And just to add a footnote to Bruce's description of the landscaper company , he described just about everything perfectly , I just wanted to add to that , I had to explain to the boss that mechanics are people too , that we do have to do things like other folks , like eat , sleep , and try to keep all of his equipment running with a minimum of capable operators who actually knew what they were driving , the rest just thought it was a hoot to be out in a driving blizzard playing diesel cowboy until they hit something under the snow . Then it was call the mechanic time , " I don't know what happened , I hit something , it stopped . " Once the boss realized it was too expensive to keep hiring these party animals and got some good operators , things got better and I lost the urge to either quit or be put away for homicide . I didn't do well at the time when I found out these guys would jam a machine into a non moveable object just to see if they could break it .

Roger Rutledge
Technician/Shop Foreman
Riverside Landscape Contractors Inc
Brantford, Ontario, Canada