New Autozone Employee

I've been working there almost a year op and it's okay. But I only work weekends and man sometimes by that sunday evening clock out I'm ready to kill Myself
>Mexicans who don't speak any English at all
>people who think your a library and want to borrow Jack's, Jackstands, tools, manuals, oil pans etc etc "I'll just be right outside bro can I leave my ID or something?"
>conversely people who try to buy something and then return it when they're done (except loaner tools obviously those you are allowed)
>people who want you to diagnose and fix their shitbox for minimum wage in a parking lot in 30 minutes "can u just come take a look at it real quick"
>literally Jews trying to jew you "oy vey 100 shekels for an alternator? Surely you can lower the price! Senior discount? AAA discount? My cousin works at oriellys can I get a discount? I've been a customer for 6 gorrilion years can I get a discount? You guys install for free right?"
>dumb ass bitches and dudeshit who don't know anything about their car "hi I got a uh ford... I think? Idk what year. It says check engine. What do I buy? No the cars not with me no I don't have the vin no I didn't check the code? No I don't know the model or if it's an ex/lx/srt/xlt etc etc"

Also I never ever go out of the way to sell the extra shit. It just happens on its own. Most people just pick it up off the counter where its strategically placed and decide "I want this Lucas" and bam it sells itself. The only thing i try to sell is shit I know people actually need to genuinely do something right like RTV or carb cleaner

How extensively do you need to know engines? Because I've only gone as far as taking apart a 4 barrel carb on a bike, nothing else harder than that yet.

Autozoner here.
Basically this. You're going to hear the most retarded shit you've ever heard from people about cars, literally no managers give a shit about cars and if they do they're only barely entry level, you're going to have to replace batteries, swap out bulbs and install air filters and windshield wipers for free. You don't get paid any more for doing that, and people rarely ever tip. Sure that shit sounds easy, because it is, but multiply that by 7 batteries back to back, no breaks in between, all while still getting paid the same shitty minimum wage that they give you. The worst words you're going to hear is 'you do free battery installs right?' because if they say that you know damn well they're not going to tip you for shit.

You're going to have to sell a random injector cleaner, and random grease at all times or you're going to hear shit from your boss about it.

Once you finally get that one cool guy that pulls up with a cool car and you want to have a conversation about it with him, you're going to have to shoo him away because there's another customer in line that can barely speak English and is going to ask you what oil he needs in his car, and for you to get it for him.

You're going to spend most of your time either stocking up shit, installing batteries, talking to fucktarded customers or reading the back of packages for customers for them because they're too lazy to read it themselves. I literally do that every day. I take the product from the customer, they watch me read it, and I tell them exactly what it says in front of them and they don't even react to it.

Women are going to be your worst enemy. They need help with everything. They are a time sink. They want you to come out and fix everything on their car. Black women especially. If it's busy and you say you can't help them, they flip their shit.

You're going to be installing wiper blades and bulbs on grown ass men's cars.

However, I don't want to 100 percent discourage so you let me tell you some of the good things
1.) Coworkers are all one big family. Literally just hang out and have a good time when it's slow and we also get drinks after work frequently. Work on eachothersome cars and loan eachother tools or whatever
2.) 20 percent discount on things, free shipping to the store on special orders such as shit from summit. Not to mention all the unofficial "discounts" such as things being returned in good condition but with damaged packaging being deemed "dispose of" and therefore fair game. You can get a lot of free shit this way. Also we all use big tools such as impacts and breaker bars and torque wrenches and stuff all the time and just put them back when we're done. Including battery boosters and air compressors
3.)getting in good with all the local shops we deliver to. First name basis with all the owners who always give killer discounts when I need something I can't do myself. Also the let me into the bay all the time to check out cool projects they're working on and occasionally let me help out or give me something cool like vintage memorabilia from their racing days or old magazines from the muscle era
4.)those select few regular customer who are cool as shit and have 1 of a kind builds that always shoot the shit an pop the hood and talk to you about recent mods or whatever
5.) tips. You're not supposed to accept them but sometimes people hand you like a 20 jusy for changing a battery or something small like that. Sometimes you even get girls phone numbers and shit
6.)hood fame. This one may be unique to me but I drive a pretty uncommon car and all the OG Vatos and esés who I help around the store know it. My cars basically on the do not fuck with list around the city thanks to them knowing it's parts store hookup's car

>ITT: a bunch of whiny anti social faggot....

