parts specialist

retail sales associate

car sales executive

service advisor

parts manager

Baxter Auto

My current work day consists of driving to designated stores and shops to deliver parts ordered, and working in the warehouse keeping busy by helping warehouse employees with their jobs if they need help. I am the only employee who knows how to do the manager's job, so I cover her when she takes a break or has a lunch. Unfortunately, the hardest part of my job is that my manager isn't very motivated so I end up doing her job for her too often. My coworkers are mostly young men between 19-21 and don't have very good work ethics. I enjoy teaching them how to do things to keep them busy and being a good example.

Great place to initially work however once you get into management you can see a lot of things that are hanging on by a thread. Old outdated buildings and parts operating system, the parent company Performance Warehouse quit making deliveries to it's own stores (Baxter auto parts), I had 3 different district managers in a short time, the bonus' are impossible to hit and expect 10% growth year over year which is unrealistic so in 5 years they expect your numbers to have risen 50% which is not achievable. No full time outside sales, you get one day out of the week outside sales which is shared with 4-5 other stores. Great place for advancement if you are a hard worker, pay compensation is very low and make more money hourly than you do as a manager which is sad.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The amount of information you can grasp, the cars, the people, great environment for when I started. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Past experiences with odd workers. The stress really comes on when it’s just me working and there’s a lot of delivery’s and sales wants us to get as many cars done in prestige condition 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Amazing, everyone has a relationship in someways, work did not feel like work it felt like home!

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
6:45am in the morning until 10:00pm, usually I would work as much as I can until I had child labor laws which suppressed my time to work, save my breaks until the afternoon and work all morning.

Working at Baxter Auto Parts I would start my day by doing a daily check on my delivery vehicle. Then I come back in and check the shelves to see which direction I need to go to drop off parts. It was an all day process.

I learned to pump gas using a commercial card, check in freight using a hand held scanner, was able to gain a mental map of what parts were where in the store.

co- worker were great for the most part. Working with crotchity old men things get interesting.

The hardest part of the job was lifting rotors, batteries, boxes of antifreeze, boxes of oil.

the most enjoyable part of the job was driving. every now and then I would make a parts run to the Albany area

When you buy a car from a dealership, the goal is to make you pay more than you want. The end deal will always be favorable to the company. This dealership treats its employees the same way. It's run by a bunch of seasoned car salesmen. Biggest single problem: they stopped withholding federal taxes around the COVID times for some reason and when I attempted to get it fixed, they claimed no issues on their end. I had a huge tax bill come due at the end of the year. I filled out new tax paperwork with payroll department, no change. I changed jobs in the company and went to a salary from flat rate pay. Still no change and they had no answers. I left the company because of this.

Got hired away from Autozone to work here with with some decent guys and gals and paid me a few more an hour. Fast forward 6 months, I'm doing good in sales and I've just completed reshuffling all the parts and products in the store from the parts in the back to the products up front and re-tagging everything, Next thing I know I'm being accused of stealing other CSR's sales which wasn't true and proved untrue by the date's and time stamps on receipts and saved quotes. After that I'm being reprimanded for things that every other person (Manager and CSR's included) are doing so I go back to just clocking in and doing my job per my job's responsibilities paperwork, 2 weeks later I am fired for poor performance.

Exceptionally personable managerial staff that does a very good job of allowing employees to perform their duties without micromanaging. They provide ample opportunities for employment for females. Job functions for each position are well within reason. Daily tasks are appropriately assigned.

It was, no doubt, a fun place to work, if you can get beyond the openly progressive conservative ideology. They are very open about their political ideals, and quick to crush you if you don't feel the same. Problem customers remain problem customers, no one intervenes, not even management. Your job is to be a 'yes man', even when the customer has no clue. There is little room for advancement. You might be lucky to get $0.25 raise after a cpl of years.

the company sold out after the old timers retired i watched an old business turn into something corporate and completely opposite what it was honestly it was kind of sad. At one point in time it was the best job ever for a car guy. At one point i had a great boss and a very family oriented crew i worked with but people eventually moved on and it could never be the same. over all i worked at Baxter off and on for about 4 years and it was definitely an experience.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The GM being the nephew of the owner. Never had a conflict of interest once while working there.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
All the boot licking. As well as not being allowed to sit down for any reason, even when there was nothing to do.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Bootlicking nepotism and trash.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Getting yelled at for doing the same thing my coworkers were doing, but on my phone instead of the companies computers

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