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I'd absolutely buy a chinese EV if I could without paying the 100% Joe Biden Tariff (thanks joe biden) and would be alre to reliably charge it

I'd also buy a kei truck if there weren't similar bullshit

Weird how every car I WANT to buy is being KEPT FROM ME

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 37 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So moving the factories to China is a-okay for American manufacturing, but when the stuff being made in those factories is sold by a Chinese company instead of his company, then it’s a problem for American manufacturing.

[–] idriss@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

who pays CEOs and execs?

[–] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Lol I work in maintaining the machines Ford uses in their factories, and they have been mad scrambling to get manufacturing back up and humming along in the most dysfunctional and half-assed way possible (from my perspective.) Getting any of their shit fixed is a communications nightmare. They send the wrong things in to be fixed under warranty and it takes months for them to actually sort out the invoices and whatnot. I have stuff they sent to us to be fixed in 2024 that they probably don't even remember sending us at this point and we're just waiting to hear whether or not this is actually the thing they paid to have repaired.. They send us things that they don't need or want to fix on accident! Just pallets of horribly organized ill-maintained machinery. Granted, the company I work for is a shit show as well and part of this problem is the ineptitude of our own customer service department, to say nothing of the fact my own department has lost 50% of our workers with no replacement (since I've been hired) because the entire American industrial supply chain has rotted completely through. Repair technicians have been retiring left and right and companies are not willing to pay for new hires, let alone in investing in education and trying to do something useful with all this on-the-job knowledge. I can only imagine they gutted whoever is responsible for overseeing this stuff and are just relying on some shitty AI tool to incorrectly fill out paperwork for them.

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Lol yeah I did warehouse work like 20 years ago. US supply chains have been a mess for decades.

[–] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I worked in a pharmacy before this, and I thought this would be better for my bloodpressure than dealing with healthcare/insurance agony-deep

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

lol how could you possibly have expected warehouse to be better? If you can transition to sales I highly recommend. I know that's privileged af but holy shit it's so much better than any other point of the supply chain I been in. Yeah it's soulless and alienating but I just sit on my ass and make like 15-30 phone calls each day and sometimes less and spend the rest of that time sitting on my ass watching youtube.

I fucking earned it though I spent almost 30 years doing retail and face to face customer service and hard labor.

pro tip: lying on your resume is super effective.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not only that, but they insist on only hiring engineers that are at the top of their class, as if they are still a premier employer. Like, sure maybe it's nice to have the pick of the litter, but the issue is that you need bodies. If you want your 'good' engineers to be doing design and fixing problems, then it helps to have mediocre engineers handling the admin. They insist on always running short staffed, because god forbid someone other than the manager have downtime at work.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

US companies obsessed with making line go up like Icarus

[–] fox@hexbear.net 31 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That same dude drives a xiaomi

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago

Ford exec doesn't even drive his own company car i-cant

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago

Beat me to it.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 22 points 4 days ago

sore-loser We can't compete at our own game so we have to rig it and effectively gimp and sanction our own people. How dare China!

[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago

"Company CEO argues for monopoly of his brand: here's why 'journalists' aren't absolutely mocking him"

USA: "No one wants EVs and we ain't making that garbage. Fuck EVs and fuck you. Eat shit"

China: "we made affordable EVs that are actually good"

USA: lemongrab scream "one million percent tariffs!"

[–] varmint@hexbear.net 20 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This guy looks like a ventriloquist dummy come to life

[–] Rey_McSriff@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago

Puppeteered by the invisible hand of the free market

[–] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

fun fact: he is Chris Farley's cousin. His voice and mannerisms are remarkably similar too, though probably not as coked up.

In terms of global trade, the West's position was always free markets for thee, protectionism for me.

"Free trade" is only when the western world gets to exploit resources in the rest of the world for either "bringing them christianity" or "spreading modern way of life", not when anybody else does it.

Hitler hair cut

[–] LeninWalksTheEarth@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

dude looks like he's made of wax

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He’s related to Chris Farley

[–] miz@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

holy shit you're not joking

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago

Maybe stop trying to sell trash nobody wants? Fuck ford.

[–] Des@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

please i just want an affordable electric truck

[–] miz@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

here you go, one $87,000 Ford Lightning

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Des@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago

after exploring the Slate (ugh) and TELO (also ugh) i went to see how much the lightning is running used

lowest was 42k for like 200k miles. also they are built so huge they have no range

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago

Rich capitalist CEOs when capitalism happens: porky-scared

isn't this the guy that drives a Xiaomi?

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago

American pencil makers.... Hold on a minute!

Fruit pickers...hmmm, hold up!