Wrenches of Death
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There is No. Way. In. Hell. I'd buy CONSUMABLES for an employer that was too friggin' cheap to buy them for the shop. Just leave the **** dirty.
Damn right! I can't stand working for cheap companies. After a few customers call and yell at him that their vehicle left oil stains on their garage floor, maybe he won't be so cheap.
I worked less than an hour at an Oldsmobile dealership back around 1980. I walked into the parts department with my first RO after getting my boxes unloaded, etc. to get what ever parts I needed for that repair and told the counterman that I also needed a drop light bulb and a bundle of shop rags.
They wanted a dollar for the bulb and a two dollar deposit on the dozen rags.
I told him just hang onto to all of it, told the service manager that I didn't think that I'd be happy there, packed my iron and went to work at a Buick dealer.
That Buick dealer got bought out in 1989. New owners always want to try to save money. The first thing that that clown did was to fire all of the porters and the two parts drivers. I think that we had something like five porters at the time. His plan was for everyone that worked there to take turns cleaning the shop and washing cars. And the parts counterman were to take turns picking up and delivering parts. Yawohl mein Fuhrer!
I called him a cheap ******* and left the next day. Within a month all of the experienced techs were gone. He had to sell the place four of five years later. Hopefully he lost a fortune and now lives in a cardboard box or an old van down by the river drinking aftershave lotion and sterno.
WoD