Originally Posted By: earlyre
Originally Posted By: GiveMeAVowel
The problem is that the vendors are NOT doing their jobs right, I can tell you from personal experience that contract temporary workers (which no doubt were involved in the production of the engine) don't give a fiddlers [censored] about the jobs they do, even critical ones such as this, and many of them are completely incapable of doing the jobs they have in a remotely competent manner.... the automotive industry is facing SERIOUS issues if they continue to cuts costs to the bone, as you can see, the results are now reversing the long trend of increasing reliability. Honda is NOT immune to the stupid foibles of the idiot MBAs that decide such things.
Within a 90 minute drive from here, Honda has 2 assembly plants, an engine plant, and a transmission plant, along with many suppliers owned and run by unrelated (wink wink) Japanese companies. ALL of them hire through temp services. Starting around $9/hr, no benefits. They all promise if you make it to 2 years, you'll be hired on as a regular employee. But every person I've known who has worked there, gets mysteriously let go at least a couple months shy... With more suckers lining up for their jobs...
Also, Honda in the 35 or so years they have been operating in OH, haven't paid one cent in property taxes. They have made it quite clear, that if their abatement goes away, so will they...
But GM and Chrysler paid EVERYTHING they owed, to everybody, right?