Woman rejected for job because "her car was too old"

When COVID hit, I got a 2004 Honda CRV. It was supposed to cover for about a year or two till thigs get better. So I go the cheapoest c*** I could find. It came from the other side of the country (from Ontario to BC), where it has lots of snow and salt and c***, it had over 6 owners, three accidents, etc, etc, etc, etc, the guy I bought it from came from a city far from where I live, driving this car. He was travelling around here while trying to sell the car because he was going back to Germany. Nobody wanted his car, so I bit the bullet. 5 years later, 70k km (43k miles) later, car doesn't have a CEL (besides an O2 sensor that was fixed when they stoled my cat, paid by the insurance) and a knock sensor I changed in about 5 min for the cost of the part (what, about 150 for the original part). This shit won't die no matter what. Idles smooth. Only oil changes and a small thing here and there. Forgot to add: got the car at 350k kms.

I even had a Saturn with nearly 600k on it. My trusty old SL2. Bought it for 600, sold it for 400. So good.

I was driving a 2001 Honda CRV until just a year ago, and the only reason I got rid of that was because I was stupid enough to let an oil change place replace my brake fluid and they royally screwed it up, and the cost to fix it was more than the car was worth even after getting all my money back from their screw up.

i have a 1991 toyota, will not be surprised if it lives til the head death of the universe

My husbands daily commuter is a 2005 Toyota Matrix my mom gave us when she stopped driving. We probably should get rid of it but….theres nothing wrong with it. I still see a lot of older Subarus/Hondas/Toyotas around here

350k, barely broken in. One of the greatest travesty of the modern age is how far Honda and Toyota have fallen. They still make solid cars, but man those 90's and 00's vehicles were (and still are) the pinnacle of automobiles. I'm environmentalist but low tension rings and water weight oils are dog shit...

My mom has a 2005 Toyota 4Runner that still looks new  and has low miles. Everywhere she goes, people ask if she’s selling it. I was with her twice when Toyota used car dealers offered her money for it, and when she said she wasn’t selling it, they said that it’ll definitely run to 300-400k miles no problem. And it has been great for her in the 20 years since she bought it. 

I drive a 2002 Honda Civic stick shift I paid for outright. I work on it myself. Some people think I’m a criminal or something when they see my car.

Yeah that year range in the Equinox has some problems, one of the biggest iirc being a horrible timing chain tensioner issue. I have a 2014 Tacoma and same, the motor will be the last thing to go on it. Hell in 144k miles I haven't had to do squat besides tires and the regular fluid services. I dread having to get a newer vehicle.

I want to see the look on the owners face when he figured out hammering on the door made the engine run good or bad. I design industrial control systems now and car networks anger me.

As a current software developer me too

Just Empty Every Pocket

I've never understood how Jeeps and Dodge trucks are popular at all with how bad expensive they end up being to maintain. I swear they've had that reputation for at least the last 15-20 years at a minimum. Some people I know need to buy domestic for some reason but i have no idea why someone would choose to go with them over Ford or GM vehicles

Background checks I understand, but credit checks are f****** dumb. I had terrible credit until I was in my mid 30's simply because I had no credit at all.

Casinos especially do this. In order to get a gaming license it was background, credit, finger printing, and what could only be described as a ‘mini’ interrogation on my life details provided in my application. I’d find out harshly I was missing most of my right pinky fingerprint, and questioned sternly on how that happened and when.

Bud, it was a retail job. Entry level. Treasurer I would understand.

Zoom in particular outgrew it's own britches way too quickly because they were a nobody competitor for Teams and WebEx and then overnight COVID won them massive contracts with almost every school and major corporation in the country. But many other businesses were already reducing staff before COVID hit. It became incredibly convenient to send office workers to remote and then fire them for it. RTO was the most simple filter ever to separate out the most desperate employees, and they didn't even need to do something that would have been a PR nightmare to do it.

That's basically the same blueprint that DOGE used to arbitrarily fire federal workers and hire toadies as an excuse to "reduce waste".

that is f****** scary, I wish you all the best