Taxi Driver - Some Day A Real Rain Will Come

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[DailyBail]

Should I leave this post up?

Looking for a show of hands.

[Cheyenne]

"Some day a real rain will come and wipe all the scum off the streets."

I guess Sandy didn't bring the real rain Travis Bickel had in mind, as the NYSE is set to open tomorrow with Corzine et al. still walking without orange jumpsuits.

[DailyBail]

Site is going to be shut down later today.

http://status.squarespace.com/

[SKINFLINT]

Well, While you are shut down, here is an article about beer that you may find interesting. Our only hope is small producers who will make a decent product. I remember when AB held onto market share with a iron fist, but treated their people well and rewarded them for a job well done. Just doesn't seem like it anymore. Amazing.http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-10-25/the-plot-to-destroy-americas-beer#p6

[john]

Skin,

I know a few people who retired from AB at the New Hampshire plant. I did some work on their electrical substations back in 05 and it was a really happy place to work. They treated their people with gold gloves and I shit you not.

[SKINFLINT]

Damn right. Ran into a friend of mine who worked down here at district level and he was just riding it out. Wasn't dressed like he useta. Just old enough to not make another change, but not old enough to retire. Haven't seen him in a while.

[SKINFLINT]

Probably could have eaten off the floors there. I took a tour of the plant in Williamburg, the plant and even the horese stalls were amazingly clean. Hell the horse barn there was better than my house and they were clean shaven as well. Lil August must have pissed someone off.

[john]

Yes sir, I saw the same at a Ford plant (ZF Batavia) near Cincinnati, Ohio too. I shit you not, I could drop a sandwich on the floor and have no problem eating it. Even in the rafters there was no dust and no spider webs. I would rather have open heart surgery there then some of the hospitals I have seen. It was amazing and the people there were well treated too.

[john]

RE: the ZF Batavia plant. Partnership

In 1999, Ford partnered with ZF Friedrichshafen AG at the Batavia plant to continue production of the CD4E and to design and assemble new CVT transmissions. The joint-partnership was named ZF Batavia with ZF Friedrichshafen AG holding a 51% majority in the agreement. CVT production began in late 2003.[2] In 2005, Ford re-purchased 100% ownership of the Batavia location and renamed it Batavia Transmissions LLC. As Batavia Transmissions LLC the plant produced the CFT23 and CFT30 CVT Transmissions from 2005 to 2007. The CFT23 was used in the Ford Focus C-MAX and the CFT30 was used in the 2005-2007 models of the Ford Freestyle, Ford Five Hundred, and Mercury Montego.
[edit]Closing

The plant assembled the final CD4E Transmission on Friday, June 20, 2008. Production of service parts continued at the plant through the middle of September 2008. The closing of the Ford Batavia Transmission Plant in 2008 was part of Ford's "The Way Forward" plan, with some workers transferring to Ford's Sharonville Transmission Plant.
In July 2009, Industrial Asset Recycling LLC (IAR), Shelby Township, Michigan, which specializes in areas of Asset Recycling and Environmental Remediation, contracted with Ford Motor to Refurbish and make ready this facility for its next step.

Note: Most of my work in this area was in 05. Ford still took care of their people.

[Taxi Toronto]

Nice Video clips. i like it.