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Alright first off I am a mechanic, for 4 years now, and I work on a "team" system at work. Basically we have a guy who is the "team" leader and then me, lead tech and then my buddy who is also a lead tech but do to lack of certifications he is the low guy kinda. Any how my team leader who I am friends with kinda basically steals from my buddy and I who are on his team, he gets paid for work that he doesn't do, that I or Ricky does, and he is ignorant and shouldn't be a team leader in the first place. This guy has no diagnostic skills of any kinda and he can barely make it through the day with out freaking out and yelling at someone over something that is his own fault. He breaks more things than any other person in the shop, and he has more re-checks(comeback cars that weren't fixed the first time) than anyone in the shop.
Anyway my so called team leader diagnose a 2001 ls for a no start condition, well when you would try to start it it would just clink like a locked up starter. This car had previously had a junk yard engine put in it and with out going into any further diagnosis he decided the ls needed a motor. Well after waiting for approval for a few days he pushed the car back outside and attempted to start it. The ls started up and ran, he then shut it off and said "fuck it, it needs a motor". The junkyard that the original motor had come from ended up warrantying the previous motor and labor time. He then removed the previous motor and took the starter off to find that the motor spins freely without the locked up starter on it. He could have bite the bullet and just put a starter on it and eat the labor from taking the motor out but no, he didn't. He preceded to put the new motor in.
Now when this motor is sent back to the junkyard, they will inspect it to see what is wrong since they are having to pay for the labor and the part. Once they realize the motor spins freely they will undoubtedly charge our dealership back for the labor and part, and quite possibly refuse to sell to us anymore after lying to them.
When anything goes wrong on our "team", my team leader likes to use this word that I hate, and that word is "we". As is " We took the motor out", no dipshit you took the motor out. Anyway, my buddy Ricky and I decided that we had to tell someone in management to cover our asses. So we did, now it is very possible that our team leader will be fired over this.
So is it wrong to have ratted him out over the situation, as to not let him try to include Ricky or myself in his downfall, when management realizes they are going to have to eat 3 grand, or did I/we do the right thing here, inform management of the situation and let him lie in the bed he made?
Anyway my so called team leader diagnose a 2001 ls for a no start condition, well when you would try to start it it would just clink like a locked up starter. This car had previously had a junk yard engine put in it and with out going into any further diagnosis he decided the ls needed a motor. Well after waiting for approval for a few days he pushed the car back outside and attempted to start it. The ls started up and ran, he then shut it off and said "fuck it, it needs a motor". The junkyard that the original motor had come from ended up warrantying the previous motor and labor time. He then removed the previous motor and took the starter off to find that the motor spins freely without the locked up starter on it. He could have bite the bullet and just put a starter on it and eat the labor from taking the motor out but no, he didn't. He preceded to put the new motor in.
Now when this motor is sent back to the junkyard, they will inspect it to see what is wrong since they are having to pay for the labor and the part. Once they realize the motor spins freely they will undoubtedly charge our dealership back for the labor and part, and quite possibly refuse to sell to us anymore after lying to them.
When anything goes wrong on our "team", my team leader likes to use this word that I hate, and that word is "we". As is " We took the motor out", no dipshit you took the motor out. Anyway, my buddy Ricky and I decided that we had to tell someone in management to cover our asses. So we did, now it is very possible that our team leader will be fired over this.
So is it wrong to have ratted him out over the situation, as to not let him try to include Ricky or myself in his downfall, when management realizes they are going to have to eat 3 grand, or did I/we do the right thing here, inform management of the situation and let him lie in the bed he made?
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