Diaries of a Dealership Detailer...

....Who actually knows what he's doing.

So I'm at work, minding my own business. I'm compounding a black audi a4 as we speak. Yes, I can work a rotary and blackberry at the same time. Anyways, my "boss" is also working on a black audi, and I glanced over about ten minutes ago to make sure he's not doing anything completely moronic. Surprise, he is. He compounded the car, and just got done "finishing" it with a lower cut wool pad and a finishing polish that contains fillers. Whatever, at this point, I just keep my mouth shut anymore because they all think I'm crazy. Right now, he's telling a newer guy that he's going to wax the car, and then use a sealant to "really seal in the lustre". He literally just said that. And guess what the new guy is going? Getting ready to respray the cars centercaps. In the shop. With spray paint. I'm going to let him finish masking off the center caps and sand them, then yell at him and tell him he's an idiot for even considering spraying the center caps about 6 feet from the car I'm working on.

 

LOL ... no wonder you always text me back so fast when you are at work.

That's just plain sad ... considering that you work at a "high-end" end dealership. Was Thompson any better?

 

note to self. never take my A4 to billy's shop.. thank goodness i take it to Audi of Rochester Hills whom until they moved HQ was teh main VAG HQ dealership.

 

I would get the hell out of there, LoL.

 

I just got back from getting the oil changed on my 3/4 ton Dodge. I thought I might as well get my batteries serviced whilst I was there, the terminals were corroding. And whilst I'm at it, let's get the inspection taken care of as well. They charged me $35 to change a bulb so that I could pass inspection, and when they serviced the batteries, they sprayed all this black crap over the terminals so now my engine bay looks like a truck with 250,000 miles on it.

I love going to the dealership.

 

Thats awesome! Bust your foot off in his ass!

 

:lol: :agree:

 

Sounds like someone should be talking to the GM about moving up the ladder.

 

keep the tales coming. The sad thing is, this kind of "cancer" has spread all over corporate America.

 

hmmm, so they promote the good people? That is something new for most companies.

 

"Lock in the freshness" EPIC. It really amazes me that some people really are THAT stoopid.

 

Ken..you weren't kidding..you DO really like my expression, LOL!!

 

hey guys. hope you all enjoyed my little story. i'll try and update this thread whenever i have more funny stories for you all. about me getting promoted, well, i was supposed to. the boss i have now was just hired. the first guy, who was even more of an idiot (try, using laquer thinner as clay lube...and knowing it), was fired, per my report to the owner about him. i was asked what needed to be changed and if they should fire the first guy, and i said yeah they should. i was given the impression i would be promoted to run the shop and completely revamp everything, but instead they hired another guy who didnt even show his first two days because he couldnt afford to put gas in his car to get to work and had to wait for his unemployment check to come in.

god bless america.

 

Your stories get better and better. I didn't know that you worked at the Comedy House. You lucky dog!

 

Truth is always stranger than fiction....

 

subscribed love hearing stories like these

 

laquer thinner as a clay lube? I'd make him drink laquer thinner just for that along...

 

wow...this thread keeps getting better...subscribed....

 

yeah crazy right? i had finished doing all the wet work on this car, and it was just about time for my lunch and i tell him im going in lunch and i'll start claying it when i get back. well i walk back in and the guy is literally claying the car with laquer thinner as lube. its dissolving the clay and smearing it all over the car. i say "hey, you know thats laquer thinner right?". he replies "yeah, i know. its really rough on this side of the car".

 

lmfao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!