Flat Rate Tech Podcast

Is your manager clueless about why techs are leaving your shop? 

go to flatratetechpodcast.weebly.com and click the manager link. Print out the form and put it on his desk. This is what will change your shop. 

New book is coming the "Grey Mechanic" will be out soon!

If you related to the last one wait until this one comes out. 

This industry is a joke and it’s rigged against technicians.
You’re told to trust management, trust the manufacturer, trust the process. Then your hours get cut, your pay changes, and you’re blamed for numbers you don’t control.
Flat rate is broken on purpose. Corporate doesn’t care. Manufacturers protect the brand, not the techs fixing their mistakes. Managers smile, lie, and throw you under the bus.

The Grey Mechanic Book

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GKVGDSPM

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SPONSORED BY BAY DIAGNOSTICS

www.BayDiagnosticsGroup.com 

You've heard the problems on this podcast for years — technician turnover, broken communication, bad dispatch, lost productivity, pay-plan issues, and shop culture problems.

Bay Diagnostics helps dealership managers find out what's actually happening inside their service department.

Built from more than 30 years of firsthand dealership experience, Bay Diagnostics provides anonymous technician feedback, workflow analysis, and diagnostic reports designed to identify the problems that can cost a shop technicians, hours, repair orders, and profit.

Truth from the bays. Solutions for the shop.

Dealership managers: Want to find out what's really happening in your shop?

Email: [email protected]

THE BOOK

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FK654G57

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This trade is being held together by technicians who are burned out, under pressure, and tired of being ignored.
We’ve talked for years about why techs are quitting.
Why morale is dead.
Why good people are walking.
Why nothing ever seems to change.
Complaining isn’t the hard part.
Fixing it is.
Over the last year, I’ve been building something quietly, not for techs to buy, not for sponsors, not for clicks, but for the people who actually control what happens in the shop.
It’s a straight, no-bullshit briefing for managers that lays out what technicians are really dealing with in the bays and why shops keep losing people.
If you’ve got a manager who claims they want change…
If leadership keeps saying they “don’t know why techs are leaving”…
Or if your shop swears everything is fine while people keep quitting…
There’s a flyer linked below. And on the QR code. 
Print it.
Put it on their desk.
Walk away.
No arguing.
No explaining.
No putting your name on anything.
If they care, they’ll scan it.
If they don’t, nothing changes anyway.
This isn’t about selling techs anything.
It’s about getting the truth in front of the people who have the power to fix what’s broken.
Here is the link to copy or click the QR code on the YouTube video episode. 

 PRINT IT OUT AND PUT IT ON THE MANAGERS DESK.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hNZc-b54eIayclL-Y400wlOwuxOGgQgJ/view?usp=share_link

Support the show

SPONSORED BY BAY DIAGNOSTICS

www.BayDiagnosticsGroup.com 

You've heard the problems on this podcast for years — technician turnover, broken communication, bad dispatch, lost productivity, pay-plan issues, and shop culture problems.

Bay Diagnostics helps dealership managers find out what's actually happening inside their service department.

Built from more than 30 years of firsthand dealership experience, Bay Diagnostics provides anonymous technician feedback, workflow analysis, and diagnostic reports designed to identify the problems that can cost a shop technicians, hours, repair orders, and profit.

Truth from the bays. Solutions for the shop.

Dealership managers: Want to find out what's really happening in your shop?

Email: [email protected]

THE BOOK

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FK654G57

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“Be more professional.” That’s the line. And it’s bullshit.
Every time technicians speak up about unpaid labor, flat rate abuse, or unsafe pressure, the same word gets thrown at them.
Unprofessional.
In this episode, I talk about what that word actually means in THIS industry.
Why it has nothing to do with skill, quality, or doing the job right.
And how “professionalism” gets used as a leash to keep techs quiet while the system keeps taking.
Technicians are already professionals.
The problem is the industry punishes professionalism the moment it costs them money.
Have you ever been told to stay quiet, take the hit, or stop having an attitude when you called out something wrong?
This isn’t about acting better.
It’s about why the people doing the real work are expected to give it away for free.
Listen before they tell you to be “professional” again.

Support the show

SPONSORED BY BAY DIAGNOSTICS

www.BayDiagnosticsGroup.com 

You've heard the problems on this podcast for years — technician turnover, broken communication, bad dispatch, lost productivity, pay-plan issues, and shop culture problems.

Bay Diagnostics helps dealership managers find out what's actually happening inside their service department.

Built from more than 30 years of firsthand dealership experience, Bay Diagnostics provides anonymous technician feedback, workflow analysis, and diagnostic reports designed to identify the problems that can cost a shop technicians, hours, repair orders, and profit.

