^^ It's a good thing to set standards/rules if they're sensible and help create the kind of positive working environment you prefer.
Maybe you just need to clarify the fact that there are some practices you will and will not accept in your working environment, and if they want to work with you they need to abide by them?
ehh I dont know if I've got the seniority to say anything. People already acting butt hurt because I'm wayyy younger than them and I'm doing jobs that they have tried to get into for a while. Idk if you knew this, but in the bodyshop world we get paid piece-rate kind of. Like a 2004 Chevrolet Trailblazer hood may be on book time for 2 1/2 hours. I finish the hood in 35 minutes I still get paid for 2 1/2 hours, but if I take 4 hours to finish it then I screw myself because my pay is set regardless.
I've only been at this place for 3 weeks and they have thrown me every single custom job that has come in because that is my specialty. Candy paints, water-based paints, exotics, and wild design schemes ie: racing strips that split across the hood onto the door or stuff like that. I guess I'm just upsetting the apple cart with the oldies so I'm just trying to keep to myself. LOL the funniest thing though is I'll be doing something one way and someone comes and tells me I'm doing it wrong or I'm doing it the hard way and I just say, "Well why didn't they give the job to you then?" They just walk off and talk some more trash under their breath. I am a smart ass at times, but my only goal is to make sure the owner/manager is happy. I don't care if someone thinks I'm doing it wrong because I'd be 100% down to challenge them and rub it in their faces. I learned from some
extremely gifted individuals when I was younger and I've been doing this for 10+ years. I was working for a Subaru dealership under the table when I was 15 years old doing collision repair prep work and detailing.
I'm only going to be doing it for a few more weeks because I don't want to make too much and disqualify myself from financial aid unless they are willing to pay under the table with cash.
Sorry that just seemed like a vent. I just get annoyed with disgruntled individuals. I'm the type of person that if I see someone doing amazing work or something that fascinates me I go over their and watch them do it and blast them with 100 questions until they tell me to go away. That is how I've learned everything.
Only time I actually freak out if someone is around my work and they are eating or drinking something. I've already told my boss to get away a few times because he was smoking a cigarette feeling how smooth the car was, but he didn't wash his hands after touching his coffee mug. That tinnyyy bit of oil can react with the paint and cause a fish-eye or just completely destroy the color. I'd have to say in a 6 hour day I wash my hands probably 20-30 times to the point where my skin is flaking from lack of natural oils.