# Would you get rid of your car to make your workplace peaceful? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 3, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-get-rid-of-your-car-to-make-your-workplace-peaceful/608288 "2012-01-03T20:28:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-get-rid-of-your-car-to-make-your-workplace-peaceful/608288/81 "2012-01-04T21:22:10Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > If she bought me a house and gave me my own company I’d perform cunnilingus on her daily, even if she looked like Ernest Borgnine in drag. **Especially** if she looked liked Ernest Borgnine in drag. But yeah if she gave me a house and is going to give me a company, I’d probably comply, but if it just a fantasy I’m acting out on the SDMB and with my Batman figurines, then probably not. ---
**Author:** ![lurkedtolong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@lurkedtolong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkedtolong)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-get-rid-of-your-car-to-make-your-workplace-peaceful/608288/82 "2012-01-04T22:18:29Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > **Leaffan** bolded two phrases, one of which said you are always at work, the other of which said that you make more and work less than you did before. Putting aside the confusion you seem to have about working at home (it is not synonym for self-employment), can you reconcile always at work/working less? NOPE no reconciling that. That was error to say that I WAH and work less and make more/ while saying I am always at work. I should have said that although I work less and DO make more, my brain is always thinking about the job as it becomes part of my life. I don’t clock in so I cant honestly say that i work more, but I can honestly say I make more than in the past and other people that know me would easily say that I appear not to work much since it is spread out over a longer period. Yes i do go weeks without needing to do much, and there are weeks I have to work work like break a sweat at a trade show. The pay would be the same both weeks. This is why i say that i work less. It truely is 6 in one hand and a half dozen in the other. ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-get-rid-of-your-car-to-make-your-workplace-peaceful/608288/83 "2012-01-05T00:29:22Z")
> [@lurkedtolong](#): > > Ok Ill just tell it how it is and i hope you all understand. I was hired by a company to go work for a manufacturer of a medical device in a fab shop. I was to learn everything i could to take over. The company would be shut down and the main purpose of it all would be realized. Company A will now own the brand that company B trained me to make. They now own the brand, and own the equipment, patents and have a employee that knows how to train and make these parts. Mission length was 2001-aprox 2008. Returned to work for company A, after breif layoff. Recieve severence from company B. Paycheck now coming from company A, but working for a completely different company and different industry C. Mission: Learn everything about the importation of company C. We will then take the dissolved brand, patents ect, that we now own and have Company C distribute them with our new found importation knowledge. Within 3-12 months Company C (the bitchy little pissers) will be dissolved and we will open company D. Company D will now be a powerhouse that owns the patents and machinery and retained all the layed off employees from company C. Company C will lay off everyone, and after breif unemployment will rehire to work form company D, but will remain working in company C drawing checks from D. This is what I have been a part of for some time. It is a publicly traded company so there is alot of politics that i am unaware of. It is a small industry and if I didn’t work for any of these companies our paths would still cross very very often. End game? Company A, sells B,C to return profits for shareholders. Very large payout to Miss boss in which will get handed to me, OWNING company D becoming my “Commission” Now Company D , in one building outputs B,C,D with the Employees from only B,C. Company A makes BUKU money. Everybody still has a job. Then all of a sudden Company A states were moving to Beverly Hills, everyone is worried and unemployed. 2 months later, they move back with Cali employees and merge into a bigger building and more product lines and patents owned. The Cali employees will show the FL employees how they do it, and then will go back to Cali to continue the job they believed that they were laid off from in the same building but with a different owner (same name). Severences to people who don’t come back, but they all do. Long ago I worked for a company that kept splitting up and reforming and transferring between two partners for reasons that they gave up explaining after a while. It was bizarre, but they had their reasons. I didn’t care what company name was on my paycheck as long as I was getting paid. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-get-rid-of-your-car-to-make-your-workplace-peaceful/608288/84 "2012-01-06T16:09:51Z")
