DwayneGorniak Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Well the order came down from the D.P. yesterday that apprentices are no longer to work with me. He said if I don't want to share my time, I don't need an apprentice. He figures the apprentices do nothing more than make us journeymen efficient. All the journeymen in this shop are in an uproar right now and they don't want any apprentices working them either because they don't want to get charged like I did. Funny thing is this happened to me two years ago here and my fix for it was to refuse to work with apprentices. Then they figured I must have forgotten about it. All along, I had suspected it was his order anyway. Like I said he makes all the decisions for every department here and managers do nothing more than apply them. I think it's time to start lookin again. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/scratchhead.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Adema Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Dwayne, why don't you head on up to Red Deer and see what MGM or Festival Ford are up to? Festival just opened up a new facility in Gasoline Alley with RV's and such. Just a suggestion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Warman Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 YOOHOO..... Dwayne...... "come to the dahk side...". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DwayneGorniak Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 You know Jeff, the thought has crossed my mind. I'm one of those guys that does quite a bit of looking into a new place before I make any rash decisions. For now I'm still making money and not having to share it just yet. However, if they push real hard, it is not a hard decision for me to make. I've always lived by the theory: if I've done it before, I can do it again. But I'll keep my eyes peeled. I would just like to be able to do my job, make money, and have management leave me the hell alone. But it seems every time I'm at a dealership for a little while, they start to think they own you and can do whatever the hell they want. Is it just me that thinks this way or what? And I'm the kind of guy that will prove them wrong if that problem occurs. I just wish the problem would never occur. Wishfull thinkin, I guess. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/shrug.gif Jim, I was wondering when you were gonna make a poke at me or put a bug in my ear. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Browning Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Jim, I was wondering when you were gonna make a poke at me or put a bug in my ear. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif I thought he was pokin here. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/poke.gif Originally Posted By: Jim Warman YOOHOO..... Dwayne...... "come to the dahk side...". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Clayton Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 We have it pretty good at our shop. We have a choice of 5 eight hour days or 4 ten hour days. We have 13 guys, 12 are flat rate and one is hourly. The pay scale ranges drastically between the guys from the low teens to mid 20s per hour. Our area can't support anything higher. I asked for 28 an hour one day and got shot down pretty fast, they were still laughing as I walked out of the office. The main problem with our dealer is the old "the more you know the less you make and visa-verca" addage. We have 3 diesel guys and we were all working for peanuts. I noticed that we had some leverage that we weren't taking advantage of and asked the other two guys to band together with me and make a stand for better pay and more perks. Well the other 2 chickened out and thought they would loose their jobs of something, which would never happen. So I told them I was going to talk to management for me and me only and they could fight over what ever was left after I got what I wanted. They still wouldn't budge, even after I came across as major asshole on the issue. It all played out like I said it would and I am happy. One guy went to the table shortly after me and is happy with the scraps they threw him and the last guy is still working for peanuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DwayneGorniak Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 Man, I do get good laughs in this place. I didn't even start this one yesterday. Yesterday I was putting a Sick-o engine back in and when I was trying to line the engine up to the tranny, one of the other Journeymen come running over and gave me a hand. after we were done, he yelled out in the shop: And you don't have to pay me for that! All the journeymen here ahave always helped eachother. But yesterday all the journeymen decided they are going to prove that we don't need apprentices to make us efficient. So we have all been running from eachothers bays helping eachother out and yelling at the top of our lungs: You dan't have to pay me for that! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Adema Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 That's pretty damn funny, Dwayne, you sarcastic son-of-a.....!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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