I mean, special wittle snowfwakes that can't handle personal interaction. OP, vatozone is legit. Yes they expect you to sell CoC, but it's as easy as "hey, want some of this shit that's on same?" to ever customer. The more they say yes, the better you look. The cry babbies that pretend you'll get shit if you don't sell x amount are fucking retarded. Then you've got that queer that thinks anti seize with spark plugs is a scam. Probably the same retard that thinks brake lube doesn't help (yet warranties his pads every three months because they squeaked once.) Or will screech online about the AutoZone thieves because there's literally no way dielectric grease is a good idea when replacing bulbs. It's called " what it takes to do the job right" for a reason, and the same applies to why we sell tiny packets instead of a bottle, you need a bit but we don't want to rip you off.

But regardless, if you like working there, and want to be chill making money, get into the commercial department. I'm a commercial specialist manager in one of the biggest money making stores in the world, and my job is still easy and fun as fuck. And I get paid a disgusting amount for the work I do. Keep in mind, if your store isn't garbage, you'll get more praise and raises for drop stop 30/30 than you will WITTDJR. or CoC.

Get some time in at autozone showing that you're competent. Leave there on good terms, and go to work at a dealership.

Better pay, possible commissions, better hours, you work with mechanics 80% of the time (for the most part aren't retarded when requesting shit).

Work your way up as parts manager, and then have them pay for school. (Preferably something in business). Work there for awhile longer, and see where it takes you.

It isn't the highest paying career path at first, but it can open the door to a lot of other places.

I was a tech at Toyota for awhile and the parts manager was making pretty good money whIle going to night-school for his bachelor's degree in business. Apparently he's doing great now working for some parts distribution company.

Any little bit helps man and you pick up most of it on your own. Man if you know bikes work that into your niche specialty. Bikers come in to buy sparkplugs, batteries oil etc for their rides. Your coworkers won't know shit and will grab you to help that customer. bam! Now your have value and also your talking about shit you know and like and not just reading a screen to some scrub who wants to know what kind of coolant his 97 shitbox takes.

Also all of this is true Literally all of it. "Hi is this tire cleaner any good?" *reads the label for them* "yupp says here it's pretty good at cleaning tires". Every. Fucking day.

Regarding batteryour installs and whatnot I look at that as a way to leave work for a little bit. Do an easy ass swap and BS with a customer for like 20 minutes. Guess what, thats 20 minutes less of having to try to sell stp fuel injector cleaner my nigga. Also grabbing products for customers is annoying. You tell them "yea dude you need 10w30 full synthetic, Castrol is half off right now" then they just stare at you until you go get it.

Why would you willingly do manual labour if you're complaining about it like you are? Get a new job for fucks sake.

This guy speaks the truth, but it all comes down to your store. My stores chill as fuck too but one of my friends got transfered to a shit hole and he actually has dick head managers who try to give u shit for not selling the little counter top incentive buy shit.

Also dude using fuckin autzone acronyms and shit online trying to sound cool lmao what is this the Marine corps?

Rgr COC we are Oscar Mike to the ORP ready to send SitRep, requesting transpo, how copy

That's how autistic you sound

Autistzone

>"Hi is this tire cleaner any good?" *reads the label for them* "yupp says here it's pretty good at cleaning tires"
I just kek'd so hard it ain't even funny.

God I hope that's all I have to do, sounds like it beats cleaning up trash at concerts and events (my last job, smelled like beer and piss at the end of every day) and contracting for a bank (job before that, holy shit you don't know hell until you have to clean out a nigger's house that got evicted...)

