Zonda
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- Joined
- Jul 30, 2015
At my job I'm a first year apprentice, and as the Service Car Washer was fired recently, I have the unenviable honour of taking over his duties at a reduced pay rate. I get faced with unrealistic deadlines a lot; I'm expected to wash all cars that come through for a service, and with 7 hoists running at any one time, coupled with me being the only one to wash the cars, and I have to share the wash bay (can wash 1 car at a time) with 4 Detailers it's often an uphill battle to get everything out in time.
Today things were going well. At 10:30 I washed the 3 cars that had their services completed. They were due by 2:30pm and only took 20-30 minutes each. No big deal, I assumed the deadlines would get later as the day went on. Then at Midday I picked some customers up in the courtesy car, getting back at 12:30. By then, 3 cars due at 1PM had been serviced and I was expected to wash them all. Not only were they the biggest model available (takes 2-3x longer than washing a regular car) but I was instructed to wash them with some minor detailing techniques (v time consuming) as they were all reportedly from customers who had referred a lot of others to buy the cars.
Don't get me wrong, I love my job, and don't mind being assigned to other duties and these guys are one of the only workplaces I've been with who actually do things like Holiday pay, paid leave, sick leave, etc. But the way things are run from up top is so mediocre it hurts. I feel bad for my Supervisors because they're in the same boat to a worse extent.
Today things were going well. At 10:30 I washed the 3 cars that had their services completed. They were due by 2:30pm and only took 20-30 minutes each. No big deal, I assumed the deadlines would get later as the day went on. Then at Midday I picked some customers up in the courtesy car, getting back at 12:30. By then, 3 cars due at 1PM had been serviced and I was expected to wash them all. Not only were they the biggest model available (takes 2-3x longer than washing a regular car) but I was instructed to wash them with some minor detailing techniques (v time consuming) as they were all reportedly from customers who had referred a lot of others to buy the cars.
Don't get me wrong, I love my job, and don't mind being assigned to other duties and these guys are one of the only workplaces I've been with who actually do things like Holiday pay, paid leave, sick leave, etc. But the way things are run from up top is so mediocre it hurts. I feel bad for my Supervisors because they're in the same boat to a worse extent.
