See, as a former mechanic who still works on his own stuff, I see the opposite. You WANT critical thinkers, not technicians, who will do what is necessary to fix the problem rather than follow rigid and possibly flawed protocols only to shrug and say "it's not fixed" at the end.
Case in point, a tech trying to fix a Cummins engine at a place I worked walked into service department one day and said: "what do I do now? Cummins warranty protocol says the next step is to run the engine but they had me take the cylinder head off two steps ago. How do you run an engine without a cylinder head?"
See, as a former mechanic who still works on his own stuff, I see the opposite. You WANT critical thinkers, not technicians, who will do what is necessary to fix the problem rather than follow rigid and possibly flawed protocols only to shrug and say "it's not fixed" at the end.
Case in point, a tech trying to fix a Cummins engine at a place I worked walked into service department one day and said: "what do I do now? Cummins warranty protocol says the next step is to run the engine but they had me take the cylinder head off two steps ago. How do you run an engine without a cylinder head?"
Yes, that's true, if the mechanic is experienced and competent.