Actually, this is all the result of brilliant corporate
strategy (per HK).    Burger King, Jiffy Lube, Home
Depot, and other large corporate franchises have made a
conscious and deliberate decision to have a transient,
under-trained, under paid, disloyal work force,
basically.  They crunched the numbers and concluded
that the profits will be greater (their only loyalty,
after all) if they hire the lowest paid people they
possibly can to do the job, treat them like crooks to
prevent theft of company prop. etc. (but ok to work on
our cars!), train as minimally as possible and expect a
very high rate of turn over.  That's an integral part
of the business model.  No wonder local shops/stores
with life time, often competent employees cannot
compete and fold.  Avoid the chains!

Rico Sapolich wrote:
>
> In a message dated 5/24/01 11:19:50 PM, firestream@MINDSPRING.COM writes:
>
> << At least, you're lucky the manager
> had the guts to go ahead and promise to get you a new tank.  That is worth
> something.  Yes, they are lame mechanics to be sure. But in a few months,
> he might have some better help. >>
>
> Or, in a few months the mechanic is promoted to manager.
>
> Rich