So I talked to a muffler shop owner yesterday while my car was on the lift

there is no evidence that glpers can telk

Maybe surgeons should work that way...

You are in IT and you missed the joke? Maybe you do need to leave IT.

He is correct, he could work anywhere. It is a service job. He is doing them the favor. I understand how manager feel they can't run a business like this with inconsistent help too.

However most young people are atheist now a days. They are NOT putting off a reward for an after life they don't believe in. All you have is your time now. Being a good person only matters to those that know you. There is no god to impress. They serve no one, but themselves first and formost. They already saw how their parents have been treated over the past 20 years. Gen X is the most screwed over generation ever.

So personal relationships have become more important than work to this younger generation. Everyone grew up with working parents that never got anywhere in life and feelings of a lot of neglect and stress. Great relationships cannot be replaced by a cold work place.

This generation didn't not benefit even financially from their parents working all the time. So at the end of the day you wonder what is your worth and you are doing, with your life that is most valuable to you? You eat, sleep, work, or otherwise wash, rinse, repeat. There is nothing left for you to work hard to invest in or for. No one is going to give crap about you without wealth or a few close loyal friends/ family.

The system has the job market and your expenses micro managed so you never get ahead anyways. It feels like slavery. So why put up with the inhumanity and humiliation of being a cog in the wheel to make someone else rich or help them get a promotion, or make there day easier. They are not doing you any favors.

So yah, I get it. Jobs, under $15.00 are everywhere and your job is nothing but a means to an end.

For example, I could have a guy drill broken bolts on a head for a job total of $1,000 vs everyone else who told him they would have to pull the engine out and remove the head to drill it...We drilled on the vehicle and save people a ton and made a ton = win/win

Last Edited by BRIEF on 05/05/2021 11:33 AM

That made me laugh...thanks!

What year?

If he bypassed the converter and emission control stuff, the EPA would fuck his ears blue if he gets caught...

Last Edited by BRIEF on 05/05/2021 11:35 AM

You cannot remove God from any scenario in this reality, HE created it...

what do you do in it and why does it not have any meaning for you?

They don't charge by the hour either...Hourly work is for the unskilled...

A lot of jobs are like this... too demanding of your time. The pay does not compensate for what the bosses want. They just want to squeeze your life out of you.

People are buying older vehicles now that they can work on themselves.

I know that's what I'm doing next. These technological vehicles suck ass.

He's not going to replace a broken sun shell in 10 minutes.

Last Edited by ZOOM OUT on 05/05/2021 11:40 AM

The logic behind an hourly rate is absurd:

A lazy unskilled dildo will end up making you more than a professional if you charge by the hour...

Last Edited by BRIEF on 05/05/2021 11:40 AM

A car accident doesn't count as "custom bending" your pipes...

I've seen it attempted before...

If you're going to buy something...BUY IT NOW.

With supply chain shortages escalating every week, car and car parts pricing escalating every week, and the hyper-inflation coming this way, if you wait 6 months+, you'll be paying 25%-50% more than if you buy it now.

I just picked up 4 new Pirelli AS tires for my SUV even though I still got 10K left on my tires, because China bought up a lot of the rubber farms and are now putting the squeeze on tire production.

Supply and Demand is going to get really rough in the coming year.

I had a career as an FAA A@P aircraft mechanic. All the education and experience I gained was valuable in my personal life also....auto repair etc. etc.

Yea thats why more people are just letting their car fall apart and then get another rather than pay for repairs.

I see what you did there.

I own an auto shop with 20+ employees and we were closed from March 28 - the first week of June last year.

When we did come back half the employees stayed out citing fear of Covid...Meanwhile they're home collecting more money in unemployment than they made in salary..Now we are packed to the rafters w/ no one here to work.

-This is COMMUNISM people better wake the fuck up and organize its time.

BTW...auto salvage yards can be a valuable asset in some cases.

Older one...don't tell anybody...lol

Working for shops is too much. You demand too much of their time and there is NO EXCEPTIONS. 20 min late your fired. Well fuck you Il go work for myself. Fuck auto shop bosses never met one who was not a greedy big mouth mean asshole. .

Best job for a new mechanic wanna be is go work at a dismantling yard where they tear apart cars and mark parts with a paint pen. You will learn ALOT but very dangerous for newbies.

No the truth is NOBODY WANTS TO BE AROUND YOU..Bet.

Do you expect in 2021 for the majority of Americans to accept the min wage standard to support a family? 7.50....2021....tech age....most fluid nation commercially.
Looks like America has wised up.

I escaped NYC some time ago but there was lots of crazy shit going down in muff shops... selling everything from hookers, to stamp collections, baseball cards, cigarettes, refrigerators, garages filled with boat motors, butt plugs, TV dinners, even accepted peoples' food stamps in exchange for commodities.

I guess in September Xiden is either going to again renew unemployment benefits or let the millions go get back to work... the former seems like the obvious bet in effort to further destroy America, but who the hell knows what is going on anymore.

It would not be a bad time to learn to master muff in a shop, lay pipe, or any other sort of steady mechanical work in the age of rising retardation and general nigardly work ethic.

my car was leaking exhaust from the engine compartment. I had a mechanic check it out and he said an exhaust manifold had a crack in it. The cost to fix it could easily be $1000 or more.

I decided i would learn how to do it myself. I spent 100s of hours watching how-to videos. When i was ready, i open the hood to inspect the manifold and what i found shocked me!

The manifold was missing nuts on two of the studs. I replaced the nuts and the leak was sealed.

I suppose the mechanic who replaced my engine a couple of years earilier did not tighten them properly.

The mechanic who checked it out was incompetent or a liar - maybe both.

So you are damned right! Nobody repects a fcuking mechanic! They are low IQ liars and thieves!