Nose on the grindstone. Walser Buick GMC Bloomington (BGB) Semi-Skilled Technician Sophie Nystrom has the bar set high for herself.
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Nose on the grindstone. Walser Buick GMC Bloomington (BGB) Semi-Skilled Technician Sophie Nystrom has the bar set high for herself.
View full postIT Infrastructure Specialist Spencer Wyrick and IT Technician Jacob Marsnik met over six years ago at their UW River-Falls freshman dorm. They quickly became friends because they both studied computer science and shared interests like board games, biking, hiking, and video games.
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🔧 We're Hiring Experienced Technicians at Toyota of Corvallis! 🔧
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It's a great day to be alive!
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When it get hot we get the staff ice cream!
View full postHappy Friday! Almost every Friday our Parts team makes the whole dealership breakfast!
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Hello, I'm Bill Vickery, Sales & Leasing Consultant here at Tom Wood Subaru. Here’s why you should consider purchasing the 2025 Subaru Crosstrek Wilderness:
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Getting our Thursday started right! Staying busy and getting vehicles completed and back on the road!
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Day 2 of Dealer Pro training for our advisors. All about SELLING today!
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One of our Junior Technicians replacing a heater support pump.
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Summer's in full swing! Which Chevrolet EV are you gearing up to take on your next road trip?
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Both sides of our Audi shops have multiple large ceiling fans that run throughout the day in order to keep the shop cool. On hot days, we will also close the bay doors in order to keep the excess heat out.
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SHOP SAFETY IS OUR PRIORITY
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We’ve talked a lot about Technician pay plans. In our Voice of Technician survey, hourly plus a performance incentive seemed to be really popular. So, what is your favorite kind of incentive plan? What is motivating to you? Do you prefer a really simple to understand plan or something a little more complex? It’s great to say that we’d love the opportunity to get a bonus but I’d love to hear what you’d all like that to look like.
I like profit sharing as well. Early in my career, I worked for a company that did profit sharing. I found it motivating to a point but they really pushed us to put it into our retirement account. Obviously doing so results in greater long term results but being young, I didn't love the lack of the immediate payoff. Not sure if that makes sense or not. Would definitely look at it differently now.
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Jay it is really hard to go off of efficiency standards due to the nature of the beast. The tech hanging suspension and brakes every day is going to be a lot more efficient than the tech doing invasive electrical and diesel / transmission heavy line work. It's possible to be efficient doing these tasks, albeit a lot more unrealistic in how efficient based on standard scales.
Totally agree, Paul! I think that's why I'm so interested in hearing what techs think is fair for a bonus structure. There are times where I feel like the way we structure a bonus punishes the best techs. With that being said, we're starting to see more and more shops improve in this regard.
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Flat rate is totally fine but rates were stagnant for decades. Got a $14 flat rate increase when I went to quit 2 yrs ago. I've talked to other techs, fleet, dealer and aftermarket, almost everyone told me they received some sort of big bonus or pay increase during covid pandemic years.
I think that's a positive, Dale. It does feel like we're moving in the right direction. I also believe that keeping the conversation going has helped shops understand topics like this at a different level. Is any part of our industry perfect? Of course not but hoping that continuing to help each side get a better understanding is going to be huge moving forward. Always appreciate your comments, Dale!
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In my experience hourly or flat rate with tiered bonuses have been very motivating. If you turn x number of your you get $y more per hour with the dollar amount increase with the higher hour tiers. Downside is you can get techs saving hours at the end of a pay if they know those hours won’t get them to another tier and the comfortable where they are hour wise.
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