Q&A With Advance Auto Parts Employees

skills to sit back and be yelled at on the store floor by your manager and not do nothing.

The ability to convince people to buy stuff they really don't need. The ability to avoid completing any of the floor processes and stay camped out at the best placed register.

Customer friendly and aggressive

Going home at the end of my shift.

Meeting local residents - making friendships with commercial accounts.

Interacting with positive customers and co-workers.

For full timers - good.

Decent - despite the low hourly wage.

None that I am aware of. Those who have vacation time just put in for it randomly.

Wanted something to do outside of my home after retiring and extra 'mad' money. Needed to go full time to provide medical benefits for my wife. These needs both no longer exist. Staying on because I need dental work

Spent my entire career in the auto service field - it is my comfort zone. Like to interact with people and get a sense that I am helping someone.

Needed supplemental income, then needed affordable medical coverage for my wife. This situation now no longer exists - I no longer need this employment.

Uneven - determined by floor traffic and incoming phone calls - heavily dependent on the weather. Currently, with the store so understaffed, it is stressful.

Customer driven - depends on floor traffic - seriously hectic - then dead.

Varies - some days slow, other days hectic.

Pretty much non-existent - its mostly sink or swim.

It's mostly peer training. If one is assigned to a concerned peer - it can be very good. I try, when I am assisting a new hire, to highlight pitfalls.

Unaware of an internship program.

Medical, sick and vacation leave, life insurance (for full time employees), dental, and vision (all employees).

Dental and Vision are a bargain - medical not too shabby either. For full time we get sick, holiday, and vacation pay. Life insurance and disability are also provided.

As a full time employee, I get sick days, vacation days, holiday pay (though not necessarily the day itself off), and medical benefits.

With misgiving

Its a job - I get paid. Depends on who my co-workers are on any given day.

Ambivalent

Very - they are desperate for bodies

Very - I can fill any position as required.

I feel very secure - I try my best at all times and can fill several job descriptions.

Currently, very little other than male/female

Mostly Caucasian males - with two female coworkers. This is more a result of applicants who are almost exclusively Caucasian males.

Very little - mainly Caucasian males apply

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Company uniform.

Company shirts, black pants and socks, black shoes

Nothing that pertains to the treatment you receive working there

What hours can you work.

Very subtle psychological and the multiple choice answers are very narrowly framed

Currently, there are only three and we are all very stressed.

Understaffed and under managed

About what one would expect at a barely above minimum wage environment.

By willingness to work undesirable hours, i.e., Friday 4 PM to Sunday close and holidays. By meeting daily sales goals.

Have no idea - have never received any feed back other than an occasional 'atta boy' - no change in my pay check.

Incredibly poorly !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stonewall - delay - put one on endless hold - etc

Do not know that one exists. Cannot log on the company website from home - only the GM has that access.

There is no work at home policy. I would like to be able to take the online training courses at home - even on my own time.

There is none that I am aware of.

Most anything clean and neat - its a low paying job and most stores are understaffed.

Business casual.

That pay (compensation) would not keep pace with price increases (inflation).

How constrained the atmosphere is by corporate

Minimal - a chair and a desk in a corner

A corner in the back with a shelf providing a third wall - not private.

Absolute bare minimum - a desk and chair in a corner

The most qualified get an offer to advance.

They tend to reward reliable, trustworthy, and capable employees.

Don't really know.

Know how to game the insane online application interview.

Learn how to 'game' the online application process.

Have a valid driver's license and clear driving record - pass the online applications.

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Company shirt - black pants, socks, shoes

Promoting up inside the store isn't too bad. However GM will be the highest most will be able to achieve. DM and above are mostly brought in from outside the company. Call any store and talk to the GM and ask if their DM promoted up within AAP.