The Witch Hunt Begins

[Carlos Murphy]

Cheap

Laytex gloves, ya, parts department would issue 5 pair a day to each tech, I would use that many on one job so I bought my own at Costco.
The managers as usual couldn't understand the time and money the gloves saved the company,

Less trips to the restroom to wash up between operations on the car and after the car is finished. (Interiour stays clean.)
Less soap used.
Less water used.
Less hand towel rolls used.
Less bullshit time in the restroom.
Shop towels were also issued, 25 per tech per week.

 

[Will]

I like the vinyl gloves. The latex ones tear too easily.

The place I get tires is maybe the last tiny shop in town. The vehicle stays outside and they have a slab 2-cars wide and have 8 floor jacks. They mount and balance inside this little cement cube of a building that is totally packed with tires. They come sprinting out and you can go in there at 8:00am and be out with 4 new tires by 8:30am. Or you can sit at the big Goodyear place for 3 hours while they keep coming out and trying to sell you shit that you don't need.

I'm going to cry when the little shop finally closes. Their normal work load is doing patches and selling used tires to poor people. I go there for everything because I don't want them to close.

 

[LearjetMinako]

Laytex gloves, ya, parts department would issue 5 pair a day to each tech, I would use that many on one job so I bought my own at Costco.
The managers as usual couldn't understand the time and money the gloves saved the company.

My shop use to supply the mechs' with gloves. But because of cost cutting, they no longer supply them so limitless. But thats okay, because the ones they always buy were cheap and always ripped on the first pointy object. So now I just go to Steve's Wholesales and buy the really thick latex gloves. A pair might last me a week.

Now all this talk is making me think, "what else am I being canned on?".

 

[Black'03LevelII]

thats how management veiws labor in all industries.

in the trucking industry you 2 positions that generate revenue. the drivers and the sales staff.

but drivers and sales people are expendable and a dispatcher that pisses of 50 drivers and causes them all to quit so there are 50 empty trucks is promoted.

those asses get promoted and the guys doing the work get canned

you guys must work for the same company I do. we have this crap going on, on a daily basis where I work. we had a driver do $15,000 worth of damage to a tractor, never made him pee in a cup or nothin', didn't get fired either. Yet one of our mechanics got a sliver in his eye and he had to go for a drug test and got put on "probation" WTF is up with that?

 

[Sunk]

The shop I used to work at supplied the gloves, limitless. Some of the guys there would wear latex under thicker "Mechanix" gloves or similair... The outer gloves were better, but not quite grease-proof.

 

[LIMA BEAN]

Don't know how some of you guy's get by on those wages working for morons that should be working for you. I know my cost of living is a touch higher than most places but my standard rate of pay is $35-40 bucks an hr. straight time and its usually 6/1O's min. On bacon jobs I rate $68.75 hr. w/comp straight time... do the math when working 6/10's at that rate. Granted I pay enough taxes to make 1500 illegals live comfortably and line the pockets of those who allow it but thats a different thread. I say if you are working a suck job and young with not many skills, bid your time valuably and take courses at night and weekends only a few hrs./few bucks and look way beyond where you are now. If you think great things for yourself you can your self be great things, dont ever think you cannot "cant was invented by lazy quitters". There are fellas on here working the sands project in Canada, have your basic mechanical/welding/operating certs, hell even a bullcook or roustabout and bang your making good money and one hell of an adventure especially for a single person. It all boils down to this... Make a solid lifes descision, get your ass and ducks in a row, ACT upon your descision. Don't hold back from fear of the unknown, believe me there are alot of other folks you would soon meet that took that step. I know hindsite is 20/20 but later you will look back at yourself and go . Go out there and live and dont say oh I can't because I have a wife and children, bullshit. Our soldiers successfully do it on a daily basis on harder terms. Dam that was a rant, ok its finally over so bite me ha.

 

[michowski]

What you need to do is go outside for a smoke. Come back inside and spend 20 minutes filling out the form saying you took 2 minutes to smoke. Then go wash 1 car. Then take your break. Once your break is over come inside and spend another 20 minutes filling the report saying I took my break. Keep making there policy the thing that is slowing down the work. I hate when companies try to change everything to be "more productive" but in the end there just trying to fix what isnt broke lol.

 

[human5]

Meh, I've just been ignoring the BS lately. I punched out my Work Orders for my smoke brakes and lunch. I did get a call yesterday (my day off) from my manager asking if I ordered the tire for a car. I told him no, and that I left a note on his desk to order it and pick it up and I'll pu the tire on tomorrow (today). He acted all stupid like I should have done that when I got the Purchase Order the minute I was walking out the door to go to school. Then this morning another manager asked why I've been buying so many new tires for cars, I told them that the tire wasn't able to hold a patch, or had damage on the side wall. He told me to patch the sidewalls now. I explained to him that it's cheeper to buy a new tire than to pay for a lawsuit, so just buy the new one.