27 years and, poof!

[Truck Shop]

If they're serviced every 250, someone there is just slapping filters and moving on.

That's a fact.

 

[AzIron]

Bummer about them closing up

There probably is no place to work that will be the same as 20 plus years you just put in and I bet you got a lot of freedom that you won't have at a new place just because of the tenure

Point is skilled people are in demand get what your worth and be picky till you either figure it out or can't afford to be anyway best of luck

 

[Georgia Iron]

Its not the 250 interval so much as it is the condition of the machines. The current fleet I maintain would never be allowed that much "belly" dirt and gunk, period. If not oil soaked, plates are dropped and dirt blown out. And if oil soaked, scraped clean.
If they're serviced every 250, someone there is just slapping filters and moving on.

But the oil keeps the pans from rusting.

Lol

For real

 

[grandpa]

If I were in your shoes I'd go to a state or county hwyway dept and look for work. You'd always have nice new shiny equipment to work on.

 

[thepumpguysc]

And a place to lean..

 

[Welder Dave]

With 27 years at the same company I'd think other businesses in the same type of business would be really interested in you, especially if the company you worked for had a good reputation. I can understand not wanting to work on neglected filthy equipment but you could be the perfect person to turn something like that around or be a service manager for a cleaner operation. You kept x number of machines running for over 25 years looks great on a resume. If those machines were still running with high hours is even more impressive. Good luck on your next chapter! It's always a little scary to lose your job through no fault of your own.

 

[Vetech63]

And a place to lean..

and a crapload of help on standby within 3 feet of you for any task.

 

[Truck Shop]

When a person has been working at the same place for a long time-it's not that easy to
find something else. In most cases you become part of the woodwork no body really sees
you-it's like hiding in plain site, forgotten, especially if one is the quiet book worm/laptop
type.

 

[Silveroddo]

If I were in your shoes I'd go to a state or county hwyway dept and look for work. You'd always have nice new shiny equipment to work on.

Having been on that side of the fence I'll say this, those institutions have ruined a lot of good guys, Lol.
If you want to work on new emissions systems and electrical gremlins you'd have work for life though.

 

[Welder Dave]

It can be very stressful looking for a new job after you've been at a job for any length of time. It's worse when you're laid off with short notice and especially when you're let go wrongfully. It's hard for some people in long term jobs to comprehend what it's like to suddenly be unemployed. If there's a recession it can be pretty scary to be unemployed. Like a line in the Peter Gabriel song Don't give up, For a job so many men... so many men no one needs. Great song by the way. Elton John said the song saved him when he was spiraling out of control.

 

[heymccall]

8 months have passed.
I'm hourly here, vs salaried at the last.
Only 30 minutes from the house, and no longer living out of a suitcase. Still happily married, even though she now tolerates me 7 days a week instead of two.

I now have Kobelco, Hyundai, Takeuchi here as opposed to Cat, Komatsu and Takeuchi at the last shop.

Pay is better, but hourly seems foreign to me, as I'm used to the same pay every week.

I guess maybe I was doing something right before as I never let the nickel and dime repairs add up like here. Nor did I let the oil changes go this far.

But, it's a work in progress. Already saw two mechanics come and go. Neither were, let's say nicely, ones I would trust to work on my car.