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This site has become some what of a surrogate blog for me.
You guys seems to enjoy my stories. I don’t know if it’s the places I work, or my sense of humor.
My wife is a nurse, and she has told me medical humor is pretty dark. I told her military humor is pitch fucking black.
I’ve taken it upon myself to give my shop foreman a heart attack.
We had 130 appointments today. Yes, 130. No, I’m serious. Yes. Really…….
One tech walked outside, threw up about 1 gallon of fluid, the shop foreman asked him if he was ok and told him get back to work.
The guy the threw up was a vet, same branch, same damn base as me back in the day. We are tight. If he called me at 3am stuck in Arizona, I would tell him kick back I’ll be there in 23 hours.
So as revenge I did an airbag recall. We throw away the old screws. Unless you’re a prick like me. I do the recall, run my time, story my RO. Put the old screws in my pocket. Go through the car wash and park the car. (NO I didn’t do Eric’s car, he’s about 2 hours south of me).
As I get out I throw the old screws on the floor. The customer gets down the street to her house and notices the screws on the floor.
She called us, and 100% lost her shit on us. Screamed at the service advisor, he parlayed her off onto the shop foreman we all hate. He told her come back and he would look at it. One tech used his iphone to record her verbally ripping his face off for ten minutes.
Her screaming at him is now someone’s ring tone for his cell phone.
To top the day off, he went to move a car. We have a golf cart he rides around on. We moved the golf cart behind the car he parked, so when he backed up he hit the golf cart.
We blamed a lube tech.
Now all 12 lube techs have formed a quasi union. We are calling them the ‘lube tech mafia’.
We laughed so hard we were in tears.
I regret nothing
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130 for a full shop that has 12 lube monkeys doesn’t sound too bad. Last Saturday, 4 of us plus the one guy that rolled in at 1pm did almost 60 RO’s. Our still kinda green lube tech had 3 cars going most of the day. Thanks call center, we enjoyed not having time for lunch. Although the money was nice. Yesterday, I think we may have done a few more but we were properly staffed so nobody had to wait 4 hours.
130 feels like a lot when you have a dispatcher/ shop foreman that can’t do his job.
It literally feels like someone taped you to the ceiling, your baby is choking on the floor, someone is trying to break in, someone else is trying to set fire to the house. And the shop foreman is banging on a pan next to your head.
All while you are changing oil lol.
We have 12 lube techs total, 6 work Saturdays, two were off for personal reasons. Some ‘waiters’ sat for about 5 hours. Our surveys are going to being scorching bad.
When they bleed enough, they will quit trying to plunder and pillage with a skeleton crew. The flat rate guys literally refuse to take oil changes because of the shop foreman.
We’re having a tech meeting on Friday, there’s likely going to be something about the CSI score. But there is literally zero incentive for us to care about it and management won’t give us one, if you catch my drift.
Speaking of which, I should send out my resume to a place hiring before Friday.
Our scores are in the shitter, because we have our boot on their throat holding them there.
I sent my resume, just need to sit down for the interview.
Eventually they will bleed enough that either they will change, or remove something that needs changed. Either way I’m not falling on my sword for them.
We have those days and it irritates the piss out of all of us. We have 9 techs and 3.5 oil slingers. When we have been busting ass all day long and they come back with a stack of 15 waiters at lunch time that’s fine. I didn’t want to eat anyway. We have good management and my teams foreman is awesome. We just have writers/phone jockeys with no common sense. That’s pretty funny though Pitt. I could see one of us doing some shit like that
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[quote=”Pitt” post=151039]Our scores are in the shitter, because we have our boot on their throat holding them there. [/quote]
I’m going to borrow that. Permanently.
[quote=”DaFirnz” post=151137][quote=”Pitt” post=151039]Our scores are in the shitter, because we have our boot on their throat holding them there. [/quote]
I’m going to borrow that. Permanently.[/quote]
I’m glad you like it 😀
Our foreman tells us what is wrong, and how to fix it. We are smart enough to know a way to turn that around on him.
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