I think it's a symptom of not making money (selling parts) and micromanaging "loss" is all they can come up with. It's a symptom of (I truly do hate to say this) large American business in the current era. Not real business, but the fake kind -- financial shenanigans that made money on paper for some for some time. As opposed to plain old slow growth. It's gotta be a tough busines now too. Auto parts are even different than 10, 20 years ago. Stuff is getting much more delicate, complicated, specialized. Our old cast iron stuff has got to be a small part of the business profit now. Our local NAPA went to crap two years ago, but they got a new manager in and it's really improved a lot. They still have a few know-nothings but that's OK -- when they know enough (or are told to) go ask an expert! Nothing wrong with ignorance, it's willing stupidity that pisses me off. -- All of your arguments are invalid. Enjoy your unstable system. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.amc-list.com/pipermail/amc-list-amc-list.com/attachments/20090514/9f510439/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ AMC-list mailing list AMC-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://list.amc-list.com/listinfo.cgi/amc-list-amc-list.com