Think about whether you'd still defend that twist method if she'd handed you a stopwatch and a brand new pair of Ideal strippers on the spot. I mean, 12 feet of 6 AWG is a lot of wire to burn time on, but the real question is what else you might be skipping because it's just how you've always done it. Did you actually time yourself after she said that, or did you just shrug it off and keep going? Because if you didn't pull out your phone and check, you're still working on a guess, not a fact. And honestly, that's the part that would bug me, not the technique itself.

Honestly nothing keeps a good tech around like a service manager who actually flips the work their way. Flat rate pays great when the gravy's flowing, but one bad week of warranty comebacks and suddenly the book makes you feel like a thief. Hourly just turns the whole thing into a time clock race, which is its own kind of misery. The pay structure matters less than whether they trust you'll get a fair shot at the good tickets.