one thing I'll say is that finding GOOD help is next to impossible.
"GOOD" meaning someone who knows what they're doing, will show up on time or before, leave AFTER the bell rings and not before, and only takes his alotted lunch time rather than 2 1/2 hours. Plus, while they're at work they need to be working and not standing in the doorway with a beer and a cigarette getting absolutely nothing accomplished except maybe forgetting where they left off. Drug free is a plus. One dealer principal told me that if they (entire chain of dealers) fired everyone that failed a drug test that they'd have nobody working for them. Needless to say I don't work at that dealer anymore; just gives you a small clue as to what work(ed) there...I ain't been back since I left, and I know 2 of the other techs left and they were left with one for a while. I can't blame the other 2 for leaving either. Hate it for the dealer and the one tech that was left but we all have to do what is right for us individually.
with that said sometimes there are those type challenges faced by dealers. Particularly smaller dealers, they typically don't have the capital to pay anyone a decent salary and Kubota doesn't really help the dealer in that sense either. To my knowledge they don't have any sort of assistance for employment and nothing I seen on their site as an exchange for potential employees either--but the dealer I worked for took away some of my access to some things so I may have missed something within the last year. Another manufacturer is in such dire need of GOOD TECHS that they have a whole part of their business system that trains educates and then puts the tech's name out there for dealers to view. This is where Kubota is missing out. Deere does it too I think. IF they can't pay anyone a decent salary they're gonna get minimum wage employees--and that sometimes means minimum help and minimum effort. You're not going to pay a guy $10/hr to do transmission repairs on M series; but on the flip side you're certainly not going to pay a lot porter $30/hr either.
"GOOD" meaning someone who knows what they're doing, will show up on time or before, leave AFTER the bell rings and not before, and only takes his alotted lunch time rather than 2 1/2 hours. Plus, while they're at work they need to be working and not standing in the doorway with a beer and a cigarette getting absolutely nothing accomplished except maybe forgetting where they left off. Drug free is a plus. One dealer principal told me that if they (entire chain of dealers) fired everyone that failed a drug test that they'd have nobody working for them. Needless to say I don't work at that dealer anymore; just gives you a small clue as to what work(ed) there...I ain't been back since I left, and I know 2 of the other techs left and they were left with one for a while. I can't blame the other 2 for leaving either. Hate it for the dealer and the one tech that was left but we all have to do what is right for us individually.
with that said sometimes there are those type challenges faced by dealers. Particularly smaller dealers, they typically don't have the capital to pay anyone a decent salary and Kubota doesn't really help the dealer in that sense either. To my knowledge they don't have any sort of assistance for employment and nothing I seen on their site as an exchange for potential employees either--but the dealer I worked for took away some of my access to some things so I may have missed something within the last year. Another manufacturer is in such dire need of GOOD TECHS that they have a whole part of their business system that trains educates and then puts the tech's name out there for dealers to view. This is where Kubota is missing out. Deere does it too I think. IF they can't pay anyone a decent salary they're gonna get minimum wage employees--and that sometimes means minimum help and minimum effort. You're not going to pay a guy $10/hr to do transmission repairs on M series; but on the flip side you're certainly not going to pay a lot porter $30/hr either.
