Former Manager - Anonymous employee Pep Boys Employee Review

3.0
29 Apr 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Management listens to employees that bust their butts to move up. They promote from within quite a bit more than most retail companies.

Cons

Pay just above min. wage when you start unless you have 3-5 years in the business. Upper (Regional and Corporate) Management could recognize an alternator or a starter 7 times out of 10. They know nothing about auto repair.

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Cons

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Pros

The competitive pay. Thats about it

Cons

The whole guarantee system. Management, equipment. To anyone who decides to go to pepboys as a flat rate tech, they changed the guarantee system to where if you're not efficient, you only get what you flagged. So if management is bad, the location is bad and its slow, it gets rough. Prior it was a guaranteed pay based on you hitting 40 hours. Their excuse was people "abusing" which is really backwards thinking. If you're starting out, I recommend Firestone. The pay might be slightly worse but you'll have a guarantee of at least 30 hours. Also management at my location seems content only doing tires and flat repairs that hit budget. All while I have to come to them to see if my ticket got sold or if the fleet company approved of the work.

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