Techs leaving PE-backed HVAC firms over sales-over-service culture

The host shares technician complaints that PE-backed HVAC companies bring techs in for 'training' that is really about upselling homeowners (e.g., selling granny a wifi thermostat) rather than technical instruction, driving technicians to quit.

“Some of them, I hear horror stories from residential technicians that leave companies because they're brought into an office for training. They think they're going to get technically trained on how to do stuff, but it's how to sell granny a wifi thermostat.”

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