Unfortunatly in your tiny pea brains, when you make insults or use vulgarity you claim that as some sort of victory when in fact, you just continue to feed into the stereotype of the uneducated blue collar worker with plumbers behind. Sad really. I'm not bitter at all. I am thrilled with the way things turned out. Unfortunatly, your other assumptions about my education and what has happened after my divorce are quite ill informed. However, I have learned to expect that out of an individual who continually makes statements with only half of the facts. And I am sorry that you miss me when I am away but I do travel a great deal and contrary to what you may believe, I do not plan my life around these little boards. As apparently you do according to the number of posts you have made on here. But I will make an effort to stop by more often, if anything just to quell the misconception that you have "gotton the best of me." Taa taa!

Oh! I see you have met our small appendaged but big mouthed friend, Messer Dark.

Oh dear. Your ignorance is showing again. You really should shush a little more often so your stupidity isn't as apparent. I just stated that the former Speakers plane - that Speaker having been a Republican - is not good enough for Madame Pelosi.

A gym at an automobile assembly facility? My, my, my. Do they also have an on-staff masseur, barber and manicurist as well?

Greetings! I just heard a little tid bit that just seems so apropos for this little forum. It seems that our new esteemed Speaker of The House (you recall - the one who tried to protect her San Francisco business constituents by not including American Samoa in the minimum wage bill) now feels that the jet used by the former Speaker is just not adequate and has demanded that a jet befitting a queen be provided by the United States for her personal use. And people say that I am extravagant by flying first class all the time.

Indeed, a very valid point of which I agree with you. I am sure that there are many white collar individuals who would not last on an assembly line. Conversely, I am sure you would agree that many on the assembly line individuals would not last in the white collar positions in question here. That becomes painfully evident with some of the posts that are made on this little board. So it comes down to economics and in this situation, a bonus of some sort is indeed appropriate for the white collar workers in question that the company needs. As stated earlier, it is much easier to replace an assembly line worker than a good white collar worker. The fact that temporary employees will be taking many of the former union positions is evidence of this. White collar workers do not have any union protectionism, making them vulnerable to being dismissed in layoffs, bad job performance, excessive absenses from work or for that matter, breaking Ford rules while performing their duties. So any way that the company can boost their morale and let them know that they are indeed valuable during this time of reconstruction is applaudable. A bonus is highly appropriate.

True my dear. However, many of these individuals who will receive bonuses are not as easily replaceable as the line worker. Besides, you don't have it so bad. White Collar Workers, not unionized, can much more easily be terminated and at a much lower cost than those associated with the United Auto Workers. Not to mention the other outrageous perks that the UAW workers enjoy. So all in all, it balances out.