Better off at Valvoline - Automotive Technician B Level Pep Boys Employee Review

1.0
Feb 22, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Dental benefits are the best I've seen in this industry. If you keep your head down, you'll do fine.

Cons

Everything. Literally. Since District Management switched over, this company is being run by people who have no idea how a business is run. Customers get free work done if they even raise their voice, and upper management doesn't care about your wellbeing. They'll run you into the ground and then tell you you're not doing enough while they take their monthly vacations. They care more about tire sales and air filters than actually feeding the flat rate techs anything. They hire anyone with a pulse, which leads to altercations between employees, stolen tools, damage to customers cars, ect. They don't encourage you to grow in the industry and they don't reimburse you for ASEs or tools, so if you work with people with sticky fingers, you're better off rolling your toolbox in and out every day. Any issues that need to be addressed with HR gets forwarded to the district manager who covers things up. Blatent labor law violations get swept under the rug. This company has turned into a laughing stock, you're worth so much more than how they'll treat you.

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5.0
Feb 6, 2025
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Pros

The people were fun and committed.

Cons

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2.0
Apr 2, 2026
Recommend
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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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