Techs starving in a billion dollar building. No work. No hours. No pay. Meanwhile the dealership flexes its giant showroom, overpriced labor rate, and “look at us” bullshit while the guys in the bays are wondering how to pay bills on five hours a week.

This episode is the truth about flat rate starvation, slow season panic, and how fast a dealership will forget you exist the second the cars stop rolling in. When it’s busy they grind you. When it’s slow they hide. Either way, we’re the ones getting screwed.

If you’ve ever sat in an empty bay losing your mind while management hides in their office blaming everyone but themselves… this one’s for you.

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Every shop’s got that one “super tech” everybody’s supposed to worship. The guy who somehow turns 90 hours every week, never gets comebacks, and magically has every gravy job routed straight to his bay. Yeah. That guy. The one who games the system, steals hours, cuts corners, and leaves the rest of the shop buried in warranty comebacks he somehow never sees again.

And the worst part? Management protects him. Every. Single. Time.

In this episode, I break down how these scammers operate, why they get away with it, and how dealership managers enable the whole thing because it keeps their numbers looking good on paper. We’re talking stolen dispatch, fake “productivity,” sabotaged hours, favoritism, the secret rules nobody admits exist, and how the shop culture rots from the inside when a scammer gets crowned king.

If you’ve ever wondered why the honest tech turning real hours can’t catch a break… or why the same guy keeps walking out with the fat check while you’re drowning in leftovers… this episode is for you.

We’re calling it what it is: a system built to reward the wrong people.

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People love saying dealer techs are “parts changers.”
Cool story. Meanwhile we’re the ones dealing with new systems, nonstop software updates, warranty-time nonsense, manufacturer politics, and problems the independents don’t even see yet.

This episode breaks down the whole myth and calls out exactly who’s spreading it washed-up ex-techs, YouTube University heroes, and shops that guess their way through a repair before sending the car to the dealer anyway.

I go through:
• Why dealer techs get stuck following stupid test plans
• How warranty, SSMs, reps, and politics force bad procedures
• Why independents only see failures AFTER dealers figure them out
• How the brand uses dealer techs as guinea pigs for new problems
• Why the “parts changer” insult is just lazy and outdated

Dealer techs diagnose, document, troubleshoot, and clean up everybody else’s mess, all while being underpaid and over-regulated.

But hey… call us parts changers if it makes you feel better.
Just remember who you run to when you can’t fix it.

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