Horribly unprofessional, unethical, dysfunctional company - Anonymous employee Dealer Tire Employee Review

1.0
12 Oct 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice logo. Good iPhones. THERE IS LIFE AFTERWARDS.

Cons

The downsides of working for this company are strong, horrific, powerful and cannot be balanced against any offsetting' good' features. This company misleads, falsely serves and wastes the money of its customers: the major automotive OEMs who rely on this band of lazy, deceitful, prevaricating, mean, prejudiced 5th-raters to provide their dealerships with tire sales. Tire sales at dealerships are a less than smart, solid bargain---made so mostly through the exorbitant way above market prices charged by Dealer Tire. Many dealers call Dealer Tire " Stealer Liar" due to their economics and personal practices. There are three key downsides to working here: There is a total lack of appreciation or shared process for all that you have to do, and you have make-work busy-work duties of no value all day from before sunrise to way after sunset. The second factor is the constant undermining from competing sources in the company: Other reps, managers, manager managers, and the bevvy of useless so-called support people who train, aid, etc. the dealerships---they are after others' jobs, and segment versus segment, person versus person takes up the lion's share of your concerns daily. It should not be this way. The third thing is the expectations: the achievement metrics are impossibly set, and wave and flutter like flags in the wind. They change--and you never know when they change. As rash of quittings prompted the company to literally bribe people with pre-pay comp payments to lock them in. You will be abruptly terminated as other reviewers have noted for totally trumped-up( no pun intended) offenses and utter lies. The third major downside is the climate of total and complete dishonesty. You are lied to daily, hourly. All information given to you is full of holes and lies. Your managers lie brazenly o your face; goals, achievements, metrics, numbers---all lies passed on tot he paying OEM customers and workers alike.Likes , lies, lies: Lies from rivals. Lies from IT people. Lies from the bevvy of 4th-tier barely accredited college-attending 'trainers' with ersatz, dinky no-standard 'degrees'. You are tested, evaluated, observed---but not based on acumen or skills---on nebulous, subjective factors. YOU ARE PIED ON THROUGH YOUR PHONE, PC AND CAR AS WELL AS PERSONAL PC.You never know when the hammer will fall, or who even swung it. BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT BEFRIENDING COLLEAGUES: You will spend a lot of time in training with colleagues hired at the same time you were hired, as well as other regional people. Do NOT TRUST ANYONE. The person you think is your mature, professional ethical confidant is in fact trying to get you shoved over because they know that survival is a desperate zero-sum game at Dealer Tire. It is shoot or get shot, eat or be eaten. Management THRIVES on this, as they use the intel and gossip freely offered by your so-called confidants to get you. BE CAREFUL. BE CAREFUL AND DO NOT GO ANYWHERE N E A R THIS COMPANY.

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