I want a vette and a girl with nice assets...Originally Posted by TLSheff
Oooooo I want a job with Pratt & Miller.... tho after I take out a ZR1 they would prolly fire me
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08-31-2011
I want a vette and a girl with nice assets...Oooooo I want a job with Pratt & Miller.... tho after I take out a ZR1 they would prolly fire me
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08-31-2011
i think it would be cool as hell to meet a girl with the same interest in cars that i do. i've just never met one. i try to explain what i'm doing to my car and most of them stop me about the stupid stuff. like valves. seriously, it's just like a valve in any other application. if you think about what it does, it's simple. and now that i've torn a couple down, the entire engine is pretty simple in concept. maybe it's from back in the day when you had to know how to work on cars to drive them. tuning/jetting the carb, manual transmissions, 100x more driver input than today's cars. it was just left for the men
08-31-2011
When I was in school for my IT Degree, the auto tech class was just next door and I was seeing 1 of 2 girls in the class... both hotties oddly enough. I went in during a break to see her and she was yelling at 2 guys because they couldn't figure out why the caliper bolts wouldn't back out, they got the big ratchet and was torquing down, she got the normal ratchet and turned it the other direction and it spun out... I just laughed
She was there for small engine repair and is now a tech at the local Harley shop, just shows some girls can fix cars better than guys...
Originally Posted by AmericanSoldier
08-31-2011
I know a few women that work in an automotive field (one at a local auto parts store) and she is quite knowledgeable. Like previously said, sometimes I will go straight to her because she doesn't try to sell you something you don't want/need, she just gets you what you want right off the bat.
My dad did have one rather bad experience with women in the automotive field though....
He was at work (he works at a diesel shop where they do all kinds of stuff....literally) and was changing wiper blades and some other stuff on a truck. Had the wipers pulled away from the windshield and the blades off while he went to get the new blades. Well, one of the other mechanics there, a female, was going to pop the hood and begin work on the other things that needed done to the truck. She ended up opening the hood while the wipers were up and the hood hit them and they slammed back into their original position against the windshield....cracking it in the process.
Now, I suppose it could happen to anybody, but he came home that night and was going on about how somebody could be that stupid to open the hood with the wipers up. She still works there though and I haven't heard any other bad stories about her other than that one.
08-31-2011
Sounds to me like an "I forgot to get my coffee this morning" kind of day. I do believe that, however unfair it is, when you are a discriminated-against minority in a situation that it works out best for you if you are a little extra careful about what you do.
08-31-2011
I've been in the auto industry for 6 years and have worked with several women in the process....a few good and a few that just use their body to sell (good for them)
stick to your guns, prove your worth, and keep your head up. If your good at what you do it will be recognized eventually.
08-31-2011
I love seeing women working on cars. My buddy's cousin owns a junkyard and he has a few smoking hot daughters and i was very surprised to see them working on junkers when them came in. Needless to say i spent a lot more time over there after i saw that lol. If i come across a female that doesn't know something about a car i'll try to educate her so she can rub that info in some guys face when he thinks she doesn't know anything about cars. I taught my wife the firing order for a sbc and she still remembers.
08-31-2011
i could care less who gives me the part i need.
08-31-2011
I might want to start going to that junkyard lol
08-31-2011
Cuz usually they're ugly/old. At least that's how advance in LS is. I kid, doesn't bother me a bit.
08-31-2011
I would personally prefer looking at tits while I tell the person what I need.
08-31-2011
qftI would personally prefer looking at tits while I tell the person what I need.
08-31-2011
How long have you worked at AAP? If you are good at what you do and stay with it long enough you will develop a customer base that trusts and respects you. If possible try to become a CPP(If not already one). Get ASE certified and put the patch on the sleeve of your uniform. This gives a lot of the population the sense that you know what you are doing.(If they only knew.)
Working for a big box parts store does not help matters any. Many people see the employees of AAP, AutoZone, PepBoys..... as monkeys pushing buttons on a computer.
I have worked in the parts business for 18 years.
One of the best counter people I worked with at NAPA was a woman.
I am now a CPP for AAP and the woman I replaced transfered to another store to turn around thier program.
As for why guys prefer guys to get thier parts, Its a guy thing! You wouldn't understand
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08-31-2011
Also being a female, I know how you feel.
