Goodyear Senior Executive Outsourced Jobs to India While Personally Benefitting from the Outsourcing Industry…annnnd She Just Departed Goodyear after Being Exposed

Corporate America has a problem. Its C-suites are stocked with ethically compromised individuals who have embraced a hostility to American labor, while wrapping themselves in a veneer of wokeness to cover the depth of their corruption and self-serving behavior.

I periodically like to highlight examples of this America-last, corporate corruption. Here is another example:

This scandal has already taken down one Goodyear executive, Mamatha Chamarthi. The company’s CEO, Mark Stewart, has not yet resigned, even though he is in the thick of the scandal. He needs to be dismissed by Goodyear’s Board of Directors. (But of course, the Board probably think they work for him, not vice versa.) Here is what happened:

• CEO Mark Stewart hired Mamatha Chamarthi as Goodyear’s “Chief Digital Officer” in 2024. Under Ms. Chamarthi’s direction, Goodyear is aggressively outsourcing jobs to India, with the full blessing of the CEO.

“Tech Mahindra to build 3,000-member GCC for Goodyear” [Outsource Accelerator – 02/10/2025]

Tech Mahindra, one of India’s leading IT services companies, is finalizing plans to establish a global capability center (GCC) for Ohio-based Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co in Hyderabad. The center, expected to employ 3,000 professionals, will focus on managing Goodyear’s research and development (R&D) and IT operations.

It goes without saying that Hyderabad is not in Ohio. It’s in India.

• Ms. Chamarthi is also the co-founder of T200, an organization with a goal of “Empowering Women in Technology.”

• Accenture is a company that specializes in providing outsourcing services and consultation, with a special focus on outsourcing jobs to India. Accenture is a potential contractor for Goodyear’s outsourcing contracts. The CEO of Accenture is Julie Sweet.

• A few weeks ago, T200 held its “Soar 2025” conference at Accenture headquarters in Chicago. Two of the three featured speakers at the T200 conference were Accenture CEO Julie Sweet and Goodyear CEO Mark Stewart.

• At the conclusion of the seminar, T200 put up a post at Linked-In that read, ”Thank you Julie Sweet and Accenture for your generous donation to T200.”

• News of this apparent ~~kickback~~ donation from Accenture to Ms. Chamarthi quickly spread among Goodyear employees and Reddit boards. Twitter/X user Karl Hollywood (@WokeCapital) picked up the story and spread it further.

• Without any press release or other announcement, Ms. Chamarthi suddenly departed Goodyear. Her biography page on the Goodyear corporate website was just scrubbed. This is the link which now reads “Sorry! We couldn’t find the page you’re looking for.” This is what used to be at the link:

• CEO Mark Stewart then provided an internal memo to Goodyear’s Global Digital & IT Associates reading in part, “Mamatha Chamarthi has left Goodyear. This departure does not change the strategic importance of our digital and IT transformation to our business. We have begun an external search for a leader with deep technical expertise and a proven track record in delivering end-to-end global IT and digital strategies…”

• Even as the behind-the-scenes drama that cost Ms. Chamarthi her job was playing out at Goodyear, Schlumberger (now known as SLB Limited) appointed her to their Board of Directors.

“SLB Limited Appoints Mamatha Chamarthi as Member of Board, Audit Committee and Energy Innovation and Technology Committee, Effective October 10, 2025” [Market Screener – 10/10/2025]

Ms. Chamarthi will also serve on the Board’s Audit Committee and Energy Innovation and Technology Committee. Ms. Chamarthi brings innovative technology and transformation experience to the Board. Ms. Chamarthi is the Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, a position she has held since July 2024.

• But just a few days later, Ms. Chamarthi was forced to resign from her newly appointed board position, as word apparently reached her fellow Schlumberger directors that Ms. Chamarthi’s ethical lapses had just ended her Goodyear career.

“SLB director Mamatha Chamarthi resigns from board” [Investing.com – 10/15/2025]

SLB Limited (NYSE:SLB) reported that Mamatha Chamarthi resigned from its Board of Directors on Sunday. According to the company’s statement in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Chamarthi’s resignation was not the result of any disagreement with SLB.

In contrast to the ethical rot that has infected Goodyear and much of the rest of corporate America, I work with many small businesses whose owners and executives are model citizens. They are generous, patriotic, loyal to their employees, and devoted to their local communities for whom they contribute so much economically. These small businesses and their owners are what make me such a proud free marketeer.

But with corporate America having become so unethical and so hostile to American labor, while also switching its allegiance from the United States to countries in Asia, a backlash is developing. The left may have co-opted the executive suites of major corporations, but the left also still dreams of imposing socialism. Team Mamdani is not a friend of corporations. But it is becoming mighty hard for those of us on the right to keep defending corporations who are so antagonistic toward everyday Americans, especially when they are engaged in such corrupt behavior for the benefit of their executives.

Corporate America must clean itself up, or voters will eventually impose a clean-up on Corporate America.

One last thing that I may want to address more fully in the future…

People like me who were once fervently anti-union, and who consistently voted to weaken organized labor, have been betrayed. In 1980, about 22% of the American workforce was unionized. People like me argued that unions made corporations less competitive due to inflated labor costs not based on market labor rates, and especially because they were paying full-time wages to idle employees and to early retirees. While I was always willing to acknowledge that unions had once served a purpose in improving hours and labor conditions, I argued that the day had passed for labor unions. And indeed, the era of private-sector unions did pass. Only about 6% of America’s private-sector work force is now unionized. My side won! We defeated organized labor and made it nearly irrelevant. So how did corporate America thank people like me for unburdening them from unions? They spit in our faces by proceeding to offshore every possible job they could. And for those jobs they couldn’t offshore, they aggressively imported a low-wage, H1B workforce that is effectively a form of chattel labor. Absolute betrayal.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at November 07, 2025 11:00 AM (kMqUr)

2 Morning, Buck

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 07, 2025 11:02 AM (2UnvF)

3 If it were only Goodyear.
It's most of them!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 07, 2025 11:02 AM (GbwPZ)

4 "Mamatha Chamarthi?"

Outsourced jobs you say? To India?

No way.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 07, 2025 11:03 AM (NwnyJ)

5 Yeah! Auto close tags FTW!

Posted by: rickb223 at November 07, 2025 11:03 AM (kMqUr)

6 Some people who have been covering this in detail, ad now are contacts for whistleblowers (so they get new stories every day):

https://x.com/realmattforney -- just hired by The Blaze

https://x.com/VBierschwale - running for office

https://x.com/WokeCapital

Posted by: Lizzy at November 07, 2025 11:04 AM (GbwPZ)

7 Corgis called

Posted by: rickb223 at November 07, 2025 11:05 AM (kMqUr)

8 willow:

338 330 >>I haven't seen whig lately. Anyone?

He popped in briefly yesterday and said he would be busy for a while dealing with health issues.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 07, 2025 11:01 AM (viF8m)
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He's got a list of them. If anyone is in contact with the Prayer List folks he should be placed on it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 07, 2025 11:06 AM (HGVuo)

9 Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm the only person on Earth who isn't on the take.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 07, 2025 11:06 AM (2UnvF)

10 It's the entire global elite that is betraying our people.

Companies need to stop hiring college graduates. Their experience and training is now detrimental to the long term survival of any enterprise.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 07, 2025 11:06 AM (zjgNU)

11 I was gonna say "BOLD!" but you already cleaned it up.

Posted by: m at November 07, 2025 11:06 AM (RuTUS)

12 Pajeets will help pajeets. Why can't white people help white people? Something something?

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at November 07, 2025 11:07 AM (YoT4f)

13 This is why I do not like or trust Ramswami. I don't believe his loyalty or interests lie with this nation.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 07, 2025 11:08 AM (uWKK8)

14 >>They spit in our faces by proceeding to offshore every possible job they could. And for those jobs they couldn’t offshore, they aggressively imported a low-wage, H1B workforce that is effectively a form of chattel labor. Absolute betrayal.

Yup.

Meta, Microsoft, others announce layoffs in the 10's of thousands while simultaneously requesting even more H1B visas than the laid off staffers.

H1B has been utterly, completely corrupted.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 07, 2025 11:08 AM (GbwPZ)

15 From the Mark Stewart announcement:

This departure does not change the strategic importance of our digital and IT transformation to our business.

Ummm, what? You make tires. Other than the sort of inventory and process control that should have been (and probably was) done decades ago, how can a digital transformation be strategically important? How can it help you make better tires?

Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 07, 2025 11:08 AM (2Insx)

16 Corporate America has a problem. Its C-suites are stocked with ethically compromised individuals who have embraced a hostility to American labor

TBF, American unions have given them plenty of ammunition. That doesn't mean the C-Suites aren't ethically compromised, though. Both can be true.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 07, 2025 11:08 AM (Riz8t)

17 Stop putting women in charge.

Posted by: 50 year old white guys at November 07, 2025 11:08 AM (c+5W9)

18 NEW SCANDAL: another USAA insider shares details on the company's collapse due to DEI and their reliance on Indian H-1Bs.

https://tinyurl.com/ykfp5ndf

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 07, 2025 11:08 AM (22p5n)

19 Companies need to stop hiring college graduates. Their experience and training is now detrimental to the long term survival of any enterprise.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 07, 2025 11:06 AM (zjgNU)

The problem is that hiring a college graduate is the only way you can be relatively sure that they know how to read and write. But even that's not guaranteed anymore.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 07, 2025 11:09 AM (uWKK8)

20 Democrats in the 90's: Stop outsourcing! We need tariffs to help American workers! Close the border!

Democrats now: Anyone against outsourcing and who supports tariffs and a border is a fascist!!!!!

Posted by: Nick at November 07, 2025 11:09 AM (nxd5O)

21 Goodyear tires are both overpriced, and not what they used to be. Along with Michelins.

Posted by: BuddyPC at November 07, 2025 11:09 AM (Lek3u)

22 Meta, Microsoft, others announce layoffs in the 10's of thousands while simultaneously requesting even more H1B visas than the laid off staffers.

Interestingly, while Microsoft is laying off so many, my nephew just got hired. He's all American. I suppose he's also cheaper than the older coders.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 07, 2025 11:09 AM (Riz8t)

23 Accenture exists because it split from Anderson Consulting in the late 1990s.
Ask someone from Houston about Arthur Anderson.