> [@lurkedtolong](#): > > Ok Ill just tell it how it is and i hope you all understand. I don’t know about anyone else, but I still really don’t understand what you’re talking about. Maybe that’s my problem, though. I did just want to make this one little nitpick: Company A makes BUKU money. [/QUOTE] The phrase is “boo-koo bucks” (or really, “beaucoup bucks”) ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-get-rid-of-your-car-to-make-your-workplace-peaceful/608288/85 "2012-01-07T02:01:53Z")
> [@lurkedtolong](#): > > IT is a idiotic request THUS why I am here, not to talk about the details of my job duties and dates employed, but whether or not YOU would humor the boss lady on this. Do I strike you as the sort of person who humors idiot requests from the boss lady? ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-get-rid-of-your-car-to-make-your-workplace-peaceful/608288/86 "2012-01-07T02:11:08Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > **Leaffan** bolded two phrases, one of which said you are always at work, the other of which said that you make more and work less than you did before. Putting aside the confusion you seem to have about working at home (it is not synonym for self-employment), can you reconcile always at work/working less? It sounds like \*\*lurkedtolong \*\* has a similar mid-level corporate executive management job that I have. He works for a boss (CEO in his case, the VP of Professional Services in mine). He probably has clients (even if it’s just his boss). He may even have a team of people he manages. With my job, I get paid a flat salary plus bonus. I have projects I manage, but I don’t punch a clock (other than filling out my timeshet each week) or even really need to be in the office. I can work from home, the client site, on the road, wherever. I planned a trip in a couple weeks to go out to our headquarters in CA and meet with the CEO for no reason other than I want to visit some friends who live out there. I can pretty much do whatever the hell I want so long as: a) my work gets done by its deadline b) my client is happy Now the flip side of this is to get my work done and make my client happy, I often have to be available evenings, weekends, holidays and personal time off. But unfortunately I almost never know which ones in advance. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-get-rid-of-your-car-to-make-your-workplace-peaceful/608288/87 "2012-01-07T03:34:08Z")
This is not a normal request, but your boss paying for employees’ houses/cars/surgery is not normal either. My first thought on the matter is (and this may be totally off-base) if you can afford a car that costs more than 100k, you can afford to buy a decent pre-owned car at Carmax for 10k. Use it for a year or two, and then sell it when she retires. If I were in that position, I’d probably indulge her eccentricity. If not, then maybe pretend you have a rich relative who bought it for you. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-get-rid-of-your-car-to-make-your-workplace-peaceful/608288/88 "2012-01-07T03:35:17Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > This is not a normal request, but your boss paying for employees’ houses/cars/surgery is not normal either. My first thought on the matter is (and this may be totally off-base) if you can afford a car that costs more than 100k, you can afford to buy a decent pre-owned car at Carmax for 10k. Use it for a year or two, and then sell it when she retires. > > If I were in that position, I’d probably indulge her eccentricity. If not, then maybe pretend you have a rich relative who bought it for you. nothing he has said here adds up. I can only assume we’re being trolled. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-get-rid-of-your-car-to-make-your-workplace-peaceful/608288/89 "2012-01-07T03:39:59Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > nothing he has said here adds up. I can only assume we’re being trolled. Accusations of trolling are counterproductive and irrelevant. Either we can take the OP as writ and answer the question, or we can do nothing. But personally, I feel the OP has provided enough detail that it’s not reasonable to assume he’s trolling. Hell, treat it like a Skaldothetical, if nothing else. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-get-rid-of-your-car-to-make-your-workplace-peaceful/608288/90 "2012-01-07T03:41:14Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > Accusations of trolling are counterproductive and irrelevant. Either we can take the OP as writ and answer the question, or we can do nothing. But personally, I feel the OP has provided enough detail that it’s not reasonable to assume he’s trolling. > > Hell, treat it like a Skaldothetical, if nothing else. point taken, but I don’t want to be taken for a ride unless I know that’s what I’m getting into. ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_Turk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dan\_Turk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Turk)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-get-rid-of-your-car-to-make-your-workplace-peaceful/608288/91 "2012-01-07T22:39:06Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > point taken, but I don’t want to be taken for a ride unless I know that’s what I’m getting into. An AMG S550, of course. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-get-rid-of-your-car-to-make-your-workplace-peaceful/608288.md?page=4)