Bitter cold, lol

[Mike4xdriver]

My girlfriend works for Walmart. They don't even close with fire alarms blaring and fire trucks lined up out front. Total disregard for safety.

Why do people rely on others for safety? If you aren't smart enough to leave because your boss said so, that's on you not your boss.

 

[Lucifur10]

Why do people relying on others for safety? If you aren't smart enough to leave because your boss said so, that's on you not your boss.

Oh the employees go outside. The shoppers stay inside with the bosses. The bosses make sure that nothing gets stolen. Store remains open.

 

[jojobeans]

Why do people rely on others for safety? If you aren't smart enough to leave because your boss said so, that's on you not your boss.

People rely on others for safety because their idea of safety can and will cause more safety concerns. It’s actually safer to not mass evacuate people (especially untrained, often times erratic customers) in a lot of modern buildings. Warehouses especially. Not to say that need to evacuate a whole store has never or will never happen, but it’s very very rare nowadays.

Intelligence is a rarity in most people unfortunately… Engineers, policy and modern building designs take that into account when they plan to have hundreds of those individuals inside of it.

 

[Ritz413]

Intelligence is a rarity in most people unfortunately… Engineers, policy and modern building designs take that into account when they plan to have hundreds of those individuals inside of it.

Having worked professionally as a mechanic on cars, bicycles, printing presses, and carnival stuff, I have seen a lot of what so called intellectuals with an engineering degree can do....I'm looking at you gm....and your status as the only ones who can't build a car with a starter that doesn't need shims

 

[jojobeans]

Having worked professionally as a mechanic on cars, bicycles, printing presses, and carnival stuff, I have seen a lot of what so called intellectuals with an engineering degree can do....I'm looking at you gm....and your status as the only ones who can't build a car with a starter that doesn't need shims

care are a whole different animal, an engineer will go above and beyond to screw over a mechanic.

Structural engineers however are a completely different breed. They’ve done some crazy, other worldly things to defy physics.

I’d want a mechanic to design my car. I wouldn’t want a construction worker to design my house.

 

[Mike4xdriver]

Having worked professionally as a mechanic on cars, bicycles, printing presses, and carnival stuff, I have seen a lot of what so called intellectuals with an engineering degree can do....I'm looking at you gm....and your status as the only ones who can't build a car with a starter that doesn't need shims

You mean I'm not supposed to have to pull the motor to get the idler pully bolt out?

 

[Ritz413]

You mean I'm not supposed to have to pull the motor to get the idler pully bolt out?

I have a jeep patriot... I don't think yer supposed to have remove the coolant overflow, belt, both idler bullies, power steering pump, ac compressor, and split the top motor mount to jack the power train up enough to drop the alternator out.....but you do... and your voltage regulator is part of the ecm so you should never give anyone a jump in fear of having to replace the computer.
Having engineer attached to you name is not enough. The structural guys defying gravity are probably the top 2 % of their field...not the norm from what I can tell

 

[Mike4xdriver]

I’d want a mechanic to design my car. I wouldn’t want a construction worker to design my house.

I'm a retired Certified Carpenter, we hate home engineers as much as mechanics hate auto engineers. BTW a Carpenter designed house is built 100x better and can withstand way more weather and last decades longer. Home engineers design homes to be built fast with minimal materials just like auto engineers

 

[Finesavageboy2]

You mean I'm not supposed to have to pull the motor to get the idler pully bolt out?

I feel your pain. I have a 2001 toyota tundra with the 4.7l v8. I don't know what they were on, but on the early 200's cadillac and Toyota v8's you have to take the intake off in order to get the starter out because its hidden under the intake manifold.

 

[CertifiedMike]

I'm a retired Certified Carpenter, we hate home engineers as much as mechanics hate auto engineers. BTW a Carpenter designed house is built 100x better and can withstand way more weather and last decades longer. Home engineers design homes to be built fast with minimal materials just like auto engineers

I'm a CertifiedMike and I agree!
Auto engineers are VERY good at designing systems that discourage 'user maintenance'. If they could figure out how to weld spark plugs into place and still get thru their warranty periods, I believe they would.
Right to repair is under attack and so further explains why I had to loosen the AC compressor and unbolt a motor mount, tilt the engine and only THEN I can replace the starter in my V8 Envoy... Alternator in my Caddy was simliar BS.
Alternator on my Focus is under the car too.
$500 air filters and other BS...

There isn't a new car made today that I'd buy or drive.
Software engineers are making sure new cars won't last a day past their last update. Spyware crap... ALL of them.

 

[jojobeans]

I'm a retired Certified Carpenter, we hate home engineers as much as mechanics hate auto engineers. BTW a Carpenter designed house is built 100x better and can withstand way more weather and last decades longer. Home engineers design homes to be built fast with minimal materials just like auto engineers

While I’m sure you were a good carpenter, it doesn’t represent what is available in 2025. I’ve seen some really really bad work from current carpenters… there’s far more shoddy work than there is good work at this point coming out of that field. I barely trust a current union carpenter to design a deck, much less a house.

Give me an old guy who’s retired and I’d write a blank check because what I said before no longer applies in that situation.