Hello there forgotten blog. I haven't been avoiding you. I've just been devoid of interesting thoughts over the last month.Time really flies. Things are going pretty well here in Memphis. This just in...Elvis is still dead. It gets amazingly hot here. Actually, it's not the heat - it's the humidity that makes life outdoors miserable. People tell me it will start to get better in about a month. For the time being...well, it's a character builder - right Dad?
It's amazing how time passes. Suz and I just celebrated our two-year anniversary. We are marriage pros now. We still have not had our first fight. Although I have sidestepped a few with my sweet talkin'. Just kidding. Kind of.
Work continues to be challenging but fun. Sometimes more challenging and less fun, but that's what work is sometimes - work. The auto industry has been going through challenging times recently. It's quickly sinking in quicksand - no thanks to GM with their employee-pricing plague. It's a drug that has sucked in the Big Three, and none of us can get off it. That's right - if you own a product of General Motors, it's your fault . . . wait -- I own a product of General Motors. But the Lumina was a hand-me-down, so that was out of my control. But seriously, GM -- you opened a can of worms and I hope it swallows you without taking Ford and Chrysler with it. Actually, you can take Chrysler too. Enough of that.
Anyway, Suz and I are still enjoying our experiences here in the real world. Life could be better, but it could also be worse, and frankly - I'm just fine with what it is.
4 comments:
If you're going to post a blatant ad for your amazing revenue-producing idea site, don't. Just move along to the next blog please.
ummmm! ok, I'll try to come up with a better comment then...
But really now I seriously doubt that you are losing that much money with the GM deal, I mean cars are highly over priced anyways, and on top of that you ahve to do something to convince someone into buying a car these days, I mean have you checked out your local gas stations and the crazy crap they are trying to charge for some freakin gas...
Now rand, come on the heat can't be any worse tahn Brazil, and you handled that walking all day in it, in a white shirt and tie and carrying around some BOM's... I think you can handle the short trips from air conditioner to air conditioner.
Issue I: Under a normal scenario, a dealership's margin is MUCH slimmer than you think (somewhere between 8-14%. With employee pricing, that drops to less than 6%. Bust out a calculator. That is less than half on certain cars.
That's just the dealership's margin. I don't even want to DISCUSS what Ford makes on the deal. Because we don't. There are three branches to Ford. 1. Vehicle sales 2. Ford Credit 3. Ford Customer Service Division (parts etc [i.e. me].) Of those segments only segment 2 and 3 are profitable. If you must know...
Issue II: Your point is well taken. However the burning heat of Brazil is but a distant memory, blurred by three years of 1st-world bliss.
Issue III: Check your blog chump. I am the ONLY person who has left a comment!
sort of, but it was a pitty comment, you had pitty on me and then you commented.
So pretty much you are still LAME!
Post a Comment