I would rather do quality work and have the job done right than have to rush to try to beat the clock. I want to concentrate on what I’m doing and not worry about if there is enough work to pay my bills. It encourages those with loose morals to cut corners. It also encourages technicians to argue over jobs. Nobody will ever work as a team because if you aren't doing your own job you aren't getting paid. Now that cars have gotten harder to fix, warranties have stepped in and gotten longer, and they pay less, the system doesn’t work correctly anymore. It doesn’t matter if you’re a year in the industry or 20 years in the industry, there’s a common theme. You’re expendable, you’re lucky to be here, and you should be thankful for what you have. Jobs covered by manufacturer warranty pay significantly fewer hours than the same jobs on vehicles that are out of warranty, this is because warranty work is done for free and sometimes reimbursed after the fact by the carmaker. It used to be that we could work an eight-hour day and you could book 10 to 12 hours, but they’ve cut the times so dramatically. Mechanics working at dealerships almost universally buy for themselves. Many spending $50,000 or more over the years. There are no incentives for buying tools, GM maintains “essential tools” in a tool room. It isn’t fair to chop labor times based on the power-tools claim, since technicians purchase tools to make themselves faster and earn more pay. We didn’t buy it to give companies a justification for lowering times, or to save them money. We bought that shit so that we could be faster and make more money by being able to do more jobs. I have had wire jobs that took me eight hours to figure out, but only paid a half-hour of work. There’s also the issue of having to learn all of the new technology on cars or mentoring younger mechanics, which do not pay because they are not repair jobs. The dealer just keeps hiring people when times were busy, and didn’t care how much money technicians were making when it slowed down. All they wanted was the work done. Doing a good quality job is not first and foremost when you’re getting paid a certain amount of hours per job. They just want the jobs done at the end of the day. Now that cars have gotten harder to fix, warranties have stepped in and gotten longer, and they pay less, the system doesn’t work correctly anymore.