Weekly $500 Prize + $500 School Donation
We're in growth mode here at Manhattan Beach Toyota - month over month & year over year growth in CP Sales, Total Hours, HPRO & ELR.
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If you were applying for a job and no salary was listed, what would you do?
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🎉 Congratulations to Tim for winning $500 and selecting Don Tyson School of Innovation in Springdale, AR to win $500 too.
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This new year we will be showcasing the best toolbox of the month and this month's entry goes to Byron! He is one of our many talented technicians at the shop with a large two-part, blue container that is compartmentalized by the various tools and supplies for the vehicles at the shop.
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Now for our shop best box...Jeff Allison! He's been with us for 37 years. We appreciate all this hard work and know this box will help him fix all our Customer vehicles.
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After much deliberation and voting in our shop, here is Zion!!! He won the nicest box of all our 15 Technicians. It's a little over a year old so definitely still shiny. He's very proud and shows it with that big smile on his face.
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Josh Arnold Goes over the 2022 December Recap while warming up a Subaru.
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From our Service Manager Lyndon “In today’s industry I feel kids are never given the option to explore anything in the trades. Most schools put their resources in test taking or sports and in turn that takes away from the trades. To attract more kids into our industry it needs to be normalized to have a physical labor job. We need to be honest with kids that you don’t need a college degree to make money. We should normalize introducing the trades at a young age and let them know it’s a viable path."
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My name is Tom and im a B-tech and have been in the industry for 33 years.
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Technician Spotlight: Scott Gremminger
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We want input from our members. Can you help us come up with interesting industry poll questions?
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Here at Tom Wood VW, everybody has the coolest toolbox! That's because we provide each technician with a toolbox and a workbench. Some of them decorate them with lights and certification magnets, to make them their own. But we feel that our techs have enough debts for just their tools, that they don't need to be drowning under toolbox debt as well.
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In my area of Central Oregon, kids are attracted to the industry. They love cars and enjoy working on their own cars. My son’s high school is full of these kids! The problem is getting them on the right path to lead them into an auto repair shop. I think parents and the schools could do much better with guiding these kids into this future. I personally went straight into a technical school after high school, all because they came to our auto class and gave a presentation. My son’s high school does not even have an auto program! Its not good!
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I spoke a couple weeks ago about taking the long cut, but there are pitfalls outside of the job taking longer to complete. In this case it got very expensive very quickly because two connectors broke and at $100 apiece, I'm on the hook.
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Paul is our head technician and has been in the industry for 24 years.
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We in the industry need to make clear what to expect once you're actually in the shop, as well as provide real guidance on the job. The students that come in with the right training need more real-life education and hands on experience, so mentorship is key. You need to really learn by doing things to be good at what we do. Technical school doesn't teach you everything—I always tell new hires to come in open minded, ready to learn and not think they know it all. Be ready to listen, pay attention, and, most importantly, learn.
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If you're going to put a highly skilled technician up there with the skills of white collar engineers, etc., then you're going to have to pay them for those skills. I look at my nephew who is white collar. They get weeks off for Christmas, regular bonuses, advancement opportunities, right out of collage he started off at $80k yr and makes over a $150k now with way less hours worked, way more vacation/holiday/sick/personal days than any auto tech could ever make and works in a climate controlled setting daily and can still do his job easily when he'll someday be in his 60s compared to a 40 yr tech who's wages now suffer because his body is worn out and can't physically clock as many hours as he could when younger. Sadly happens to many older techs. (edited)
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