Posted by: Yyrog the Lich King at November 07, 2025 11:10 AM (yYROg)

24 India is temu AI. They just want to eliminate anything that doesn’t pad their salary directly and would love to automate it all but the tech isn’t there yet. So India.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 07, 2025 11:10 AM (3uBP9)

25 Labor used to be the single largest expense of any industrial outfit.

The rise of the investor class mercilessly demands that publicly traded companies keep their costs down so their share values rise.

End the 401k. Get American pensions out of the stock market.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at November 07, 2025 11:11 AM (GD2xa)

26 End the 401k. Get American pensions out of the stock market.

And put it where?

Posted by: Archimedes at November 07, 2025 11:11 AM (Riz8t)

27 >>>Absolute betrayal.

It's a feature.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 07, 2025 11:11 AM (i24o9)

28 Huh. A straight-up kickback. I was expecting something more exotic, like some complex ownership interest.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 07, 2025 11:11 AM (zxP/x)

29 Wogs gonna work.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 07, 2025 11:12 AM (kf346)

30 New York Post@nypost

Porn actress beheaded baby daddy to be with his son: prosecutors trib.al/PMOIDkl

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 07, 2025 11:12 AM (TGPs7)

31 She didn’t get fired for her ethical lapses. That was why they hired her. She got fired because they became public.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 07, 2025 11:12 AM (I58on)

32 Accenture exists because it split from Anderson Consulting in the late 1990s.
Ask someone from Houston about Arthur Anderson.
Posted by: Yyrog the Lich King at November 07, 2025 11:10 AM (yYROg)

Hey now... I was good buddies with George W!

Posted by: Zombie Ken Lay at November 07, 2025 11:12 AM (YoT4f)

33 Goodyear tires are both overpriced, and not what they used to be. Along with Michelins.

Posted by: BuddyPC at November 07, 2025 11:09 AM (Lek3u)

Looks like I'll be looking for another source for load range E, M+S or A/T tires. Recommendations accepted.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 07, 2025 11:12 AM (i24o9)

34 *And put it where?*

Tulip bulbs.

Posted by: They're gonna be big! at November 07, 2025 11:12 AM (c+5W9)

35 I know what will solve this, a massive tax cut for CEOs.
- GOP

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 07, 2025 11:13 AM (3qp0C)

36 12 Pajeets will help pajeets. Why can't white people help white people? Something something?
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd

It's worse than that. It's all jati and caste down there. Chamarti is Telugu from Hyderabad and I will bet she would chew off her own forearm or promote a literal Nazi than hire from Gujurat.
There's talk in Somali twitter that Omar Fateh lost because a bunch of rival Somalis voted Frey.

Posted by: Yyrog the Lich King at November 07, 2025 11:13 AM (yYROg)

37 Wait... you're saying American corporations have willingly given away American jobs, and hired foreigners to run them?

When did this happen?

Oh, that's right. When Republicans took over Congress in the 90s.

No wonder New Yakk City hired a socialist. No one is making the argument against it.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 07, 2025 11:13 AM (dGCAG)

38 So how did corporate America thank people like me for unburdening them from unions? They spit in our faces by proceeding to offshore every possible job they could. And for those jobs they couldn’t offshore, they aggressively imported a low-wage, H1B workforce that is effectively a form of chattel labor. Absolute betrayal.
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Neither of which, I suspect, would have been prevented by unionization. *Maybe* H1Bs, but only maybe. The professions were never heavily unionized even during the heyday.

But the offshoring would not have been prevented. Unionized factories moved, too. Moved first, in fact.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 07, 2025 11:14 AM (zxP/x)

39 Porn actress beheaded baby daddy to be with his son

Rule. One.

Posted by: Yyrog the Lich King at November 07, 2025 11:14 AM (yYROg)

40 OT:
Good morning, all!

The family and I have gotten a new puppy. My heart still hurts from losing my sweet Benji, but this dog is the same breed and is even more loving than he was. I still cry for him, but I think Zoey will be able to help.

Posted by: jmel at November 07, 2025 11:14 AM (RWHIh)

41 20 Democrats in the 90's: Stop outsourcing! We need tariffs to help American workers! Close the border!

Democrats now: Anyone against outsourcing and who supports tariffs and a border is a fascist!!!!!
Posted by: Nick at November 07, 2025 11:09 AM

I mean, c'mon! We need the votes!
We can't be expected to win elections solely on our clear vision, articulated sound policies, and demonstrated record of positive results. *That's* fascist *and* racist, topped with misogyny.

Posted by: BuddyPC at November 07, 2025 11:14 AM (Lek3u)

42 It was a mostly peaceful beheading.

Posted by: The media we used to watch at November 07, 2025 11:14 AM (c+5W9)

43 >>Trump admin reveals over 100 investigations into H-1B abuses as it pledges 'every resource' to protect US jobs

https://tinyurl.com/3fx3t8bv

Posted by: JackStraw at November 07, 2025 11:14 AM (viF8m)

44 Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm the only person on Earth who isn't on the take.
Posted by: Duke Lowell
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Can relate, Duke.

Posted by: scampydog at November 07, 2025 11:15 AM (2bFN5)

45 Why can't white people help white people? Something something?

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd.

Because when we do, we get sued and the Feds stomp on us.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at November 07, 2025 11:15 AM (OUMaO)

46 And put it where?
Posted by: Archimedes at November 07, 2025 11:11 AM (Riz8t)

Ukraine, obviously.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 07, 2025 11:15 AM (dGCAG)

47 >>Companies need to stop hiring college graduates. Their experience and training is now detrimental to the long term survival of any enterprise.

Spoiler alert: they have. Recent stats on fully employed recent college graduates are under 40%. They are giving entry level jobs to H1Bs and foreign college student gradates. Americans are being shut out here, and via outsourcing to India.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 07, 2025 11:16 AM (GbwPZ)

48 According to Goodyear's website, they have a compliance department, which also handles corporate "ethics." It is headed by Erin Lewis, the "Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer"

I'd say she needs to do some housecleaning, too.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 07, 2025 11:16 AM (zxP/x)

49 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 07, 2025 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)

50 For the record, I'm fervently anti-public-sector-union.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at November 07, 2025 11:16 AM (36PRH)

51 Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm the only person on Earth who isn't on the take.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

I’ve never even had offers. I find that a little insulting.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 07, 2025 11:16 AM (I58on)

52 >>>>Trump admin reveals over 100 investigations into H-1B abuses as it pledges 'every resource' to protect US jobs

How about he pause it while they investigate?
Or end it?

Posted by: Lizzy at November 07, 2025 11:17 AM (GbwPZ)

53 It is headed by Erin Lewis, the "Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer"

Never trust anyone named Erin.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 07, 2025 11:17 AM (Riz8t)

54 • CEO Mark Stewart hired Mamatha Chamarthi as Goodyear’s “Chief Digital Officer” in 2024. Under Ms. Chamarthi’s direction, Goodyear is aggressively outsourcing jobs to India, with the full blessing of the CEO.

Well, duh.

It's like Americans are really f*cking stupid and don't think such things will EVER happen.

Most imports into the US at high levels are NOT America First.

Dipshits........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 07, 2025 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)

55 44 Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm the only person on Earth who isn't on the take.
Posted by: Duke Lowell
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Can relate, Duke.
Posted by: scampydog at November 07, 2025 11:15 AM (2bFN5
Not me. All my vehicles got pretty good tires

Posted by: Eromero at November 07, 2025 11:18 AM (jgmnb)

56
jmel,

Excellent news! You will always have great memories of Benji.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 07, 2025 11:18 AM (3ek7K)

57 Ah, Accenture.

Arthur Anderson's gift that keeps on giving.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 07, 2025 11:18 AM (zxP/x)

58 Ummm, what? You make tires. Other than the sort of inventory and process control that should have been (and probably was) done decades ago, how can a digital transformation be strategically important? How can it help you make better tires?
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The profit is in running slaves. Check it out.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 07, 2025 11:19 AM (jFCkp)

59 Companies need to stop hiring college graduates. Their experience and training is now detrimental to the long term survival of any enterprise.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 07, 2025 11:06 AM (zjgNU)

The problem is that hiring a college graduate is the only way you can be relatively sure that they know how to read and write. But even that's not guaranteed anymore.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 07, 2025 11:09 AM (uWKK

When I started the term this Fall teaching at the local university where I don't teach anymore except for when I need bier money, on the first day I asked the class to tell me their name, business focus, and to name one significant/famous person they had met in their lives. Answers varied of course. Then I said my famous person was Charles Lindberhg. No one knew who he was. And this was a 300 level Business class.
I don't want to know what they are not teaching kids today.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 07, 2025 11:19 AM (2WIwB)

60 >>The family and I have gotten a new puppy. My heart still hurts from losing my sweet Benji, but this dog is the same breed and is even more loving than he was. I still cry for him, but I think Zoey will be able to help.

Excellent news, jmel!
So hard to lose a beloved pet.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 07, 2025 11:19 AM (GbwPZ)

61 100 investigations? Lol.
There needs to be 750,000 investigations. Every single H1B is fraudulent.

This is window dressing.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 07, 2025 11:19 AM (3qp0C)

62 As a man of celt ancestry I wonder what we’ve done to not be hated anymore. I feel like I’ve let the country down.

I should just randomly bonk people with my shillelagh yelling WHALE OIL BEEF HOOKED!

Posted by: banana Dream at November 07, 2025 11:19 AM (3uBP9)

63 Buck you're still missing the problem. Ask why the American worker has become so expensive that, despite the lower productivity, it is more affordable for businesses to import foreign labor. From insurance to OSHA to minimum wages to diversity, the millions (literally) of rules that are placed on our workforce has driven up the cost of employment exponentially. Get government out of the private sector and these problems that you mention above will go away.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at November 07, 2025 11:20 AM (P7Iz+)

64 Answers varied of course. Then I said my famous person was Charles Lindberhg. No one knew who he was. And this was a 300 level Business class.
I don't want to know what they are not teaching kids today.

I'll bet they can all identify Maya Angelou, Buttigieg, and AOC.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 07, 2025 11:21 AM (Riz8t)

65 Good write up, Buck.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 07, 2025 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)

66 *reads most excellent blog post*

Scum sucking pigs!

Offsprings of motherless goats!!

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 07, 2025 11:22 AM (wVcYX)

67 The profit is in running slaves. Check it out.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 07, 2025 11:19 AM (jFCkp)

Is EVERYONE in the child sex trafficking biz? I thought it was just Wayfair. And the CIA.

Jeez, do they hide the kids IN the tires?

