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Originally Posted by ckissick View Post
FWIW At my father's VW dealership, when the mechanics got paid by the hour, and the jobs were billed by the hour, the shop was losing money. Then they switched so that the mechanics got paid by the job, and the customer paid by the job, not by the hour. The shop started making a profit, and the mechanics made more money, too.
Great example of how NOT to do this. You can't just completely change the way techs are paid and not change anything else = fail
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