Pros
The job itself is great! I love the parts, the store, my employees, my customers, learning new things daily even though I'm 4 years into this job, and I love being a female in a male dominated field so I can show other females that auto mechanics and the like of is not beyond them! It used to feel like coming home every time I walked through the doors.
Cons
Witt and hours. Plan and simple. Customers come, customers go, some are great, some not so much, but they all become your priority, which is what it should be. AZ portrays itself as such a customer, employee, and family orientated company, I fell hook, line, and sinker. I took the store management position after much thought and personal struggle of my time spent with my family and the job and customers I absolutely adored. The thought of not being there hurt as bad as the thought of less time with my family. In the end, I took the position. The job, the work, the time (usually 60-70 hours a week) is hard, but I push through, my family and my work family depend on me. But to work 70 hours a week, do my job with complete efficiency, and be good at what i do, and I am damn good at my job, being constantly beat down over packets of grease and lube and extras the customers don't always want and/or need, is a soul crushing thing. 70 hours away from my children and husband, completely loyal and happy customers, happy employees, and better actual earnings cash wise than the previous years, I'm still being told its not good enough because my team have not sold enough check out challenges, witt packets, or add ons, or signed up enough new people to a rewards card in a town so small, we've signed most people up 2 or 3 times! I don't need a pat on the back for the good I do, but I don't need a knife in it either over a number they think should be higher. I love my job, can't imagine my life without it, but sadly think I'm not far from stepping away from what was something I used to look forward to.