"People seemed to be content.
Fifty dollars paid the rent.
Those were the days!!"
-All In The Family
Wealth built slowly is better than wealth attained in one day.
Yup! My best friend is a Critical Care Nurse for the largest hospital conglomerate in NJ. For Nurse’s Appreciation Week, they invited staff members to come to the cafeteria at break time for a free bagel.
When he arrived, he did indeed receive his free bagel, and then he was informed that if he wanted cream cheese or butter on the bagel, that would cost him 50 cents. His reaction was, “I can hardly stand all of this appreciation”.
Last year, the CEO’s salary was $8.6 million.
Harvard and the likes have turned out a fine class of CEOs running theses companies. It’ll take a while. This kind of organizational behavior has not been my experience. Stock options, incentive pay etc. even the worst of them handed out Christmas turkeys.
Walmart’s CEO, whose degrees are from the U of Arkansas and U of Tulsa, received a total compensation of $29 million in his final year at the helm. For Walmart’s rank & file, the median annual compensation is less than $30k, and a significant percentage of them receive some sort of government assistance.
It has been estimated that US taxpayers are footing the bill to the tune of roughly $6.2 billion annually for public assistance benefits for Walmart employees, including food stamps, housing subsidies, and Medicaid.
I worked for a small company that tried to become a satellite integrator instead of just a component manufacturer. Every time someone in my group left, I looked at what they did and decided what I could take on myself. Then I walked into the Director of Engineering’s office and offered to take on the additional responsibilities. Every time, he said that he didn’t know what he was going to do about the talent loss and happily took me up on my offer. My specialty, contamination engineering, wasn’t enough to keep me employed long term, but by adding reliability analysis and risk management, I made myself indispensable.
That is not always the case. I know several factories that were old and replaced with a new one that was built either right on premise or next door or very close. When the new factory was finished most (if not all) of those factory workers were moved to the new plant. The only ones I’ve ever seen where workers lost jobs was because the new factory was more efficient or more automated that required less workers. But a lot of the ones I’ve seen were companies that were growing and needed to expand business and actually hire more workers. The old factory was way too small and difficult to expand. I agree 100% that removing some of that old equipment is extremely expensive. We have old textile mills here in New England that have been repurposed into offices - and many of those buildings still have large pieces of equipment that way several hundred tons that cannot be removed without tearing down half the building. Some are used at art pieces. Most are just boarded up behind walls taking up valuable space.
Not really, I worked In healthcare. During the “off season” was common for people to be told to stay home or sent home early. The 300 bed hospital I used to work at is now being torn down. The CEOs and CFOs through the years chose to pocket the profits rather than maintain the building. Finally system was sold, two hospitals remain open, the “Flag Ship” hospital demolished. The buyers are building a new hospital near an existing, competing hospital system, leaving two cities without a facility. BTW, non-profit, or not for profit, is a tax designation, Hospitals are very profit motivated, it just how the profits are used.
Never ever go for ‘cheap tyres’, period,it does not pay in the long run.Go for well respected brands like Michelin,Continental or Goodyear.Safety comes first.
A blanket statement that really does not apply . I have had house brands and some lesser known brands that gave good service and performed well.
Not really,there truly are some shockers out there.I have generally used Michelin tyres most of my life,am i biased?Probably, but they speak for themselves.Have used them since the old Michelin ‘X’ & ‘XAS’ days.You just cannot beat them.I refuse to use a low tier tyre, just to ‘save’ a few dollars.Probably the best tyres on the market in my opinion.
I prefer Michein myself
But I’ve also had some decent experiences with some cheap(er) tires, such as Uniroyal Tiger Paws
Don’t have Uniroyal here anymore,think from memory Bridgestone took them over.There is a very good YT channel called ‘Tyre Reviews’, Brit guy who does tyre comparo’s @ the Goodyear tyre test facility in the US, probably the best one out there.
“Goodyear Tyre test facility” . . .
The name alone sounds like it may not be very impartial?
“Best” is a very subjective quality. What’s most important in a tire? Smooth and quiet ride? Price? Tread life? Cornering? Traction? Appearance? Ask 10 different people and you’re likely to get 11 different answers.
My answers will change depending on which car I’m talking about.s
First, Uniroyal is complicated. In Europe, the brand is owned by Continental. In the US, it’s owned by Michelin.
Jonathon Benson, of Tyre Reviews, is indeed a Brit, but currently lives in Utah. He conducts tests in a lot of different locations, mostly Europe and the US. He tries very hard to be impartial, even though he is dependent on tire manufacturers being kind and donating tires and facilities to do what he does. I’ve only detected a few times where he has been influenced by their largesse.
Yes and No…
All depends on what body of land you are on it seems,
Uniroyal is owned by Bridgestone in Australia, but owned by Michelin in North & South America, and if you hop over to Europe it seems Uniroyal is owned by Continental AG…
The Uniroyal name ended up split across different regions after years of mergers, licensing deals, and trademark sales…
Anyway, I have never been impressed with Uniroyal…
I am all about wet weather traction, and Bridgestone has made some great wet weather tires (wet traction stays mostly the same throughout the tread life) over the years, and yes I have tested many of them… I am sad cause the tires on the wifey’s car have aged out, and they did extremely well in heavy down pours and driving through standing water…But sadly [EDIT: aged out, and] for the last couple of years [EDIT: of driving the vehicle] I have felt the grip in the rain going away, they are 11 years old [EDIT: now] and low tread, my son even said they need replacing, I’ll replace them once I find a suitable replacement [EDIT: soon]…
EDIT: Didn’t see the above post, guess had one of those ad blank spaces… lol
WARNING: Tires over the age of 10 years on average can/will need to be replaced ASAP due to dry rot rather you can clearly see it or not, heat build up can cause the tires to fail without much warning… Average meaning some will require replacing sooner and some will go longer, consult your local tire shop with any questions about the age and condition of your tires…
That sentence makes me wonder if any tire advice you offer should be ignored.
And why would that be?? Please get it off your brain… Still upset or something
Her car goes months without being driven, so NOT in ANY HURRY to replace her tires, I have multiple other vehicles I can drive, mainly my 2023 Truck with still new like tread…
Please post ANY piece of advise that I have given about tire safety that was bad or unsafe!!!
And BF Goodrich tire division was sold to Michelin in 1988. The Goodrich Corp. became solely an aerospace company and was sold to United Technologies in 2012.
And sadly the BFG’s for hot rodders have not been the same, meaning not as good of traction as in the past, but I am hearing mostly great things about the BFG’s All Terrain tires… I remember seeing the BFG’s dry rotting like they were influenced by Michelin… That has mostly been my gripe with Michelins is their dry rotting in the sidewalls, seen it many many times, great ridding tires, just seem to sidewall crack more than other name brands over all… I am sure this has been discussed on here in the past also… Mr Capri can explain it much better than I can…