Stop the old oil change arguments...here's the scoop

Matthew T. Russotto wrote:

> In article >,
> Wickeddoll® > wrote:
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>>"Steve" ...
>>
>>>Matthew T. Russotto wrote:
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>>:
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>>>>>The quality of American cars isn't going to get better until they fire
>>>>>some of the computer geeks and hire back some real engineers.
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>>>>
>>>>It wasn't computer geeks producing the ****balls of the 1970s and 1980s.
>>>>
>>>>It's not computer geeks producing them now.
>>>
>>>Like I said. MBAsshole management is the common denominator, and is
>>>infecting the Japanese companies one by one as they get bigger.
>>
>>Gawd, I hope not.
>
>
> It's already infected them. American asshole management is simply a
> poor translation from the Japanese of the techniques the Japanese
> got from Americans in the 1950s.
>
> Somehow, neither the original American techniques nor the
> doubly-translated versions actually work in the US. Perhaps something
> was gained in translation, or perhaps the techniques work better with
> Japanese culture.

No, everybody just got lazy. There's no longer any pride in a job well
done for the SAKE of a job well done. On either side of the Pacific.
Maybe the US got lazier first because the Japanese cars were considered
a pathetic joke until the 80s and American cars weren't, but they're
both exactly the same now, whatever the interim condition.