tire technician

automotive mechanic

laborer

automotive technician

assistant manager

Belle Tire

I have worked at several jobs in my lifespan, this job is by far the worst in every single way. The management could not get any worse. Everyone who is a salesmen is getting paid 2-3 times what a tire technician is getting paid, while the tire technician does ALL of the work. It doesn't make any sense to me why the company is ran the way it is. For example, I needed a manager to get me a new tire and when I went up there, he was propping his feet on his foot stool eating his soup. I find it very disrespectful that tire technicians get little to any breaks during the day, while the management can scream "Tire Up" until your ears bleed (while you are already aware that you have tickets you need to get done) and then go back up front in the AC/heat and eat their lunch. If a tire technician takes a break, he/she will get scolded by everyone. It is frowned upon for tire technicians to rest even when they are forced to do manual labor all day everyday. I feel that relationships at work should be banned entirely. It makes the most toxic work environment you could imagine. There is a relationship at the store I work at and I can't count the times they have argued, cried, fought, etc. that has interfered with work! It is unacceptable and really gives the company a bad image. If there is any drama at Belle Tire, the management will not solve it. They will do as little as possible to solve any serious issues because they have no experience in doing so. You will have to deal with the very childish behavior that is brought before you in the work environment and there is nothing you can do about it. I also REALLY love when the L4 plays manager. If you are doing something else productive (putting tires up, restocking, cleaning, etc.) expect to get screamed at "Tire Up" from your own L4. You are responsible for doing as much as you possibly can while getting paid the bare minimum. That sentence sums up my entire experience with Belle Tire. I have been employed at Belle Tire for about a year and a half and things have gotten worse. If you want to be in a very hostile area surrounded by people who have no education and/or experience, this is the job for you! However, if you know your worth and want to feel good about yourself and make a good living, Walmart pays more with much more benefits. Do yourself a favor and steer away from this company.

If you have a good manager, there is plenty of room for advancement at Belle Tire. If you have a poor manager and are good at something like busting tires, expect to stay slinging tires rather than be given a chance to excel at something better.

The job is enjoyable for the most part, but if you're an auto tech, be prepared to have tire techs asking to borrow tools/help them get lugnuts off, as the impacts the company provides are terrible, and they don't really provide any other tools. I do not think it's fair to expect a kid you're paying ~10/hr to buy a bunch of tools necessary to do tire work.

Work/life balance is an absolute joke. If you're sales or anything other than a tire tech expect 10 hour days minimum. Belle Tire advertises that they have a great paid vacation plan, as well as the usual preaching about caring about your home life.

The reality of it is this: In order to be eligible for the paid time you've already accrued, you must average a minimum of 48 hours a week over the last 3 months. Clock out for lunch? Counts against you. Take a sick day? Counts against you.

Then, as an additional slap in the face, if you do take a vacation you're only getting paid 40 hours for the week, but the formula they use to calculate your pay is an average based on 48 hours, so expect a vacation week to not pay as well.

Work can be hit and miss, and as a tech, you're entirely dependent on the salesman's mood. That means your paycheck depends on whether your salesman even feels like going for the sale. Expect to spend a lot of time writing your own estimates, finding your own parts, and even after all that, sitting around waiting on the salesman to close the deal.

There is zero safety net as a tech, as a pure commission employee, if you don't get work you're earning minimum wage. When that happens, don't get frustrated and leave a little early, cause then you'll lose that precious vacation time.

All in all, Belle is a decent place to work, if they would address the gripes I have addressed here, which are almost universal from every employee I've spoken to, from many different stores, it could go from being an OK place to work to somewhere I would greatly enjoy working.

