Re: Rear end (?) Noise....

Posted by Tim Cole On 2012/3/24 7:23:51

Dear Pat:

That mickey mouse arbor press might work with new parts, but for parts that have been subjected to electro-static transfer - forget it.

One of my jokes about flat rate manuals goes as follows:

Three fat guys are sitting at a bar drinking beer and eating doughnuts.

The first fat guy says "How about three and a half hours to change a transmission?

The second fat guy says "We'd save a lot of ink if we made it two hours"

The third fat guy says "We'd save a lot of time if we made everything one hour"

Flat rate manuals that chisel labor actually make no business sense because if you only charge one hour for a three hour job the lost revenue hurts the business more than it cheats labor. And it generates shoddy work. One of the reasons the average age of top rated skilled labor is 55 is because the system also chisels highly skilled labor the most and rewards non-productivity. So young people look at the system and say "screw this, learning something doesn't pay". And I don't blame them.