Six weeks into my new position with Montana Harley-Davidson, Buell and Ducati and I am enjoying my work there. I have come to realize that the many diverse personalities I work with on a daily basis is affording me the opportunity to learn a great deal about myself as well. My position allows me plenty of contact with retail consumers of our product line on two full days of the week including Sunday and Mondays and a mixture of customer service in the retail area as well as service desk sales directly to the service technicians in the shop area. The two types of parts and accessories sales are quite different from each other on a large scale.
I have worked in small dealerships and large dealerships (judged by staff levels and gross sales), and see differences and parallels here. I guess I tend to judge the overall picture as I see it and do wonder a bit about the direction of this dealership as well as my own.
I know there is still a lot to learn in my position, including logistically, personally and professionally in this employment.
I have Wednesday and Thursday off for my free time from the dealership, and this is nice to have ‘business days’ to get my stuff done. Geri also has many of the same days of as I and we take advantage of the together time that gives us. We don’t always have the same days off and that also allows us ample ‘alone’ time as well. It has been a good mix for us overall.
We had to finally decide who she would pick to fix her car. There has been a bad oil leak somewhere in the front of the engine for several months… even before we move back to Montana from Wisconsin. We took the car to a mechanic recommended to us who lives ‘out in the toolies’ so to speak. Today we got the call from the mechanic..”I can’t get the oil leak to stop!” I guess he tried a couple different oil seals on the crank shaft that comes out of the oil pump assembly, and yet the damn thing still wants to leak oil when it warms up. Geri and I will drive out there sometime in the next couple days and discuss what options are available to us. She is not too pleased about this situation, and may be looking to car payments in her near future for a replacement vehicle. In the meantime, she is welcome to use my car as much as she needs too, and I will use the Harley for transportation.
UPDATE: Geri’s car is NOT leaking oil any longer. We got a call from the mechanic and he says that he was able to finally get the oil seal to do its job. We picked up the car and drove it home without oil loss and smoke! Guess we don’t have to plan on some immediate car payments after all.
I got us a new Weber Performer grill and tried it out on Thursday with some chicken we had in the freezer. Geri made some home made bar-b-q sauce for our first grill out here in Montana. We also prepared a nice little lettuce salad to accompany our first grilled meal.
YUM!!!!!
I have worked in small dealerships and large dealerships (judged by staff levels and gross sales), and see differences and parallels here. I guess I tend to judge the overall picture as I see it and do wonder a bit about the direction of this dealership as well as my own.
I know there is still a lot to learn in my position, including logistically, personally and professionally in this employment.
I have Wednesday and Thursday off for my free time from the dealership, and this is nice to have ‘business days’ to get my stuff done. Geri also has many of the same days of as I and we take advantage of the together time that gives us. We don’t always have the same days off and that also allows us ample ‘alone’ time as well. It has been a good mix for us overall.
We had to finally decide who she would pick to fix her car. There has been a bad oil leak somewhere in the front of the engine for several months… even before we move back to Montana from Wisconsin. We took the car to a mechanic recommended to us who lives ‘out in the toolies’ so to speak. Today we got the call from the mechanic..”I can’t get the oil leak to stop!” I guess he tried a couple different oil seals on the crank shaft that comes out of the oil pump assembly, and yet the damn thing still wants to leak oil when it warms up. Geri and I will drive out there sometime in the next couple days and discuss what options are available to us. She is not too pleased about this situation, and may be looking to car payments in her near future for a replacement vehicle. In the meantime, she is welcome to use my car as much as she needs too, and I will use the Harley for transportation.
UPDATE: Geri’s car is NOT leaking oil any longer. We got a call from the mechanic and he says that he was able to finally get the oil seal to do its job. We picked up the car and drove it home without oil loss and smoke! Guess we don’t have to plan on some immediate car payments after all.
I got us a new Weber Performer grill and tried it out on Thursday with some chicken we had in the freezer. Geri made some home made bar-b-q sauce for our first grill out here in Montana. We also prepared a nice little lettuce salad to accompany our first grilled meal.
YUM!!!!!
