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Originally Posted by Joe B
I wonder how much they pay their employees. Probably the same as they'd make at McDonald's, which might be a more suitable job for them!
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No way. Advanced Auto pays $.80 cents per hour more. They have a reputation to look after! I've been on that same on-hold phone call. After 3 minutes I hang up and call again. Half the time the guy on the phone put me on hold and went off to do something else and forgot I was on hold.
I have a few auto stores to pick from. There's a young kid at the one Advanced Auto who is a big car enthusiast. He always comes out to ask about the Porsche. He helped me change the battery when I re-jiggered my spine after my last spill on the bicycle.
Half his colleagues move at molasses pace. But this is the first step of Darwin.
When I worked at a fast food "restaurant" the summer I turned 15 the manager pulled me aside and said "I can tell you come from a good family because you are always neat in your appearance and you wear the plastic apron to wash the equipment". Then it hit me, many people working these jobs are young, dumb, and have little if any guidance at work or at home. One of my coworkers there was from Haiti. He told me he grew up in a tin shack. He did every job and whatever slack the next guy wasn't picking up because he didn't want the business to do poorly. He went to community college at night. And unlike me he wasn't working for a new bicycle, he had a family back home to help. I went back the next summer and he was the assistant manager.
Either you pay people more or hope you have job applicants walking in that never had anything growing up. Each generation gets lazier than the next.