Hell on earth! - Mechanic Pep Boys Employee Review

1.0
Sep 12, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Easy to get suckered in . If you die as a mechanic pep boys life insurance pays a year of min wage.

Cons

Hard to get out, really you will work yourself broke here and might have to sell your box of tools or ditch them because you will not afford to rent a truck and move them. Terrible management. Do not I repeat do not supply your tools they will get stolen and left around the shop. Plus this company is required to pay you 20 an hour as a mechanic if you supply tools. They argue that they supply tools one set for 6-8 mechanics, yet it will also be missing all the tools. These unholy crooks steal from customers who are uneducated and steal you soul as a mechanic.

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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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