Posted by: BurtTC at November 07, 2025 11:22 AM (dGCAG)

68 CEO Mark Stewart hired Mamatha Chamarthi as Goodyear’s “Chief Digital Officer” in 2024. Under Ms. Chamarthi’s direction, Goodyear is aggressively outsourcing jobs to India, with the full blessing of the CEO.

You buy our tire!
Very good tire.
You like longtime!

Posted by: Yokohama Tires Inc at November 07, 2025 11:23 AM (2WIwB)

69 Big Tech essentially has a “no whites need apply” sign at the door. There are entire departments at Google and Amazon that are Indian. Like not majority Indian, 100% Indian.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 07, 2025 11:23 AM (3qp0C)

70 is burtTC the new Temu chemjeff ? just asking questions..

Posted by: alpine_beer at November 07, 2025 11:23 AM (van9r)

71 A patriotic economical union.

Posted by: thug dolphin at November 07, 2025 11:23 AM (EyfuW)

72 AN update:

Despite getting fired by Goodyear and removed from the SLB board, Mamatha Chamarthi was still awarded 2025 Woman of the Year in Technology by some DEI group in Michigan.

https://tinyurl.com/3dppdcsw

Posted by: Lizzy at November 07, 2025 11:23 AM (GbwPZ)

73 Ummm, what? You make tires. Other than the sort of inventory and process control that should have been (and probably was) done decades ago, how can a digital transformation be strategically important? How can it help you make better tires?
Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 07, 2025 11:08 AM (2Insx)
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Modern factories are incredibly high-tech, with huge sensor networks, tons of automation, lots of bespoke requirements, etc. A factory is a complicated place, and it gets more so when you add in supply chain, distribution and marketing channel.

Yes, it's been going on for decades, and this often leads to very fragile systems ripe for rework. Sometimes that rework gets done, and things run better. Sometimes that rework is *not* done, but used as an excuse to fire everyone and farm out maintenance to someone else.

"Digital Transformation" means one of:
1. Modernizing applications to add functionality or flexibility or robustness and reduce bugs and redundancies that pile up over time, nowadays often involving "cloud" or "AI" (at least as buzzwords)
2. Maintenance of the status quo, but farmed out to a contractor for lower net cost

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 07, 2025 11:23 AM (zxP/x)

74 Never trust anyone named Erin.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 07, 2025 11:17 AM (Riz8t)

Dated a girl name Erin while in high school. She was a really good tennis player. She still ranks in the top 5 most beautiful eyes I've ever stared into.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 07, 2025 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)

75 Also Buddha took her forehead red spot for lying and sex.

Posted by: thug dolphin at November 07, 2025 11:25 AM (EyfuW)

76 I'll bet they can all identify Maya Angelou, Buttigieg, and AOC.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 07, 2025 11:21 AM (Riz8t)

No doubt for the American kids. The Chinese and Vietnamese students, maybe not.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 07, 2025 11:25 AM (2WIwB)

77 75% tax on wages above $1,000,000 if your company employs H1-Bs

Posted by: mr tmz at November 07, 2025 11:25 AM (rJ48h)

78 20 Democrats in the 90's: Stop outsourcing! We need tariffs to help American workers! Close the border!

Democrats now: Anyone against outsourcing and who supports tariffs and a border is a fascist!!!!!
Posted by: Nick at November 07, 2025 11:09 AM (nxd5O)

That's a good example of how Democrats have abandoned the working class, and Trump has picked them up. Democrats are now the party of AWFL's, LGBTQ activists, Illegal Aliens and their supporters, and University professors. Oh and Government workers.
Problem is that in places like NYC, NJ, and Virginia that now apparently makes up a majority.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 07, 2025 11:25 AM (uWKK8)

79 If GoodYear's stint as the sole provider of tires for NASCAR shows us anything, they make an incredibly shitty tire and should be taught they need to be better. A LOT better.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 07, 2025 11:26 AM (Zz0t1)

80 Women breaking a lot more than just the glass ceiling .

Posted by: the way I see it at November 07, 2025 11:26 AM (EYmYM)

81 From insurance to OSHA to minimum wages to diversity, the millions (literally) of rules that are placed on our workforce has driven up the cost of employment exponentially. Get government out of the private sector and these problems that you mention above will go away.

Ummmm....
Sarah Friar, OpenAI’s CFO, faced widespread online pushback after she raised the prospect of government aid for the company at a WSJ technology conference. OpenAI has embarked on a deal spree to build computing infrastructure to power A.I. development, and Ms. Friar said the company wanted to find creative ways to finance its ambitious — and expensive — plans... “This is where we’re looking for an ecosystem of banks, private equity, maybe even governmental, the ways governments can come to bear,” Ms. Friar said ...that it would be “the backstop, the guarantee that allows the financing to happen.”

Ms. Friar said that using the word “backstop” had “muddied the point...American strength in technology will come from building real industrial capacity which requires the private sector and government playing their part

https://is.gd/7c63M6

Posted by: Archimedes at November 07, 2025 11:26 AM (Riz8t)

82 Buck you're still missing the problem. Ask why the American worker has become so expensive that, despite the lower productivity, it is more affordable for businesses to import foreign labor. From insurance to OSHA to minimum wages to diversity, the millions (literally) of rules that are placed on our workforce has driven up the cost of employment exponentially. Get government out of the private sector and these problems that you mention above will go away.
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at November 07, 2025 11:20 AM (P7Iz+)
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Medical is the big one. American medicine is simply too big and too expensive.

This *will* be reckoned with, one way or another and probably fairly soon. The government can cut out all of the special rules, carve-outs, etc. and force it back into a market so the price collapses, or it can take over the whole thing and go single-payer and start cutting it, but one of those will happen. My bet is on the latter.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 07, 2025 11:26 AM (zxP/x)

83
factories are incredibly high-tech, with huge sensor networks, tons of automation, lots of bespoke requirements, etc. A factory is a complicated place, and it gets more so when you add in supply chain, distribution and marketing channel.

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Yeah no matter the widgets made every company needs a ton of digital processes.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 07, 2025 11:26 AM (3qp0C)

84 Lawyers come in for a lot of abuse but nothing has been more destructive to America, IMO, than the MBA, that basically credentialed dunces with no business sense.

They get hired on, the fail up, and the only thing they can read is the ledger.
Where employees are always an expense to cut.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 07, 2025 11:26 AM (daMO2)

85 Accenture exists because it split from Anderson Consulting in the late 1990s.
Ask someone from Houston about Arthur Anderson.
Posted by: Yyrog the Lich King at November 07, 2025 11:10 AM (yYROg)

I spit on their corporate grave.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 07, 2025 11:27 AM (wVcYX)

86 @LeadingReport
·
1h
BREAKING: John Thune: “I’m willing to give Democrats all the things they want.”

Posted by: Don Black, most days at November 07, 2025 11:27 AM (AOsQT)

87 *Never trust anyone named Erin.*

But Joanie LOVES me!

Posted by: Scott Baio at November 07, 2025 11:27 AM (c+5W9)

88 is burtTC the new Temu chemjeff ? just asking questions..
Posted by: alpine_beer at November 07, 2025 11:23 AM (van9r)

Oh, you got me there, nic I've never seen before.

I can't stand the intellectual depth here today, I must depart.

Flounce, you might say.

Have fun storming the castle, kids.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 07, 2025 11:28 AM (dGCAG)

89 It's Christmas on Capitol Hill.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 07, 2025 11:28 AM (2OBCo)

90 John Thune: “I’m willing to give Democrats all the things they want.”
___

Like there was any doubt he wouldn't.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 07, 2025 11:28 AM (22p5n)

91 We are proud to hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards and honored to be selected by Ethisphere as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies for the second year in a row. In 2025, Goodyear was among only seven companies from the automotive industry to earn this recognition for our best-in-class ethics, compliance and governance practices.
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They'll probably be on it next year, too. They forced out the woman who got the kickback, so the "ethical culture" is well intact.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 07, 2025 11:28 AM (zxP/x)

92 ·
1h
BREAKING: John Thune: “I’m willing to give Democrats all the things they want.”

Posted by: Don Black, most days at November 07, 2025 11:27 AM (AOsQT)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at November 07, 2025 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)

93 Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm the only person on Earth who isn't on the take.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

I’ve never even had offers. I find that a little insulting.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 07, 2025 11:16 AM (I58on)

It's an elitist* and exclusive club and we're not in it.

*apply the worst possible connotation to this term in this usage.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 07, 2025 11:29 AM (wVcYX)

94 Posted by: BurtTC at November 07, 2025 11:28 AM (dGCAG)

About time.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 07, 2025 11:29 AM (EYmYM)

95 Not the Hill to die on.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 07, 2025 11:29 AM (2OBCo)

96
I can't stand the intellectual depth here today, I must depart.

Flounce, you might say.

Have fun storming the castle, kids.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 07, 2025 11:28 AM (dGCAG)

Declaring yourself the smartest person in the room usually proves you're not.

Just sayin.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 07, 2025 11:30 AM (Zz0t1)

97 Another, related, problem is that corporations have gotten too big.

It's a result of government, because it's cheaper to deal with government regulations the larger you are, but it's very detrimental to a functioning, growing, innovating economy.

Our banks, communications, financial institutions, manufacturing ALL never should have been allowed to merge into these massive conglomerates.

We need to start making the environment detrimental to large companies and beneficial to the small ones.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 07, 2025 11:30 AM (zjgNU)

98 Excellent.

Now, unfortunately, the damage being done to the ACA/Medicare/Medicaid in hospital charges and fraud, including both individuals and companies convicted or charged for schemes involving false claims, kickbacks, and illegal billing practices.

By no means does it involve an entire community, but there are some large scale cases that highlight fraud w/i our current healthcare system and cement the reason why progressives cannot always have their way with the ACA, especially when it comes to extending C19 provisions that have always been scheduled - regardless of administration - to end.

And there are the internal conflicts for US employment, too, i.e.,

>Grandandhra dot com: 'Are You Telugu?' - Hiring Row Rocks US Firms By Mahesh On September 25 , 2025

>Apr 08, 2025, 'US Company Fires 200 In 'Donation Scam' Related To Telugu Organizations'

In part, "US federal mortgage giant Fannie Mae has laid off about 700 employees, including Telugu workers, over the two days. About 200, a majority of them Telugu, were fired on "ethical grounds," The Times Of India reported, citing sources."

