[afraidfortherepublic]

In the 1970s my husband was assigned by his company in Houston to take over (and manage from afar) their branch in the UK. Expenses were out of control.

When he went over to inspect, he found that there was some embezzlement going on, plus some conflict of interest deals prevalent (hiring the wife of one of the managers to handle purchasing, for instance, and all shipping to be handled by the spouse of another manager.) In addition, they had OKAYed the purchase of high end Datsuns for EVERYBODY.

My husband fired them all and was left with a fleet of Datsuns which he later sold. Somebody presented him with a T shirt that said “Datsuns last longer than People” emblazoned on the front.

[Vigilanteman]

Old joke floating around in that era about how Datsun got its name. The Japanese were good at building an inexpensive car, but not so good about marketing them. They told their German partners that they needed to have a great name to sell the car under within the month.

The German guy looked at them and asked "Dat Soon?"