Posted on 08/19/2020 9:19:12 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Need tires? Don’t even think about buying Goodyear. – I’m currently searching for new tires for our car, and was looking seriously at a 50,000-mile set from the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. After all, it’s a great American company – or at least it used to be – and I’m all about buying American since China’s government intentionally spread a deadly virus all over the world.
But that consideration of ever buying from Goodyear ended this morning when news broke about a new attire policy the company has adopted for its employees. Check out this graphic:
So, it’s perfectly fine for Goodyear employees to wear clothing endorsing BLM, an openly-Marxist domestic terrorist group funded by front groups for George Soros and the Democrat Party. But it is not ok for those same employees to wear attire endorsing law enforcement or their desire to make America great again. You seriously cannot make this stuff up, folks.
In response to this bit of news, President Trump himself issued the following tweet:
Conservatives have always been reluctant to play the same kinds of boycott/cancel culture games that the left has made a daily part of our lives. But this really and truly does need to change.
There is a increasingly hostile and intense war for the soul of this nation taking place right now, today. Sadly, only one side is really fighting it, and it isn’t us.
That must change.
Boycott Goodyear Tire and Rubber, folks. Boycott this deplorable company and its management like your way of life depends on it.
Because you know what? It does.
That is all.
My guess is CivilWarBrewing's tires are high performance summer sports car tires. If you are hard into hard corning the tires might last 10K miles. If you drive like a little old lady on Sunday, maybe 15K
My wife’s car will need tires before winter. I’m fine with no MAGA gear, but that also means no LGBTQWERTY, Biden or BLM Gear.
Goodyear won’t be on my list.
I put up a vanity a little while ago urging people to go the site, accept cookies and fill out the survey that usually pops up.
Also, you can open a chat and leave it open to bollix up the works. Also you can email GY at the corporate site, go to bottom of first page.
Bunch of Freepers working it now.
I had a set of Hankook on a 4WD. Hardly ever needed the 4WD on snowy streets. They are incredible. Mileage not high but quite acceptable for the price and performance.
No matter how thin Goodyear slices that non-denial denial, it’s still baloney.
94 Roadmaster, put spinners, a flying swan hood ornament and fake fur on the dash.
I absolutely love my Toyo M-55 tires, but they are a bit spendy.
Michelin are the best.
Not cheap, though...
bttt
There denial actually doesn’t deny agreement with the slide that caused the furor. In the second paragraph, they state they disallow any political or other advocacy that “fall[s] outside the scope of racial justice and equity issues”. (Yes - a direct quote)
That means that the slide purportedly from their diversity training is right in line with their corporate policy.
Their road grip is excellent.
True story: I had some no name tires on my car, and ended up driving home cross country on "a dark and stormy night." It was one of those country roads that hadn't been repaved in years, and had depression ruts that held water. Had to slow down to about 40 in a 65 to keep from hydroplaning. The next week I went to the tire shop and told him I wanted Michelins. Dealer tried to tell me my tires didn't need to be replaced. I told him, "do it."
I used to be in the business, and Michelins are very good (I sold Michelins, so YMMV.) However, true story:
I had a territory that covered three full states and two partial states. In two years, we had something like three Michelins come in from all dealers that were claimed to be defective. Upon inspection, two of them (truck tires) had been on a logging truck that was overloaded by 100,000 pounds (troof. We went to the guy's logging operation and said we wouldn't cover anymore tires unless we weighed a random truck coming out of the facility. Legal limit is 80,000 pounds. His truck weighed in at over 200,000 pounds.) The only other one we got in that period was from a guy who had a tire blow out about halfway across Arizona. He was driving from Houston, hadn't stopped, and when he gave us the time he left Houston and the time his tire blew, he'd been driving at an average of at least 95 mph for over fifteen hours. In the summer.
When I left Michelin, I ended up taking a fill in job at a single dealership while waiting for my next job to open up. We go more defective tires every single day (Firestone and Goodyear) at that single dealer than I got in two years for a multi-state territory with Michelin. Disclaimer #2: This was the 70s, with the Firestone 721 debacle, and that REALLY upped the number of defective tires.
I just got a set of Solarus tires (made by Cooper Tires, an American company). Affordable ($340 total). 45,000 miles rated. The tires are working out real good.
If Solarus/Cooper does the same as Goodyear, let me know.
“My point was that Goodyear denied the validity of the slide.”
No. They did not. They doubled down.
I’m sick of corporations and sports teams trying to change our opinions and the behavior (of customers) to what the radical Democrats see as righteous and American...ie WOKENESS.
Goodyear even made it difficult for CUSTOMERS to tweet in opposition and in a direct reply manner. They bury the BS for customers and brainwash employees.
WOKENESS is radical Dem politics created and designed to push the left agenda.
Goodyear has always been based in Ohio. I wonder if John Kasich’s dad used to deliver the mail there.
Good Riddance!
It's not about the product these days. It's about driving the stock price up, and borrowing practically free money or selling bonds to fund stock buybacks to further drive up stocks enriching the stockholders and those on the board.
In this case, I think GY screwed up big time - but only because a pissed off employee spilled the beans.
Amazon gave millions to BLM - where's the call to cut the Amazon Prime cord and boycott Jeffery and Amazon's online store? I'll tell you why there isn't, because you're hooked. Amazon has their mainline drug needle in YOU! I know because I'm having a tough time myself trying to end my addiction to Amazon - but gaining ground everyday.
That is an excellent point. Our son in law manages a GoodYear store and he basically wears a uniform of a blue GoodYear shirt, blue pants and a matching baseball cap.
But all that changes after work. I’ll bet he’s doing a slow burn right now.
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