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 07, 2025 11:30 AM (NFX2v)

99 Snapocalypse Now!

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 07, 2025 11:30 AM (2OBCo)

100 Modern factories are incredibly high-tech, with huge sensor networks, tons of automation, lots of bespoke requirements, etc. A factory is a complicated place, and it gets more so when you add in supply chain, distribution and marketing channel.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 07, 2025 11:23 AM

Dude, that's what I do. I make things with computers, (it's what "Cybersmythe" means, ya know?) I worked on a lot of the systems you're talking about at all parts of a lot of businesses.

None of the stuff you list is transformative. It's all evolutionary, not revolutionary. It's like talking about how building a new factory is going to be transformative because apparently no one has thought to make tires in a building before, or something. Yes, you can improve your process, and the improvement is important from a competitive perspective, but transformative? I'm not buying it.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 07, 2025 11:31 AM (2Insx)

101 BREAKING: John Thune: “I’m willing to give Democrats all the things they want.”

Now THAT'S how you win a standoff!!!!

Posted by: France at November 07, 2025 11:31 AM (Zz0t1)

102 My husband has been saddled with a group of about a hundred Indians who can't pass tests for licensing to work for the bank. They're on year two. When is "cheap" labor actually cheap?

Posted by: NCKate at November 07, 2025 11:31 AM (4bYb7)

103 Here’s my question- why does Goodyear need a “Global IT whatchamacallit” don’t they make tires? Shouldn’t their IT footprint be minimized to the extent that it supports the making and selling of tires only?

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 07, 2025 11:31 AM (hlNLQ)

104 Hey now... I was good buddies with George W!
Posted by: Zombie Ken Lay at November 07, 2025 11:12 AM (YoT4f)
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Ken Lay is an odd character. I am not sure how much of it was really him. A lot of it, and he certainly knew about and approved all of it and it's good that he went down hard but most of it wasn't his idea.

Ken Lay's biggest (and greatest, right until it was very suddenly the worst) move was hiring Jeff Skilling.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 07, 2025 11:31 AM (zxP/x)

105 factories are incredibly high-tech, with huge sensor networks, tons of automation, lots of bespoke requirements, etc. A factory is a complicated place, and it gets more so when you add in supply chain, distribution and marketing channel.

-

Yeah no matter the widgets made every company needs a ton of digital processes.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 07, 2025 11:26 AM (3qp0C)

Back when MacDonald Douglas merged with Boeing, teams from each company went back and forth to visit their respective sites. I just happened to be at the 737 assembly plant in Renton when they showed up for their visit. The Mac-D site in Long Beach was 1950's technology...welders, rivet guns, noise, shouting, grinders...a typical American factory.
The looks on their faces when they walked into the 737 main floor was laughable. The noisiest thing going was the electric crane overhead lifting a new fuselage into place. Quiet, focused, automated. Astounding modern factory. The Mac-D guys knew in that moment why they were out of business in the airliner market.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 07, 2025 11:32 AM (2WIwB)

106 81 She and her boss Altman backpedaled on backstopping so fast I got whiplash.

I looked her up, thinking she must be young and inexperienced. Nope. No excuses.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 07, 2025 11:33 AM (1Nv0l)

107 Corporate America has a problem. Its C-suites are stocked with ethically compromised individuals who have embraced a hostility to American labor, while wrapping themselves in a veneer of wokeness to cover the depth of their corruption and self-serving behavior.
====

Have you met my friend Hadrian?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 07, 2025 11:34 AM (lkBjo)

108 We're gettin' hongry...

Posted by: The snapanese at November 07, 2025 11:34 AM (c+5W9)

109 You are welcome.

Posted by: alpine_beer at November 07, 2025 11:34 AM (van9r)

110 Here’s my question- why does Goodyear need a “Global IT whatchamacallit” don’t they make tires? Shouldn’t their IT footprint be minimized to the extent that it supports the making and selling of tires only?
Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 07, 2025 11:31 AM (hlNLQ)

Dell outsourced it's end user support to India a couple decades ago. It was so atrocious, after millions of complaints and users refusing to buy Dell, they moved everything back to Austin.

I think, as I haven't called them in a LONG time, they're still housed in Austin

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 07, 2025 11:34 AM (Zz0t1)

111 You buy our tire!
Very good tire.
You like longtime!
Posted by: Yokohama Tires Inc at November 07, 2025 11:23 AM (2WIwB)

Indeed. I've not had a bad one. They no longer make my 2001 F-150's size truck tire, at least at last replacement. Sadz.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 07, 2025 11:35 AM (wVcYX)

112 None of the stuff you list is transformative. It's all evolutionary, not revolutionary. It's like talking about how building a new factory is going to be transformative because apparently no one has thought to make tires in a building before, or something. Yes, you can improve your process, and the improvement is important from a competitive perspective, but transformative? I'm not buying it.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 07, 2025 11:31 AM (2Insx)
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Technologically, this if often true. Business-wise, it is always true. It's another tool in your box to get the job done. It isn't a transformation of the tire business by any means, it is the continuing evolution of *a* tire business.

Organizationally, it often *is* transformative, even if the technology in play is a relatively minor evolutionary change. "Digital Transformation" is one of my least favorite terms because it is all things to all men (great for marketing, though, as a result of that). In my experience, it always means "we're moving our legacy applications to the cloud" (major reconstruction of the IT division with downstream effects in operations) or "we're outsourcing. GTFO."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 07, 2025 11:36 AM (zxP/x)

113 15 apologies to Cybersmythe for making basically the same comment. May need to change my outdated practice of reading the content, making a topical comment if so inclined, then reading the comments. Fails to account for horde mind. Probably should expand/outsource my IT department to India to synergize and sharpen the Farmer Bob Inc, comment function thereby increasing market share.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 07, 2025 11:36 AM (hlNLQ)

114 Welcome to Indian Territory.

Posted by: Colonel Custer at November 07, 2025 11:36 AM (TezPK)

115 >> It goes without saying that Hyderabad is not in Ohio.

Give it time.

Posted by: Vivek Ramaswamy at November 07, 2025 11:36 AM (l3YAf)

116 Buck, unions aren't irrelevant. The teachers' unions and SEIU wield enormous power.

Posted by: Nemo at November 07, 2025 11:37 AM (4RPgu)

117 Welcome to Indian Territory.

Posted by: Colonel Custer at November 07, 2025 11:36 AM (TezPK)

Lookit all the fucking Indians!

Posted by: Private Smith, 7th Cavalry at November 07, 2025 11:38 AM (wVcYX)

118 Problem with India is they are a third world country with the 'good enough' attitude ingrained in their culture. Way worse than Mexico imo.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 07, 2025 11:38 AM (EYmYM)

119 Indeed. I've not had a bad one. They no longer make my 2001 F-150's size truck tire, at least at last replacement. Sadz.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 07, 2025 11:35 AM (wVcYX)

Hmmm...that's good to know. I like them too. I have a 150. A 2019. Going to need tires in the Spring. I'll be shopping.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 07, 2025 11:38 AM (2WIwB)

120 30- ashamed of legendary NY Post headline writer- could have gone with: Professional head giver takes head instead

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 07, 2025 11:39 AM (hlNLQ)

121 Problem with India is they are a third world country with the 'good enough' attitude ingrained in their culture. Way worse than Mexico imo.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 07, 2025 11:38 AM (EYmYM)

If you can read a script, you can fix ANYTHING.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 07, 2025 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)

122 I'm more worried about Indian immigrants now than from our neighbors south of the border.

They really have a parasitic view of the United States. I'm hoping AI sends a lot of these people home.

Schools in my area are just full of H-1 families.

Posted by: Leupold at November 07, 2025 11:39 AM (eIzlH)

123 Problem with India is they are a third world country with the 'good enough' attitude ingrained in their culture. Way worse than Mexico imo.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 07, 2025 11:38 AM (EYmYM)
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Perhaps.

Corruption as the daily expectation and cartelization of everything is a also a pretty serious problem.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 07, 2025 11:39 AM (zxP/x)

124 An anecdote to accompany comment 100. (Wow! I got 100!) A couple of years ago, I interviewed at Lincoln Electric, and when I sat down in the conference room for the Q&A session the head guy said something like "If you're familiar at all with Lincoln Electric, you know you're seriously analog. You may have asked yourself why we're looking for a robotics guy." To which I responded, "I am familiar with Lincoln Electric and that question did cross my mind."

They make automatic welders and welding inspection devices. We got along great, but they promoted someone internal who was already familiar with the ecosystem. That led me to getting the best job ever, so I hope it worked out as well for them as it did for me.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 07, 2025 11:40 AM (2Insx)

125 On the road to Mandalay,
Where the old Flotilla lay,
With our sick beneath the awnings when we went to Mandalay!
O the road to Mandalay,
Where the flyin'-fishes play,
An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!

Posted by: Ear Worm at November 07, 2025 11:40 AM (Riz8t)

126 Idle speculation that a good many of you here had some work experience before you ever went to college.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 07, 2025 11:40 AM (zzXla)

127 This is an area where the GOP could actually do something to help young white men. End H1B.
Don't’ tinker with it don’t “investigate” it. End it.

But will they? Of course not. Their chamber of commerce donors would never allow it. And then people wonder why young white men gravitate to people like Nick Fuentes.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 07, 2025 11:40 AM (3qp0C)

128 Wait.
Who outsourced jobs to India?
Mamatha Chamarthi?

Posted by: Operator Error at November 07, 2025 11:41 AM (0oWPg)

129 Part of the problem is that the corporate executive teams and boards have been infiltrated and infected by hordes of foreigners -- mostly dot-Indians -- with no respect for traditional American values or even Americans, period.

They are from Machiavellian, every-man-for-themselves cultures (with a heavy dose of socialism) where selling your grandmother for extra profit is acceptable. They see America and Americans as sheep ready for exploitation and eventual slaughter.

Indians are like a cancer. You let one into a c-suite, they will move heaven and earth to get more in like them. Then those new ones bring in more, ad infinitum. Letting even a single one into a company -- or the country -- was national suicide.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 07, 2025 11:41 AM (iFTx/)

130 My husband has been saddled with a group of about a hundred Indians who can't pass tests for licensing to work for the bank. They're on year two. When is "cheap" labor actually cheap?
Posted by: NCKate

Closest thing we could get since our cheapest source was eliminated in 1861.

Posted by: DemonCrats at November 07, 2025 11:41 AM (TezPK)

131 They really have a parasitic view of the United States. I'm hoping AI sends a lot of these people home.

(Ed. note: They will not be sent home.)

Posted by: Archimedes at November 07, 2025 11:41 AM (Riz8t)

132 Lookit all the fucking Indians!
Posted by: Private Smith, 7th Cavalry at November 07, 2025 11:38 AM (wVcYX)

Indian motherfuckers!

