car sales executive

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Billion Automotive

Billion was okay, I knew someone working as a manager there and he recruited me. While it was okay, it is sales. No days off(not really you usually get 2 days off a week) but on your days off you are constantly taking calls, setting appointments and so on. Which is fine, it is sales and that comes with a sales position. But the pay is based on volume not commission, meaning the more you sell the more you make. That model has it's pro's and con's so take that as you'd like. The part I ended up having a problem with and what pushed me away is I was top salesman multiple times within the first 6 month of working there, yet management would try to push me into making deals I didn't feel comfortable with. Such as someone trying to get a car with a sticker 18k and they get a interest offer for 26+ I would just tell them to walk away. I personally would say if they wanted to take that they could work with another salesmen but I personally couldn't live with knowing someones paying 40k for a 18k vehicle (someone who is clearly already struggling financially) 

Well after management found that out I was harassed and they tried to push me to call a friend of mine and tell him to take a crazy 26.5% interest rate. 

That was my experience at the store I worked for. There are many different stores, many different managers. So depending on what store you could have a completely different experience but overall management at every store has a few sheisters, and a few good ones. 

I've worked here for a couple years and have thought about leaving just about every few months. The store I work at gets over looked for advertising and is in one of the worst location I've ever seen and I've seen some bad locations for dealerships. It's not all bad and it's not all good. It's super average and maybe if I was at a better location maybe it wouldn't be so bad but the management are all people who've been there too long and are just resting on their laurels collecting a check. If you don't sell it's a constant battle with the managers especially when there is no lot traffic or leads to speak of to sell something and get them off your back. Along those lines the leads aren't even good either just the bad ones from the manufacturer, nothing from third party sites like cars.com or cargurus or heck even from the Main website, those get dished out to the "special finance team". It's not all bad you can make some good money but trust me do some research before settling down into one of these stores

Rolling up on a decade of no reviews or raises. Not conducive for learning as techs are on team pay and have no time to help/answer questions without their team losing money. No employee discounts on vehicle purchases or labor for repairs, despite what they claim. Sales people will flat out refuse to honor employee discounts and techs don’t want to work on your car if they’re not making full price, so they won’t. Parts at cost + 10%. Can’t work on your own car without an appointment, and therefore 100% labor costs. Sales manager has the service dept by the throat and sometimes  “certifies” vehicles that could be dangerous. No lunches or breaks in a 9.5 hour shift. Health insurance for a family is $350+/paycheck if you’re a smoker. 

● Work-life balance
Get Sunday off and one day during the week.

● Pay & benefits
It's not good.

● Job security and advancement
There isn't any.

● Management
He isn't a manager. Rules by fear and intimidation. Won't even say good morning unless you initiate it. Pretty sad when parts dept says at least our boss likes us. Manager might be good at making deals, etc but does have a clue about managing people and you wonder why he's been thur 45 sales consultants.....SAD!

● Culture
Highly not recommended unless they get a different manager. Again, he has no business being a manager.

● Overall
Again, the current manager has no idea on how to actually manage people. Always making comment about his size 15 shoe going where the sun doesn't shine during meetings. His way or the highway. A manager he is not!

My day always started at 6:30 am with making sure all the delivery drivers (10 drivers) were loaded up and out on their deliveries. Then I would prepare for the rest of the staff (up to 12 per day) to arrive by 8:00 am and prepare their days agendas. I dealt alot with the department manager. Shipments came in twice a week and contaied up to 200 pcs each delivery. I would scan each item indiviually and the rest of my staff would put the product in their proper location bins. Once the product was put away, I then proceeded to run all the orders to be pulled and ready for shipment or placed in area for the delivery drivers to take the next day.

A typical day at Billion Automotive would be having a variety of cars come in to clean. There were two different types of car washes, standard and value guard. Standard car washes would include vacuuming of the inside, cleaning the inside windows, then clean the outside and dry it off. A value guard would mean we put on a variety of protectants on the leather, fabric and paint. I learned a lot of different and easier ways to clean cars, it was a great job. The management there was very nice and always worked around everyone's schedules. The overall work culture was very easy- going and detail oriented. The hardest part of the job was closing alone every night. The most enjoyable part of the job was the workers that I met there.

If you work in any other department in this company you might enjoy it. IT was chaotic constantly due to mismanagement. Management constantly micro-managed, didn't know much about IT, and chastised employees. Management would take credit for anything the team done and would do anything to cover himself including throwing employees under the bus.

Director would criticize employees to other employees. This creates a hostile work environment where nobody gets along.

There are plenty of other opportunities in Sioux Falls in IT. I wouldn't recommend working here to my worst enemy.

The work itself is just what it is. Its car sales, and the customers come in waves. One day its crazy the next week there is nothing. Some coworkers were fun to be around and created an enjoyable environment. The management is very questionable. They expect you to step in and instantly produce sales with a week of training that is very dated. They occasionally help out when you need it. Although, the help is more of them just doing it while you are just there. The job can be incredibly rewarding if you perform well. Except not all opportunities are available to everyone. Long hours where you could literally do nothing but try and make phone calls to people who are not truly interested in a vehicle. 

Responsibilities 
•Diagnose and resolve issues related to technical difficulties with hardware, software, and the network. 
•Install and configure new servers, workstations, and other IT equipment 
•Communicate plan, progress, and issues in a timely manner 
•Verify with the customer that the issue has been resolved and update the ticketing system
•Develop and maintain technical documentation of systems and network
•Track, prioritize and document requests using an IT support request system 
•Actively contribute to ongoing process improvement 
•Performs other duties or special projects as assigned 
•Maintain strict confidentiality

Overall it is a decent place to work. Pay is a little above average for the job you're doing. They usually have more people than needed, therefore you're not typically overworked, in my dept anyway. You are just another body there so there's usually no room for advancement unless you go WAY above and beyond and "suck up" to managers. Managers I had were decent, however they didn't seem to care much about improving the way the place was ran. Part of that is probably just because of how massive the operation is. Overall it's a decently easy job with decent pay, but could be ran better and you will probably feel meaningless. 

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