What You Can't Find a Better Shop to Work At!

[@crasher88]

I got out of flat rate 2 years ago and went into fleet maintenance and do diag work on the side and couldn't be happier. more pay less work less stress couldn't be happier

[@74stang2togo]

I BSed my way into my first dealership job... Day 1 on the job I accidentally backed up my BS by knowing what I didn't know... and have kept repeating that every day. Now I'm a BMW and ASE certified tech with 22 years in the field. 😂

[@Car_Doc24]

@@74stang2togo hey man you did what you had to do to get where you wanted and now you're a stud! Good for you I hope you're killing it and being honest about it

[@williamcook2499]

I think holding the part supplier's and such more accountable than the shops. And information! If there is an issue "TSB"... recall ect...

[@Mac-mu9cs]

Where did all the tsb go on alldata?

[@Car_Doc24]

It's a good point to be honest with you a lot of times I hold up with delivering cars back to customers is a parts issue whether it's a bad part a broken part delayed part to a lack of information from the manufacturer so we can't do things that we need to do in a timely fashion. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying technicians are without flaws. Like frm is saying you have to identify what they are own up to them and fix them as you go along fake it till you make it while still doing quality work and not being a shithead

[@ferrarimatt1]

My shop is a laid-back shop. If a car comes that a rust bucket to minimize breaking of parts the vehicle is worked on with hand tools only.

[@MsFireboy2]

I found out when I was in the business. It’s a trade off. Laid back shops sometimes are less stressful. It also depends on areas locations and clients.

[@Dc5Knightv2]

Hourly is the way to go along with nighshift, you are left alone to fix fix cars, no politics no metrics.

[@Car_Doc24]

So you don't like being held accountable and would rather fly under the radar so you don't yell at

[@Car_Doc24]

What do you want to believe it or not any business that's trying to turn a profit has a metric eventually if you don't meet that metric you will be replaced. I have plenty of friends and acquaintances that have worked hourly. Specifically for a very popular EV company they have all been replaced when the bottom line doesn't line up they were all hourly or salary. Things are great when they're great but when the stock price drops so does the need for overhead which is salary employees

[@magnumjohnson9628]

Find another industry, automotive sucks

[@williamcook2499]

It does!!! It sucks.

[@---skynet---]

Its worse and worse every year. I use the toilet flushing analogy to best describe what's happening to the industry.

[@Car_Doc24]

I'm sorry that you guys feel this way about automotive if everybody keeps quitting who are you going to have to work on your cars or your family's cars are you going to do it and are you going to recognize your limitations beyond oil changes and brakes they're not getting any easier to work on either

[@nickl3872]

100%

[@JamesSmith-xs7sr]

Truth, it blows ass! Fools game for a young man, who believes it will get better down tbe road, lol. My friend bailed this pos trade 4 years ago. Now he is a Vetrinarian making more than any "mechanic" will make at some run of the mill flat rate shop. And he luvs his job, imagine that.

[@timbrassinne719]

Tell me about it. 2 days in and I'm starting to wonder if it was a mistake or not.

[@williamcook2499]

I diag if the shop allows it. I really hate our career. I don't know how to state!!! You have to charge for my time to test... I worked salary and don't know what to charge or what to charge for my time investing.... invested. I am unemployed without unemployment benefits.

[@Car_Doc24]

Amen brother where do you work. I can help you find a place that will appreciate you. They'll pay you what you're worth and no bulshit

[@meblake7359]

I've been to many, many interviews and no one asks any questions regarding the job. They just want to know where u have worked and how current is your experience. They don't even want to see education achievements.

[@yobanddaddy3010]

Fellas you have to remember the glass is half full.

[@jasonkoplen2554]

The reason you can’t find a better shop to work at is the same reason you can’t find Bigfoot. This game is rigged and one way or the other the house always wins.

