Ooohhh so here is where a ford worker called him "protector of pedofiles" and he got mad? Poor guy. If you watch the video, you can see how mad he gets for it.
Edit: the video in question is this:
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The fact that the president flipped off a constituent during a press event is pretty unprecedented. I don’t think it’s been done in a hundred years, if ever. The man is not well, and neither is his party.
I mean even Biden called a reporter a "son of a bitch" to the guy's face.
Totally warranted imo, but I think that was also unprecedented? Maybe I'm forgetting some stuff about LBJ though.
I would not be surprised if LBJ whipped out Jumbo and pissed on someone.
Or just let his balls flop out of his fly.
He does something unprecedented at least once a day
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He's already suspended.
The worker? Fired, you mean?
I read suspended, but wouldn't be surprised if he was sent to an ICE facility only to be deported to some off shore brutal prison.
Probably suspended because of the Union.
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"Pedophile..."
fingerguns "you sonuvabitch, you know it!"
"Protector!"
flips the bird "fuck no, the only pedo I protect is peDonald! Only I will be allowed to diddle kids!"
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Ford can't hire techs cuz they don't pay shit. No robot with any amount of ai nonsense in it will ever be remotely capable of replacing a mechanic. When is it ok to get the acetylene torch out? How does the bolt FEEL as you undo it, is it about to snap? Do u need to pump heat into it and feed it some wax? Did you spill brake fluid on the customers paint? Was the customer concern duplicated before determining what the repair was? Who did the diagnostic work? Was it test driven and quality checked afterward? Was the customer made aware of any other potential issues down the road? Ai and robots may be able to help in menial and manufacturing tasks but would never be capable of repair in automotive, especially not anywhere rust is common !
It's always okay to get the torch out.
And a robot can sense a bolt about to snap, because it can measure the amount of force being used. If that exceeds the force it's supposed to take, before you reach the breaking point, then it's time for heat and wax.
But you're right on the rest. A robot can't account for a bolt so rusty that it's lost its edges and become one with the frame. Or some weird ass modifications the last owner made.
Jim Farley recently did a town hall or something similar and all the mechanics on the internet ask him to come into the shops and see what the work is actually like. He didn't address the low pay etc. Just pay the techs more and they'll come. A good tech needs to know air conditioning , electrical, networking amongst other stuff and they still get paid shit. Chrysler has an airbag recall listed at. 1.4hr, but it takes about 2hrs of fast paced work as an example.
Here's Mr Subaru
Flat rate encourages bad behaviour and has ruined the automotive field for both consumers and workers, the only winners are the owners fucking us both!
Ah yes, management led time studies. The bane of my career as an industrial engineer. Sure I could lie and tell you it thinks it'll take as long as you feel it could or what the original MOST says, but then we'd both be wrong and the workers are still either running over or skipping shit and have more turnover than a washing machine. Or we could talk to the worker, track how long it actually takes a regular worker at a reasonable pace, see if anything is impeding their ability to do what needs done, then tell the budget people the actual price to do the task.
No, management does not like me.
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The human dingus will still put your drain plug back on with the biggest Milwaukee impact in the toolbox 🤭
Or just forget about it. I've known multiple people who had an engine ruined because of that.
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That is exactly what all the factory line workers said in the eighties.
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I've written before about this, but it's very unlikely that Ford (the OEM/manufacturer) has this many auto technicians (people that perform car repairs using existing tooling and documentation).
Most likely, these positions are for Mechanical Engineers or similar. These would be people doing R&D, analyzing failure trends, etc. They would not be the ones working in the service department of your local Ford dealership, because those people are employees of the dealership and not Ford.
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A robot can perfectly fine replace a mechanic if you redesign the car entirely to be machine serviceble and then also build a service center around that.
It would just cost more money to do it that way then how we currently do it. By a fuck load.
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There’s a lot of republicans working that factory floor that will ignore this.
Then will try to blame Biden or Obama when they lose their jobs.
There's a list of republicans working that factory floor encouraged by it, thinking full well "They won't take my job, just the lazy paint line". My job is actually important.
During his visit to the plant on Tuesday, Trump flipped off a Ford worker and said “f*ck you” after the employee called him a “pedophile protector.”
A gentleman and scholar, folks.
He should be fired just like that cyclist who flipped him off during his first term.
I predict that robots are gonna be a big factor in the future and it’s gonna help out.
He really did peak in the '80s.
you’re gonna have a thing called robots, and robots are gonna be a big factor. I predict that robots are gonna be a big factor in the future and it’s gonna help out.
I mean, industrial robots have been a pretty prominent thing at auto manufacturers for an awfully long time.
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https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/183434/
Robot, First Unimate Robot Ever Installed on an Assembly Line, 1961
Unimate robots were the world's first successful industrial robots. The units, designed by Unimation Inc., could perform tasks in manufacturing facilities that were difficult, dangerous, or monotonous for human workers. This is the first Unimate ever used on an assembly line. It was installed at the General Motors plant in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1961 to unload a die-casting press.
lol imagine telling people you will get people jobs and reinvigorate the auto industry etc. and then telling people there are things called robots that will replace them and it’s a good thing the auto companies are shrinking the workforce.
I'm generally pro industrial automation (it's useful and as an engineer some of the most fun stuff to implement), but you can't go from 0-100, we've seen what that looks like with tesla. You have to slowly and steadily ramp it up. Also the laborers deserve compensation for being automated away
This is why Ford can't hire mechanics.
The company is designing everything in CAD with no consideration of maintainance, then simple jobs that should take 30 minutes can take 2 hours. Ford has a real problem with poor engineering. The same problem affects AUDI and most German brands.
You're gonna have a thing that you already had for 4 decades!
The president of the USA, people! Nobody is smarter than him!
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...instead of raising wages.
And yet, tariffs were to bring manufacturing jobs back, right?
Idiot probably envisions C3PO and R2D2 building F250s.
more like this model:
Is this a quote from 30 years ago?
More like 65 years ago. They introduced automation in the 1960s
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We already have a thing called robots. Didn’t he say this in an assembly plant?
Praying for a Maduro Moment 🙏
The father of modern robotics introducing us to the concept of robots everyone
He's so dumb
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