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  13. Here's my experience. As a flat rate dealer tech who finally said enough after 30 years. I've learned that the more you know the less you get paid by the dealers/manufacturers and actually changed occupations due to the flat rate pay structure. Working all week and doing online schooling for free on the weekends cause "you need to keep up" forever. Yes some dealers are a little better than others but most are cut from the same cloth. I have had countless new/green mechanics enter the trade and make more than me on flat rate because they were constantly fed simple brake jobs and front end work due to their lack of experience. Yet taking home a bigger pay check because it was mostly retail work. As an experienced mechanic doing high end electronic diagnostics engine/body/trans the best I got was straight time on flat rate on a good day. Mostly warranty. Lucky to make 8 hrs. Flat rate pay is the biggest reason for shoddy workmanship and cutting of corners in this trade especially when going by unrealistic factory warranty times for repair. It should be outlawed. It only exists because a dealer/manufacturer doesn't have to pay you for your tool box being there. No work no pay. It's all piece work. No wonder they can't get new blood in the trade. Only in this trade does this pay structure exist. Do you know how many times I've heard a dealer say starve the mechanic to make him find work and that I should be upselling every work order by 80% regardless of what it came in for. It got so bad I walked from the trade couldn't take it anymore. Hence the term "Stealership". Honestly they loose some of the best mechanics I've ever seen due to this. Two choices start your own business or run cause you can't stay at a dealer. I've taught my children to fix anything but cars it pays way better in this day and age. And that's 20/20 hindsight that's now generational. Mechanic's get a bad rep and the blame for whatever goes wrong but the problem really lies with the flat rate pay structure that is long outdated and due for a complete overhaul. And dealer principles that care about nothing but money over customer service and their employees. Rant complete.
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