[@webreakforsquirrel4201]

So for all the service writers that think they are top level communicators, where are you when I sell my skills and myself to the leader of the business?Only to hear you tell me how great you are at sales later on after fumbling a ticket.

[@dougbrook6223]

It's the guys that undervalue themselves that kill me... im over there thinking damn, I make 20 bucks an hour more than him and he is a better tech than me. Lol. Seriously though, know what you are worth. Otherwise it brings down the pay for all of us.

[@markferraro5250]

Great points Mike thanks for this

[@hyeeagle]

Dealerships are too much favorites… dealerships they don’t like you if you diagnose right. They what you start recommend most expensive parts, when you diagnose right in first time it less money for them that’s why when they know customer is buyer they give someone who start recommending most expensive part. That’s why you are not their favorite guy but still they keep you because when someone having several time comeback they sign you and you fix it. That’s why does guys make more hours spending less time and you spend more time fix it quicker and no hours may be one hour

[@freedomkingfilms]

been a car washer in a bodyshop for 6 years now and i work hard always ontime , and i do the best i can on each car, but god for bid one car is "not good enough" i get bitched at, tired of it, management needs to learn when to back the hell off, stop nit picking cars and stop talking down to the young car washer . who has been there for 6 years

[@Mac-mu9cs]

I swear all the shops around here are in cahoots , they all pay the same offer the same crap benefits . Dont matter flat rate or hourly . For all the young ones coming , god bless learn how to get a contract , find out the legal standing of any contract

[@JamesSmith-xs7sr]

Gonna take a nationwide tech strike! EVERYONE, no pssys flakin out & scab working. Lock up yer boxes! Most won't because very few have decent savings, sad deal. Why are SO many techs finacial deadbeats? Never hear of this with union trades...

[@Mac-mu9cs]

Diag is getting harder with lack of info . I have a poor diagram in front of me but its not clear what its doing on the control side?

[@BrianSkinny-n5f]

Automotive has…. It’s gone down hill pretty bad man. Over here in PA auto shops are desperate for techs, heavy truck is in a rough patch also.

[@RobCarstuff9112]

Howdy!

[@jasonvredenburg4839]

Want better pay and less bs? Easy. If you are a good tech and not mediocre. Fleet tech is where it's at... No retail bs or picky idiot tell you that their car got a flat tire a day later after an oil change... F retail.. Left it after 20 years wish I would have done it sooner. Better pay

[@andrewcimochowski]

Say you are better than you are because you will still be underpaid anyway..pay not keeping up with all the shops charging 200hr

[@michaelmcgregor3108]

I can't find a better shop to work at, mostly because I am the owner!

[@xephael3485]

Well you know who to blame if things suck 🤣

[@michaelmcgregor3108]

@xephael3485 Yeah, yeah, that's what my wife says! In all seriousness, though, I do like the self-employed part, other than finding good parts these days!

[@xephael3485]

@@michaelmcgregor3108 AliExpress!! 🤣 I mean the manufacturers are putting junk on their cars from the get-go so why should mechanics be responsible? I've seen hundreds of vehicles with destroyed engines because the manufacturer put in a plastic oil pickup tube instead of a metal one. They only care if it lasts until it's out of warranty... And even sometimes they'll take the hit for a warranty work if the numbers are in their favor! Complete scumbags running these companies.

[@williamcook2499]

​@michaelmcgregor3108 you don't know what to buy? Warranty is regardless and the extra for the better... is only for the customer.... offer them the best you can get and the supplier pays for the labor. (Customer is covered, your labor is double and your Tech is paid!) And that's really so.ethi g that is required! If the part is junk... the diagnosis of that bad part.... the time that shop is dealing with shit parts.....ect.

[@johntardi6771]

Become a millwright

[@egx161]

Fix your titles.

[@aleskyfinis1025]

Like

[@williamcook2499]

If..I supply more tools... and feel like a tool. When they don't insure my tools but need me to be. When I state as I stated when hired... and they are still on drugs. I really can't work for these persons.