Termyn8or
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I greaytly appreciate the responses, they were well thought out and I think it would be appropriate to apologize now for not giving enough detail. I don't disagree with any of you, on the basis of what I said it was quite good. But the details of the business come into play, so I will go on to apprise you of that. I realize that many people work for big companies and that the politics and therefore the logistics of the the players therin are different than in this venue.
First of all this is a TV shop, one of the few remaining. It is not easy to stay in this business due to the non-cooperation of the manufacturers who would rather sell a new set than parts for an older one. All of the laws about supporting the product have been stripped away, to the point where you can't even count on the manufacturer's warranty. Just ask my buddy, bought a nioce new DLP around Easter last year and it broke down before Thanksgiving. He replaced the bulb, which is considered user replacable in that unit but it still didn't work, so he called the Authorized Service Center, the ASC as we call them in the business. Between the time of purchase and failure, well within one year the part the set needs is no longer available. Other brands, they simply say, there are no parts. These things cost over a thousand dollars yet the menufacturer is allowed to get away with this.
I work on larger sets fron about one to maybe fifteen years old. Certain parts are available, we found them where the manufacturer bought them in some cases. That has become easy to handle. But certain parts have to come from the manufacturer.
So from at one time operating as a nice professional business with nice part new and shiny on the wall and in drawers, we have become a junkyard. This has been going on for a long time and I am used to it.
I have done my research and "homework" and as a result I am one of the best CRT based RPTV technicians in this state, in fact I might be the best, but I won't make that claim, let's just say that I know what I am doing. This is alot more difficult when I have had no benefit of ant factory training or seminars or anything of the sort. I have had to get the info I needed on my own. I had to learn new circuits on my own. Sure I have downloaded service manuals and even training manuals, illegally. But there are mistakes in them, and just so you don't think I am full of it, I got the guide for troubleshooting the PTK195 series RCA sets. These are three tube projectors but are based on the CTC195. Well right in the information from the manufacturer there is a reference to a degaussing relay, the PTK version uses no such circuit, anyone who knows anything about this knows that. If they can make an error that blatant with impunity, what else of what they say should I trust or not ?
Add to that my ability to sometimes adapt parts, because it has become a junkyard type business by necessity. What I said in another thread about people not being able to afford a TV was no joke. Sure you can afford the TV and get ten months same as cash, but shortly thereafter it will be sitting in a TV shop with a four hundred dolla repair bill that you can't afford and it will be sold.
I am instrumental to the continued success of this company, period. Nobody there posesses even one fifth of my knowledge and the one guy who approaches that is 60 years old and totally computer illiterate.
Sorry to sound like a braggart, but facts are facts and you can ask them as well as the last place I worked for. I'll give you their phone numbers anytime.
Now I make the equivalent of about $27 an hour there, and I can smoke and they got bottled water. Knowing business, they cannot bill my time at twentyseven bucks an hour, to make any little bit of money at all they must bill my time at approzimately three times that amount.
My work ethic says that then it is my responsibility to make that amount for the company and I usually do, and then some. But then comes a bad day now and again. That's life and I have no problem with that. When that bad day is caused by the equipment or the manufacturer thereof, we have no control over that.
When people get in my way and hinder my endevors to turn a profit, it riles me up. I keep a tight leash on myself so to speak, I am under control and I do not yell, except for those occasions when I am talking to someone far away. I will not raise my voice in anger. But I don't let it get to that point.
Why should I yell when I could just sit down and watch the clock, when the sweep second hand goes round once, I done earned thirty something cents.
I want to see the company for which I work survive and thrive, and as long as I am on the clock every fiber of my being is directed toward that goal. External infuences knock us down again and again, so the very last thing we need is internal influences working against our success. That is the source of my ire in this matter. We are supposed to be a team.
Remember that the main problem is space. We have no room for things, as big as the place is in SQ FT it is full. Hence comes my letter which will be mailed tomorrow on dead tree, through the snail system :
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I am looking forward to a profitable relationship in the future in your employ. This can happen after the following conditions are met.
- I work for you. There is no manager, no foreman, no strawboss of any kind. There is nobody with any authority over me whatsoever except you, the person who pays me. You have confidence in my intelligence so I know when to ask another when in doubt as to exactly what to do, but this in no way confers any type of authority whatsoever.
- Because my time here is limited and expensive, and the fact that the units I work on are bulky and consume a lot of precious space, they shall be considered pre-eminant, and of top priority by all employees and associates.
- Therefore all cooperate with me, because of the profit potential and the fact that we need the precious space, and the fact that I am the only one there who really knows the field, I will use ANY AND ALL space in the shop to faithfully discharge my duties there. That there is no person’s "area", that it is all your "area" because you are the one who pays the rent.
- All employees and associates will be advised of these facts in my presence at which time I will gladly resume my endevors there, which are purely for your profit.
With these conditions met, you can expect my normal cooperation and assistance in all matters as you have enjoyed for the past three, nearly four years. I left because persuance of this matter at the time with hot heads would have been counterproductive. It is my goal to prevent, or reduce the severity and/or frequency of these situations.
I hope you can see that my demands are not unreasonable, and agree. Then I hope to resume our normally mutually beneficial business relationship. Thank you for your precious time used to read this.
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I believe I have the power to say this. None of this is bullshit, and a printed copy is going into the mail addressed to him with double postage on it, with a return address in NM and his real name on [ ] s.
I have been dealt ony one hand in life, as are we all. This could cost me my job yes, but if I win, think of that.
I want to be the same happy to help guy for my coworkers, or teammates. They have said "Thank you" to me and I have told them not to thank me, that we are on a team. Does the quarterback always thank the linemen when he does not get sacked ? Heck no.
I guess I will find out soon if my ass is up to my balls.
T
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