Hate my job ( vent thread)
 

Sorry just my job has been really eatin at me lately, just all kinds of b.s. work and our new owner just gets under my skin. This guy just has no clue how a shop should be run, or the process of how cars get fixed. It just frustrates me to no end, i am actually thinking of going some place else, even though, and i wont lie, the guy pays me a kings ransom to stay. I am sure to go anywhere else i would be losing at least 5 bucks an hour min. So here comes todays idiot, came in on a wrecker of course, some yahoo redneck, who you can just tell dont have a penny to his name prolly. He says i was just driving along, not doing anything wrong when my car just dies, no weird noises, or anything like that. I ask is the car taken care of, oil changes etc. Oh yea he says, i do all my own upkeep and just did an oil change couple weeks ago i think it was. So i get it inside, hit the key and heara bad noise immediatly, CRAP. Check the oil, blacker then the blackest black, times infinity of course. Tell the guy you got a major problem, gonna need to pull the oil pan, but prolly lookin at a motor. My boss steps in and takes over of course, 5 min later tells me get to work. Working on a 97 Pontiac Grand Am with a 3.1 liter for what its worth, just a hunk of crap. So here is what i found in the oil pan, it took out the crank sensor too. Now Monday i have to just install 1 new bearing and rod cap (bad idea btw) cause this guy is all outa money, and i just know in 2 months this pos is gonna come back and i am gonna have to deal with it again, just cause my new boss wont tell someone how it is, just wants to take whatever money he can. &^%$ me. Some pics since i had my camera at work to take shots of the bike.



The bearing was junk, rod caps were still in place, but found the center piece in the oil pan
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...ndbearings.jpg



The windage tray that took the final blow
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p.../finalblow.jpg



The crank sensor it took out
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...ranksensor.jpg




The mess it left behind on the crank
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...sensormess.jpg





And the general crappy condition the pos was in
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...nds/fnmess.jpg





Anyhow if your still here, thanks for listening ;)

RE: Hate my job ( vent thread)
 

Well at least you are thinking the right way to fix that car good... The owner of the caris being cheap so that is not your problem. Keep up the good work man![8D]

RE: Hate my job ( vent thread)
 

I hear ya on the job hating my man. I must say redrum a billion times a day while im working. After 3 years ive had it. Start school for my CDL A on the 19th.

RE: Hate my job ( vent thread)
 

You should try working somewhere that has no bonuses, no PTO, no health insurance, no sick pay, no 401k, no career ladder, a wage ceiling from 1987, tons of illegal immigrants and unlicensed companies chopping honest guys off at the knees...not one benefit of any kind, really...then come see me about how much you hate it.

Sorry, everything is relative, I know, which is why I can't complain (except that I do, loudly, to myself...) --I'm not starving, don't have AIDS, don't live in third-world country--you know, all the things poor dumb jackasses such as myself tell ourselves to ease the pain of watching BMW roll out a V-8 M3 and be able to do nothing about it...[&o] Yeah, **** life

RE: Hate my job ( vent thread)
 

One bearing and one rod cap? Shudder. Not something I'd do, but I've seen it done and with fair success. The sad thing is, when this guy comes back in a few months, it'll be your fault that the engine broke again. If you are able you should let him know that what you did was a stop-gap measure and to expect trouble down the road.

No noise or anything? Maybe the guy is deaf, or just doesn't know what tolisten for. A new acquaintance, who in time became a good friend,offered me a ride to work. We started down the road and it was apparent he had abad bearing(or bearings)in the transmission. I mentioned that, told himhe should have a mechanic check it out, andhe said that it was justthe way his car sounded, it had been making that noise since he bought it.A year or so later when the transmission completely gave up theghost he was quite surprised, he'd had no idea there was something wrong with it. Heis quite intelligent, successful in his field, knowledgable about a lot of things, but just has no mechanical apptitude at all. The point is that some people just have no idea how mechanical things work or how they should sound.

RE: Hate my job ( vent thread)
 

Good luck on that one, He will be back and it's going to be the shops fault in his opinion.

The grass always looks greener on the other side. There are idiots on every job you will work at, some may be the boss and some coworkers.

RE: Hate my job ( vent thread)
 

damn... i hate having to half-ass something. he needs a lot of work done lol !

RE: Hate my job ( vent thread)
 

yeah some days i just wanna quit due to my boss being a complete moron who would never of gotten the job he has if he hadn't married the owners daughter, but i know i have it somewhat decent. So I usually just nod my head and do what I want anyways and everything works out at the end of the daylol

RE: Hate my job ( vent thread)
 

Why didnt you marry his daughter. :D Is she fugly, has bad breath, got a face wart the size of a quarter, her vag taste like year old clam chowder?

RE: Hate my job ( vent thread)
 

He needs an engine/car,lol. I have done a lot of intake gaskets, and some head gasktes on those, but it is usually not that bad. That is funny how he said he did not hear anything. It kind of makes you wonder if the piston kept going on the upstroke and possibly bent the valve(s). Your boss is in for a rude awakening. You cannot polish sh*t.

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If you're making good money, just do what they tell you to do and don't worry about it, he's the boss and you're working for him. It could be a lot worse, I worked in the shop for 7 years and I had a good boss, but I also didn't get any benefits either, plus I basically ran the whole shop by myself, I was a tech, mechanic, secretary, and the boss sometimes. I've made some calls that he didn't like and I didn't think he was right, but I did it anyways cause he was the boss. Now I am in the police academy and they curse you out for every little detail, forgot to shave 20 push ups, your hair is not perfect, 20 push ups, you're pants aren't perfect, 30 push ups, sometimes they just don't like your face and make you do 50 push ups, they talk **** about everybody in my class, can't say nothing back, it's just life. You have to develop a thick skin, that's the only option.

RE: Hate my job ( vent thread)
 

dude just call the BBB and do an anonymouns whistle blower. that's ****ed up if your boss is telling you to fix that. looks like a new crank and maybe a new engine to me...

what you should do is call the customer and have him look at it before you do any work.

After all, the customer signs your paycheck and can fire anyone in the company. From the chairman on down. -Sam Walton

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Damn that sucks... nasty as people don't take care of stuff. Telephone and cable people have to crawl around in some nasty ass customer sh*t too... sucked.

I so know exactly what you mean, I worked for a custom cabinet shop for a few years and during that time, the shop changed hands.Sucked...

RE: Hate my job ( vent thread)
 

I remember having to deal with all of that back when I was still wrenching (not that it was that long ago! haha). The difference was, I wasn't getting paid worth anything. Maybe you'll keep trying to "persuade" him after a few failures to come around to your kind of thinking.;)

RE: Hate my job ( vent thread)
 

here's what i used to do whenever I hated my blue collar job. I said to myself "work is work" - even if work sucks because of stupid management, who cares? Sure it's not FUN to work for a moron and obviously this guy needs a new engine or at least much more major repair than what you have been asked to do. But is it your problem that the guys car is going to break again? Nope. You won't get fired, you'll just be asked to do more work. They won't pay you less the 2nd time you work on the guys car, if anything you will get some respect from your manager for being vocal now that there will need to be more work done and when it comes back you can give him a "I told you so" look.

The way I see it, when I'm at work - I just do what is asked of me, and I do it to the best of my ability. It's not MY problem until they start taking away my weekends and after hours, but now that I've been here for a while I can push that stuff on to the n00bs :-)

keep your chin up, and if you REALLY hate it - quit, there are PLENTY of jobs out there for qualified people...