Private Jerome

Posted by: the way I see it at November 07, 2025 11:42 AM (EYmYM)

133 *Professional head giver takes head instead.*

Candidate for Comment Of The Week

Posted by: Lol! at November 07, 2025 11:42 AM (c+5W9)

134 Just received an email notification on another of Trump's outrages!

The former director of the Eisenhower museum claims he was forced to resign after explaining that President could not legally give a sword from the museum’s collection to King Charles III.

Eisenhower, the greatest Republican President of the 20th century, would despise everything about this current Republican Party and Trump.

The magahats probably think he's a RINO. Also, being proudly Antifa was a cornerstone of his electoral appeal.

Dwight Eisenhower was the last Republican President to leave the White House without a deep scandal or being a disgrace. That was 64 years ago.

The worst part was the guy said he still supports trump. Nothing will stop them from voting republican again, nothing will break them out of the cult.

"'It's just the day-to-day' which gives him pause." The "day-to-day," meaning that each day we awaken, Trump commits another atrocity. "I like how he's fixing the country and making it great again, except for all these reasons why he's actually ruining the country and making my life harder.

I mean, what do you even do with dumb fucks like this?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 07, 2025 11:42 AM (JCZqz)

135 And then people wonder why young white men gravitate to people like Nick Fuentes.

Do you have any actual numbers?

Posted by: Archimedes at November 07, 2025 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

136
Schools in my area are just full of H-1 families.
Posted by: Leupold at November 07, 2025 11:39 AM (eIzlH)

They're building a "master planned" community north of Dallas. The plan was to cost a couple mil of taxpayer dollars and included a sports complex that had 2 cricket fields (I don't care what they're called) because it's a community solely designed for all the H-1B visa holders in Dallas.

The surrounding areas footing the bill were NOT pleased.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 07, 2025 11:42 AM (Zz0t1)

137 #115, lol.

Of course the corporate types who have been outsourcing are not the same people who were around when the parasitical/destructive unions Buck talks about were being weakened.

So "betrayal" in this case sort of is complicated. Also of course the ruinous labor costs that some unions helped create/impose were one reason outsourcing - which is economically rational in many cases - got its start.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 07, 2025 11:42 AM (U/Byj)

138 Nice outfit she’s wearing. Did she rob a 19th century graveyard for that shirt?

Let me repeat this. India isn’t America and I don’t want products, medicines or anything else from a country where more than half the people don’t even have indoor plumbing.

FU Goodyear.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 07, 2025 11:42 AM (pTr2w)

139 Corruption as the daily expectation and cartelization of everything is a also a pretty serious problem.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 07, 2025 11:39 AM (zxP/x)

Agreed

Posted by: the way I see it at November 07, 2025 11:43 AM (EYmYM)

140 Dell outsourced it's end user support to India a couple decades ago. It was so atrocious, after millions of complaints and users refusing to buy Dell, they moved everything back to Austin.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 07, 2025 11:34 AM

Customer service is the public face of your company for your customers. Outsource it at your peril.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 07, 2025 11:43 AM (2Insx)

141 If you want to see how abusive and destructive big corporations are, look at the story of Sysco.

Ho Lee Fuk.

You know why all food at all restaurants is almost always bland shit?
Sysco.
They are killing the American dining experience and choking farmers to death.

America is in sore need of some massive, aggressive monopoly busting--and we need to expand the definition of "monopoly."
Like, all the top 2 corporations in every industry should be basically counted as a monopoly.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 07, 2025 11:44 AM (daMO2)

142
Customer service is the public face of your company for your customers. Outsource it at your peril.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 07, 2025 11:43 AM (2Insx)

THIS.

*AT&T scoffs at the suggestion*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 07, 2025 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)

143 Hmmm...that's good to know. I like them too. I have a 150. A 2019. Going to need tires in the Spring. I'll be shopping.
Posted by: Diogenes

Checkout Cooper Tires. I had two sets of ATs on my F250 Crew. Wore really well and as quiet as highway tires. Made in the USA, too.

Posted by: Joe Mama at November 07, 2025 11:45 AM (TezPK)

144 factories are incredibly high-tech, with huge sensor networks, tons of automation, lots of bespoke requirements, etc. A factory is a complicated place, and it gets more so when you add in supply chain, distribution and marketing channel.

—

Paper route at 10. Then summer job every year from 8th grade on.

But to be fair, today it’s kinda hard for kids to have that. McDonald’s doesn’t hike Joe anymore only Jose who can barely say the word Big Mac in English.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 07, 2025 11:45 AM (3qp0C)

145 Customer service is the public face of your company for your customers. Outsource it at your peril.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 07, 2025 11:43 AM (2Insx)
++++
:: yawn ::

Posted by: Virtually every tech company at November 07, 2025 11:45 AM (zxP/x)

146 The unions are largely dogshit. They indeed did help drive a lot of these industries offshore, and they will continue to do so. It’s why Trump should be very careful about a relationship with these people. Their wage and benefit demands are outrageous. You work for the company and the company needs to make a profit and if public pay the shareholders.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 07, 2025 11:45 AM (pTr2w)

147
Ummm, what? You make tires. Other than the sort of inventory and process control that should have been (and probably was) done decades ago, how can a digital transformation be strategically important? How can it help you make better tires?
Posted by: Cybersmythe

Smart Tires!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 07, 2025 11:46 AM (pkeXY)

148 But to be fair, today it’s kinda hard for kids to have that. McDonald’s doesn’t hike Joe anymore only Jose who can barely say the word Big Mac in English.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 07, 2025 11:45 AM (3qp0C)
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I live in a place with almost no illegals. Teenagers have jobs here. Hadn't seen that in a long time before I moved. It's a good thing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 07, 2025 11:46 AM (zxP/x)

149 Customer service is the public face of your company for your customers. Outsource it at your peril.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 07, 2025 11:43 AM (2Insx)

THIS.

*AT&T scoffs at the suggestion*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Amazon and Xfinity have entered the chat.

Posted by: Joe Mama at November 07, 2025 11:46 AM (TezPK)

150 I mean, what do you even do with dumb fucks like this?
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

Don't read Reddit. I haven't been back after my third-or-fourth permaban for pointing out that chicks with dicks are dudes or that maybe we should consider the possibility that covid came from the institute for studying covids.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 07, 2025 11:47 AM (1Nv0l)

151 "Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
43m
BREAKING: The US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled that schools CANNOT force students to use "preferred pronouns"

The ruling states that there is "no evidence that the use of biological pronouns would disrupt school functions or qualify as harassment under Ohio law. "

Posted by: runner at November 07, 2025 11:47 AM (g47mK)

152 Their wage and benefit demands are outrageous. You work for the company and the company needs to make a profit and if public pay the shareholders.

Nahhhhh...

Posted by: Joey Bananas at November 07, 2025 11:47 AM (Riz8t)

153 Amazon and Xfinity have entered the chat.
Posted by: Joe Mama at November 07, 2025 11:46 AM (TezPK)

*fistbump*

Posted by: FSA/HSA Providers Everywhere at November 07, 2025 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)

154 A lot of companies have now offshored their CS to India. They are trying to teach these people to get rid of their accents. They’re even using various tools to mask their voices. So you’re personal information for say, your healthcare is being gone over by third world idiots in places like India.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 07, 2025 11:47 AM (pTr2w)

155 Anecdotally, it is the large tech companies that seem to be doing the large layoffs these days. Nearly all of the Mag 7 have announced RIF's, and sometimes multiple rounds.

American engineers out of jobs by the thousands was not my guess for 2025

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 07, 2025 11:47 AM (se5Oh)

156 Most Americans do not seem to comprehend that most other countries are ethnucally nation-states. (To those of you in Riolinda, that means they all look all look and act alike)... and they favor their own. (To those of you in Riolinda, that means they are really fvcking racist)

Posted by: Operator Error at November 07, 2025 11:47 AM (0oWPg)

157 My side won! We defeated organized labor and made it nearly irrelevant. So how did corporate America thank people like me for unburdening them from unions? They spit in our faces by proceeding to offshore every possible job they could. And for those jobs they couldn’t offshore, they aggressively imported a low-wage, H1B workforce that is effectively a form of chattel labor. Absolute betrayal.

Crystalline. I want this embroidered on a pillow.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 07, 2025 11:47 AM (jc0TO)

158 59 When I started the term this Fall teaching at the local university where I don't teach anymore except for when I need bier money, on the first day I asked the class to tell me their name, business focus, and to name one significant/famous person they had met in their lives. Answers varied of course. Then I said my famous person was Charles Lindberhg. No one knew who he was. And this was a 300 level Business class.
I don't want to know what they are not teaching kids today.
Posted by: Diogenes at November 07, 2025 11:19 AM (2WIwB)

That is pretty cool considering he passed away over 50 years ago.

Coming up to the 100th anniversary of his first solo non-stop flight, and every year fewer mentions of the anniversary in the media...This year I saw nothing mentioned.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 07, 2025 11:47 AM (y171U)

159 Spoiler alert: they have. Recent stats on fully employed recent college graduates are under 40%. They are giving entry level jobs to H1Bs and foreign college student gradates. Americans are being shut out here, and via outsourcing to India.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 07, 2025 11:16 AM (GbwPZ)

And of the 40% employed, 1/2 are at the equivalent of slave labor wages b/c they are still competing with the same for the entry level jobs...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 07, 2025 11:48 AM (tOcjL)

160 >>> 141 If you want to see how abusive and destructive big corporations are, look at the story of Sysco.

Ho Lee Fuk.

You know why all food at all restaurants is almost always bland shit?
Sysco.
They are killing the American dining experience and choking farmers to death.

America is in sore need of some massive, aggressive monopoly busting--and we need to expand the definition of "monopoly."
Like, all the top 2 corporations in every industry should be basically counted as a monopoly.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 07, 2025 11:44 AM (daMO2)

While I Am Not A Lawyer, I seriously doubt there is a need to make any change to antitrust laws (ok, maybe minor tweaks, but certainly not an overhaul). I want OrangeManBad and team to *start* by doing the same thing with antitrust laws as he did with immigration laws - start fcking *enforcing* those laws.

(I bet it would be helpful if they did the same with a whole shitload of other existing laws!)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 07, 2025 11:48 AM (ULPxl)

161 Posted by: Joemarine at November 07, 2025 11:47 AM (y171U)

He was a Nazi !!!