I work at a hardware store part time and guys always treat me like I don't know the sky from the grass. Listen here prick, I've been here 8 years, I think I know my stuff.
I also get it a little at my new full time job.
I truly believe its just planted in some guys brains that females don't know the mans world of things. Some are nicer once they realize you know your stuff, and then some just continue to be pricks.
08-31-2011
A surprising amount of people are simply pricks, regardless of gender.
08-31-2011
i could care less, I like it when girls work on cars
08-31-2011
Get used to it. I've been in the biz for 20+ years now, and it hasn't changed much. I used to run a parts store, and had a female behind the counter; she wasn't as good as the rest of us as she had only been doing this work for two years, but she wasn't stupid either. Many a time I had to step in and defend her with ignorant customers. Once she had a chance to do her job, she proved them wrong every time.
The best one was when my friends wife (she ran another store, hot blonde, ex BC Lions cheerleader) was dealing with an ignorant East Indian. He was so pissed off at her and asked to speak to the manager. She just grinned and said, "Can I help you". Buddy couldn't take it and left the store.
I'm in a different part of the biz now, but I always enjoy being served by a female (or male) that knows what they are doing. If I get "stupid" on the counter, I move on.
Good parts people are hard to find, so if you are good, you will build a customer base.
08-31-2011
i would perfer a woman to work on my car... its proven that women take their time and try to perfect whatever their working on....and would actually do it right.. in my opinion
08-31-2011
Generalizations exist for a reason. They're generally true. The fact that you, and a few others might be an exception to ANY rule doesn't eradicate that rule. That is why the phrase "exception to the rule" exists.
The truth is the VAST majority of girls (AND even a lot of guys nowadays) couldn't care less about cars. The few that do don't get too involved with them. They may have picked up a thing or two about certain things through boyfriends, or family members, etc. but that's about it. This leaves us with the very rare, small percentage of girls who not only show an interest in cars, but have delved deep enough into understanding the science behind how everything works, understanding the variances in that science for the different makes and models, etc. that their car knowledge is credible.
Given this well established fact, you should be able to understand where your customers are coming from. Due to the slim chances of running into a girl who TRULY knows cars, most of your male customers will assume that you got the job because you know the bare minimum to get by, and/or are hot, and/or the store wants to be politically correct/fair/not sexist, so they had to hire a girl or two for image purposes.
This same mentality exists with ANY generalization. For example, obviously I'm pretty into cars. More of what I refer to as a car junkie vs. a gearhead. I love learning about the different designs, technological advancements in options/features, etc. Any make, any model, any era. Yet I defy the stereotypical behavior and lifestyle of most car junkies and gearheads. I don't have walls covered in posters and calendars of naked women, I actually despise alcohol as opposed to pounding beers every night, my place is always obsessive/compulsively clean, I'm pretty intellectual (into studying philosophy, religion, cultures/history, etc), concordantly, I'm a bit of a music and movie snob, and while I don't care what I wear when I'm working on a car, or at the junkyard, I dress pretty nice when I go out because I like to look and smell good (and girls certainly don't mind when you do, either
Likewise, I get the same generalization based treatment on the basketball court. Because I'm one of the few white guys on the court who doesn't pretend to be black (I don't wear shorts that go down to my shins, don't act or talk "urban", etc), most of the black players, and even a lot of the white guys, just assume I don't have an athletic bone in my body. Even AFTER I make a few acrobatic/athletic moves in mid air for a shot, or cross over behind my back when they lunge at the ball thinking they got an easy steal because "he ain't got no handles!", they still think it's a fluke. It's only after they've played with/against me a few times that they realize that's the norm for me, and accept the fact that despite "not looking it", I just might have some actual skills.
It's natural to take offense when the prejudice is used against you, but you have to stop and think about how often the generalization is true vs. how often it's not. Put yourself in the other person's shoes without your own biased perception of being a female for a moment. What would YOU think if you came across a girl claiming to "know" about cars? Would you say "I bet you do!!!!", or would you start questioning them to see just how much they "know"? Chances are, if you don't bring the bias of you/her being a fellow car girl into it, you'll be grilling her to see if she speaks the truth.
Me, personally, whenever I see a girl working at a parts store, I go into it HOPING she's knowledgeable about them, especially if she's attractive, because....well.....it's an ATTRACTIVE GIRL......who knows about cars!!! Please let it be true!!
08-31-2011
^^^^^ wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too much to read lol
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