Installing a passenger side mirror?

[Exoter175]

Originally Posted by HonestChieffan

OK. All that.

Jason would get my business cause he isnt a certified highly decorated jackass. Paying your dues does not imply I have to pay for the dues you paid. Your education and certificates quite honestly mean zero as it relates to customer service. You won't have a better price. And your work can be no better than equal. A spark piug installed by you is no better installed than one by me, Jason or the OP.

There is a difference between a competent mechanic and an incompetent mechanic. However the final product when comparing two competent mechanics is the same. Its a generic. The difference is how we get there and what we pay for the trip.

I have no said you are dishonest at all. I think you are quite the opposite. You have been very honest. You can charge a high shop rate because you are in a city dealership. In more rural areas the market wont tolerate your rates. You use book hours that you inflate. Thats cool, thats how the latte machines and the uniform service gets paid to clean your shirt. You have top flight techs that get bonused for beating the book time making you even more.

My observation is that you have a compulsive need to denigrate the ability, competence and customer service delivered by the guy in the independent shop in Nevada or Clinton, or wherever or the guy in the dealership in Butler or Garden City Kansas cause they are small town rubes.

There are two parts to your post that are wrong.

1. That is exactly what you pay for, me having paid my dues. Do people go to an expensive Salon because they want to throw away money? Or do you think they want THE BEST haircut possible, regardless of the fact that it can be done as well at great clips.

Chances are, that stylist went to a very expensive school and was an understudy for some very popular and important artists before they got their job, and yes, they went to school for it and paid. So now they're taking in the dough for the dues they paid.

That same stylist at Walmart probably graduated from a 60 day or 90 day "beautician course" and earned their right to cut hair, not the same education, but that stylist wouldn't have a shot at working for the expensive salon, just as the stylist at the expensive salon wouldn't work at great clips unless they absolutely had to. Same applies here.

Same applies to the practices of law, practices of banking and trading.

2. You think I am against small business, yet I am just the opposite, I'm all for small business. One can argue that I'm actually detracting from my current employer, driving customers away to smaller businesses because it'll cost less to have the same work done.

I am all for the small businessman, I've created two small businesses already, and I hope to start the paperwork on my third very soon. I support small business in a way you might never understand because you aren't up to date on my day to day doings like some others might be, but trust me, I've done as much as I could possible due to add to the small business community, including an AMA on reddit, as well as hundreds of long, thoughtful posts on the entrepreneur section on thoughts and suggestions for people to run their business, or run it better.

I'm probably small business' #1 supporter on this website, I just have disdain for Jason because he attacked me first and hasn't let up because he's a ****tard and according to him I'm an "over-educated knowitall", as if you could ever be over-educated in life.