[asphaltgambler]

RE: To all the Shops in DMV Seeking Good Technicians (Poorville)

compensation: Will review after 90 days

To all the Automotive shops in the DMV area looking for good technicians

I have a few questions:

1) If your shop is so good and the pay so high why did the last guy leave?
2) Perhaps because you cut his pay or rate recently to increase your bottom line?
3) Required them to write their own tickets so you could eliminate the service writers and make even more money?
4) Kept adding techs until you starved the good ones out?
5) Created a floating pay period but kept the pay dates the same?
6) Insisted on using ***** parts from ***** parts suppliers where the new part is of poorer quality than the broken original part?
7) Instituted longer opening hours including Saturday's and Sunday's but no plan to support it?
8) Have the beginner guys do the gravy work while the top guy struggles with complex work?
9) Pay a low rate initially but promise a high hourly rate after "some adjustment period" (which never arrives)
10) Not pay your tech on the ticket until the car is picked up?
11) Make the tech hash it out with the parts supplier for labor reimbursement (because you won't pay) when the ***** part they just installed fails? (Reference number 6)
12) My favorite: Tell the tech to hurry because the car has to be done by 4:00pm? (Then he sees it parking lot the next morning because the customer didn't really need it by then)

The 'System' is broken people. Good shops got their past reputation largely from the good techs working there. Good Technicians got shafted in recent years with the economic downturn.

Can't find a good a Technician for your shop? That's probably because most of the good ones left the business in droves for better opportunities in other skilled trades. When the guy driving the trash truck makes more than I do and has better benefits, well. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . ..

It's time to bring your shop into the modern world folks. Pay them a competitive hourly (that's clock hours) wage with benefits. Good people make you money. Loosing good people and having high employee turn-over rates for the above reasons costs you more than you know.

The flat rate system was instituted in a time when Ford Model A's were new. Last I checked there have been several model changes since then. The system barely worked 15 years ago and it sure does anything but favor today's skilled Technician.

Shops - Get with it and fix it!

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