it would be comedic to sit back and watch it all implode, if it weren’t for the fact that there are dire crises elsewhere in the world that are flaring and will continue to flare regardless of what looney tunes are going on in America.

Say what you will about 2016-2020. But at least we didn’t have “Russia takes off the mask, shows itself to be a regime of genocidal fascists, and starts full scale war” or “Israel Palestine Thunderdome round 6” like last time. to name a few

Its a dangerous time for one of the adults to have left the room . when it comes to world stability.

If someone wants to tell another person they shouldn’t have the job that they do, then unless they’re either going to pay the living expenses or arrange for them to move somewhere else without taking a huge loss on the home they currentley own, Their complaints are just noise.

There’s things I’d rather do, but I never got the opportunities to realize them without taking massive risk to myself or family. And the job I have, fell into my lap during a time when it was and still is hard to find decent paying work around here close to my home. So at the end of the day, its the lower and middle income people telling other lower and middle income people their jobs shouldnt exist, who can get fucked.

thats a shop level determination.

depending on how the shop is run, and how strict of regulations set by the manufacturer there is, your mileage may vary.

in plain english. yeah if you go to a ***** dealer they might do everything by the book, refuse to work on other brands, and basically sabotage your car to rack up a more expensive bill because of corporate level corruption.

on the other hand, the place I work at , we’re toyota, but we take Fords all the time because our head tech worked at ford for 10 years. and has no problem working on somebody’s hoopty as long as he’s getting his flat rate.

Im not a salesperson, but I do work at one.

This has been a very “First they came for the Insurance Then they came for journalists then they came for salespeople” kind of feel

Technology doesn’t make more better jobs for people. It just eliminates jobs, and people move on to usually worse jobs. or none at all

The moment someone ponies up and decides to pay my bills, I’ll quit my job and join the rah rah crowd. but until then, I speak for both the innocent office workers, the technicians, service advisors, and the sleazy salespeople, they all gotta fucken eat.

the american system with car dealers, and how they fuck people, is intrinsically connected to how the financing for them works.

I cant tell you what the numbers are because Im a non-american car dealer person, but the system in the US is built around the fact that the dealers can ruthlessly mark up the price. depending on the manufacture company too.

(for context Im a Canadian Toyota dealer that is strictly MSRP and no haggle , although I admittedly work for a very good dealership. 95% of the time the only complaint or drama we ever get is people just complaining that its taking too long for their order to arrive or get fulfilled

I dont think I’d stay in the industry if I had to work at another one though. The bar is very very low for the field. constantly being pulled down by people exactly like you describe, in my town there is I think 8 car dealerships (new ones at least), and 4 of them are owned by one man. and he’s a total sleazebag. he tried to poach me once, fuck that

Side eying the casual treatment of car dealership workers like they’re insurance people. Everyone’s gotta find work somewhere.

As someone involved in the industy I have to wonder if this is more indicative of Volkswagens greater issues than it is a focus on dealerships in general. I do administration for a Toyota dealer and Just a few weeks ago our owner was talking about how both Nissan and Volkswagen are in crisis mode. Nissan then like 2 weeks later, announced a merger with Honda.

Im not up to date on VW’s issues because they’re more of a european brand, but thats probably half the problem, they used to be fairly prominent in north america. but they just stopped making cars that people wanted to buy. I guess