Look, I understand that people are pissed about GM and Chrysler. I mean, this makes twice in my lifetime that Chrysler has nearly hit rock-bottom, so I’m this close to saying “let it go”. If folks want to picket Detroit’s upper management, or bitch about how workers build shoddy cars, I say go for it. But chewing out the spokesmodels at auto shows…?
Donald Han, an accountant from Queens, sounded unmoved. “Why now?” he asked the woman, rather curtly, once she had finished her patter. “How come you’ve got to nearly go bankrupt before you come out with a car like this?”
via NYT: Glamour dims as hecklers hit auto shows – The New York Times- msnbc.com.
Let’s get something straight: the employee at the drive-through window cannot productively respond to your complaints about the fat content of your Extra Value Meal, that ninety year-old Walmart greeter cannot address your concerns about fair labor practices, and a random blond hired to read a script while standing on a rotating dais at the auto show does not have any particular influence on which cars are developed at which times.
In other words, don’t use the financial shitstorm as an opportunity to chew out the clueless and the powerless just to make yourself feel better. It’s hollow, rude, and just plain idiotic.