One, I didn't criticize you....
Wow. You criticize us for being trained by Glen, then in the same post say he should expand and hire more people? I was personally taught by a room owner's installer about 10 years ago. He's one of the thousands TeddyDog is referring to that can install a table. What TD doesn't realize is there's really a pretty small percentage that do what we do "properly" as he says while in the midst of name-calling people he knows nothing about.
It wasn't hard with a little common sense to figure out that the idiot that was training me took short cuts and the job could be done better.
After he left town, I was trained by the room owner himself who had been working on tables for 20 years at the time. He does good work and takes pride in it, but does it the way 95% of the people in the coutry do it.
After learning from him, I took the lead of his install crew. Once out on the road myself, I tweaked and learned on my own for a few years.
So for 10 years, I've been trained by a stone cold idiot, trained by someone who takes pride in their work, and self taught. At that point, I thought I was pretty good at my job. Then I worked along side Glen. His methods are better, and his results are better, and not just because he says so. I know enough about my trade to form my own opinion about what I like.
Calling me biased for preferring those methods and results is like calling a Lamborghini owner biased for preferring them because they drove one. I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly, and I don't appreciate being criticized for preferring the best I've seen.
Firstly, I didn't ciriticize you or anyone that has been taught by Glen, I stated that someone stating that Glen is the best after being taught by him would have to be taken with a grain of salt.
To use your illustration, If a designer of Lamborghinis was asked what the best car was, you would expect him to say lamborghinis. If someone who was trained as a mechanic on Lamborghinis by that designer, you would expect them to say that he is the best designer.
It's not a matter of criticizing you, I'm just stating the obvious fact that you would be biased in giving a fair appraisal of his skill.
I have NEVER stated that Glen isn't skilled, nor have I said that his methods aren't good, nor have I even stated that he ISN'T the best mechanic.
What I have stated is that his attitude isn't right and I will stand by that till the end. This isn't boxing, or MMA or WWF, you don't need to call out your competition as a way of getting inside their head or drumming up interest.
Besides which, you're likely to lose more business than you gain by using that tactic. Does that mean he'll lose enough business from employing that tactic to put him out of business??? NO....
There's always people who will choose aesthetics over substance, or a better way of putting it would be the end results over an eccentric attitude.
I, personally, am willing to pay more and get less from someone with a good attitude than someone with a bad one, someone who has shown good business practices over someone who shows bad ones.
I am an amatuer car mechanic and do most of my own work. But I have recently found an honest mechanic who doesn't overcharge or make up bogus stuff wrong with the car. I could probably find someone who's a better mechanic or do most things myself, but I will go to him in some cases where I could've done it myself or when I have to wait for him to be able to do it.
Not because he charges less or is the best mechanic, but because I can trust him and his professionalism is beyond question.
If he talked down about other mechanics, I wouldn't use him. If I go to the BEST mechanic in the world, and all I hear him say is how good he is and how all other mechanics suck and if I don't like him saying it I can go pound sand, I wouldn't use him if it was for free.
It's sad that more people aren't like me, because then the business ethics in this country might not have deteriorated as badly as they have.
If he were to focus on putting a business of table mechanics together and stop talking down about other top mechanics and their practices, I wouldn't have a problem with him at all. As I've stated, he does good work from what I've seen.
I haven't talked down about his work and I haven't "criticized you or any other mechanic that he has taught".
I have only criticized Glen's professionalism and I think it could still use some work.
You can't please all the people all the time, so the saying goes...
Some people obviously like to defend Glen and some people obviously still want him to work on their tables, with skill, comes demand. I just wish that he would let his skill speak for itself. A lesson I've had to learn myself, the hard way...
Jaden
