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Hello, My name is Prudencio Chavez. I am 24 years old and have been a GM technician on my own for about 2 years now. I have worked here at the Greiner Pontiac Buick GMC for a total of 6 1/2 years. I graduated From GM ASEP at Cerritos college. I have completed all of GM's assesments and am now a world class tech, If that means anything.  I just bought my first Scope, a pico 3423 from autonerdz, So i probably wont be much help on analyzing waveforms. Well, thats pretty much it about me. I Forgot to mention that I work next to a genius, Jim Wilson.

Hi Prudencio,
I personally need all the help I can get!
Enjoy
Smitty

Mick,

Given what I've been through personally and how management has acted towards me even during this time, I have not been that great of a help. Many days I've not said a word to anyone all day. Many days, I could care less if it were my last.

They no longer have anything over me, I can leave if I want now with no notice and be just fine. Funny, things are now changing... imagine that.

Just once I'd like to work for grownups. They put me, Prudencio, and another tech in a very awkward position. My reward for helping to train two asep students was to have each of them get a free (shop paid) helper and to be not just competition, but for some time (now past) get work while I sat. Sat and knew the additional pain brought to my wife when I had a meagerly pay check as a reward for my efforts. At times, paying for the medicine my wife needs was difficult. I did not appreciate that after all I've done to make the SM look good.

All I had to sell was knowledge that they didn't have, so many times I said nothing to nobody.

My suggestion to Prudencio which I hope he takes is this. Get all the credentials you can and then bail out and work as a teacher at the local Jr College. Someday taking the department chair position.

Get out of this business, too many idiots in places of power who have absolutely no respect for what it takes to do this job.

The most celebrated tech at the shop (in managments view) is a thief and a hack. One of the worst and most shameless I've seen and in 30 years, I've seen a lot of them. 

There is no way that management cannot know what is going on with this guy, they just don't care. It used to be that the SM would talk about what a great crew he had and how they made him look good. Now? Its how lucky we are to work for him... Unbelieveable...

Anyway, I love to discuss and train. I hate passionately the environment I find myself in that has forced me to make the choice between a paycheck I can live on and doing what I love.

I am quite proud of the fact that niether of my boys (now adults with families) know nothing about cars. They have a much brighter future.

Hows that for my first post in the "introductions" section... 

Mick wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2008 at 6:59pm:


I get to see him in action once in a while and try to pay attention to what he is doing. I try to ask as many questions as I can when he is in a good mood, haha. But I think it is a great advantage for me to work next to someone with his knowledge. For example, Waveform Analysis was not an area I was familiar with until I met Jim. Also, I have learned valuable methods of approaching a concern to find a problem from him.