Any service managers or ex service mangers?

Jos51700, first, thankyou for your honesty with your insightful, informative, and humorous reply, I wasn't sure how much attention this thread would draw, I know it's probably not the right forum but with all the car guys on here I figured someone would have experience with this.so just a little more info for those reading this, my shop is none of the ones mentioned above, it's actually a marine shop but most the same principles apply except I can't really do a flat rate shop because unlike cars or bikes no two boats are the same. So every one poses a different challenge especially on inboard boats, that being said we do loosely follow a flat rate chart for maintenance like services and impellers etc. I am a shop owner but have two business partners, ( they are not techs ) they want to use a bonus plan, I'm not convinced it will work because of the dynamics of the shop and carry over jobs that happen every month, therefore one tech could have a amazing month say in April but March was a bomb because all the hours were carried over. This also leaves the shop with the issue of potentially paying out big bonuses for numbers that are not accurate. Your comment about paying on Saturday not Friday was funny and probably true, I am fortunate our techs neither drink or smoke so no worries there. I suggested to my business partners that if we go ahead we should pay monthly but they suggested a anual payout but based on a monthly average, the problem here is two low months could destroy a year plus possibly moral. So....I thought I would reach out to fellow members and see how they paid out if they were in the service manager role or got paid if they were a tech and see what they liked and disliked. Thanks again for your input or anyone else reading.