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One of the reports of this I heard was on Marketplace the other day... and the part that made me chuckle was on cursive. Pen and paper, but please no cursive:
by shagie 2y ago
One of the reports of this I heard was on Marketplace the other day... and the part that made me chuckle was on cursive.
Pen and paper, but please no cursive: Widespread cyberattack sends car dealers back to 20th century - https://www.marketplace.org/2024/06/21/cdk-global-hack-software-auto-dealers-car-dealership/ https://www.marketplace.org/2024/06/21/cdk-global-hack-softw...
> Car dealers are a pretty big part of this economy, doing some $1.2 trillion in sales last year, according to the National Automobile Dealers Association. In the wake of the CDK hack, there’s a new policy among the salespeople and mechanics at the Willis Automotive dealership in Des Moines, Iowa: no cursive.
> “We have a lot of staff members that are younger than 30 that I’m not sure have seen cursive in their life. So we try not to go the cursive route just to make sure everybody understands what’s going on,” said Jason Willis, CEO of the dealership.
- mywittyname 2y agoI like how they blame "young people" for not being able read cursive instead of their own terrible hand writing.
- 1-6 2y ago"Young people" are not being taught cursive in school. Schools are not teaching cursive to students any longer since 2010 if they're following the Common Core curriculum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive_handwriting_instruction_in_the_United_States#:~:text=Recent%20events,in%20the%20respective%20state%20curriculum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive_handwriting_instructio....
- mywittyname 2y agoYou can learn to read cursive in a few hours. It's not like they are writing in Mandarin, most of the letters are identical. Complaining about it is culture war virtue signaling. Additionally, kids do still learn cursive. It's just not mandatory curriculum. My nephew is was learning it just before school ended this year.
- jimt1234 2y agoDon't get my Boomer mother started on this topic. Apparently, "the country is going to shit" because cursive isn't being taught in schools anymore. LOL
- jimt1234 2y agoSorta-related: manual-transmission cars. About a year ago, my girlfriend found a VW Jetta that she liked on the BMW lot with a manual-transmission. She offered the dealership about 60% of what they were asking. The dealer strongly rejected the offer, even laughed at it. My GF and I walked away. The dealer called back a few days and accepted her original offer. They were never gonna sell that car with the manual-transmission and they knew it. The only downside is that she's never gonna be able to re-sell the car, either.
- olyjohn 2y agoMore likely they just had the car overpriced like what dealerships have been doing since the pandemic.