Episode 45: Corporate

Send us Fan Mail On today’s episode of Grease The Wheels, we are talking about working for the man and all that it entails. There are many corporate entities in the automotive industry such as auto groups, corporate repair shops, tire shops, etc. These are companies with a LOT of employees, and oftentimes a big number of them have nothing to do with the end products. Corporate owned dealerships have multiple levels of management that run these places, meaning that there are a lot of people in these companies that dont fix the cars. There are some major fundamental differences between the office folk and the car fixing folk that extends far beyond what they actually do for a living. Because of this there are rules being made by people who have no idea what the culture is like for the people that those rules are being applied to. At the end of the day being an auto mechanic is being in a brotherhood, and this is something that they really can’t understand. This leads to one of the major advantages that indy shops have over their corporate competition, and might just be enough to make you want to work for the indy instead of the man. Let’s be clear, there are a lot of excellent things about working for a corporation, but there are a lot of tradeoffs with things like personal liberties and the amount of times that you can say “fuck” without getting fired.Also, Uncle Jimmy talks white collar v. blue collar responses to the zombie apocalypse, the “offended culture” and how it doesn’t play well with this listenership, and details his candidate for “The Worst Car Ever Made!”