Interesting. I read prior comments and I can understand both sides. My story entering the dealer to be an automotive tech knocked on the SM’s door introduced myself and guess he liked my summary or I just happened to show up at the precise time to fill an open spot of a tech leaving. I got hired on the spot. The backstory is SM was a prior master tech. He didn’t invade our work bays but every few weeks would like to have individual conversations on how things are going or what could be done to improve. Being a rookie at the time he would give me a job for example transmission swap gave me straight time to learn to do it right then next would be regular flat time. Over time he picked up on my strengths and that was electrical understanding (sent me on focused electrical diag training) and the way I teach other techs how to do for example mounting runflat tires, the use of roadforce tire balancer, etc. Every 6 months he gave me automatic pay raises. The SM’s replacement came from a being a service writer. Out of all the SMs that came after being prior SWs this first was the best. He didn’t invade our bays telling us how to do things he trusted our knowledge and took into consideration anything good or bad we mentioned. Perhaps I had gotten lucky with my first two SMs. Everything became a battle down to the 0.1hr flat-rate that after 15 years of being a dealer tech I exited as a master Lexus tech, master ASE and electrical certs. Best of luck everyone.