Posted on 09/24/2010 3:55:41 AM PDT by tobyhill
Metro Detroit is buzzing over Rob Wolchek's recent story about Chrysler workers caught boozing it up and smoking what apparently was pot during their lunch break and then heading back to the plant to finish their shift.
"I'm very, very disturbed about what we ¿ saw," said Chrysler Senior Vice President of Manufacturing Scott Garberding.
Now, Chrysler executives are taking action.
"For us, this behavior is totally unacceptable and will be dealt with swiftly," Garberding said.
People have been calling local radio stations all over metro Detroit and talking about this FOX 2 investigation. However, many of the callers questioned "our" motive for doing the story and airing the video. We've been getting e-mail after e-mail and hundreds of comments on myFOXDetroit.com.
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Gee I really want to buy a car built by stoned drunks.
With the UAW’s help, I am sure that the punishment will be severe, like cutting their overtime </sarc>
This shouldn’t be news - in the late 1990s I worked for a company that had people deployed to do IT support for a GM plant in the mid-west. One of them had a Dodge Ram pickup truck, and his tires were repeatedly urinated on during the day because it wasn’t a GM product. Same thing happened other non-GM products - they’d watch out the window as the assembly line apes would pound beers at lunch and then relieve themselves before going back inside, and there was nothing they could do about it.
That may sound bad, but not nearly as bad as how people who showed up in foreign-brand cars were “incentivized” to switch to GM products. As in having their existing cars damaged to the point where they needed to be replaced ...
Old news. The UAW has been lazy drunks for years.
It’s different this time, the taxpayers are paying their salaries.
No! more severe like losing there parking spot.
I remember when GM built the Saturn plant. They ran from Detroit to get away from the drugs and their well known policy was that, if you wanted a job at aturn, you had to submit to random testing and zero tolerance.
Now Saturn is gone and the grugs are back on the line.
Now that they work for the government, they want to behave like congressmen.
GM should have been allowed to go down the toilet. Now its our tax dollars going down the toilet or to the unions...same thing. My car now is a Honda, and my next will be a Honda as well.
Some idiots out there can't comprehend the difference between union solidarity and ignoring/covering up stupidity.
I doubt this only happens at the Chrysler plant.
“Thank You, Mr. Wolchek. If these were (ordinary) citizens, not protected by the union, they would have lost their jobs!”
I watched this segment last night. The sad thing is these “workers” were turned in by coworkers to Fox 2.
Management couldn’t/wouldn’t do anything about them and the UAW is doing everything possible to protect them.
What will happen now, 28 days off w/pay while they fake going through rehab?
I saw the nicest chevy truck at a dealer yesterday. Lifted chevy avalanche. It was gorgeous...and $58,000. Just thought I’d share.
They look nice but my concern would be the machinery that one can’t see. $58,000 is a bit steep for my blood.
It all should have gone down. We would be better off today.
Just be grateful that they weren’t smoking tobacco. That would have been horrible. (VBG).
“All I know is that I will never buy another Chrysler product. I don’t want some stoner building a car I was thinking of buying.” And, don’t forget Government Motors. Guess the choices are down to Ford and Toyota. I’ve driven Fords and they’re fine wih me. The last time I was in the market for a new truck I checked out the Tundra but I didn’t like the way it sat. I am 6’4” and weight about 240 and the seat and leg room in the Tundra did not feel as right as the Ford. So, Fords it will be...
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