Yogi,
These ring any bells?
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys!
Or
If you think maintenance(safety) is expensive, try having an accident!
Oldies I know but they still ring true. Another thing to remember is that if the lame is certifying for the latest work carried out how is (s)he to know if an unqualified driver has been fiddling about?
When certifying a task I inspect that particular area relevant to the job, not the entire a/c. If you have been tinkering and then the a/c makes like a lawn dart, who gets fingerd? The chap with his name on the techlog thats who.
So lets here less of this grease monkey,incompetant idiot rhetoric, have some respect. The lame takes more responsibility than any driver ever. The minute you as a pilot closes the door and signs the a/c back in, your responsibility to it ends.
The Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer remains responcible until 2 years after the a/c is retired!!
Apologies for spelling and grammatical errors.