Pros
-Offers branded training -Parts discount -Seemingly endless supply of brake cleaner -Can work on your own vehicle
Cons
-Turned down 50+yr old co-worker's offer of a date and they retaliated in an absurdly monumental way. No help or support offered from multi levels of management so I left what became a super toxic environment as to their aggressive "bruised ego". -Extremely low pay for what you need to work there. After 3 years of work you'll start to earn what other places start as a base pay. I was working 3 side jobs on top of this full-time one just to get by. -Must pay for own consumables unless you want to use the wrong products that they offer. (Tap water vs Distilled water, Anti-seize on everything, etc etc) -You only technically achieve your technician certificate, they offer to lie on your charts saying you have experience in things you'll never see here, so good luck working anywhere else afterwards because you'll never gain the experience required to. -Putting together new products + very general maintenance is 95% of your work. Very few opportunities to learn and perfect new things. -Can wait hours for parts needed to advance your only job of the day, only to be given the wrong thing once it arrives. -The high labour rate for competitively low quality of service has most customers not returning after the warrenty runs out. Coworkers compete and get very moody over availability of work. -Little to no supervision on work, saw so many wrong things being done to customer's vehicles I felt bad for them. Main mechanic too busy watching movies to oversee things, does not like to be interrupted from this. -Lots of golden promises that turn out to be duds