Truth from the bays. Solutions for the shop.

Dealership managers: Want to find out what's really happening in your shop?

Email: [email protected]

THE BOOK

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FK654G57

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Tech

It’s a new year.
Same shop. Same pressure. Same lies. Labor rates went up.
Budgets went up.
Expectations went up. Your pay didn’t.

They changed the wording.
They call managers “leaders” now.
They hang balloons, push culture slogans, and talk about productivity.

But nothing actually changed for the people in the bays.

This episode breaks down how pressure flows downhill, why techs are still being squeezed harder every year, and why the industry keeps blaming technicians instead of fixing the system that’s breaking them.

If you’re tired of hearing promises while watching the same bullshit repeat itself, Welcome to the club.

Nothing changed.
And that’s the problem.

Support the show

SPONSORED BY BAY DIAGNOSTICS

www.BayDiagnosticsGroup.com 

You've heard the problems on this podcast for years — technician turnover, broken communication, bad dispatch, lost productivity, pay-plan issues, and shop culture problems.

Bay Diagnostics helps dealership managers find out what's actually happening inside their service department.

Built from more than 30 years of firsthand dealership experience, Bay Diagnostics provides anonymous technician feedback, workflow analysis, and diagnostic reports designed to identify the problems that can cost a shop technicians, hours, repair orders, and profit.

Truth from the bays. Solutions for the shop.

Dealership managers: Want to find out what's really happening in your shop?

Email: [email protected]

THE BOOK

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FK654G57

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Tech

We were lied to.
We were told to work harder.
Buy more tools.
Stay loyal.
And somehow it would all work out.
This episode breaks down why being a good technician was never enough, why flat rate keeps techs unstable, and why there was never a real future built into this job.

Support the show

SPONSORED BY BAY DIAGNOSTICS

www.BayDiagnosticsGroup.com 

You've heard the problems on this podcast for years — technician turnover, broken communication, bad dispatch, lost productivity, pay-plan issues, and shop culture problems.

Bay Diagnostics helps dealership managers find out what's actually happening inside their service department.

Built from more than 30 years of firsthand dealership experience, Bay Diagnostics provides anonymous technician feedback, workflow analysis, and diagnostic reports designed to identify the problems that can cost a shop technicians, hours, repair orders, and profit.

Truth from the bays. Solutions for the shop.

Dealership managers: Want to find out what's really happening in your shop?

Email: [email protected]

THE BOOK

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FK654G57

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Tech

Dealerships love to talk about “growth” and “training” for lube techs.
What they don’t talk about is how many of them never leave the lube rack.
In this episode, I explain why so many lube techs are promised a future that never shows up.
How “just give it time” turns into years.
Why moving you into the shop isn’t always in management’s best interest.
And how this cycle keeps pay low and turnover high.
Any lube techs watching BEWARE of the SCAM. Don't be a LIFER in the Lube Shop.

Support the show

SPONSORED BY BAY DIAGNOSTICS

www.BayDiagnosticsGroup.com 

You've heard the problems on this podcast for years — technician turnover, broken communication, bad dispatch, lost productivity, pay-plan issues, and shop culture problems.

Bay Diagnostics helps dealership managers find out what's actually happening inside their service department.

Built from more than 30 years of firsthand dealership experience, Bay Diagnostics provides anonymous technician feedback, workflow analysis, and diagnostic reports designed to identify the problems that can cost a shop technicians, hours, repair orders, and profit.

Truth from the bays. Solutions for the shop.

Dealership managers: Want to find out what's really happening in your shop?

Email: [email protected]

THE BOOK

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FK654G57

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Techs starving in a billion dollar building. No work. No hours. No pay. Meanwhile the dealership flexes its giant showroom, overpriced labor rate, and “look at us” bullshit while the guys in the bays are wondering how to pay bills on five hours a week.

This episode is the truth about flat rate starvation, slow season panic, and how fast a dealership will forget you exist the second the cars stop rolling in. When it’s busy they grind you. When it’s slow they hide. Either way, we’re the ones getting screwed.

If you’ve ever sat in an empty bay losing your mind while management hides in their office blaming everyone but themselves… this one’s for you.

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Support the show

SPONSORED BY BAY DIAGNOSTICS

www.BayDiagnosticsGroup.com 

You've heard the problems on this podcast for years — technician turnover, broken communication, bad dispatch, lost productivity, pay-plan issues, and shop culture problems.

Bay Diagnostics helps dealership managers find out what's actually happening inside their service department.

Built from more than 30 years of firsthand dealership experience, Bay Diagnostics provides anonymous technician feedback, workflow analysis, and diagnostic reports designed to identify the problems that can cost a shop technicians, hours, repair orders, and profit.