Posted by: the way I see it at November 07, 2025 11:49 AM (EYmYM)

162 Pleasing to help you at Dell this morning my name is Steve. May I have your account ID please?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 07, 2025 11:49 AM (3qp0C)

163 148- I grew up in the small town of Pace, FL. Ithe Mac’s is staffed by high school kids. It has fast, friendly service, if they get your order wrong (rare) they fix it with a smile. For years I didn’t get the joke about “always getting your order wrong” then I experienced Mac’s in Tally, Pensacola, Tuscaloosa, Mobile, and Philly. Now I get it.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 07, 2025 11:50 AM (hlNLQ)

164 158 59 When I started the term this Fall teaching at the local university where I don't teach anymore except for when I need bier money, on the first day I asked the class to tell me their name, business focus, and to name one significant/famous person they had met in their lives. Answers varied of course. Then I said my famous person was Charles Lindberhg. No one knew who he was. And this was a 300 level Business class.
I don't want to know what they are not teaching kids today.
Posted by: Diogenes at November 07, 2025 11:19 AM (2WIwB)

See, that's a trick question, b/c I'd never answer honestly now b/c it would out my politics...so, I'd have to go with someone lame...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 07, 2025 11:50 AM (tOcjL)

165 Coming up to the 100th anniversary of his first solo non-stop flight, and every year fewer mentions of the anniversary in the media...This year I saw nothing mentioned.

To be fair, for the average yoot today it's hard to imagine why anyone got so excited about flying across the Atlantic. They can barely get excited about going to the moon.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 07, 2025 11:50 AM (Riz8t)

166 Just so. Free Enterprise, not Capitalism. These are not the same things now.

Posted by: GrenadierX at November 07, 2025 11:50 AM (M3pDV)

167 I grew up in the small town of Pace, FL. Ithe Mac’s is staffed by high school kids. It has fast, friendly service, if they get your order wrong (rare) they fix it with a smile. For years I didn’t get the joke about “always getting your order wrong” then I experienced Mac’s in Tally, Pensacola, Tuscaloosa, Mobile, and Philly. Now I get it.

Pffffft.

Posted by: KFC at November 07, 2025 11:51 AM (Riz8t)

168 1000% about Indian good enough attitude. Pair that with the “it’s not my fault” attitude. It’s always a blame game with them. Never have I seen one admit they did something wrong. It’s either someone else’s fault or instructions weren’t clear clear or whatever.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 07, 2025 11:51 AM (3qp0C)

169 I am anti-immigration, and I don't care what names anyone calls me. Of course I want every illegal alien deported with extreme prejudice; I also want another long pause on legal immigration like we've done in the past, this time for 50-100 years, until we've fully assimilated the ones already here. No more visas except tourist or diplomatic, and with teams in vans ready to swoop in and forcibly take them to the airport if they overstay.

I propose this functional definition for a Fake American: a U.S. resident who (despite heterosexuality) is aware of when the World Cup is on, and (despite American citizenship) roots for a different team, even to flying another country's flag and wearing its colors.

There. No need to pretend to peer into anyone's soul. Observable, functional, workable, and a good practical test for whether assimilation is complete and we can lift the immigration pause.

Posted by: SciVo at November 07, 2025 11:52 AM (VB5xp)

170 134
‘ I mean, what do you even do with dumb fucks like this?’

Ready! Aim ! BLAM!!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 07, 2025 11:52 AM (jbnUc)

171 Customer service is the public face of your company for your customers. Outsource it at your peril.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 07, 2025 11:43 AM (2Insx)

THIS.

*AT&T scoffs at the suggestion*
Posted by: Sponge

There's a reason our customers pay a little more for our product vs our competitors. If you call 24/7/365 with a problem with your load, you will get a live, US based human that speaks English and is authorized to do whatever is necessary to fix the problem. Yeah. Our customers rely on that.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 07, 2025 11:52 AM (kMqUr)

172 Speaking of cultural incompatibility and moral incompatibility, I am now remembering something that happened when I was a freshman at Vanderbilt in 1974. My stupid New Jersey roommate had struck up a conversation with a couple of Indians in the campus Pub and the next morning, the younger one, Israr, had somehow gotten into our restricted girls dormitory and was sitting on our beds at 7:30 in the morning telling us that we needed to relieve him of his virginity. He also told us that his friends back home said that when you get to america, blonde girls will surround your plane and want you to have sex with them. It took about half an hour for us to talk him into leaving because we were pinned in our beds in our nighties and did not want to get out from under the covers.

Then there was his Charming pal nasir, who was a gynecologist, which still horrifies me. He spotted me at the campus Pub a few days later and tried to latch on to me and was telling me about how he would not wear underwear when he examined his female patients so his hard-on had plenty of room. Then this creep followed me back to my dormitory .... (cont.)

Posted by: Beverly at November 07, 2025 11:53 AM (Epeb0)

173 excited about flying across the Atlantic. They can barely get excited about going to the moon.
Posted by: Archimedes

That moon landing was faked.

Posted by: Gen(ius) Z Imbeciles Millayabouts at November 07, 2025 11:53 AM (TezPK)

174 Hiring foreigners to run your companies works out as well as hiring foreigners to run your country

Posted by: 18-1 at November 07, 2025 11:53 AM (sKqQm)

175 Coming up to the 100th anniversary of his first solo non-stop flight, and every year fewer mentions of the anniversary in the media...This year I saw nothing mentioned.

To be fair, for the average yoot today it's hard to imagine why anyone got so excited about flying across the Atlantic. They can barely get excited about going to the moon.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 07, 2025 11:50 AM (Riz8t)
______

My nephews when they were young were very disappointed to learn that the Wright Bros "first flight" was a total of ... 120 feet. They were like "but that's not even the length of our property." They were not impressed.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 07, 2025 11:53 AM (iFTx/)

176 The problem isn't when you have an opinion that differs from most other people. It comes when you blame them for whatever it is you're not happy about, and want to take it out on them like they give a fuck.

Once you understand *no one gives a fuck about your bullshit*, life gets somewhat easier. Some people know this but like to push anyway, like Sisyphus. I think motivations differ but mostly it's like a fixation, like me with Karen Gillan.

Posted by: ... at November 07, 2025 11:53 AM (Rkdcf)

177 A lot of companies have now offshored their CS to India. They are trying to teach these people to get rid of their accents. They’re even using various tools to mask their voices. So you’re personal information for say, your healthcare is being gone over by third world idiots in places like India.
Posted by: Vengeance at November 07, 2025 11:47 AM

The problem with outsourcing your customer support is that the customer support company's goal doesn't really align your goals. Your goal is to have happy customers. The CS company's goal is to fleece you for all they can get.

There's also the fact that your customer service people know what your customers actually think about your product. That is profoundly useful information. Why would you want someone else to have it?

Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 07, 2025 11:54 AM (2Insx)

178 Hell, I'd be happy to get Steve. Anymore it's 15 trys to even get to a person.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 07, 2025 11:54 AM (zzXla)

179 Cartel is just another word for gang.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 07, 2025 11:54 AM (IC093)

180 My most famous person would unfortunately be one of the many actors or actresses I've met being an assistant tennis pro at a club in the Hudson Valley. I can't think of any famous person I've met that had a significant positive impact on the world.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 07, 2025 11:54 AM (EYmYM)

181 Hiring foreigners to run your companies works out as well as hiring foreigners to run your country
Posted by: 18-1

NYC has entered the chat

Posted by: rickb223 at November 07, 2025 11:54 AM (kMqUr)

182 Ummm, what? You make tires. Other than the sort of inventory and process control that should have been (and probably was) done decades ago, how can a digital transformation be strategically important? How can it help you make better tires?
Posted by: Cybersmythe

Smart Tires!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 07, 2025 11:46 AM (pkeXY)

Internet-connected and Bluetooth capable for firmware update, alerts, and remote monitoring.

Posted by: Goodyear at November 07, 2025 11:54 AM (wVcYX)

183 Like em or not, Chick-fil-A hires teens, trains them well, and they're always polite, smiling and pleasant.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 07, 2025 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)

184 175- they’ll understand better after the first time they get laid. Stamina comes with experience.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 07, 2025 11:55 AM (hlNLQ)

185 A lot of companies have now offshored their CS to India. They are trying to teach these people to get rid of their accents. They’re even using various tools to mask their voices. So you’re personal information for say, your healthcare is being gone over by third world idiots in places like India.
Posted by: Vengeance

Bruce. From Mumbai. Dead giveaway.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 07, 2025 11:55 AM (kMqUr)

186 If you want to see how abusive and destructive big corporations are, look at the story of Sysco.

Ho Lee Fuk.

You know why all food at all restaurants is almost always bland shit?
Sysco.

It’s hilarious to see Sysco trucks in the morning at high end organic this and locally sourced that restaurants. That’s $28 burger? Yeah it’s off the Sysco trucks. lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 07, 2025 11:56 AM (3qp0C)

187 Somebody on X thinks they are making a point:
---
Ariana Jasmine @arianajasmine__

To everyone who thinks Zohran Mamdani will force New York to be Muslim:

A Muslim has never knocked on my door trying to convince me to convert.

Just saying.
---
You just have to obey Sharia, not believe it should be obeyed.

Posted by: Axeman at November 07, 2025 11:56 AM (krQz2)

188 So Dr. Nasir, OBGYN with a oily pockmarked face, followed me back to my dorm and when I got there thank God a strapping young white and All American football player was working the desk ... and I went up to this lad and I said very clearly, "Please help me. This creepy guy has been following me and wants to go up into my dorm room!" This fine young American man stood up, glared at the creep who shrank away from him, and he frog marched the son of a b**** out of our dormitory. My hero! 1974.

But the point is these have always been like this. It's hardwired into their religion and their culture. Get. Them. Out.

Posted by: Beverly at November 07, 2025 11:56 AM (Epeb0)

189 It is always about the tribe. Every time IT outsources to India, the Americans are replaced by Indians or some other incompetent, unqualified, cheap labor with forged certifications.

Posted by: Gary at November 07, 2025 11:56 AM (j3Fsw)

190 The man on the street interviews on college campuses about general knowledge is indeed scary though I have to assume they only show you the really dumb students.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 07, 2025 11:56 AM (EYmYM)

191 Ariana Jasmine @arianajasmine__

To everyone who thinks Zohran Mamdani will force New York to be Muslim:

A Muslim has never knocked on my door trying to convince me to convert.

Just saying.

