Messing with a bad parts guy

BWAHAHA!!!!!
ROFLMFBO

Don't mess with him, mess with the person who hired him. You may get rid of the parts guy, but whoever hired him will just replace same for same.

This exactly is the reason I believe companies should do away with HR departments. Applicants should be interviewed by the shop boss. They "should" be able to smell out the BS much better than someone who sits in an office all day.

Not true 92.. MY BOSS was the worlds worst at hiring losers..!! I MEAN absolute worst..
I used to tell him.. YOU shouldn't be allowed to hire ANYBODY!!!
& he was a bullsh*t artist himself.. but anybody that could "talk", he'd hire.. tools or no tools..
& he started from the bottom.. floor sweeper, helper, mechanic, foreman, manager, owner..

thepumpguysc said:

Not true 92.. MY BOSS was the worlds worst at hiring losers..!! I MEAN absolute worst..
I used to tell him.. YOU shouldn't be allowed to hire ANYBODY!!!
& he was a bullsh*t artist himself.. but anybody that could "talk", he'd hire.. tools or no tools..
& he started from the bottom.. floor sweeper, helper, mechanic, foreman, manager, owner..

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Careful with generalizations, he hired you....

thepumpguysc said:

Not true 92.. MY BOSS was the worlds worst at hiring losers..!! I MEAN absolute worst..
I used to tell him.. YOU shouldn't be allowed to hire ANYBODY!!!
& he was a bullsh*t artist himself.. but anybody that could "talk", he'd hire.. tools or no tools..
& he started from the bottom.. floor sweeper, helper, mechanic, foreman, manager, owner..

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Yeah but if half of what you said in your threads about that place is true, that shop was so far out in left field they were probably in the parking lot outside the ball diamond .

LOL.!!!
Its the damdest thing I've ever seen.. & they're still in business.. Don't ask me how..???
They lost 50% of it the 1st time I left.. got that back ..
NOW I heard they got pumps EVERYWHERE.. & a turn around is OVER 2 weeks.. on a 4-5hr job..
Cant stay in the rebuild game for very long like THAT..
1 thing that's saving their bacon right now is> the owner of the closest competition just died amonth ago.. SO they're getting all his work..
They'll get it ONCE.. but I'll bet money they WONT be getting any repeat customers..

thepumpguysc said:

Not true 92.. MY BOSS was the worlds worst at hiring losers..!! I MEAN absolute worst..
I used to tell him.. YOU shouldn't be allowed to hire ANYBODY!!!
& he was a bullsh*t artist himself.. but anybody that could "talk", he'd hire.. tools or no tools..
& he started from the bottom.. floor sweeper, helper, mechanic, foreman, manager, owner..

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Late to the party as usual... I are a parts guy... I try anyway.

We get bored sometimes so we prank call the other chains.... Ask him for a MAP sensor for a XXXXX Insist that it must work in all fifty states. We kept a dumb dumb on the phone for over 10 minutes trying to make sure it would work in all fifty.

From the outside looking in, many should be fired, in the end we customers pay for it all, either in wasted time and wrong ordered parts, or in price hikes on parts or labor to cover all the screw ups and wasted time, those hiring idiots should be the first to go, and those refusing to fire him should also get the ax, but in reality this will probably never happen. But let me be the first to say, we as customers watch and take notes on it all and it also reflects on who we buy from and what brand of machines and equipment we buy or who and where we get parts and supplies from and it has more to do with this exact topic than the color of the paint or brand logo on the machines themselves.

I've dealt with many over the years and wondered if this person got hired and was the best applicant, how bad were those that they didn't hire.

I've had to deal as a customer with many over the years in many business's that those hired were never qualified and over time rose to the challenge and turned out pretty good at their job, where others peaked during the interview and it went downhill every day on the job till someone finally had to fire them or they quit.

I wouldn't waste my time jerking him around, in the end all your doing is wasting your own time and wasting your effort to prank someone who's too stupid to comprehend he's an idiot.

When I worked the truck dealerships back through the 90's, we had union parts personnel. We were flat rate, they were hourly. I could fill out a parts request, 99 9400i N14 last 6 character of the sn and what I was doing. In 15-20 minutes , ol Frank is calling me to come get my parts off his counter. If I was doing a clutch, I got everything. Loctite, brake cleaner, pilot, drivelugs if it was a potted wheel, u-joint straps, shift gasket, clutch, input shaft kit, release yoke, shafts and bushings and clutch brake. Everything I needed, like a parts professional should. I appreciated it. When your income is based on how quickly you can bang out a job, you can't afford Meatheads that got a million questions, you need a pro. Not a burger flipper that says, I'll give this a whirl.
All that said, you gotta start somewhere, the employer needs the latitude to weed out the duds. You know in a couple weeks whether or not they will get it or get left behind.

funwithfuel said:

When I worked the truck dealerships back through the 90's, we had union parts personnel. We were flat rate, they were hourly.

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I was extremely lucky to never work in a flat rate situation. I can understand the theory for it and given the right support from people like the service writers to parts men it could be a good deal but anyone along the line could really mess with you and your paycheck.

Kid I lived next door to for years got into body work at one dealer and told stories about how guy who assigned jobs had his favorites. Buddies got all the jobs on the shinny new cars and trucks with the little problems guys he didn't like got all the jobs working on the farm trucks covered with you know what or the trucks that spent all winter plowing snow and were rust buckets. He stayed long enough to save up some money and started his own shop and has been doing good ever since

I worked flat rate at Freightliner for almost six years. Some one would want to stop me and BS about something. Sometimes I would explain. "I'm basically buying this story or joke from you. You'd better give me my moneys worth or else forget it." In the end I was just the old grouchy guy yelling at kids.

My favorite was," outta my way , I'm on a gainer!"