Marauder wheels in trash at work...

[Matt In Detroit]

I was just walking through my building here at work (Ford in Dearborn) and there was a big trash bin with wheels in it. What caught my eye was the polished Marauder wheel. I went over and looked ad there was a full set of 4 wheels goin to the trash. What a bummer. Id like to walk em out of here if it wouldnt cost me my job. Oh well... Sad:(

[ctrlraven]

Have someone else grab them then. :lol:

[prchrman]

Worked with a fellow engineer who previously was at Ford in Cleveland and he told the most frightful story I have every heard. The Cleveland plant had to do a dog and pony for big whigs and they trashed several rail car loads of perfectly good Boss 351's. Said they dropped them in like clumps of coal. I questioned him repeatedly about this and stuck to his story. If you are not familiar with Boss 351's you are missing out on the most underated motor Ford every produced. They were well over 1 to 1 HP to CI and were somewhere in the 375 HP range. Any who the things companies do for eye wash is beyond reason.

[Matt In Detroit]

I suppose litigation has a lot to do with it. Some prototype parts get out and someone gets hurt. $$$

[Bluerauder]

I was just walking through my building here at work (Ford in Dearborn) and there was a big trash bin with wheels in it. What caught my eye was the plosihed Marauder wheel. (

I wouldn't want them if they were obviously plosihed. :P

[Matt In Detroit]

I wouldn't want them if they were obviously plosihed. :P

Thats a finish better than Polished but not quite chrome....:lol:

[RacerX]

Where exactly are you located? :D

[DOOM]

What a shame! :shake:

[babbage]

When is trash day?

[Krytin]

Can anyone say dumpster diving!!!

[F8LBITEva]

you cant ask anyone pretty please? Give the janitor $20?!

[FreddieH]

Follow the trash truck off the property and offer him some cash, once off the property they are property of the trash company.

[MOTOWN]

I was just walking through my building here at work (Ford in Dearborn) and there was a big trash bin with wheels in it. What caught my eye was the polished Marauder wheel. I went over and looked ad there was a full set of 4 wheels goin to the trash. What a bummer. Id like to walk em out of here if it wouldnt cost me my job. Oh well... Sad:(

hmmm dearborn you say??.....im minutes away!

errrr on a side note whats the security like there bud?:coolman:

[massacre]

Buddy of mine worked for GM (in MA) in the '80s.
He said that every year they used to crush entire snap-on tool boxes, full of snap-on tools.
Huge tool chests.
Every year they had a brand new chest full of snap-on tools, but why did they have to send them to the crusher?
Obviously those tools still had life in them.

what a friggen waste.....:alone:

[ImpalaSlayer]

Buddy of mine worked for GM (in MA) in the '80s.
He said that every year they used to crush entire snap-on tool boxes, full of snap-on tools.
Huge tool chests.
Every year they had a brand new chest full of snap-on tools, but why did they have to send them to the crusher?
Obviously those tools still had life in them.

what a friggen waste.....:alone:

thats so dumb why not sell them? i hate people

[Motorhead350]

I do not work in the auto industry Matt. Can you explain why you would lose you job for getting rims out of the garbage? I can see going after records and they may think that if you just went into the dumpster, but couldn't you just say I want these for my car? Or would they think you just wanna sell them?
:confused:

[DarthMarauder]

Buddy of mine worked for GM (in MA) in the '80s.
He said that every year they used to crush entire snap-on tool boxes, full of snap-on tools.
Huge tool chests.
Every year they had a brand new chest full of snap-on tools, but why did they have to send them to the crusher?
Obviously those tools still had life in them.

what a friggen waste.....:alone:
That was probably the start to the situation they are in now. Government Motors.

[Mr. Man]

I do not work in the auto industry Matt. Can you explain why you would lose you job for getting rims out of the garbage? I can see going after records and they may think that if you just went into the dumpster, but couldn't you just say I want these for my car? Or would they think you just wanna sell them?
:confused:
As I understand it would be considered stealing. I believe Matt works for Ford or a dealership. They have written the wheels of their books and the Gov't expects the wheels to be destroyed. Since he works for the company if he were to take them home he would in effect be stealing. It's stupid but that's the way big companies operate.
When I was at Home Depot I threw away stuff that was perfectly good and even offered to take it home but was told no way. If I were to try and take it home and was caught they would fire me and prosecute me for stealing. So into the dumpster went all sorts of salvageable stuff, doors, windows, paneling, cement,etc. Never could get a legit answer as to why they didn't donate the stuff to Habit for Humanity or something but that I suppose would take more effort than just throwing it away.

[Red91LX]

Buddy of mine worked for GM (in MA) in the '80s.
He said that every year they used to crush entire snap-on tool boxes, full of snap-on tools.
Huge tool chests.
Every year they had a brand new chest full of snap-on tools, but why did they have to send them to the crusher?
Obviously those tools still had life in them.

what a friggen waste.....:alone:

Maybe that's why GM went bust...

