- Short staffed with NO APPROVED over time permitted
- Working under equipped with out-dated POS/ diagnostic tools
- Driving poorly maintained vehicles
- Being denied proper compensation by having bonuses/status increases/promotion requirements changed constantly.
- HAVING TO WRITE APOLOGY LETTERS to upper management for not selling enough "know how to ask" promotional products (Yeah that's why I did HUNDREDS of hours of automotive training - TO SELL A $3 CAN OF DEGREASER!).
- They recently shut down all employee charge accounts.
- No pension programs
- Stupid expensive benefit programs (It would cost 2 WEEKS pay EVERY MONTH just for basic coverage. That would literally be working 1/2 a year with-out pay for "insurance" that MIGHT be able to be used some day for a QUALIFIED reason!)
-Workman's Comp is a joke (I had an injury that required IMMEDIATE attention and to pay over $600 completely out of pocket because the doctor wasn't "approved". Thanks HR.)
Its the corporate side of this business that ruins it. Anything you excel at you become responsible for with-out compensation. DO more get paid LESS.
Drivers don't have half the training that I do, only have to go from point A to point B, don't have to handle money, don't have to deal with shop owners or management, don't have to do hours of research and figure out logistics - making phone call after phone call, don't have to "push" products, reset store plan-o-grams, keep track of inventory, handle any paper work or shipment of returns back to manufacturers, etc, etc. They have the bare minimum amount of product responsibility and customer service; YET, most of them are paid better. The work to reward ratio sucks.