Someone posted her the video of the imam telling everyone islham will enter EVERY HOME, right?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 07, 2025 11:57 AM (Zz0t1)

192 Cartel is just another word for gang.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 07, 2025 11:54 AM (IC093)

Or political party.

Posted by: ... at November 07, 2025 11:58 AM (Rkdcf)

193 I’m the first generation to use a flush toilet, and I just took your job, gora.

Posted by: Typical Indian Tech Worker at November 07, 2025 11:58 AM (pTr2w)

194 Speaking of Sysco:

>Sysco Corporation, the official wholesale food distributor for the prestigious MICHELIN Guide in the Carolinas, is honored to partner to announce the recipients of Michelin’s coveted stars.

Posted by: mr tmz at November 07, 2025 11:58 AM (rJ48h)

195 Hiring foreigners to run your companies works out as well as hiring foreigners to run your country
Posted by: 18-1

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: DEI Government at November 07, 2025 11:58 AM (TezPK)

196 Diogenes: "Bier money." That's a good one!

Posted by: Beverly at November 07, 2025 11:58 AM (Epeb0)

197 191 Ariana Jasmine @arianajasmine__

To everyone who thinks Zohran Mamdani will force New York to be Muslim:

A Muslim has never knocked on my door trying to convince me to convert.

Just saying.

They don't want you to convert honey.. They want you to die....

Posted by: It's me donna at November 07, 2025 11:59 AM (VE6XX)

198 159 Spoiler alert: they have. Recent stats on fully employed recent college graduates are under 40%. They are giving entry level jobs to H1Bs and foreign college student gradates. Americans are being shut out here, and via outsourcing to India.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 07, 2025 11:16 AM (GbwPZ)

I thought nobody wanted to work and all young people were lazy and wasting their money on Starbucks, hence their inability to buy a home.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 07, 2025 11:59 AM (3qp0C)

199 It is darkly funny, the same people nattering about living wages send American jobs overseas, bring in H1bs, and smuggle in illegals.

Increase the supply of labor and the cost of labor goes down

Posted by: 18-1 at November 07, 2025 11:59 AM (sKqQm)

200 A Muslim has never knocked on my door trying to convince me to convert.
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That's because you don't need to knock when you have a sword.

Posted by: ... at November 07, 2025 11:59 AM (Rkdcf)

201 The man on the street interviews on college campuses about general knowledge is indeed scary though I have to assume they only show you the really dumb students.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 07, 2025 11:56 AM (EYmYM)
====
Which year did the Germans bomb Pearl Harbor?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 07, 2025 11:59 AM (IC093)

202 165 To be fair, for the average yoot today it's hard to imagine why anyone got so excited about flying across the Atlantic. They can barely get excited about going to the moon.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 07, 2025 11:50 AM (Riz8t)

It was daring and courageous and he was an American hero.
He faced a lot of criticism for his discredited pre-war America First views, but he served admirably as a fighter pilot in WW2 Asia.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 07, 2025 11:59 AM (y171U)

203 They don't want you to convert honey.. They want you to die....
Posted by: It's me donna at November 07, 2025 11:59 AM (VE6XX)

Oh no. They'll give you the option. Convert OR DIE. They want your money, so they'll gladly enslave you as a non-OG muslham paying taqiyya.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 07, 2025 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)

204 This beach blonde in hot pants doesn't have high confidence in systems of professional ethics:
http://tiny.cc/e8ru001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 07, 2025 12:01 PM (zxP/x)

205 Ariana Jasmine @arianajasmine__

She's only going to be convinced when a Muslim guy corners her and says she has to have sex with him because he has needs and it's his right.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 07, 2025 12:01 PM (EYmYM)

206 If you didn't see " Taximus Maximus" on the ONT last --' go watch it.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 07, 2025 12:01 PM (zzXla)

207 Goodyear is changing the name of its shops to "Just Tires." If you're looking for Goodyear tire store it does not come up in a search.

If you go there thinking you have a choice of tire brands, surprise!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 07, 2025 12:02 PM (wBaIH)

208 I've known several women that have tried "dating" Muslims.

Always starts the same way, "He's different! He's moderate! He respects women!"

And then after she meets the family..."Its over"

Posted by: 18-1 at November 07, 2025 12:02 PM (sKqQm)

209 Which year did the Germans bomb Pearl Harbor?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 07, 2025 11:59 AM (IC093)

1776. Duh!!

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 07, 2025 12:02 PM (3qp0C)

210 Most Americans do not seem to comprehend that most other countries are ethnucally nation-states.

Posted by: Operator Error at November 07, 2025 11:47 AM (0oWPg)
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It's why Madison discouraged the word "nation" for America. Because it fit Europe, but not America.

China is a Han Empire.

Posted by: Axeman at November 07, 2025 12:02 PM (krQz2)

211 I think for the ladies (at least of a certain age) it’s not “convert or die” it’s “convert or be my rape slave” for the men, not so much, for the boys, well…

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 07, 2025 12:02 PM (hlNLQ)

212 Xfinity (Comcast) may be the worst in customer service, IMO

they will go to the ends of the Earth- India, Pakistan, etc- to avoid talking to a customer

their phone tree is a maze of lies and deception

then they want to send a text to your phone that links to an app on a website so you can chat with a robot

Posted by: Don Black, most days at November 07, 2025 12:02 PM (AOsQT)

213 Goodyear is changing the name of its shops to "Just Tires." If you're looking for Goodyear tire store it does not come up in a search.

If you go there thinking you have a choice of tire brands, surprise!
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov

What about the blimp?

Posted by: Joe Mama at November 07, 2025 12:02 PM (TezPK)

214 She doesn't understand that Islam doesn't "convince" anyone. A victim of her own ignorance. Or already a muslim.

Posted by: ... at November 07, 2025 12:03 PM (Rkdcf)

215 I thought nobody wanted to work and all young people were lazy and wasting their money on Starbucks, hence their inability to buy a home.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 07, 2025 11:59 AM (3qp0C)

You finally get it.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 07, 2025 12:03 PM (EYmYM)

216 So "betrayal" in this case sort of is complicated. Also of course the ruinous labor costs that some unions helped create/impose were one reason outsourcing - which is economically rational in many cases - got its start.

Posted by: rhomboid

===

I agree in many cases, I completely understand car companies no longer wanting to build cars in the US. What is the average UAW salary now, $200k+?

And the bennies these people got plus ZERO accountability. You can find all sorts of videos where UAW workers are getting hammered on their lunch break and nothing ever happens them. You can't fire these people.

Posted by: Leupold at November 07, 2025 12:03 PM (eIzlH)

217
1776. Duh!!
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 07, 2025 12:02 PM (3qp0C)

I remember it like it was yesterday. Oil fell like rain and we all got cancer from it.

Posted by: Joe Biden at November 07, 2025 12:03 PM (Zz0t1)

218 Goodyear is changing the name of its shops to "Just Tires." If you're looking for Goodyear tire store it does not come up in a search.
—
Does Goodyear have retail stores? I didn’t think they did. Firestone does but they also sell non-Firestone tires.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 07, 2025 12:04 PM (3qp0C)

219 They're the ones besmirching capitalism. Greed and selfishness ruin everything. As Will Rogers said... "There ain't nothin' but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness."

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 07, 2025 12:04 PM (WHfpM)

220 >> What about the blimp?

They turned it into an all you can eat Indian Buffet with free naan bread Wednesdays.

Posted by: Typical Indian Tech Worker at November 07, 2025 12:04 PM (pTr2w)

221 For most big companies the intent in their customer service is to stop you from talking with a human being. Indians are cheaper then Americans but even they cost more then a hung up call.

So the call trees are designed to make little sense. "Please listen as our menu options have changed" and "we are experiencing elevated call volume" are somehow both true 100% of the time

Posted by: 18-1 at November 07, 2025 12:04 PM (sKqQm)

222 http://tiny.cc/e8ru001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 07, 2025 12:01 PM (zxP/x)

She looks like that actress broad that most times plays a dirty hot trailer park wench.

Posted by: Joe Biden at November 07, 2025 12:04 PM (Zz0t1)

223 Back last century, as a financial planner, had a sales call on an Indian restaurant owner who inquired about setting up 529 plans for his children. Tax Savings!

After 3 meets at his restaurant to explain the workings of 529 plans and no signed paperwork to open accounts, he became an ex-prospect.

Seems he wanted a "deal" on the mechanics of funding, investing, and withdrawing money from the plans.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 07, 2025 12:05 PM (wVcYX)

224 212 Xfinity (Comcast) may be the worst in customer service, IMO

they will go to the ends of the Earth- India, Pakistan, etc- to avoid talking to a customer

their phone tree is a maze of lies and deception

then they want to send a text to your phone that links to an app on a website so you can chat with a robot
Posted by: Don Black, most days at November 07, 2025 12:02 PM (AOsQT)

You have to scream "Agent!" at the chatbot and hopefully it connects you to a real person.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 07, 2025 12:05 PM (y171U)

225 Geezooey......I really need a vacation.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 07, 2025 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)

226 It is done:

EricLDaugh
·
1h
🚨 BREAKING: Senator John Thune has just said the Senate is likely to STAY for the weekend to try and reopen the government if Democrats block the vote again

THUNE: “We've given them everything they've asked for.”

Posted by: Don Black, most days at November 07, 2025 12:05 PM (AOsQT)

227 I've seen a Goodyear that does full car service

Posted by: ... at November 07, 2025 12:06 PM (Rkdcf)

228 Oh and the anti-corporation fervor is only going to accelerate.

And I am going to laugh and laugh and laugh at the bewildered CEOs and the GOPe lackeys as they realize they have no allies to the left or the right.

B/c, while there is going to be an AI collapse soon (too much hype, not enough delivered value), the ones that survive are going to take about 60% of those jobs that have you sitting in front of a computer screen.
The other 40% will be those who manage the AI to do the rest.

And then the laptop class will care about "dey tooook R jerbs!!!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 07, 2025 12:06 PM (daMO2)

229 THUNE: “We've given them everything they've asked for.”
Posted by: Don Black, most days at November 07, 2025 12:05 PM (AOsQT)

Thanks for shoving that barbed cock up our asses again, GOP...........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 07, 2025 12:06 PM (Zz0t1)

230 Late to the thread here but after coming, of age during Americas dominance in the manufacturing word and surviving the storms of outsourcing, I will say this:

At first we were supplicated by the fact that only the manufacturing was going overseas. The design and product development would still be onshore.

That didn't last long because they were turning out engineers like mad and eventually the same cost rationale applied to sustaining engineering and eventually as their knowledge base increased, design and eventually product development followed.

