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Some Shop Owners Say NO to Vacations in Busy Times. Agree or Not?

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Yes indeed! 

We're a brake and front end shop. We're busy a shop in the summer. People travel and want their car in top shape.

Keep in mind the Texas heat hurts the entire vehicle. Tires, brakes and cooling system.

 

We're a small shop, if I take vacation, we closed. There's only 3 of us and we work hard.

When it comes to vacations in the summer, either we take long weekend once in a while or/and if the entire week, we just close.

My belief is that People deserve to be off for more then just a long weekend. We need to be away to come back fresh and ready for the 2nd half of the year.

JP

 

 

 

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I had my shop in a smaller town outside of Detroit, and had 5 guys. I shut the shop for my vacation the last two weeks of Aug and first week of Sept. I paid the guys by check in the mail 40 hours pay every Friday while we shut. That was my vacation, they got 2 weeks vacation on their anniversary and could take it when they wanted. Or, just not take that time and get the pay. Since we shut for those 3 weeks in the summer most never took any other time off and collected the money. We were very busy all the time and if I didn't take the time I wanted we would be working all year. Thats how we worked time off.

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That is a good point, one I didn't need to worry about. I suppose if our season was say just summer and we were slow the rest of the year I probably would have had to change my vacation times. Shutting down and paying the guys worked for us. It will be interesting to hear what others do.

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      Want to End Your Technician Shortage? Focus on Retention!
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      I recently spoke with a friend of mine who owns a large general repair shop in the Midwest. His father founded the business in 1975. He was telling me that although he’s busy, he’s also very frustrated. When I probed him more about his frustrations, he said that it’s hard to find qualified technicians. My friend employs four technicians and is looking to hire two more. I then asked him, “How long does a technician last working for you.” He looked puzzled and replied, “I never really thought about that, but I can tell that except for one tech, most technicians don’t last working for me longer than a few years.”
      Judging from personal experience as a shop owner and from what I know about the auto repair industry, I can tell you that other than a few exceptions, the turnover rate for technicians in our industry is too high. This makes me think, do we have a technician shortage or a retention problem? Have we done the best we can over the decades to provide great pay plans, benefits packages, great work environments, and the right culture to ensure that the techs we have stay with us?
      Finding and hiring qualified automotive technicians is not a new phenomenon. This problem has been around for as long as I can remember. While we do need to attract people to our industry and provide the necessary training and mentorship, we also need to focus on retention. Having a revolving door and needing to hire techs every few years or so costs your company money. Big money! And that revolving door may be a sign of an even bigger issue: poor leadership, and poor employee management skills.
      Here’s one more thing to consider, for the most part, technicians don’t leave one job to start a new career, they leave one shop as a technician to become a technician at another shop. The reasons why they leave can be debated, but there is one fact that we cannot deny, people don’t quit the company they work for, they usually leave because of the boss or manager they work for.
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