Yeah I know the op was too lazy to do any research himself and instead came here and asked a very simple and basic question that would have taken him 5 mins in the manual to figure out. Still annoying seeing that title
This is, in my opinion, a perfectly rational response to a business environment where a worker will get fired the moment that helps the quarterly numbers. What's the point in investing hundreds of hours learning something for a short term job when that knowledge will be completely useless in the next short term job? It's far more rational to spend that time looking for the next gig. It would be nice if employers rewarded initiative and long term thinking with loyalty in return, but that's rare these days. For car dealers in particular it's a job that chews people up and spits them out--I went through 3 or 4 sales guys while Ford was building my ranger. ("X doesn't work here anymore, can I help you?") If it were the case that spending time learning the product would make the job last more than a couple of months then of course they should do that, but I don't see any sign that it would make a difference. Their reward structure is built around squeezing as much money as possible out of people as quickly as they can. There are no rewards for the customer thinking you know what you're talking about, and no thought of return sales. (The sales guy will probably not still be there when the customer buys their next car.) I get that some people bought their trucks at some little family place from the same guy they've used since nixon was in office, but that's really the exception these days.It seems to be actually a larger audience than just auto sales. If you pay attention closely, the attitude of "it's work" seems prevalent all over. Looks like pride in work has been killed off by the PC-ness need to punish any achievement...just say'n.
Outstanding movie, some classic scenes like how Baldwin rips into the sales team, depending upon what type of sales and what company one works for sales can be very cutthroat and you always have to watch your back, because there can be big $$ involved and for some that means ethics go out the window and so long as the sales numbers are there upper management is ok with unethical behaviour.
There's a little bit of Chuck Yeager in all of us....his auto brought back lots of memories.
A former colleague of mine went to Marshall and was awarded the Yeager scholarship. One of the perks of the scholarship was that the whole group of awardees got to meet and spend some time with the man himself. At one point, Yeager asked them what sort of mischief they get into, and one of the awardees, perhaps anxious to assure him that the scholarship was going to good use, insisted that all the students were straight-laced and spend their evenings and weekends studying hard and not partying or engaging in pranks or anything of that sort. Apparently Yeager was pretty pissed about that, since he wanted the awardees to be having the same sort of fun that he had in college.
Yeager....you the man!!!
Yeager never went to college. When he enlisted in the Army Air Corp (which was before the US was in WWII) he didn't have the education credentials for flight training. But once the US declared war on Japan they changed the pilot requirements.
And here I thought I was the only one that does that Matt. My wife said I'd probably research a screwdriver before I bought it.
So, do you have a spreadsheet for quick reference of all that data?
I must give my dearest props. She is so used to my researching products she just rolls with the flow. But, like yours she does keep me in check from time to time. I don't where I got this from. Must have been my long lost Great Great Uncle from Uganda who just left me a ton of money.
That's true...he was a mechanic. Anybody who's been in the service knows the requirements change. Being over run...you'll be a rifleman. No pilots...ask for volunteers. It's the mission that is important.
I recently read a book about WWI. At the beginning of the war England had strict height requirements for infantrymen, you had to be a certain height. That height kept dropping, over and over again during the war.
The casualty rate forced those requirements. After a few years...everybody was dead that met the initial standards. Some of those kids had only a few hours of flight time. The Russians did it, Germans, English and the Americans. The killing was atrocious, the weapons being developed were incredible at their job. Today...it's horrific.
Wow! What a coincidence. It turns out I also have a previously unbeknown to me late great uncle in Uganda. I can be filthy rich If only I will turn over all my personal and financial information.I must give my dearest props. She is so used to my researching products she just rolls with the flow. But, like yours she does keep me in check from time to time. I don't where I got this from. Must have been my long lost Great Great Uncle from Uganda who just left me a ton of money.
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This is a quote attributed to Chuck Yeager