The health benefits were phenomenal. I was a “Second Assistant”. Worked there for about 7 months. It was stressed to me the work / life balance was important to Belle. When I requested time off, they did honor it and gave it to me. However, get used to staying late on most days. You always have the late customers coming in right at closing time. It didn’t matter how long it took to take care of the customer but you stayed until everything was done. It may be 5 minutes after close or 2 hours after close. The business is VERY BUSY. Seemed to me like you always over promised and under delivered. Customers sitting around and waiting from anywhere from an hour to three. Even if you had an appointment. The appointment process is not a good one. Someone may have an appointment scheduled but they may wait 30-60 minutes after arrival for their vehicle to even move. Seemed like at my store- it was under staffed. Always trying to keep up with the day from behind. 
Tread lightly on the “vacation time” they give you up front. Even though it’s outlined in the handbook- you will pay the time back if you didn’t have enough accrued. Rightfully so. I gave a 5 day notice before I left. I had taken a weeks worth of “vacation” before I actually had enough hours. They kept my last check (rightfully so) to pay back that time. However, they also seemed to think it was okay to KEEP my monthly GUARANTEE for some reason as well. They basically screwed me out of my monthly bonus for no apparent reason. 
There are politics within management too. Be aware of that as well.

If you’re reading this review because you’re considering working for Belle Tire, I would not recommend ANYONE work here. I have never been let down more in my 10+ years experience as much as Belle Tire.

I was told upon starting that I was hired to be a first assistant manager but that with my background they would have to hire me as a second assistant (lower salary for nearly the same duties and responsibilities). I was told that within 6 months to a year I would be promoted based on good experience gained. I asked specifically what I needed to know to get moved up, multiple times, and nobody gave me a clear answer other than put in the work. NONE of my managers (until the very end) ever discussed moving me to 1st assistant while I worked for Belle Tire. Do not believe you will be moved up quickly, it will not happen!

Belle tire also forced me to sign an updated PTO policy while I was there. On the surface level, the policy seemed about the same. I signed it not wanting to lose my job. Hidden in the details, they changed it from when if you quit Belle Tire, they’ll still pay you PTO time you earned but didn’t use, to paying you nothing if you quit. To any current employees; make sure you use it because Belle Tire won’t pay it when you quit!

They also promised me a raise back in December during our year end review. I’ll admit I should have checked sooner (and got that promise in writing), but they never adjusted my pay afterwards. I worked there for 6 months after “getting a .50 cent raise” and never got paid what I was supposed to.

It seems to me that this company cares about nothing but their bottom line.

Before being hired into belle, i solely was applying to tens of jobs a day just to try and secure a source of income, since my previous line of work (construction) had to lay me off and i had no interest in the long, loud, exhausting days construction brings. Applying to belle, the interviewer was super polite and welcoming, and since i live in Noblesville and found out about belle through the castleton location, he forwarded my information to the fishers location, after making sure that would be better.

Upon getting to the Noblesville location, i was greeted warmly and felt very comfortable in the interview process; Shawn is a wonderful boss. For the first time, i was eager to work a job.
First week of employment, I wasn’t able to do much due to my complete inexperience in the field of work, but the trainer, David, made 100% sure I understood everything he taught me before moving on. By the end of my first week, i was almost completely up to speed on the wheel/tire aspect of automotive work, and im starting to learn a couple of other things as i keep working.

My coworkers are all upbeat, and enjoy the fast workpace, and it makes the job all the more fun because i can actually see how my progress fits into the final picture.

On extremely busy days, the bosses would even go out of their way to make sure we have something for lunch, too. That’s definitely a plus.

A typical day of work is a start time from 8am-8pm doing our usually duties such as replacing tires & wheels, fixing tires, major and minor front work and replacement, wheel alignments and oil changes. I've learned in the 10 years of working at Belle Tire to be a great auto tech/supervisor to my fellow technicians, and to be of great assistance when needed, whether it's being a salesman, or aiding the mechanics. I get along with all of my co-workers, and i look at them as my brothers. Working with people like that makes the day much more relaxed and better overall. My co-workers and myself always work as a team, and never really get behind on orders. I always push them to be better, and more experienced. I'm never afraid to lend a helping hand when needed. Management is great, and we always strive to make the customer happy and satisfied. I get along great with the management team at Belle Tire. The hardest part of the work day would have to be the rush of customers that come in at all different times, and we get backed up, but then I just push my co-workers to get every job done as expected with no mistakes. The most enjoyable part of the day is the fact that everyone in the shop gets along with each other, and seeing everyone laugh and smile, and that too makes the day that much better. Of course closing time is the best part of the day too when we can go home and see our families, and kids. 

