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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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On 8/9/2024 8:38 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> On 8/9/24 13:45, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> On 8/9/2024 11:57 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>> Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Anytime any engineering business names an accountant as the CEO, write
>>>> it off.  Boeing did so several years ago.  The accountants will drive
>>>> the costs to zero no matter what happens to the employees.
>>>
>>> When I was a kid, Boeing, Lockheed, and Douglas all had presidents who
>>> were certified to fly their company's products and sometimes did.
>>>
>>> This is no longer the case; it is as if General Motors was run by 
>>> someone
>>> who couldn't drive.
>>>
>>> Note that Air Tractor's president can fly his company's products.  Not
>>> sure about Cessna or Piper anymore.
>>> --scott
>>
>> Hughes Aircraft too.
>>
>> Lynn
>>
>      Commodore Business machines was a business employing
> competent and inventive engineers but the guy to took it
> over was a financier and he took it into bankruptcy in 1994
> to get his money back.  Doing so he killed a good but simple
> GUI Interface though you can get some Amigas today, paying as
> alway a premium, as well as emulators for Window and Linux.
> But I learned enough about computers from AmigaOS to move
> to Linux without much pain but the bean counters have killed
> a lot of great things.
> 
>      bliss

"True Stories From A Former Car Dealer #15: Ignition Switches" by: Jerry 
Reynolds
  
https://www.carpro.com/true-stories/true-stories-from-a-former-car-dealer-15-ignition-switches

"For the quality summit, we decided to look at Ford Focus ignition 
switches. It was a major problem for customers of this new car and a 
real headache for the dealers. Focus owners would put their key in the 
ignition switch, but it would not come out. That meant owners of Focus 
had to leave the key in their car making it susceptible to theft or call 
their Ford dealer."

"From there, we went to the Wixom Assembly Plant where the Thunderbird 
was made, and gathered in a large conference room to specifically 
dissect the Focus ignition switches. Someone handed each of us an 
ignition switch complete with key so we could examine them. We were 
shown why the switches were failing at such a high rate. It was really 
quite interesting, and easy to see why the failure rate was so high. 
They collected those back from us and handed each of us the new and 
improved switch from a different supplier."

"We could see and feel the new switches were heavier and seemed better 
constructed. At this point, I am feeling pretty good about what we were 
being told. They opened the floor for questions, and one dealer asked 
how much more the new switches were than the old ones. The answer was 
fifty cents."

"The next question was from me. I wanted to know when the new switches 
started being used. The answer I got left me speechless for a moment. We 
were told there were "5000 of the old switches left, and as soon as 
those ran out, they would switch to the new ones.""

Lynn