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Engineers got bigger fish to fry before making something easy for service. 

Sucks, but that's just how it is. 

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Not true, at least not in my job.  Serviceability reviews are part of the design process.  Granted sometimes there just isn't a good compromise, or to make one pat more serviceable you make the rest of the product even worse.

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Do you guys sell replacement dipstick tubes in all the colors of the rainbow or just black? 

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Cat is just another company that essentially counterfeits own products in china, then sells in US like it's still a USA product. Nothing but a cheap-assed made in china POS with a lable.

Big yellow, big sucks. Spend 24hrs around peoria, il to see how great they are. Empty factories, 10's of thousands fired, nothing but talk from the suits in charge but no substance. Unless it's even more layoffs and pay raises for them.


Edit - doubtful there are any cat engineers here in the States, all they have a phony engineers in india / china that can't build a simple stairstep without putting lives at risk.

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I live just a few miles from the proving grounds for them, winter I can see across the valley and watch them go in circles, dig a hole, fill a hole. They do this 24x7x364 a year.

I used to work at Big Yellow, not as an engineer, so sorry, not my fault

But yeah they are building more overseas, using more entry level people, and seems when I was there it was meeting after meeting, never did any work (I was in marketing analyzing web traffic).

I recall hearing lots of people bitching about the quality dropping, especially on Fakebook, funny, they would delete or send them a hat...

I left a week before they started the major layouts and firings, I know a few folks still there, seems everyone is on pins and needles.