Episode 300: I Can’t Be Satisfied

Grease The Wheels Podcast

On this week’s (on time!) episode of Grease the Wheels, Uncle Jimmy takes a look at last week’s episode through a new set of parameters with a little more of a preservation minded end. There are a lot of reasons why people do not want to become automotive technicians, but the ones who do need to be properly developed. We can’t be chasing them out of the building with massive tool debts and little to no professional development. The rear rub here is with management trying to keep wages stagnant across the board to keep overhead down while the cost of literally everything keeps going up. This is leading to high turnover at many stagnant businesses, and is chasing experienced technicians elsewhere. The long term data on this, even since we have been broadcasting has gotten worse, but that is a good thing for anyone with a lot of experience and stuff to fix. Shop labor rates keep going up, and in many cases thankfully so are the wages - but this serves as a stark reminder for the shops where they are not!

Also Uncle Jimmy eviscerates the Mets.