Well, I finally did it. I quit. I didn’t necessarily go about it the right way, but I just couldn’t do it anymore.
Last week I took off Wednesday to go to the San Diego Wild Animal Park. It rained all day on Wednesday so we decided to go on Thursday instead. The only problem was that I forgot to tell my boss. We got busy packing the car and booking the hotel, and completely forgot. Which is not something that I’d normally do. We remembered sometime late Thursday afternoon.
So on Friday morning after talking with Shawn, and my Mom I decided that it was time.
I was being paid less per hour than someone working the Baker’s drive-through starting wage. But I could handle that for a short time. I planned on asking for a raise within a few weeks.
What I couldn’t take was the unethical billing. And it’s not like I could tell the customer that they were being cheated. Because that’s unethical also. I was responsible for all of the billing. But I was told how many hours were tom\ be charged to each job.
That doesn’t seem like such a bad thing, but in the automotive world the is something called “Mitchell Time.” Which is a legally binding account of how many hours it takes to do a job. The books break down each vehicle by year, make, model, and type of job.
It states that an oil change is .6 hours, everything is broke down into tenths of an hour, a brake adjustment is .5 hours, etc, etc. Ken didn’t always use this book the way it was meant to be used. He’d estimate the hours, sometimes they were higher, sometimes lower, but that didn’t happen often. But he’d charge the customer for the time he took to go get the parts, when a lot of times it wasn’t necessary. He’d make trips to get parts and the vehicle still wouldn’t be done any sooner.
The other thing was that he had his regular customers, and id\f they came in everything else was stopped until they were fixed. I understand that this is probably a normal occurrence, but when you tell a customer that their vehicle is almost done and you haven’t touched it in weeks. That’s just wrong.
So where does that leave me? Unemployed and happy. I do feel bad about the way I quit, but my conscience feels much better.
Today I filled out an application at the Target by our apartment. So if anyone knows of anything let me know.
I work well with others, can use Microsoft Excel and Works, am very customer oriented, can type up automotive invoices, do billing, purchasing, filing, and work a phone with multiple lines, and I am easily trained in other computer programs.
I know you can’t find me a job. I’m just trying to stay optimistic. I really want to work in an office setting. But right now I’m even considering restaurants, not fast food, restaurants.
