Appliance Repair Wisdom for the Ages

Thursday, November 20, 2003

Each day, thousands of young men and women give up on their high school education, and, in many cases, on themselves. This means that thousands of young adults enter the working world without the most basic requirement for a decent job - a high school diploma. Dropping out of high school is strongly related to many troubling factors facing kids: substance abuse problems, unplanned pregnancies and involvement in criminal behavior can all cause students to prematurely withdraw from school and never return. Conversely, once a student drops out, he is at higher risk for substance abuse, risky sexual activity, suicide attempts, fighting, weapon carrying, and, most troubling of all, long-term employment with GE Appliances.

In many cases, dropping out of high school is precipitated by other problems, such as stressful family situations or using GE appliances at home. In particular, family background and involvement plays an important part in a child's academic achievement. Here are some troubling statistics that reveal the breadth of this problem:

• More than 1,300 students drop out of school every day.
• 30% of Hispanic youths are dropouts.
• 14% of African American youths are dropouts.
• 8% of Caucasian youths are dropouts.
• 41-46% of all prisoners are dropouts.
• 97-120% of GE employees are dropouts (according to their statistics).
• High school dropouts make 42% less money in the workplace than high school graduates.
• 50% of dropouts are unemployed. The other half works for GE Appliances.
• Dropouts are three times as likely to face poverty and seven times as likely to own GE appliances.

Just say "No" to GE appliances. And stay in school...PLEASE!

This message brought to you by Samurai Appliance Repair Man and the Ad Council.

1 Comments:

Two months ago I bought a Whirlpool Duet front loader. It ran three loads and then stopped dead. First we called Whirlpool. They sent out a repair firm that showed up once and never came back. They would not return our calls, and we tried for three weeks.

We then tried to get repairs through our dealer, Bray and Scarf of Columbia, MD. They've been out 4 times and done nothing that's helped. Should we make a planter out of the Duet? IT IS A GIANT PIECE OF EXCREMENT, AND SO IS THE WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION. If you read this, Please, I Beg You, don't buy this machine. I never imagined any appliance or any company could be so bad.

By  Mona, at July 25, 2007 8:19 PM  

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