Monday, Jun 12, 2006 at 23:35
Ahh. But it was the Calibra that was so bad that GM had to buy them back off several severely unhappy customers.
The pick of the peeved customers to really make their point though was just after the Yanks moved into the mid east to help the Kuwaitis.
The MD at the Bend at the time was advised by intelligence types to take a different route to work every day. He and several yankee bigwigs were given the same advice at several companies. Executive Assistants were advised to be wary of suspiscious packages.
Well one morning the mail arrived for the MD. The Exec was on the ball having just read the memo - and detected a package that "smelt funny".
The package was taken down to the executive dining room kitchen an placed carefully on the big stainless bench and the whole of Plant 3 (engineering) was evacuated.
We stood outside for over an hour and a half - maybe longer. The police and fireys came out of the woodwork.
They tried for ages to contact the "return to sender" address. No luck. Sent the local police out to the property in NSW from memory. Farmer brown was down in the back paddock. He admitted sending the package. Unashamedly.
He had a VN commodore that had done maybe 100,000km (can't remember but it was out of warranty from memory) and it was on it's SEVENTH fuel pump.
He was might pi$$ed off about it given that they were not cheap and he was paying for it. So he asked the dealer for the faulty one back on the seventh occasion and promptly mailed it to the Managing Director for a please explain. The odd smell the secretary detected was fuel. :o)
Unintentionally shutting down engineering for a few hours probably cost a few hundred thousand dollars. I'm guessing he made his point more than he could possibly have hoped for.
A small win for the little man....
Dave
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