I was young and needed money. It was still terrible though, I'll complain about it all I want.

It's entirely your fault. Nobody forced you to do manual labour, yet you clearly didn't want to do it because you're whining about it like a bitch.

Dude that will happen to you every single day. I even tell people look man my cars covered in black primer and probably hasn't had paint in 25 years I don't know if turtle is better than mcguires wax just look on amazon or something. And they just stand there expectantly until I go "mcguires makes good shit though" and then they buy the Mcguides.

It's even funnier with snake oil mechanic in a bottle shit. "Will this local radiator stop leak stop the leak in my radiator? Is it made by a good company?" "Well ma'am it's made by lucas and the names says it stops radiator leaks, but I wouldn't put any of that bullshit in by car just fix it right we have the parts here and can even print you directions" "oh okay thanks I'll buy this Lucas stuff then". All the time my dude

"Will this Lucas radiator stop leak"*

Do you really think anyone is trying to sound cool by saying they work at AutoZone? Get real faggot.

Yea bruh let me drop stop 30/30 some CoC after I WITTDTJR this duralast gold while I 5 on the Phone supreme with bacon and fries en route to the ECP expecting DRAWDGS and EMPCOA homeboy

>that whole post

I didn't want to do it at all. I was actually forced into it by my father because I had to pay for a speeding ticket, couldn't just quit because I needed to have good contacts. You should really think about shit before you accuse someone of something. The second job I got to see tits all day so it wasn't as bad.

kek "Yeah, dude, that Pennzoil platinum will definitely fix that knock, and if that won't do it we have some topical wipes you can use for the tears."

Lmao! Fuck you! I'm off the clock, jackass!

>In vatozone one day buying carb cleaner and black ice little trees
>walk past cashier and customer(read: mexican)
>customer "will this help stop my transmission leaking?" *points to jb weld
>cashier "uhh how's it leaking?"
>customer "it has crack underneath"
>cashier "yeah that should do it if it's not too bad"

I wish I was making this up, I really do

I bet this dude knows the autozone chant by heart.

>GIMME AN A!!!

If u wanna be cool though memorize the monthly specials and offer that up front always. STP conventional 5 quarts and a filter for 19.99$ Mobil 1 advanced full synthetic and a mobile 1 filter 33 dollars flat, you save 18 dollars. Even on products you dont know or use. Like tire cleaner anf other shit i dont know about? Oh sir, the Mothers leather polish 3 dollars off and turtle wax is buy 1 get one half off.... and so on and so forth. Some people will always remember that autzone guy who gave them a good deal and sometimes shit goes a long way. I got a free fucking tow with a blown engine one time because I was the autozone guy and "hooked up" the tow truck driver like 5 months ago with oil a filter and a oil pan.

Not gonna lie, 5 quarts full synthetic and a filter for $33 sounds like a pretty sweet deal. Can you hook me up Holmes?

I can give 5 quarts and a filter of mobile 1 fUllman synthetic for 33 dollars esé. Fuck paying 60 for penzoil platinum (until next month when penzoil goes on sale)

They're going to keep going for the cheap shit no matter what. It's easier to just give them the snake oil and send them on their way.

That is good to use dumbass

Great blog post my man

sure because it's not like you should change your spark plugs before they begin to sieze or anything. Really m8? Aluminum siezing under 8ft lbs? You sure about that? I'm not falling for your scams jew, you'll never get your shekels out of me!

I do that shit every time I go in. He asked for how work is, so I gave it to him. Fuck you.

Is their a new policy for helping customers at AutoZone or something? I've been going to the same one for 4 years and since the beginning of this year they all say hi and ask if i need anything. They never bothered me before since they knew i was a regular and knew my shit. Employees knew who i was but they never went out of their way saying welcome

Would this apply to all autoparts stores?

And that's why spark plug manufacturers all a section in the directions that says "DO NOT USE ANTISEIZE, THESE PLUGS HAVE A CORROSION RESISTANT COATING," right?

If you've heard it once and can't remember it, you're probably retarded.