Truth from the bays. Solutions for the shop.

Dealership managers: Want to find out what's really happening in your shop?

Email: [email protected]

THE BOOK

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FK654G57

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Every shop’s got that one “super tech” everybody’s supposed to worship. The guy who somehow turns 90 hours every week, never gets comebacks, and magically has every gravy job routed straight to his bay. Yeah. That guy. The one who games the system, steals hours, cuts corners, and leaves the rest of the shop buried in warranty comebacks he somehow never sees again.

And the worst part? Management protects him. Every. Single. Time.

In this episode, I break down how these scammers operate, why they get away with it, and how dealership managers enable the whole thing because it keeps their numbers looking good on paper. We’re talking stolen dispatch, fake “productivity,” sabotaged hours, favoritism, the secret rules nobody admits exist, and how the shop culture rots from the inside when a scammer gets crowned king.

If you’ve ever wondered why the honest tech turning real hours can’t catch a break… or why the same guy keeps walking out with the fat check while you’re drowning in leftovers… this episode is for you.

We’re calling it what it is: a system built to reward the wrong people.

Subscribe to the YouTube channel, Join the Patreon for more TRUTH! 

We got a lot more coming.

Support the show

SPONSORED BY BAY DIAGNOSTICS

www.BayDiagnosticsGroup.com 

You've heard the problems on this podcast for years — technician turnover, broken communication, bad dispatch, lost productivity, pay-plan issues, and shop culture problems.

Bay Diagnostics helps dealership managers find out what's actually happening inside their service department.

Built from more than 30 years of firsthand dealership experience, Bay Diagnostics provides anonymous technician feedback, workflow analysis, and diagnostic reports designed to identify the problems that can cost a shop technicians, hours, repair orders, and profit.

Truth from the bays. Solutions for the shop.

Dealership managers: Want to find out what's really happening in your shop?

Email: [email protected]

THE BOOK

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FK654G57

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People love saying dealer techs are “parts changers.”
Cool story. Meanwhile we’re the ones dealing with new systems, nonstop software updates, warranty-time nonsense, manufacturer politics, and problems the independents don’t even see yet.

This episode breaks down the whole myth and calls out exactly who’s spreading it  washed-up ex-techs, YouTube University heroes, and shops that guess their way through a repair before sending the car to the dealer anyway.

I go through:
• Why dealer techs get stuck following stupid test plans
• How warranty, SSMs, reps, and politics force bad procedures
• Why independents only see failures AFTER dealers figure them out
• How the brand uses dealer techs as guinea pigs for new problems
• Why the “parts changer” insult is just lazy and outdated

Dealer techs diagnose, document, troubleshoot, and clean up everybody else’s mess, all while being underpaid and over-regulated.

But hey… call us parts changers if it makes you feel better.
Just remember who you run to when you can’t fix it.

#mechanic

Support the show

SPONSORED BY BAY DIAGNOSTICS

www.BayDiagnosticsGroup.com 

You've heard the problems on this podcast for years — technician turnover, broken communication, bad dispatch, lost productivity, pay-plan issues, and shop culture problems.

Bay Diagnostics helps dealership managers find out what's actually happening inside their service department.

Built from more than 30 years of firsthand dealership experience, Bay Diagnostics provides anonymous technician feedback, workflow analysis, and diagnostic reports designed to identify the problems that can cost a shop technicians, hours, repair orders, and profit.

Truth from the bays. Solutions for the shop.

Dealership managers: Want to find out what's really happening in your shop?

Email: [email protected]

THE BOOK

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FK654G57

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Tech

Want to watch the episode? Subscribe to the YouTube channel. 

New techs keep quitting because they’re being lied to and set up to fail. No mentors, no support, no plan, just empty promises. This episode breaks down why shops can’t keep the new generation of  mechanics longer than a year.

LOOK IN THE MIRROR FATBODY!

Support the show

SPONSORED BY BAY DIAGNOSTICS

www.BayDiagnosticsGroup.com 

You've heard the problems on this podcast for years — technician turnover, broken communication, bad dispatch, lost productivity, pay-plan issues, and shop culture problems.

Bay Diagnostics helps dealership managers find out what's actually happening inside their service department.

Built from more than 30 years of firsthand dealership experience, Bay Diagnostics provides anonymous technician feedback, workflow analysis, and diagnostic reports designed to identify the problems that can cost a shop technicians, hours, repair orders, and profit.

Truth from the bays. Solutions for the shop.

Dealership managers: Want to find out what's really happening in your shop?

Email: [email protected]

THE BOOK

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FK654G57

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