AutoNation reviews

1) They lie to get you interested in working for them. 2) They set false income expectations. 3) They operate with a "shoot from the hip" management style. Despite all of the processes they have, there is no structure in the way the dealerships operate. 4 ) If you happen to earn a decent income for a given month, expect to have to work even harder to match it the following month. Pay plans change as often as the weather. 5) Forget about having any kind of life outside of the dealership. Work schedules mean nothing. Expect to be there until very late at night, often past midnight. 6) There is a culture of "playing the blame game". More time is spent pointing fingers and making accusations and assumptions instead of making deals and taking care of customers. 7) Their training is meaningless. Trainers (who are nothing more than overpaid hacks who were miserable failures on the job when THEY were in the dealership) spend more time trying to indoctrinate employees than actually working with them to help them sharpen and enhance their skills and actually perform at optimum levels. 8) To say that employees are micromanaged is an understatement. There is no room or tolerance for independent thinking. Any individual initiative to facilitate any type of improvement is perceived as a threat. In other words, if you work for AutoNation, you have to be a Stepford Wife. 9) Corporate earnings are going up while employee earnings are going down. 10) The company will seize any opportunity to short-change you on your income. They will come up with an encyclopedia of excuses.

Worked 70 hrs a week. Always on call. No real respect for personal time.