Covid And Unemployment Be Damned: Are You Ready For The Pickup Shortage Of 2020?

Nissan Titan can take up the slack.

Pickups continued to sell rather normally for us and yes, there was no incoming product. We are definitely going to feel it in June. Today was a "hard" reopen in our group actively announcing through signage, balloons, and other visuals that we are open (we never closed, but we didn't "act" open). We had been aggressive online and if someone came inside the showroom we met them, but we were not sending staff out to the lots when customers arrived as is customary. We are not requiring staff to use masks and all social distancing signage and spots for people to stand have been removed..

And what are you going to do when one of your employee gets the China virus from a customer and then spreads it to your other employees? The lawyer in me smells expensive litigation if you failed to protect with a safe work environment, social distancing and other protective measures...

Our legal team has advised us what to do going forward. The work around is astoundingly simple. Think about it.

PS The decision wasn't (1) my idea or (2) my decision to make, but part of the context of it is Orange County. The legal go around seems plausible to me

Don't crank up the AC too much - the virus doesn't like temps > 76 degrees.

Even in NY (not in Manhattan though), even though most places 'act closed' they are really 'open' if you ask. I think that is the norm throughout most of the country and is one reason why people in general (i.e. the socialocrats) will be SHOCKED about how fast things get back to normal once the case load stabilizes. Case load stabilization looks like its on the horizon in many places.

We've reached a tipping point where people are vastly more outraged at the economic ruin caused them over a statistically insignificant number of deaths that they no longer give a rat's ass about COVID numbers and deaths.

The socialist response of putting everyone on house arrest in response to a pandemic is proving to be a total failure with people so much so that should another occur, people will not put up with the lock-down bullshit and will take it to the streets.

For an employee to assert an unsafe work environment vis a vis COVID, the employee would have to argue that if they got COVID that they got is solely at the work place. Dr. Fauci says that masks are totally useless, so requiring them no longer makes sense. If the employee is given the option to wear a mask, then you've done all the legal mitigation necessary.

We have a corporate and store mindset. Employees that do not fit the mindset are not hired back.

— MDarringer

I was asking out of curiosity as here in Ontario all the liability is put on the employer and none on my employees which isn't fair its needs to be a 2 way street for it to be effective or equitable for that matter.

I live right on the beach in Toronto with the boardwalk in my back yard and people all weekend were lumped together defying social distancing laws and I cant help but think that my employees are doing the same. Thing is is they come to work and infect my other employees (and most are elder & high risk) I could get my ass sued off especially if one succumbs to this damn virus. I would of liked to shut down but I am essential service and my burn rate is too high or I would have...

An employee cannot sue the employer over COVID infection because it is impossible to demonstrate a causal relationship that SOLELY from working in a given location that the person became infected.

It violates the US Constitution to mandate masks. A person can dress how they choose to dress.

The notion that a sick employee could infect other employees and in turn they could sue to employer wouldn't hold up in court here. Lets say Johnny Wiggledick has an STD and he bangs a secretary in the broom closet and she gets the STD, and brags about his prowess, so the other men and women acquire the STD too because Johnny is the flavor of the moment, the employer has no legally liability for the spread of the STD. Now, with respect to COVID, if the employee said "I'm sick" and the employer said "You must work or you're fired" that would be different.

If employees are scared to return, they have the option not to work and we have protocols that define how we can fire someone and we would begin that process. The employee would voluntarily be vacating a job and that is cause for termination, but it would be voluntary vacation of the job, not COVID that is the deciding factor.

We have several employees who covidiots with pandementia but they have been bird-dogging the living hell out of internet sales and cold-calling owners with leases near termination. Although I think they are fucking psycho, they are demonstrating they want the job.

Thanks and you guys enjoy much more "employer friendly" black and white laws with a strong Federal backbone unlike our multiple shades B&A Act laws that are unjust, fluid and punitive to employers, landlords, victims...

let stealerships keep those pick-ups

Hey shit for brains, pickups are selling quite well. Clue in.