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After 13 days, I was fired from Tires Plus.
I was never late.
Apparently 3 days after I was hired, I was to be fired. I have never worked in a shop before, so this was a great learning experience. My job was to change oil, fix tires, mount tires and that sort of stuff. Well, I never done anything but changed oil on my own car. So again it was a learning experience working with many different cars. Well the first 3 days were slow for me. Their training program sucks. They made me watch a 2.5 hours of video of every proper procedure all crammped into 4 tapes. The videos make it look so easy, oil drain plugs come off with a simple twist of the wrist. Tires come off the rims with easy, lug nuts just magically come off and go back on easily. Oil filters magically appear in the easiest placees to reach. Every vehicle is shown easy to rack. And no one gets dirty at all.
Well I already knew this video was BS. and I couldnt remember many of the procedures they showed. Like the proper way to balance steel rims vs aluminum and the proper weights to use. So my first 3 days were slow and full of questions.
And the mexican guys that work there dont even follow the proper procedures, he told me i dont have to check certain things when really I was supposed to and I get my head chewed off for that after 2 days.
The 2nd day I worked there, it took me almost 2 hours to change this ladies oil because the guys up front kept asking me to pull in more cars and help other people with there cars, on top of that I needed approval on where to rack each car. But they ignored those facts and chewed me out because the lady was mad her car sat for 2 hours. I don't blame her. Everytime i went to work on her car someone was telling me to work on something else.
Well... after 3 days they told me I have to step up and work harder and bring more cars in. They said they would give me a week. And I did just that. I would have atleast 1 maybe 2 cars finished per hour. Still, after a week, i was still learning, id come accross cars and vans where i needed help. Sometimes I'd get a car with no key for the wheel lock. Or they would have a ticket that said the car had a flat but didnt say which tire, so i had to waste my time searching each tire for a friggin flat.
I was trying very hard. I worked a few 12 hour days with no breaks or lunch. Mostly 8-10 hours days. Everytime I asked for a lunch , they would ask me to do a favor and pick up a part for a customer. Then I'd come back and more customers would be their.
My check came and to me amazement of the 40 hours I worked, I made a whole $240.
On top of this they did not supply me with any work uniform. I had to use my own clothes. Each day when i was done id be covered in brake dust, grease, oil, dirt.
On top of all this, I got a flat tire on my car. I asked the manager how much it would cost to plug the flat if I worked on it. He wanted me to pay 25$!!!!!! I basically said, no thanks and went to the small local corner shop to get it fixed for 10$. I was on a spare for 3 days!
Because I was new the managers and the brown nose guys up front would talk mad crap to me. When my pen ran out of ink, I asked for a pen and this guy started saying stuff like "Jesus you cant even bring a pen to work, how are you going to make it in life." Or they would talk crap because I would have trouble removing a tire from a certain rim. The bead would just not lift off for me. And i didnt know the little tricks to use to make it lift easier.
Seriously, the guys up front would come up to me while I was working and just insult my intelligence out of the blue.
Also the little snot nose newbie mechanic that thinks he is big crap always had something smart to say to me. I was talking to a another guy about a mint GN I saw rolling down the street on my way to work and this young newb mechanic guy would come up and start saying that GN's are ugly and basically would call them crap. "He is a honda boy", Also the guys all up front drive Hondas. Even the main manager has a honda with rice crap in it. He's like 30 years old and a ricer!
The other mechanics and other workers were very nice and helpful, they never got rude with me when I asked them to help me out or when i asked a question. Except for the one young mechanic, he was a ***.
But, today I went to work, I was ready for another fun day, and they I get shot down with a "Sorry we have to let you go, the manager says that the money we pay you isnt worth the work you are putting out"
its so BS!!!!!
I was never late.
Apparently 3 days after I was hired, I was to be fired. I have never worked in a shop before, so this was a great learning experience. My job was to change oil, fix tires, mount tires and that sort of stuff. Well, I never done anything but changed oil on my own car. So again it was a learning experience working with many different cars. Well the first 3 days were slow for me. Their training program sucks. They made me watch a 2.5 hours of video of every proper procedure all crammped into 4 tapes. The videos make it look so easy, oil drain plugs come off with a simple twist of the wrist. Tires come off the rims with easy, lug nuts just magically come off and go back on easily. Oil filters magically appear in the easiest placees to reach. Every vehicle is shown easy to rack. And no one gets dirty at all.
Well I already knew this video was BS. and I couldnt remember many of the procedures they showed. Like the proper way to balance steel rims vs aluminum and the proper weights to use. So my first 3 days were slow and full of questions.
And the mexican guys that work there dont even follow the proper procedures, he told me i dont have to check certain things when really I was supposed to and I get my head chewed off for that after 2 days.
The 2nd day I worked there, it took me almost 2 hours to change this ladies oil because the guys up front kept asking me to pull in more cars and help other people with there cars, on top of that I needed approval on where to rack each car. But they ignored those facts and chewed me out because the lady was mad her car sat for 2 hours. I don't blame her. Everytime i went to work on her car someone was telling me to work on something else.
Well... after 3 days they told me I have to step up and work harder and bring more cars in. They said they would give me a week. And I did just that. I would have atleast 1 maybe 2 cars finished per hour. Still, after a week, i was still learning, id come accross cars and vans where i needed help. Sometimes I'd get a car with no key for the wheel lock. Or they would have a ticket that said the car had a flat but didnt say which tire, so i had to waste my time searching each tire for a friggin flat.
I was trying very hard. I worked a few 12 hour days with no breaks or lunch. Mostly 8-10 hours days. Everytime I asked for a lunch , they would ask me to do a favor and pick up a part for a customer. Then I'd come back and more customers would be their.
My check came and to me amazement of the 40 hours I worked, I made a whole $240.
On top of this they did not supply me with any work uniform. I had to use my own clothes. Each day when i was done id be covered in brake dust, grease, oil, dirt.
On top of all this, I got a flat tire on my car. I asked the manager how much it would cost to plug the flat if I worked on it. He wanted me to pay 25$!!!!!! I basically said, no thanks and went to the small local corner shop to get it fixed for 10$. I was on a spare for 3 days!
Because I was new the managers and the brown nose guys up front would talk mad crap to me. When my pen ran out of ink, I asked for a pen and this guy started saying stuff like "Jesus you cant even bring a pen to work, how are you going to make it in life." Or they would talk crap because I would have trouble removing a tire from a certain rim. The bead would just not lift off for me. And i didnt know the little tricks to use to make it lift easier.
Seriously, the guys up front would come up to me while I was working and just insult my intelligence out of the blue.
Also the little snot nose newbie mechanic that thinks he is big crap always had something smart to say to me. I was talking to a another guy about a mint GN I saw rolling down the street on my way to work and this young newb mechanic guy would come up and start saying that GN's are ugly and basically would call them crap. "He is a honda boy", Also the guys all up front drive Hondas. Even the main manager has a honda with rice crap in it. He's like 30 years old and a ricer!
The other mechanics and other workers were very nice and helpful, they never got rude with me when I asked them to help me out or when i asked a question. Except for the one young mechanic, he was a ***.
But, today I went to work, I was ready for another fun day, and they I get shot down with a "Sorry we have to let you go, the manager says that the money we pay you isnt worth the work you are putting out"
its so BS!!!!!
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