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Originally Posted by ermax
A friend of mine was a tech and said there is a lot of politics too with regards to who gets what job. Some jobs are allotted way more time than needed and you can bank a lot of time on them but if no one likes you then you get the shit jobs that you break even on all the time.
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Very much so. Especially in a shop with a dispatcher, they determine who gets what. We have a basket, everything goes in the basket. You need work, you take the top RO. Or that's how it's supposed to work.
Lots of games, this whole profession is a game. You can grab any RO from the stack, no one is really watching. Or know where the next good RO is, sandbag on the job you have, then magically be done as soon as the good RO comes up. It's all a gamble, grab the 12 hour recall, upsell some work while your there and be busy for a few days, or take that 4 hour service, upsell nothing, and be done in 2 hours.
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Originally Posted by ka-t_240
We see this on the big repairs/recalls at my work. The first couple stores/techs end up eating a ton of ours. As they do 2-3 they get closed to job code time, then 10+ they are under. They find the right tools to get stuff done, and know the issues in advance. In some cases, we will have the same tech do every one for the entire store/travel to other locations to do them at locations that only have 2-3 in their AOR(cheaper for the other store to pay the techs travel, hotel, etc than eating 100+ hours)
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When m272 engines were eating balance shaft gears (2006-2008ish) we had one guy in the shop do them all. They would schedule 3 or 4 in a row, that's all he did for a week straight. By the second or third one you don't need to look up the timing marks, or walk to your toolbox 50 times for each wrench.