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Originally Posted by Nostril Cheese
The worst part of flat rate is dealing with other techs for the easy jobs. Thank God those days are over for me.
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True, but sometimes it works out. We had cars, trucks, vans, patrol cruisers, big rigs, dual ac systems, etc.. stacked 21 deep at times. We didn't have much time to care who got what, and we all got paid the same hourly on book time for most ordinary jobs.
One tech I worked with didn't like Euro cars, I thought they were gravy, I hated police cruisers, he loved it. Seriously, every cruiser that came in seemed to be an evap job, and the whole dash and all the other crap along with it had to come out. Nightmare in mine eyes, you lose 2 days and hurt like hell afterwards.
I vividly remember two Ford Tauruses of the same year come in one day, he got one, I got the other. Identical failures. Book was 5 hours per vehicle. Knowing what each needed, we used one tool tray and worked together, alternating roles from one vehicle to the other. We both had seen plenty of them that summer and had them down to well under book as it were. Usually we didn't wait on parts as they were normally in stock, but we had to wait on one accumulator. So we took an hour lunch, and still knocked them out 4 hours after they came in.
We worked well together through and through. He taught me Spanish, I taught him English. Win win all around.