measureQuick Proposes A Solution For Our Labor Endemic w/ Jim Bergmann, Ben Reed
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- Опубликовано: 31 янв 2024
- What is the Solution For Our Labor Endemic? Ben Reed from MeasureQuick interviews Jim Bergmann, President of MeasureQuick, about potential solutions to the skilled labor shortage in the HVAC industry. They discuss new technician roles called the Technical Efficiency Specialist (TES) and Advanced Residential Commissioning Specialist (ARCS).
These new roles utilize technology like MeasureQuick to enable less experienced technicians to gather system data and prepare homes for HVAC upgrades. The TES gathers data to inform system design, while the ARCS commissions systems to ensure proper installation and operation.
By leveraging technology to gather information, the industry can make better use of its limited skilled manpower for critical system design and complex troubleshooting. This approach aims to end the current labor crisis by enabling companies to increase productivity and reduce uncertainty.
Join Ben and Jim for an in-depth look at these new technician paradigms that could transform workforce dynamics in HVAC companies.
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As an electrician, I feel that all skilled labor is looking around seeing people making much more money doing stuff that is safer, less taxing on the human body, working better hours, with better pay.
The simple solution is to pay the labor based on the risk and effort required to do the job. I now work doing building maintenance for similar wages but I’m never stressed, and the work is ten times easier.
Do I love the job? Nope. If I was paid fairly I would go back to being an electrician in an instant.
Amen brother. I dropped the HVAC trade for great hours, no on call, a lot less stress and a ton more money and all I did was start a stump removal business.
Better starting pay and health benefits. You’re welcome
Well said.
I feel like this is very basic business. You want better and/or more options for employees?? Raise wages. Any other method will likely leave you chasing your tail.
Boomers like this guy dont want to pay more to keep good employees. They want to hire dummies to make more sales. The first thing he went to here was talking about selling new systems.
@@evan860😂😂😂😂 I couldn't believe it. He literally said "they got sent to a bunch of tune up calls and started selling new systems" lmao what a delusional guy, I'd never watched a bergmann video but heard other techs talk about how awful he is. Yep, they were right and anytime I see him in a video from now on I'll skip it
For myself the problem is that the more i advance the less i make. Now that no one else can handle the work i can, i am stuck on need to fix warranty work, but they have changed to a sales incentive and that means that the guys who know less and the maintenance guys make more. That becomes a problem. If the only skill that pays is salesman, i can do better with cars, pharmaceuticals, anything other than HVAC.
Sounds like you figured out your weak spot. Work on it.
@@TheWeekendGamerz how? I already made the mistake of showing what I can do, so I don't get sales opportunities. If I have to quit and pretend to not know how to fix systems I might as well switch to selling insurance. No point in staying in the industry.
EXACTLY. I made almost twice as much as all the senior techs(with over 20 years of experience) in the my first 3 months in the HVAC field because I sold my soul when I was younger and sold the heck out of everything. I quickly realized what I was doing was awful, immoral and nothing more than glorified theft. I hope the good lord forgives me for the all the tactics I used to rip innocent customers a new one with sales. The more you ripped a customer the more it was celebrated and rewarded in the company. Combine the pressure for slimy sales, being on call, horrible hours sometimes working over 90 hours a week, just average pay for the hours and sales I left the field for good. Most of my coworkers were divorced, drunk, unfulfilled and/or jailbirds. Not a future I wanted.
If you consider most sales and the way the way most companies execute the sales process as a strength then no one is stopping you from selling your soul. He needs support and credit for making a stand for what is right not scolded and shamed for being weak. It is the slimy sales teams that are slimy and weak not the skilled tradesman trying to be the best most honest technicians. The day I quit sales was when the sales manager tried to get me to sell a 3800 dollar combo to an old poor retired couple for 16,000 dollars when he found out they had a 20K CD they were going to cash out of. I walked out and told the not to spend over 5-6K. The next guy came in and ripped them off by selling them a combo for 14,000. Back at the office this salesman was celebrated for this. You might view this as a weakness, but I have a hunch on who you would rather have selling to your mother or your daughter and it's not the lowlife thief of a slimy salesman that is trying to rip them for everything they have left. @@TheWeekendGamerz
There is no labor problem in HVAC. If there was a shortage of hvac workers, the wages would go up to attract more workers. Supply and demand. Seems like its going fine.
Was this supposed to be useful or just an add for measure quick?
Maybe if we stopped working hvac dudes to the point of alcoholism with all the on-call shit, more people would consider it.
I never drank until my mid twenties when I decided to get into HVAC. After 60-90 hour weeks and being on call with no life and just OK pay sure does not make the field appealing. Most of my coworkers at several different companies were divorced, drunks, very unhappy, and/or jailbirds. The work conditions create this. There IS NO LABOR SHORTAGE. There is a pay employee treatment shortage.
the solution is simple. pay techs more. there are way more jobs that pay alot more that require alot less skill with better hours and far less dangerous.
First foremost, you must change the face of the trade. Clean cut and cover the tattoos to start. Wear clothes that fit. Make the starting pay reasonable. Advertise offer trades in high school and college. When people see an unkept foul mouth tattooed from head to toe technician, then people will run to software engineering and law degrees.
The face of most occupations is created by the type of people the wages, hours and work conditions attract. Raise wages-prices, improve working conditions and before you know it more quality people will be attracted to the business.
@@ronaldreagan7494 That EXACTLY!
Most police and fireman covered up in tats
@beavisbrowne3497 Police and fireman , military etc are ego based authoritan type of jobs. That's why women are general drawn to men in those job types. Hvac industry is a whole different animal. Plumbing HVAC electrician are not generally regarded by the the public as Authority based positions. Apples and Oranges.
Unfortunately a tradesman showing up with tattoos is generally precieved by the public as trashy. A police officer, military etc that has tattoos might even be precieved as "badass" or atleast have very little effect on public preception. Not saying this is right or fair, but it is what it is.