Screwball Posted 5 hours ago Posted 5 hours ago 14 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said: Not much funny anywhere. Did Cooper have any OEM business? Selling tires in the after market only has to be tough business. There is a tale of a once great company who ****ed it all up. I worked there. A guy who became CEO started out in the factory and worked his way to the top when I started. They were a replacement tire company and built a great supply chain all over the states. Made a bunch of people in Findlay and NW Ohio a great living, and was a great company to work for. Things changed. This guy retired as CEO. They were going strong at the time. The new CEO - ironically - came from a company that I worked for prior to that part of my life. Didn't know him, couldn't find out anything from my contacts at the old company (Dana Corp). He was a disaster in so many ways. Embarrassing enough he got caught banging the head of HR in his office, among other cluster ****s he did. Example above - he cheated our books with the profitable BG plant when we didn't make the numbers. Finally the board **** canned him. Cost us a 5 million dollar buyout. He went to a cosmetics company as CEO. ****in' A! The prior CEO had a great advantage. He did every job on the shop floor over the years. Nobody could bull**** him. Today, I got a piece of paper that says I know Jack ****. No you don't. Or most don't. Quote
Screwball Posted 5 hours ago Posted 5 hours ago (edited) 37 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said: Not much funny anywhere. Did Cooper have any OEM business? Selling tires in the after market only has to be tough business. To answer this question - no. Just replacement. Kind of... When we started shipping stuff to China, we had to build the tires there or we couldn't sell them. So we sent them the tire molds and they would make the tires. You never knew how that was going to work. Some shop would run your tires for a while - then get a better deal from one of the other tire companies - and your molds end up out in the back lot. Sorry... But it got better - someone would steal the molds and go make tires and sell them as ours, in China and here. You can't make this **** up. My last job before I told them to stuff it, was 120 tire molds to the China tiremaker because they lost the molds we sent them about a year before. We're talking about 3 million dollars worth of tooling. Lost... Edited 5 hours ago by Screwball Quote
Tiger337 Posted 5 hours ago Posted 5 hours ago 47 minutes ago, Screwball said: ****in' A! I never heard that expression until I just saw it over and over again in a book recently: "The River" by Peter Heller. Excellent book by the way. I thought it might just be a made up expression for the book, but now I know it's for real! Quote
Screwball Posted 4 hours ago Posted 4 hours ago 29 minutes ago, Tiger337 said: I never heard that expression until I just saw it over and over again in a book recently: "The River" by Peter Heller. Excellent book by the way. I thought it might just be a made up expression for the book, but now I know it's for real! From the movie Office Space - so fitting. 1 Quote
gehringer_2 Posted 4 hours ago Posted 4 hours ago 31 minutes ago, Tiger337 said: I never heard that expression until I just saw it over and over again in a book recently: "The River" by Peter Heller. Excellent book by the way. I thought it might just be a made up expression for the book, but now I know it's for real! I think it goes back a way in Canadian and Aussie English. Quote
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