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.......deserves to crash and burn.

The problem therein is the corporations are run by ivy league elites that have been indoctrinated in liberal colleges. As upper management they will have golden parachutes but the little guy will be laid off. The world ain't a fair place.

The trap that GY got into here was the desire to be one of the cool kids. To virtue signal in all the right places. To make the world a better place not through investments and dedication to those causes, but by controlling the messages given by their employees and only allow the "good ones".

IMO, long term, a company will do better with a consistent practice of discouraging divisive actions at work. Discourage political talk and that of diversity and gender. Instead focus on the task at hand. Making money. Creating opportunities for your company and ALL of your employees. Developing solid leadership within your ranks of people of great integrity and morality. Focusing on hiring and training the best people you can find, and sustain a working environment that can support happy employees.....not try to make employees be happy and of certain political and social mindsets. Forget the virtue signalling and make real differences by supporting non political volunteerism and participation in the lives of their kids in active and constructive ways. And most of all, be competitive and fair with your compensation package. Stop the focus on the short term, quarter at a time leadership. Be in it for the long haul.

Since I've terminated my employment with my former employer, I can speak out a bit more without repercussion now. One of the biggest reasons I decided to leave the company was an "mandatory" HR meeting we had the day before I went on vacation at the end of June. I won't get into specifics, but one thing that was said was that if a position opened up, and they didn't feel the applicant pool was "diverse" enough, they would keep it open until it was.....even if it required going outside the company to find said diversity...So in other words, you get some people that want the position and are qualified for it that apply, it isn't good enough unless there is more "diversity" among them....that's just the tip of the iceberg for the things we were told, and all of it is leaning left, HARD.....

We were being required to take online classes that basically amounted to conditioning....everything was based on leftist policy, liberal thinking, and socialism tactics.....

My leaving there was one of the best things I've done. I'm back in Colorado, although Denver is a total ****hole right now, but the mountains are still good. Five year plan in place, retiring in Alaska by 2026. That is, if the war doesn't start in earnest...

As to the company, they will continue to raise rates, buy other companies in an attempt to dominate/control the market....there are smaller companies out there that give better service at much lower rates....

I've ran goodyear tires a few times in the past, either due to them being given to me, or only ones available at time of purchase. Every goodyear tire I have ever ran was total trash. Never again.....first choice for my truck now is Cooper, followed by Michelin. My car, same. Dragster, Mickey T, Hoosier.....in that order....

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Originally posted by Canted Valve:

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.......deserves to crash and burn.

The problem therein is the corporations are run by ivy league elites that have been indoctrinated in liberal colleges. As upper management they will have golden parachutes but the little guy will be laid off. The world ain't a fair place.

I agree 100% with this..the liberal brainwashing of America over the last 20+ years and NO tolerance for any other mind set.....It's pitiful....

So in my Wikipedia/google/redneck research on Cooper tires, I found one source that claimed Mickey Thompson tires is owned by Cooper. Is there any truth to this?

Goodyear just experienced a massive blow out.

This was a really stupid Plant Manager. It's an example of the current Corporate mindset that has caved in to Liberal "Political Correctness". I just love the part where Goodyear claims that Corporate knew nothing about this video. That current 6% drop in stock value is only the beginning.

Goodyear is about to have a Bad Year.

Bob

Local and market demographics matter as well. The subject tire plant is not located in urban "NBA" territory like Chicago, St. Louis or Detroit, but is in a wheat-growing state in the middle of America's heartland. Not a majority of BLM sympathizers there, so how well did they think that messaging would be received by their workforce? Another factor that just adds to the complete idiocy of that "training presentation", is the fact that the only tires that plant produces, are extremely large tires used on earth-moving equipment. Maybe Goodyear is the only player in that market, but if not, how many owners of companies operating strip mines or working on major property developments are likely to be sympathetic to the anti-police BLM cause, vs the percentage that might now look at alternative sources?

Who knows, maybe the backlash from this will kick start some re-thinking in corporate boardrooms, about maybe choosing to NOT embrace whatever the latest trendy bull**** that CNN, NBC, ABC & CBS are pushing out of their asses...

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Originally posted by FootbrakeJim:
Local and market demographics matter as well. The subject tire plant is not located in urban "NBA" territory like Chicago, St. Louis or Detroit, but is in a wheat-growing state in the middle of America's heartland. Not a majority of BLM sympathizers there, so how well did they think that messaging would be received by their workforce? Another factor that just adds to the complete idiocy of that "training presentation", is the fact that the only tires that plant produces, are extremely large tires used on earth-moving equipment. Maybe Goodyear is the only player in that market, but if not, how many owners of companies operating strip mines or working on major property developments are likely to be sympathetic to the anti-police BLM cause, vs the percentage that might now look at alternative sources?

