<![CDATA[Unique Performance Employees Ask For Owed Wages - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Unique Performance Employees Ask For Owed Wages - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Unique Performance Employees Ask For Owed Wages]]> I agree, Foose and Shelby didn't know this disaster was going to happen, still nobody has reported what caused the disaster there. Was it an owner who took they money or just mismanaged? It's been a PR disaster but I don't know anyone blaming Foose or Shelby, they certainly wouldn't have gotten involved with them if they know it was going to end up like this. If I were those two I'd just give the ex employees some money as a gift to help them get by, not calling it payment for anything. Mechanics are not rich to take a hit like that.

Hello_Newman

]]> <![CDATA[Unique Performance Employees Ask For Owed Wages]]> You actually used the word 'ersatz'. Awesome.

Now, that begs the question; what's more ludicrous?
Paying $100,000 for a mint, matching numbers Mustang from 1967, which drives worse than a Civic Si? Or paying $100,000 for a company to produce an ersatz (albeit driveable) version of said car?

Unique Performance gives us the answer . . . paying $100,000 for someone to do it, and then not even getting the car.

Morphine

]]> <![CDATA[Unique Performance Employees Ask For Owed Wages]]> @Mad_Science:

Is it a bad thing this company went out of business?

I do feel sorry for the ex-employees though.

AllenK

]]> <![CDATA[Unique Performance Employees Ask For Owed Wages]]> I feel bad for the employees that seem to have been scammed but they got off pretty cheap compared to the millions in deposites that customers paid. The customers didn't have the insight that an employee in that size of a company would have of the day to day operations. It's pretty easy to see signs of internal rot if you are having to put high dollar customers off on dellivery. I'm interested to see who were the people sucking off large salaries. Better be looking for that cash guys, I'm pretty sure tha cash didn't get used for welding rod and bondo.

UltraCF

]]> <![CDATA[Unique Performance Employees Ask For Owed Wages]]> Sorry for the workers, though if my check wasn't there the irst time, adios. Less sorry for the wealthy customers who will, of course, get a tax write-off for the loss.

NovaloadMissesPolar

]]> <![CDATA[Unique Performance Employees Ask For Owed Wages]]> i feel sorry if their final paychecks are held up in bankruptcy because the employees are given the leftover scraps of what is left. i worked at a company that fell apart during the dotcoms. laid off in the spring of 2001 and just got my final paycheck december of 2006.

StuPidaso

]]> <![CDATA[Unique Performance Employees Ask For Owed Wages]]> @Matt_Hardigree: Matt, that still doesn't count as a novel. Most true crime, biographies and non-textbook accounts of history are literary. But they're aren't novels.

Solo_Racer

]]> <![CDATA[Unique Performance Employees Ask For Owed Wages]]> @Solo_Racer: Literary non fic!

Matt Hardigree

]]> <![CDATA[Unique Performance Employees Ask For Owed Wages]]> @Dr.Danger:

Nawwe, if it was that there would be an enormous wing on the back and it would be basecoated in bright green.

Shapeshifter

]]> <![CDATA[Unique Performance Employees Ask For Owed Wages]]> @dearthair: I can haz no munies!!1!

POLAЯMISSESEVEЯYBODY

]]> <![CDATA[Unique Performance Employees Ask For Owed Wages]]> It's like were reading each others thoughts!

Yeah, probably Enron. It's a Texas Thang. If you are reading this & are from Texas, you are excluded of course:)

Poop on that playbook for us MAD_SCIENCE

hotrodmetal

]]> <![CDATA[Unique Performance Employees Ask For Owed Wages]]> @Matt_Hardigree: Right, that's not a novel. The definition of which is a work of fiction.

Solo_Racer

]]> <![CDATA[Unique Performance Employees Ask For Owed Wages]]> @hotrodmetal: Would that be the "Enron" playbook?

Dr.Danger, I run the Death Star

]]> <![CDATA[Unique Performance Employees Ask For Owed Wages]]> It's too bad Foose was involved with these con-artists. He is a decent dude, and is probably trying to set things right with the employees whether he has to or not.

Shelby on the the other hand probably is running like hell from this. He may have given Unique the playbook to go by. Brent Fenimore -formerly of Shelby American was working at Unique. What a dirty business.

hotrodmetal

]]> <![CDATA[Unique Performance Employees Ask For Owed Wages]]> @Spence: Technically it's non-fiction, but we consider it to be literary nonfic

Matt Hardigree

]]> <![CDATA[Unique Performance Employees Ask For Owed Wages]]> Typical of a Texas Based company, because the rules were set up to be "business friendly". I hope the employees get their fair share.

UDMan

]]> <![CDATA[Unique Performance Employees Ask For Owed Wages]]> @POLAR: Okay, fine, I LOLed at that.

Looking for the article, but I read somewhere a few weeks back that Foose was looking at putting together some sort of bailout package just for the employees; the problem is that bollockses up the bankruptcy proceedings, because the employees are creditors owed money just like any of their suppliers, and those other creditors would then be able to go after Foose for debts owed by Unique. Interesting system y'all have down there.

Deartháir

]]> <![CDATA[Unique Performance Employees Ask For Owed Wages]]> @Dr.Danger: FOR ME TO POOP ON!

Mad_Science

]]> <![CDATA[Unique Performance Employees Ask For Owed Wages]]> @Mad_Science: Its the need-4-speed edition dude.

Dr.Danger, I run the Death Star

]]> <![CDATA[Unique Performance Employees Ask For Owed Wages]]> o hai I can haz a pwnd whayjess?

POLAЯMISSESEVEЯYBODY

]]> <![CDATA[Unique Performance Employees Ask For Owed Wages]]> That is one ugly, ugly paint scheme.

Mad_Science

]]> <![CDATA[Unique Performance Employees Ask For Owed Wages]]> Novel?

Spence

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