What I really enjoy about working at  Belle Tire is that the company trusts and wants you to make decisions for yourself at work. The company has a culture built around "Customer Satisfaction IS the Bottom Line!" and so that means you can do what you feel you need to do to make sure your customers are satisfied. Belle Tire truly understands that the company is only as good as the people that are in the store. For that reason, they know they have to take care of their employees so that they are motivated and feel empowered to take care of the customer. What I also like about Belle Tire is that in the environment we work in, there is always a lot of activity and there is always something to do. This makes for a quick and fun day with not a lot of boring moments. Belle Tire believes that we come to the shop to work, but while we are there we might as well have a bunch of fun. Belle Tire is also not for everyone because sometimes it can be stressful because we are in the customer service business. If you're not people orientated, Belle Tire may not be the best fit. For me, because I am a people person, this is my favorite part of the job. People come to us everyday asking for help and we get to make their day! There is nothing like fixing someones tire for them and telling them it is free! Like I said, "Customer Satisfaction IS the Bottom Line" and Belle Tire lives by that every day.

Many years ago it was a fantastic place to work and upper management valued it's employees and fully supported us. Those days are long gone and they now employee regional managers so corporate has zero interaction with the store employees including Managers. The amount of time spent on paperwork, call reviews, customer feed back, e-mails, monthly training and such sucks the life out of you.

Pay has gone way down, quotas go up an unrealistic amount every year. They know as a Manager our biggest perk is the end of the year commission check for hitting our quota. By increasing quotas they are cutting managers pay, losing veteran managers daily and promoting unfit much lower paid people into managers positions to save the company more money.

A salesman gets paid $10.00 an hour to sell a $600.00 brake job so a mechanic can do the job in an hour and make $200.00. Tire techs are underpaid and over worked in the busy season. In the slow seasons hours are cut and hourly people get sent home daily to increase revenue for the company and lower wages paid to employees.

It went from WOW with great culture to a career, to a job to living nightmare in the past 5 years.

manager yelling at employees in front of other employees, Manager calling employee names and belittling employees, hazardous work conditons-oil spills all over, tripping over tools, employees throwing oil containers instead of putting them in the trash, Managers saying things like:" I have put a lot of money into you for you just to quit". Who wants to work as a slave and be treated like a dog and called out of your name for a simple mistake. Management does nothing when another employee calls another employee names. The bathroom is even dirty with dead bugs in the corner and also live bugs running around, that is what customers have to look at in the bathroom of the show room. I don't advise anyone to work for them nor do I advise anyone to bring them service. Belle Tire does not care about their employees, they don't get breaks, even working 10 to 12 hour days. Employees are not offer anything to drink with 90 to 100 degree days- while management sits in air conditioning and get breaks and get their drinks. Just unhappy all the way around.

Belle Tire is a fast growing company that has many opportunities to advance your career and constantly promotes from within. The culture of the company is what makes Belle Tire great, because they put their team members and customers before anything. The unique part about our company is that while we are becoming a larger corporation, we still have the feel of a smaller 'Mom & Pop' business. We are very tight knit and many of us like myself, are loyal to the company and feel like Belle Tire is a second family to us.

If you work in the shop it's not a glamorous job because you get cold, wet, hot and sweaty. Although this is the core of our business and many of the leaders within our company started by getting dirty in the shop changing tires. If you work in the sales department it can be challenging at times because most customers come to us at inopportune times, so they don't typically want to purchase tires or wait very long. Although it can be very rewarding to help out a customer when they need it the most and become "Their Guy".

The company offers very competitive pay with excellent benefits and vacation time off. These are performance based positions, so the skies the limit for the people who make the best of it by having a positive attitude, great work ethic and driven to succeed!

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