Hello all, as you may have remembered I posted awhile back about getting into a cat dealership. As of the 25th I will have been there a year now. Due to corona we have been pretty slow and just now picking back up. With up to 4 people cleaning at once the store numbers tanked which caught the attention of the office dwellers to put it lightly. At first it wasn't so bad with minor safety rule changes, a tool box size restriction, and general tips for helping with production which I understood. However today during the monthly meeting things took a interesting turn. There are 7 of us in the shop with 1 old timer who only works on trucks. Everyone else has been there for 1 to 4 years max. We basically got told we were all worthless slow crappy techs and if things didn't get better big changes were going to happen
We brought up the vast variety of stuff we work on [ CAT, AGCO, CLAAS, ALL TRUCKS, and 13 short lines of equipment and our general inexperience of being fairly green yet. We were told that we were supposed to give a time frame until we were to quote "experienced enough to make money"
So I guess my question to those much older and wiser then myself, how much time did it take before you got good at being a technician? Our group is supposed to have an answer by next safety meeting, thanks for your help guys
We brought up the vast variety of stuff we work on [ CAT, AGCO, CLAAS, ALL TRUCKS, and 13 short lines of equipment and our general inexperience of being fairly green yet. We were told that we were supposed to give a time frame until we were to quote "experienced enough to make money"
So I guess my question to those much older and wiser then myself, how much time did it take before you got good at being a technician? Our group is supposed to have an answer by next safety meeting, thanks for your help guys