Everybody talks about the technician shortage.

But what if there isn't one?

What if the real problem is an industry that burns through skilled technicians faster than it can replace them?

In this episode, I take a look at the automotive industry's favorite talking point and ask the question nobody seems willing to answer: If the technician shortage is so bad, why does nothing ever change?

We talk about flat rate pay, warranty labor times, dealership culture, technician turnover, corporate pressure, and the organizations that continue to defend a system that leaves many techs frustrated, exhausted, and eventually walking away from the trade.

This isn't an attack on the technicians still fighting every day in the bays.

It's a challenge to the people at the top who keep saying they care about the shortage while refusing to address the reasons experienced techs leave.

The truth is simple:

The system isn't broken.

The system works exactly as designed.

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Is being a mobile mechanic the way out of this BS and work for yourself?

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They had this planned the whole time. The technician shortage was a smoke screen for the big VISA takeover. AI can't take our jobs, but importing cheap labor can. And they knew that all along.

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Do you ever ask yourself why you're still a mechanic? I do every day. 
Today we shoot the $hit. Some real talk and we make fun of mechanics. 
Don't be that old guy eating Salisbury steak frozen dinners while your project car rusts away. 

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Parts stolen from the factory and also stolen from the dealerships parts employees. Theft everywhere not just from us technicians. Some employees are fighting back LOL. 

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Do you ever ask yourself why you're still a mechanic? I do every day. 
Today we shoot the $hit. Some real talk and we make fun of mechanics. 
Don't be that old guy eating Salisbury steak frozen dinners while your project car rusts away.

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All that information and knowledge from technicians around the country just taken away. What did they do with it? Thats what we talk about today. If you haven't got the books yet get them. 

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There is no team in a flat rate shop. And training schools are a joke. Why pay $30,000 to start at the bottom anyways. 

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This episode is just real stories.
Mechanics.
Shop guys.
People in the same trade…
who lost their shit.

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