DrBoost wrote: In reply to bravenrace: I'm glad it's working out for you. I know of very few techs that are happy with flat rate. Like I said, the best techs I know were driven out of the dealership because they couldn't make enough money. Now they are making 40 hours a week for 40 hours a week of time. The ones that loved it were fed the gravy and nothing else and/or were screwing Chrysler and the customer at every turn.
Well... The guy next to my two bays was the GM "trans guy" for the dealership. He made a bit more then I per hour, which is no big deal to me, but when he rolls in a broken 4L60E in a pickup, removes it, disassembles to find only a broken sprag, but bills parts to total it out to get a GM reman, and collect 6hrs R&R plus another 1.5hr on disassembly, warranty time too, I got a problem. I'm in the next bay busting my balls on stupid nonpaying "once in a wrenching lifetime" electrical problems, stupid 6.7 Cummins diesel bullE36 M3, junkass poor shift quality 42RLE's in Liberty's, telling others how to fix those bastards, etc with a SM that told me, "Work harder or I can give you $12/hr for every hour you are here, but your workload will INCREASE." prompts a leave. Talking to the owner didn't help either, he just deferred back to the SM. Best I can find out though is whoever took on my role never stays longer than 6mo to a year because of the same old bullE36 M3. The flat rate system is broken. The only ones making money are the gravy slurpers/screw grandma over and dealership owners. I have more pride in my work then trying to pursue every dollar out of someone's pocket for unnecessary repairs.
