dequately explained by incompetence
to go on the GM thing a bit, originally they sent us a schematic that never even came close to working, its a dead simple thing to do too. you have a source voltage (4.7 just out of cheapness) a flip-flop, a button, and a high powered LED
the design they sent us would ring on the button debounce so damn bad it would fail 98% of the time. They never even bothered to simulate it, some guy just farted it out and sent it down the chain, never-mind this RC was running at 1ns.
long story short, though I have not been working at this place long, I found out it took nearly 2 years to even get the "privilege", and its taken another 2 months just to get a written intent to buy, which we have not got, just to ensure we just didnt spend a lot of time and money being their R&D bitches for them to send it to Mexico or china without even a thank you. We dont have as nearly much trouble with Ford or Chrysler, and they already know what they want before even opening talks