Originally posted by Garbear
To conduct business we're required to visit and entertain clients in the field... Kids Toyota trunks, Honda Accords and EV's don't cut it when taking executives out for lunch...to close a million dollar deal...which supports the employ of hundreds of staff.
What did you use before SUVs? Your reason/excuse is poor.
Originally posted by Garbear
I live 65miles!!!from my company... I could move the office to convenience me and layoff all those that don't like my selfish move...but, then again, I have greater consideration for others.
That's the most wasteful thing I've ever heard! You could also move closer to your office yourself to convenience you, but your first thought is to lay everyone else off rather than to make that 'sacrifice'. Your complaint about high housing costs close to the office is illegitimate; you're a high and mighty executive, remember?
Originally posted by Garbear
Where do you all come up with your information... the actual mileage on a MBZ, Infinity, Lexus and Cadillac's "almost" equals my SUV... and I've owned 3 of the forementioned.
It's not just the gas mileage. SUVs have very loose emissions requirements compared to cars, so they pollute the air to a much greater degree. SUVs are more dangerous to their drivers and passengers due to the rollover phenomenon, and they are more deadly to those on the receiving end of a collision with an SUV, due to the fact that SUV bumpers are at the same height as the craniums of car drivers and passengers.
Originally posted by Garbear
...no doubt he thought by driving his toyota, he was doing something good for society... My guess is, he couldn't afford more!
I don't hear you stating facts to support your argument, just lame excuses to support your extravagant, elitist lifestyle. And despite your rhetoric about helping your workers, you have displayed a not insignificant amount of contempt for those 'beneath' you. That attitude is exactly what generates anti-executive feelings among many people.