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Richard wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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?

Yeah, but what happens when your boss gives you a task that "should"
take 4 hours, but in fact takes 8?

But why would the auto repair industry underestimate the time it takes
to do a job? Take warranty repairs, where the payor (the auto company)
determines how much work it will take for the payee (the repairer) to do
the work...

Flat rate can certainly cut both ways; there's nothing about it that
logically demands it benefits only the person doing the repair. To come
to a conclusion about whether flat rate is really worse for the customer
or the repairer, we'd have to conduct empirical studies, I think.