Top_Chef

Are you saying that Pharrell is not, in fact, happy?

Nor have I, but I've met plenty that don't want to pay for them.

Is it? Considering the shear amount of traffic through that airport I think they handle things incredibly well. I've certainly used far worse airports.

Yup, some places believe in investing in their people. My employer paid for both of my masters, some of it through virtue of job training so I was also being paid salary for the privilege.

I have a couple of experiences from my last trip to a dealer.

I was interested in them appraising my truck as a trade in. I gave them my keys and they checked out my car while I checked out a few cars and went from a test drive with a salesperson. When it came time to actually negotiate the price, my salesman mysteriously disappeared and another rather forceful gentleman appeared. He was pulling all kinds of retarded mathematics to try and make it seem like a good deal. Do people actually fall for that?

Further, I have Kelly Blue Book and other services on my phone. I realize these are guidelines, but they're just straight up lying to me with the pricing they're offering on both my trade and the car I'm looking to buy. The dealership is a business, I get that, but when you're off by several thousands dollars, homey don't play that.

The straw that broke the camels back is when another customer walked and as soon as he went outside, the salesperson he was working with muttered something like "Thanks for nothing, asshole." I immediately turned to my salesperson and said "We're done here. I don't deal with businesses that treat their customers that way." I asked for my keys since they had been appraising my truck, but they took their good sweet time getting them back. That was my experience at another dealer I didn't end up buying from. Is holding on the keys some kind of sales tactic or are these dealers just incompetent?

I've yet to have a positive experience at a dealership. Forgive me for saying so, but car dealers are the scum of the earth. I'm sure you're a perfectly reasonable and nice person, but this industry is just terrible.