[Johnny Mullet]

That is too bad that the "Splash & Dash" oil change places and other shops give all the garages a bad rep. If anyone here is a career mechanic or knows one, most workers in this field last an average of 3 years at a location before moving on to a better offer. The usual reason besides money is management differences. I know a lot of good techs like myself who have quit a job because of certain practices management uses to "upsell" un-needed items.

I worked at a dealer where every car that comes into the shop must have at least one service recommendation even if you have to recommend mud flaps on a 3,000 mile new car during it's first oil change. This turned off a huge amount of customers and business got slow for some time so they decided to raise the labor rate! I quit one job where a Service Manager upsold a set of struts on an old lady's car I was inspecting. She was a regular and and when the repair order came back for a strut replacement, I found out the manager lied to her and told her I said they were needed for inspection.