Who knows, maybe the backlash from this will kick start some re-thinking in corporate boardrooms, about maybe choosing to NOT embrace whatever the latest trendy bull**** that CNN, NBC, ABC & CBS are pushing out of their asses...

This said plant does a lot of underhanded things. Being in the heartland doesn't protect it from communists. Texas has an entire city that doesn't fit with the rest.

2020, Goodyear? Not the best!

6000+ views on our way to 7,000 about Not just any tire company rather an anti-American, anti police tire company.

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Every goodyear tire I have ever ran was total trash. Never again.....

I posted the same thing on another forum. One idiot told me I should have worked harder on my combination and maybe the Goodyears would have worked.

Gee, why didn't I think of that?

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Originally posted by Roger McGinnis:
This said plant does a lot of underhanded things. Being in the heartland doesn't protect it from communists. Texas has an entire city that doesn't fit with the rest.

Roger, I think it is more like 4 major metro's that do not fit with the rest of Texas. (DFW, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio). Similar to most any other state, I guess. If all the liberal population centers somehow got nuked, the flavor of the entire country would change, and definitely for the better. JMHO, of course.

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Originally posted by FootbrakeJim:

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Originally posted by Roger McGinnis:
This said plant does a lot of underhanded things. Being in the heartland doesn't protect it from communists. Texas has an entire city that doesn't fit with the rest.

Roger, I think it is more like 4 major metro's that do not fit with the rest of Texas. (DFW, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio). Similar to most any other state, I guess. If all the liberal population centers somehow got nuked, the flavor of the entire country would change, and definitely for the better. JMHO, of course.

I visited DFW last year. I have no reason to go back. Mile after mile of people living so close together they have to smell each other's flatulence. Population centers where the people have lost view of reality and morality. The urban disease.

Looking at Goodyear stock GT, it hardly flinched from all this.
Last I looked, NASCAR uses mostly GY race tires. They also support BLM. So now the Radical right has an issue. Bubba and Goodyear.

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Looking at Goodyear stock GT, it hardly flinched from all this.
Last I looked, NASCAR uses mostly GY race tires. They also support BLM. So now the Radical right has an issue. Bubba and Goodyear.

So we are radical because we believe that everyone's speech is equal?

Bubba doesn't even know what BLM really represents. I don't know anyone that had a problem with bubba before he showed his ignorance. It's not that his mother is black, it's that he's stupid.

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Originally posted by adv ET 266:
Looking at Goodyear stock GT, it hardly flinched from all this.
Last I looked, NASCAR uses mostly GY race tires. They also support BLM. So now the Radical right has an issue. Bubba and Goodyear.

That's the extreme right wing and the radical left.

It's like I said, Goodyear probably did buybacks with their bailout money, and bought up their own shares cheap, 0% interest.

As communist as they've managed to make the radical left by hiring ANTIFA and BLM, the special effects would have even Machiavelli, envious of the top down theater orchestrated weapons of mass distraction.

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Originally posted by adv ET 266:
Looking at Goodyear stock GT, it hardly flinched from all this.
Last I looked, NASCAR uses mostly GY race tires. They also support BLM. So now the Radical right has an issue. Bubba and Goodyear.

What makes you think it's only the radical right that thinks that enough is enough in this country right now. Do you support what is going on with BLM? Do you think the Bubba deal was for real?

I don't take issue with the BLM as long as the protests are just that....protests to which there is validity. The instant it becomes a destructive riot and hurts folks that never were oppressive to folks of color, Black, Brown, Yellow or especially Red, it totally loses it's core message, it has simply devolved into a riot for the sake of looting and hurting innocent people.

In short if you condone hurting innocent people to convey any message then you must be what ?????? NOT be a racist?

What part of that is fair, right or justified?

Bob

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Originally posted by RPROGAS:
I don't take issue with the BLM as long as the protests are just that....protests to which there is validity. The instant it becomes a destructive riot and hurts folks that never were oppressive to folks of color, Black, Brown, Yellow or especially Red, it totally loses it's core message, it has simply devolved into a riot for the sake of looting and hurting innocent people.

In short if you condone hurting innocent people to convey any message then you must be what ?????? NOT be a racist?

What part of that is fair, right or justified?

Bob

The BLM couldn't care less if riots are occurring, if fact, they would rather burn down the city, than have a peaceful demonstration. Peaceful protesters have no clue who is running the BLM.