🚀 go-pugleaf

P. J. Remner wrote:

> In a previous article, ns.rl56@cheerful.com (Richard) says:
>
> >You must be joking. A flat rate charge is the biggest scam in the auto
> >repair industry. Charging 4 hours of labor for 2 hours actual labor? Either
> >you're an auto tech or one dumb sucker. This is the reason I work on my own
> >cars.
>
> You've never worked on a Car From Hell that called for 3 hours for "x"
> when it actually took you five or six.
>
> If I were a flat-rater I'd be *dead*.  Right now I am doing roughly
> 6 hours of "work" for 10 hours of paid time.  This is actually considered
> good in my company, because we don't schedule pack-it-tight-style,
> so there is some dead time, and our labor hours guide is a bit more
> relaxed than the factory guide (ours shows less time needed to do work).
> Many of the jobs I do aren't even done according to flat-rate, they're
> done according to common sense; according to the book, a four wheel
> alingment on a IRS Thunderbord should take 1.5 to 3 hours!  BS -
> I can and *have* done them in 45-minutes to a half hour, including two
> test drives and setting up the alignment machine.  We charge - suprise!
> 45 minutes labor for all front end and one hour labor for all four
> wheel alignments.  So I'm still "beating the system", but by a factor
> of 15 to 30 minutes instead of 45 to two and a half!
>
> >Imagine this. I go to my mgr tomorrow and tell him that it takes the average
> >person to perform my work load in 8 hrs. I am fast, however, and can do the
> >same job in 4 hrs. Therefore I can take the rest of the afternoon off with
> >pay or you can pay me double time for the rest of the 8 hr work day. I bet
> >he'll tell me I'm worth it and let me take my pick of either time off or
> >double pay. What did you decide to do with your time? Play or double pay?
>
> Depends on how well my finances are at the time.  If that were to
> happen to me today, I'd probably work an extra eight or ten hours,
> not just four.
>
> --
> You know your car is pathetic when you are thrilled
> one day when you speed-shift into Third and it chirps
> one of the tires.
>                                     I MISS MY 429!

Me, too, and it was in a Colony Park wagon that would smoke and wail!