Mild Rambling with a Dose of Stupidity

[CaliWagon83]

I’ve been “let go” once, and non-renewed for a part-time contract gig. Sucks, but life goes on. I’ve also quit several times. In terms of @MrSony’s experience, I think you’d probably be better off at an independent garage.

I’ve honestly become less and less impressed with dealerships lately. Half the time, they don’t know what they’re doing, and the other half, they’re so rigidly “by-the-book” that they keep following official instructions when a much more common-sense and easier solution is staring them straight in the face.

Sure, indy shops may not have the same benefits as bigger dealers, but probably more flexibility, and managers (usually) have less of a stick up their a$$ about “the rules” than dealership shop managers. The trick is finding a place that will help mentor and build your skill set. Best wishes finding a new gig.

 

[joesregalproject]

Yep, that's pretty much life. I've never been fired, but I have walked off of a few jobs. I keep my eyes and ears open and my mouth shut. If the company I'm working for isn't valuing me as an employee, I'll put in my two weeks notice and quit.

I worked for a company who literally expected me to just devote my life to them. It started out as a great job, paid well, over time available, decent co-workers and easy commute. But about a month in, they told me they wanted me working 7-10s for 6 months out of the year. My resignation was on my boss's desk the next morning.

Too many people make their entire lives about work. My dad's father worked his *ss off his entire life and died a year after he retired at 66. He never stopped to smell the roses. I had a shop teacher who used to say "You go to school, graduate, you work for 40 years and then you die. That's life."

I refuse to be like that. I have no commitment to any employer and while I'm sure my employers don't want to here that, at the end of the day, I'm here for a paycheck and nothing else. I clock in, clock out, and go back to my life. If I find I'm not happy at a job, I have no hesitation about walking out the door and and finding another.

In your defense, car dealerships seem to play a lot of politics, more so than the average workplace. The car dealership model is broken, regardless of what people want to think and if you ask me, I have serious doubts that it'll be around in 50 years. (Most) millennials don't want to even drive cars, people are fed up with haggling on prices, and no one in the history of mankind has ever left a dealership feeling like they got a good deal. Dealerships are an unnecessary middleman between manufacturer and consumer.

At any rate, don't take it too hard. Yeah it stings a little when it happens, but you're not the first person to be fired, and you won't be the last. And you're still having a better week than Fergie-