<<Yeah, but why should they? If you are never going to hang a tape or  punch 
a 
card, who cares? Most people under the age of 45 can't start a car  with a 
manual choke (probably don't know what a manual choke even is), but  that 
doesn't prevent them from being perfectly good drivers.  >>

No, but you would expect your mechanic to be *knowledgable*  about manual and 
auto trannies as well as a host of other things that makes your vehicle  
tick......
 
For the amount of $$$ you are paying them to maintain/fix up your vehicle  
you 
would want the most knowledgable mechanic working on your car/truck/Hummer  
whatever...
 
Some time ago I paid a ludicrous amount of money to my  local Toyota dealer 
for major
under the hood work on my truck-- valve job, head gasket job etc  etc...
 
You think I'd trust that kind of work to some joker at the local Chevron or  
76 station ??
 
The point isn't whether they know about write rings or inter-block gaps  etc, 
the point is that
these 4g/l jokers don't have an all-round enough knowledge for my  liking.
 
Case in point --
 
I've worked in places where I found these people (not just guys but girls  
too) to be very 
dangerous -- had some guy labeled as "Web Site Manager" in the computer  room
trying to re-configure a Web Server (pc), pulling out cables etc and who  
stupidly enough
brought the 3000 to its knees that day. In the middle of production! A real  
jackass. 
I completely lost it and threw him out of "my" computer room. I've also  
worked in places
where they would have fired him for doing a lot less than that.......
 
 
Brian.

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