Now these counties are becoming very capable of advanced business practices and are threating the management class that has been pushing these practices.

The crocodile is hungry.

Posted by: pawn at November 07, 2025 12:06 PM (sPsWv)

231 The man on the street interviews on college campuses about general knowledge is indeed scary though I have to assume they only show you the really dumb students.
Posted by: the way I see it

No different than the Jay Leno Tonight Show interviews. Californians are just as stupid.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 07, 2025 12:06 PM (kMqUr)

232 THUNE: “We've given them everything they've asked for.”
Posted by: Don Black, most days at November 07, 2025 12:05 PM (AOsQT)

We're subsidizing illegal health care again?

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 07, 2025 12:06 PM (WHfpM)

233
We're subsidizing illegal health care again?
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 07, 2025 12:06 PM (WHfpM)

Not until they pass it.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 07, 2025 12:07 PM (Zz0t1)

234 http://tiny.cc/e8ru001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 07, 2025 12:01 PM (zxP/x)

She looks like that actress broad that most times plays a dirty hot trailer park wench.
Posted by: Joe Biden at November 07, 2025 12:04 PM (Zz0t1)

Jaimee Pressley. And yes.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 07, 2025 12:07 PM (PSEDc)

235 Oh no. They'll give you the option. Convert OR DIE. They want your money, so they'll gladly enslave you as a non-OG muslham paying taqiyya.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 07, 2025 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)
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The Jizya (which is what I think you mean) has worked out very well for the Muslims in the past.

It doesn't work so well, though when it's 120% of income. (historic high)

Posted by: Axeman at November 07, 2025 12:07 PM (krQz2)

236
No different than the Jay Leno Tonight Show interviews. Californians are just as stupid.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 07, 2025 12:06 PM (kMqUr)

Hannity 'man on the street' segments as well.

Overall, the electorate is f*cking mentally damaged.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 07, 2025 12:07 PM (Zz0t1)

237 The Jizya (which is what I think you mean) has worked out very well for the Muslims in the past.

It doesn't work so well, though when it's 120% of income. (historic high)
Posted by: Axeman at November 07, 2025 12:07 PM (krQz2)

Yeah, sorry. I always get my islhamic dipshittery confused.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 07, 2025 12:08 PM (Zz0t1)

238 I k is a guy sho sold cars. He told me he absolutely dreaded customers from India or the Middle East. They be there for 2 hours to shave $200 off the price. They’d haggle down to the $40 state licensing fees. And he’d be like look I can’t do anything about that everyone pays it, it’s a state fee, non negotiable. And they go well how about $35?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 07, 2025 12:08 PM (3qp0C)

239 I've seen people that judge Trump voters by those man on the street things which could honestly be faked because libs are like that.

They go to me, "Trump supporters don't even know how many states there are!!!"

Posted by: ... at November 07, 2025 12:08 PM (Rkdcf)

240 It doesn't work so well, though when it's 120% of income. (historic high)
Posted by: Axeman at November 07, 2025 12:07 PM (krQz2)

"You have to work your way up to it...."

- - - - - Denmark's 150% car tax

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 07, 2025 12:08 PM (Zz0t1)

241 THUNE: “We've given them everything they've asked for.”
Posted by: Don Black, most days at November 07, 2025 12:05 PM (AOsQT)
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If that includes the 1.5 trillion for illegals to get healthcare on the American dime, then it just shows that the Republicans managed to accomplish nothing.

Posted by: Axeman at November 07, 2025 12:09 PM (krQz2)

242 you are a great Amreican, Mannix

Posted by: alpine_beer at November 07, 2025 12:09 PM (van9r)

243 Customer service is the public face of your company for your customers. Outsource it at your peril.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at November 07, 2025 11:43 AM (2Insx)

our problem there is the same as the problem with airlines: what do you do when everyone in the business agrees to do an equally shitty job?

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 07, 2025 12:09 PM (uWKK8)

244 If that includes the 1.5 trillion for illegals to get healthcare on the American dime, then it just shows that the Republicans managed to accomplish nothing.
Posted by: Axeman at November 07, 2025 12:09 PM (krQz2)

Seriously. Does this surprise you?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 07, 2025 12:09 PM (Zz0t1)

245 Nood

Posted by: NCKate at November 07, 2025 12:09 PM (4bYb7)

246 Goodyear is changing the name of its shops to "Just Tires." If you're looking for Goodyear tire store it does not come up in a search.

If you go there thinking you have a choice of tire brands, surprise!
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov

What about the blimp?
Posted by: Joe Mama

It's just a blimp.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 07, 2025 12:10 PM (kMqUr)

247 They go to me, "Trump supporters don't even know how many states there are!!!"
Posted by: ... at November 07, 2025 12:08 PM (Rkdcf)
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So unaware that most Trump supporters have on instant recall the president that spoke of "58 states".

Posted by: Axeman at November 07, 2025 12:10 PM (krQz2)

248 Raise your hand if deep down you didn’t know the GOP would cave.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 07, 2025 12:11 PM (3qp0C)

249 http://tiny.cc/e8ru001

That's AI generated

Posted by: the way I see it at November 07, 2025 12:11 PM (EYmYM)

250 Posted by: Axeman at November 07, 2025 12:10 PM (krQz2)

It's always projection.

Posted by: ... at November 07, 2025 12:11 PM (Rkdcf)

251 If that includes the 1.5 trillion for illegals to get healthcare on the American dime, then it just shows that the Republicans managed to accomplish nothing.
Posted by: Axeman at November 07, 2025 12:09 PM (krQz2)

Seriously. Does this surprise you?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 07, 2025 12:09 PM (Zz0t1)
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Oh, I expect failure from the Republican Party.

But, I could still be staggered by the lengths of abject failure.

Posted by: Axeman at November 07, 2025 12:11 PM (krQz2)

252 While I was always willing to acknowledge that unions had once served a purpose in improving hours and labor conditions, I argued that the day had passed for labor unions.

I respectfully contend that this was a mistake because it is the same bullshit that I once believed.

Once America secured its frontiers and stopped killing each other we could reap further advantages from the industrial revolution. Increased productivity from efficiency created slack that had to go somewhere. That slack was bound to become improved wages and working conditions.

Muckraking journalists and authors used their soapboxes to hurry this along. Labor unions and guilds have never been any better than thugs of the Tony Soprano mold.

When the IWW spread like the disease on mankind that it is, the left-leaning muckrakers rewrote history to grant big labor the credit to support assholes like Debs trying to usher in a global communist utopia.

When two or more people get together--corporations, mafia, governments, unions, etc--the safe bet is that they are conspiring to screw everyone else.

Evil takes many forms, and evil always wins unless met with force more ruthless than evil can bring.

Posted by: biteme at November 07, 2025 12:20 PM (xWS9V)

253 "Raise your hand if deep down you didn’t know the GOP would cave."

Did they cave or is this just a prediction?

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at November 07, 2025 12:26 PM (89Sog)

254 There was a similar story which occurred at Walmart. Some Indian executive was getting kickbacks for outsourcing jobs to India from a company which specializes in doing just that. These people deserve the rope.

Posted by: wat at November 07, 2025 12:28 PM (Dk542)

255 If your company's "digital transformation" consists of outsourcing stuff to India, then you are transforming it into shit.

Posted by: heya at November 07, 2025 12:36 PM (adRDv)

256 The hallmark of leftard hypocrisy is the never-ending shriek of "RACISSSST!!!" against any caucasian who points out the blatant anti-white racism of the entire leftard world.

Posted by: Pete at November 07, 2025 12:45 PM (9uoO8)

257 Virtually all of corporate board members are people who fell out of university into a well paid office job and slithered upwards. They don't have discernible talents and they've never built anything.
They don't understand research, product design, manufacturing or the intricacies of systems, processing, sourcing or shipping.
The only thing they seem capable of doing is asset-stripping, selling businesses to foreign entities or outsourcing. They are the scum of the Earth.

I recently read that one of the reasons behind the success of the Japanese Motor industry and the collapse of the British motor industry in the 70s was in part because of their different approaches to unionising.
The Japanese had company unions, the British had trade unions.
The Japanese system helped develop a culture of company pride and competitiveness whilst also allowing individual companies to continue manufacturing even if a competitor went on strike.
Trade unions created negativity and poor practices despite the British industry having better wages, working conditions and equipment in comparison to Japan and frequent strikes brought companies to their knees.

Posted by: STV at November 07, 2025 01:00 PM (XMeSM)

258 “They spit in our faces by proceeding to offshore every possible job they could. And for those jobs they couldn’t offshore, they aggressively imported a low-wage, H1B workforce that is effectively a form of chattel labor. Absolute betrayal.“

Not a peep about companies and businesses that outsource TO this country.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 07, 2025 01:03 PM (sVOFR)

259 <accenture's middle name is "morally compromised." They are the company formerly known as Arthur Anderson, which bit the dust after its questionable practices with Enron and WorldCom. As if "demise" and subsequent reincarnation as a cutely-named company washed it of its compromised morals.

Posted by: Lee Also at November 07, 2025 01:07 PM (IrqeV)

260 "Raise your hand if deep down you didn’t know the GOP would cave."

Mitch McConnell claps his face off the marble floor in applause

Posted by: bang-a-gong at November 07, 2025 01:08 PM (sfJwR)

261 Goodyear Senior Executive Outsourced Jobs to India While Personally Benefitting from the Outsourcing Industry

I have no fucking doubt the same shit has been happening at Stellantis since it was formed in 2021. 75% of the engineering and product development has been outsourced to India. Some asshole(s) in the company no doubt are benefitting from it.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 07, 2025 01:21 PM (P5BPp)

262 Indians are like a cancer. You let one into a c-suite, they will move heaven and earth to get more in like them. Then those new ones bring in more, ad infinitum. Letting even a single one into a company -- or the country -- was national suicide.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 07, 2025 11:41 AM

Ditto for Muslims.

Western civilization is doomed unless every Western nation expels Muslims and bans all Muslims. Islam is completely incompatible with civilization. Since that will never happen (at least in our lifetimes), all we're doing is managing the decline of Western civilization.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 07, 2025 02:04 PM (P5BPp)

263 You hire one Indian to management, and in 5 years the entire department is Indian. Its what they do.

Posted by: Sixiron at November 07, 2025 02:23 PM (c4Wfm)

264 Whores gotta whore

Posted by: Bollywood Bimbo at November 07, 2025 03:30 PM (fKeBm)

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