Once someone actually calls cooperate about a store being shitty they send a team to fix it. It's always been a policy, but people get lazy when they think no one is watching.

I have to pay $12 per quart for 10 quarts of Castrol10w60 4 times a year. Does that shit ever go on sale?

>10w60
For what purpose? Do you live in the Sahara or something?

>Also we all use big tools such as impacts and breaker bars and torque wrenches and stuff all the time and just put them back when we're done. Including battery boosters and air compressors

If it is in good cosmetic shape, as a customer, I prefer that you pre-test (not abuse items like torque wrenches) things to prevent DOA syndrome where I buy a charger and it stops working 2 weeks later. Too much chinese shit is like that. Your pre-use puts just enough stress on it to get rid of all the DOA early fail products.

Current AutoZoner here, I've been there a bit over a year and it is by far the worst job I've had. I'm quitting within the next few days.

Get out while you can, user.

Wait they have one of those corporate bullshit "get the employees excited by treating them like a children's sports team" chants?

Absofuckinglutely.

You have to memorize it before they let you out of the training class.

Made me wanna kms.

Why do corporate retard management types do this shit? Don't they realize that it only makes employees cringe and managers want to drink themselves to an early death after work?

I work at Advance Auto Parts and it's fucking easy
I'm a retail parts pro. I get paid $14/hour in FL and I don't do shit. 90% of my day consists of sitting on my ass on a parts ladder shitposting on my phone and eating food. My store barely gets any business and I don't have much pressure to make my quota.

Best rot job I've had desu. Autozone may be different

Where in FL?

Miami my man. Shits so cash.

I would think miami would be a TERRIBLE place to work in an auto parts store because all of the retarded cubans, haitians and puerto ricans

No dude, it's cash. All the guys in my store are Hispanic and the majority of people who come in want someone who speaks Spanish.

Guess what? I just have more time to shitpost on my phone eating pizza

I think you're projecting pretty hard here buddy, just settle down while you're ahead before you tinkle your panties

Why is it so bad?

Kek, i always get you cucks to install all that trivial bullshit like wiper blades and bulbs and i used to be a mechanic.

>being incompetent to make someone else miserable
You, I like you.

Will still make fun of you though if I see a grown man that can't change his own windshield wipers.

If he's pissed off the manager, then he's forced to quit without another job to go to or be "fired for cause".

Is that due to a design flaw in their management or just a shitty manager? Because the guys that interviewed me seemed alright.

We only have to do it once or twice a year at store meetings, it's not that big of a deal. The only people that have a problem with it are edgy faggots. You know, the same types that couldn't just have a good time at a pep rally and instead got all salty that they had to be there. Plus you get paid overtime just to be there. I'll gladly spell out autozone YMCA style for 24 bucks an hour.

I bet you voted for trump because >kek it'll make all the libtards cucked XDDDD

You're the cuck, I'd never let another man touch any of my cars, much less a fucking retarded teenager at autozone. You'd be surprised how they can fuck up installing a lightbulb.

wtf? What position do you have? They're starting me at 9.18 an hour.

Not sure what kind of manual labor job you had, but retail jobs are all around low tierest jobs. Do you get more money now? If so, youve been cucked hard.

I'm the commercial specialist from earlier in the thread. I started at 9.50 a year and a half ago, got promoted, including that raise I've had three total now I make 16.10.

Pretty much spot on

Work at advance, but it's basically the same.

OK pay for a high schooler job, I work with a bunch of kids and 2x 40+ gentlemen. Customers will try to swindle you for free parts, they'll bring in stuff from competitors and try to return it, they'll expect you to install stuff like alternators when the buy them and when you tell them no the get mad. You can get basically anything you want for free (five finger discount, everyone does it here), customers will come in 2 min before close and spend 30+min browsing, they will blame you for everything that goes wrong with their car. You meet the bottom of the barrel car-people-wise and will start to hat it when a month. He stupidest fucking questions abound. Then there's the people who expect you to know every piece inside an auto Trans and look down on you if you dont.

