2021 Ford Bronco Delayed Until Summer 2021

Thank you. I’ve been busy lately and haven’t been commenting as much. How have you been?

@Adam Tonge I am well thank you, I feel blessed especially the crazy year we've all had. How are you and your family? Still rocking the MKFlex?

@Adam Tonge Additional: I'm going back a few years but was it you who mentioned you were using Targeted Selection for onboarding candidates?

@28-Cars-Later Family and I are great. Just getting over the rona. My wife works on COVID floors in a hospital so it ended up here. We had relatively mild cases and we are all going good. I no longer have the MKFlex. It was totaled when someone rear ended it on Woodward Ave while my wife was stopped at a light. The accident totaled four cars. The MKFlex was able to drive home and then to a shop, unlike the other vehicles. We replaced it with an MKEdge. I had a very short buying window and there we very few MKFlexes around. They were either livery vehicles or borderline brand new. I enough the MKX but I miss the bigger, heavier hearse.

@28-Cars-Later Yes. My previous employer used Targeted Selection for interviewing/onboarding. I went through web based and virtual classroom training for it. I am looking at taking advantage of some of DDI's other resources in 2021 with my current employer.

@Adam Tonge I worked on that product in 2016 before I left there (bug fixes and I loaded language content, I think Spanish and French). I know the original architect (who as a old man seriously resembles George Lucas) and met the people who created it and the I/Os who wrote the competency library. DDI also had the exclusive GM hiring contract until I heard 2018 (also Chrysler and before my time, my QA worked on VW Chattanooga. They assessed something like 93,000 candidates). I also worked on the system used to hire for all GM factory jobs ;) We never had a Ford contract though IIRC.

@Adam Tonge I'm sorry to hear you were ill, if I was impacted it would have been early on and it literally would not have lasted more than a few hours. I recall feeling nauseous and instantly jumped to that conclusion, I dosed several spoons of L-asorbic acid, a multivitamin, and Advil. Felt better in an hour and ever since *knocks on wood* The figures earlier in the year here were very low but east PA was hit. The data I am privy too suggests the return appearance is more widespread and the hospital facilities are freaking out because as you probably know there isn't much slack capacity in a regular facility. I just read our Mickey Mouse governor isn't going to illegally close the state down again but is urging everyone to get their stuff together. I agree with him on this, but still want him arrested lol. I'm glad your wife was OK in that accident, my mother was in a similar multi car fender bender in her then Liberty maybe ten years ago and she regrets not suing. Now that the D platform is deprecated there may be a MKFlex deal coming in the future, assuming you can find a retail example. I'm not sure if Ford took that model fleet at some point like the Panther or not.

@Adam Tonge One of the biggest problems right now is hospitals being able to staff enough people. Where my wife works, she can pick up any shift on an off day, or a night shift, and make her hourly wage + overtime + $35/hour. She currently has three coworkers in the hospital. Even if health care workers don't pass away, if enough of them are out for 14 days, it can but critical care areas in a bad spot.

@Adam Tonge Glad to hear the Tonges are all well, Adam. It's apparently pretty easy to get COVID at a hospital - my ex's dad got it from his wife after she was hospitalized. He had some underlying issues and died a couple of weeks ago. COVID does a real number on the elderly, particularly if they're not healthy. We've had three scares here, but thank God, nothing came of them.

@Adam Tonge That's a very good point, in hockey terms instead of resting your first two lines they are all in the penalty box and you're pulling players from the practice squad to replace them.

@Freed Generally speaking its always been easier to become infected with something in a hospital facility simply because you are sharing similar areas with a multiple of diagnosis.

@28, yep, pretty much. Difference being that COVID is potentially more dangerous than the other bugs you'd pick up in the ER. In my case, I'm pretty darn healthy, so I feel confident I could ride it out. Same for my kids. But my oldest daughter nannies for a couple of little kids, and my girlfriend cares for her elderly dad, who has cancer. I try not to take chances.

@Freed I agree, very important to think of others. I've unfortunately been unable to visit my mother much since this happened as she falls in the high risk category.

@28: Off topic, but I am looking at a car for my kid. She totaled out the old Buick...moment of silence in the Church of 3800. Insurance company is cutting me a check for four grand, which is WAY more than the thing's worth, and there are some mechanical issues I'd rather not have to fix, so I think I'm inclined to take the money and run with it. What would your thoughts one on a an early-2000s Subaru Outback with that's had the head gaskets and timing belt replaced? I'm seeing them for about five grand with the repairs done.