Thanks Mech that paints your background pretty well. I think you mentioned working as a mechanic for a dealership before, and I would of thought such a job would be a life time career, unless their people were abusing you, not paying etc for your jobs.
I think we all agree that the stuff GM put out in the 1970's were of the worst quality cars every built. Now even GM admits to it as they paint graphs showing how much they have improved their own quality which shows that decade very very very low. They knew they had serious quality problems, and much of it could be blamed on some bad workers, and many on drugs in seeing this was about ten full years before wide spread drug testing. No doubt, my father can name names of guys that worked in his Chevy plant with eyes that told the story of being up all night smoking weed and snorting the white stuff. We all agree they had a bad decade then. And I am not saying the 80s were much better. I think they were TRYING to turn around, but they were so dang big that changes never came fast enough.
Im a banjo player. and even Gibson Banjos took a big hit in the quality department. So I have reason to believe mostly everything we made in the 70's was poor quality. Except for those great tv shows, bubblegum and DISCO!
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Hey, I was reading this story about the time you made your post, it says a little bit about workers and bosses doing everthing they are asked to do, yet their plant gets shut down while the Mexican plant remains open. How would YOU feel if you worked there?
Workers apprehensive on last day at GM Pontiac plant | detnews.com | The Detroit News
Take care.