Autozone is trash, I only shop at Advance

Spark plug anti seize is a good idea

>biggest and best rated auto parts store in the world

Guess McDonald's also got so big because the food is nasty (fuck your hipster healthy bullshit that's not the point). You'll always have naysayers when a company gets big, but that doesn't change the fact that they're successful for a reason.

Whats it even like working at these places?
Like I understand needing to deal with people who don't know what they're talking about, but is it a particularly tough job?

It's tough if you're stupid and know less than your customers.

Couldn't do it.
There's now way I can work in a store and peddle inferior parts at a higher cost.
I would turn all of them into RockAuto storefronts, use the computers to order parts online and have them delivered next day.

I mean.
I've been working at a mechanic shop with a dude for the past year and a half or two years, but that's only bee on vintage stuff (1972 or before). I legit haven't worked on a modern car ever.

If you consider shipping and warranty reshipping cost, the local parts house is still the better deal so far.

If you know that brakes is more than just the pads, you're worlds ahead of literally every customer.

>If you know that brakes is more than just the pads, you're worlds ahead of literally every customer.
Gotcha, thanks dude.
The guy I've been working with is wanting to stop because he's getting older and doesn't feel like doing the manual labor anymore. So I'm needing a new job and I'd rather be selling parts than flipping burgers or something (highschooler).

Most of the Cubans here in Miami are pretty awesome with cars. They have to be when all you have in Cuba are 1950s ladas that only run on hopes and dreams, a few rubber bands, and some chewing gum.

Advance has inferior parts than Autozone, hence why I chose it. Because I'd get better free shit. (also like 6th interview and I was getting desperate.)

Warranty of parts, I understand.

I had a door handle, ordered on RockAuto, next day shipped for less the cost of going to the store and ordering it, waiting, then going back to the store.
They all had 2-3 wait times.
>my experience means every experience

There was a talk on the radio today about big box stores(target, kmart, sears, etc) and why they keep losing customers and how can they fix it.
Everyone that called in seems to think its only cheaper products or better service that will help.
It's better quality products.
People shop online because there's the review, there's the personal experiences/opinions, there's the one that you want.
My retard brother brought up a profound point many years ago about a toothbrush that I'm still dumbfounded over to this day but it relates to everything.
>holding basic toothbrush mom bought a 3 pack of
>Why do we still have these?
>What?
>If Crest or whoever makes a better toothbrush, all the dentists say its a better toothbrush, why do these pieces of shit still exist to buy? Who makes these things?
Dumbfounded.
>If I take a shit in a box with a guarantee on it, all I did is sell you a guaranteed piece of shit.
Stop making junk.
Make more quality.

youtu.be/BGLGzRXY5Bw

M..make america gr..great again?

The reason why your mom bought you those toothbrushes is because she doesn't give a shit about that stuff. She bought it because it was cheap and you needed toothbrushes.

The reason why people go to stores like AutoZone is because of 3 reasons.
1. They need it NOW. Brake pads, bulb, door handle, wipers. They need it that day and they need their car running tomorrow.
2. They found it to be cheaper there out of anywhere else.
3. They're too old school to work the internet so they order all their parts through autozone. They might even like the whole old feel of going to somewhere, talking to someone, ordering something with cash and going back to the store to pick up your new part.

>10w60
How many miles on that engine, 6 gorillion?

I was a PSM. You spend all day with poor break schedules. Customers expect you to read their minds, assume parts for a camry and accord are the same. They bitch about customer service, say they will go to competitor. You have to change wiper blades all day in the rain when it rains, replace batteries in 105 degree days. People ask you to change their alternator and get mad when you wont. Etc etc. Hate to burst your bubble but it sucks. An enthusiast has no place at autozone, run far from customer service jobs and dont waste too much time at it.

Nailed it!

Rockledge fag here
Where specifically?

Can't say man. Don't want anyone on here to know my store, already had problems with getting random nails under my tires after posting it on here and giving my location.

I'm about an hour away though.