[B.C. Bake]

I wouldn't want them if they were obviously plosihed. :P

+1 Try balancing those things "in this case trash is trash" IMOA :shake:

[massacre]

The company I work for now, we do a lot of work for the government. Military bases.
All of the tools that are used in building the nuclear subs are destroyed, also.
Possible contamination, I guess.

I think when it comes to taking things from work-

Years ago, companies would probably give unwanted things to their employees. But then human nature takes over- now there will always be that selfish person who'll purposely deface/damage a product just enough so that it can't be sold, but is still useful.
Next thing you know, they're selling the slightly damaged goods on the side.
I know some of you are probably skeptical about this, but you'd be surprised at how people's minds work and how often stuff like this happens. I've personally been shocked at the lengths I've seen some people go to, to milk the clock, steal hours, steal material, etc.

BTW I know not everyone is like this, and definitely am not trying to infer that the OP is like this. But like many things in life- the bad apples spoil the bushel.
The POS people mess things up for the good people, what a surprise.....:rolleyes:

So the companies have to make a blanket policy that everything is destroyed, it's just easier for them.
Plus, like someone said, they do keep track of what's discarded for their financials, our company does the same thing. They use it for taxes somehow I think....?

[Red91LX]

I would think the wheels could be recycled. Maybe Ford should be cited for violating recycling regulations...Just sayin'

[TFB]

As I understand it would be considered stealing.

Yep that's the mind set of probably all large corp's...

The idea is if they give it to you that's one less sale they would have made, so dumpster diving is generally considered stealing...

[LANDY]

where im from we lack of alot of things, we dont waste anything. seeing things like this makes me think of how ungrateful some people in this world could be.

[J.bo]

That's the American way. Wasteful spending. The military do the same thing. Go to a military auction or state auction and you will see brand new stuff for sale.


Buddy of mine worked for GM (in MA) in the '80s.
He said that every year they used to crush entire snap-on tool boxes, full of snap-on tools.
Huge tool chests.
Every year they had a brand new chest full of snap-on tools, but why did they have to send them to the crusher?
Obviously those tools still had life in them.

what a friggen waste.....:alone:

[Joe Walsh]

Unfortunately most of these wasteful practices are the result of our litigious society.
We are at fault for these corporation's wasteful actions.

- Company does a favor to an employee and lets him take home a part/tool that they are going to get rid of.
- Employees takes it home and it breaks/fails while he is using it.
- Employee is injured because of it.
- Employee gets a lawyer and sues the company for giving him the part/tool.
- Company loses millions in the lawsuit because they decided not to throw away a hundred dollar item.

It is cheaper, quicker and much safer to scrap all those items to avoid the "accident chaser" lawyers.

You want to talk about INCREDIBLE waste! Read about this incredible blunder on a Mazda transport ship:

http://nish.autoblog.com/2006/12/15/mazda-scrapping-all-cars-aboard-capsized-cougar-ace/

"Once they had her upright, they towed her to Portland Oregon, where facilities were avilable to unload and store all the cars. Although its said that many of the cars were undamaged, in mid-December Mazda announced that it had decided to scrap them all. By one informal guestimate, the value of the Mazdas may have been about $100 million ."

It was safer for Mazda to scrap 100 million worth of brand friggin' new cars because of the liability exposure if they had sold any of them.

[TFB]

(from the Mazda article)

O'Sullivan added that although some of the Mazdas aboard the Cougar Ace showed little or no visible damage from being tied-down at severe angles for an extended period, the company reconsidered its initial decision to sell any of the vehicles as used.Chevy shipped the Vegas by rail hanging vertically like slabs of beef, maybe that was why they were a POS??? ;)

[Motorhead350]

Shame shame shame.

It would nice if they could at least sign something saying once you take something from the garbage they are responsible for themselves.

That would make a lot more sense than anything else.

[Joe Walsh]

Shame shame shame.

It would nice if they could at least sign something saying once you take something from the garbage they are responsible for themselves.
That would make a lot more sense than anything else.

You would think....but look at how many "iron clad" prenuptual agreements fall apart under attack from an Ex's crafty lawyer...:shake:

[DarthMarauder]

That's the American way. Wasteful spending. The military do the same thing. Go to a military auction or state auction and you will see brand new stuff for sale.
That's how us Marines get our stuff so we like the military auctions. The vehicles in my battalion are from the Army from back in the 80's they had them and hated them and sold them to the Marine Corps for dirt cheap and they were still brand new. Its how we get by. Hell we are still using the original hulls from back in the 80's even though the rest of it has gone through quite a bit of upgrades. Look at us and the Cobras, all the other services gave up on those a while back.