Re: A response to How stupid they are (long post)

Posted by the tractor vet on April 18, 2006 at 09:58:28 from (64.179.117.115):

In Reply to: A response to How stupid they are (long post) posted by old fashioned farmer on April 18, 2006 at 09:22:36:

Well i know what ya mean , I went from a mechanic to a partsmanagers job the only thing that was hard for me was doing body parts and working up a body parts order for the body shop as for the the stuff that the mechanic used it did not take long to get that set up to where we stocked 95 % of what was needed and not vary often did i have to go on the hunt for a non stocked part as where the rest of the dealers in the surrounding area was comming to me for the parts that they did not have . since the mechanics made there money on flat rate they wanted to be able to finish the job as fast as they could and did not like waiting for parts . The other parstmanagers in the district use to make fun of me because i stocked cranks cams and other hard parts but when they needed a crank guess who they called . Now as the young people of today that have a job behind the counter they do not have then mechanical background as a lot of us did back in the good old days of tinkeren on our cars or on dads tractors and equipment today the kids think a hot car is one that you can hear comming three miles away from the sound of there speakerand amp system and do not have a clue of the workings of a car or tractor what have ya they never had to use a match book in the middel of the night or the girlfriends finger nail file to file and regap the pionts to get her home before the old man came after ya with the shotgun , heck most don't enven know how to change a tire . The bad part is that they don't care and don't even want to learn the old way and have no idea on just how to use the old books , oh i forgot we don't use books anymore there is the biggest problem . And who makes up these computer prograhms???? people that never even been around anything mechanical. I was reluctent to hire a girl back in the early 70's to work behind the counter because i was not sure if she could handel it but she learned real fast and got real good at it and it was not long before and other dealership had a girl parstmanager and she was sharp on job ya have to have a will to learn and be good at it not just to be somewhere for a pay check at the end of the week. If ya want to get my dander up just make me go to our Auto Zone the hair on th4e back of my neck just stands stright out and i am in a real bad mood as soon as i open the door , had to go there two weeks ago for some copper coat because the boy that went in for me came bak with out it and was told by some dumb youg smart ARRRS that they did not have that stuff well i went in and had to walk the whole store to find it but low and behold they had 7 cans of it they just moved it but the did not have any outboard motor grease and nobody in this town had any even the NAPA that we have is the same and is no help at all if you order a part from them when it comes in it is wrong everytime.

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