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What is the best part of working at the company?
Everything, my experience was amazing and the only reason I left the company was due to the distance I was driving. Management and support systems for my position went above and beyond to make sure I had the tools and training to do my job, pay was pretty good, hours were awesome, no complaints at all!!!!

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Well, parts for customer vehicles sometimes are on back order and explaining that to impatient customers can be stressful, however the company provides resources to help explain this to clients and it’s no fault to the company that these parts take time to come in. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
For me both work environment and culture were awesome, I had plenty of resources at my disposal when I needed help and the teams I worked with were always eager to help one another. Company does a great job taking care of its employees! 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Come in, open the customer waiting area, light cleaning, get the daily reports ready, greet customers, get their paperwork in order, call customers with updates, make sure the files are up to date in the computer, close files when customers pick up, answer questions if they arise.

A Typical Day at Work:
The workday is often stressful due to poor communication across all departments and inconsistent direction from management.

What I Learned:
I learned how to stay focused in a challenging environment and gained a strong understanding of the importance of not getting caught up in corporate politics.

Management:
Management tends to be disconnected from day-to-day operations, which leads to confusion and frustration among staff.

Workplace Culture:
There’s little to no sense of workplace culture — collaboration and morale are generally lacking.

The Hardest Part of the Job:
Managing stress and staying productive while working with individuals whose actions negatively impact the company.

The Most Enjoyable Part of the Job:
Honestly, the end of the day — when the work is behind you.

I usually work about 10-12 hours a day. Show up early to help open the shop and to get my accounts, customers, and account tracker updated before morning meeting. We have a morning meeting with the other project managers/estimators and upper management to update everyone on the status of our accounts and cars. Throughout the day I was responsible for adding new clients and their vehicles, picking up and delivering vehicles to current accounts, as well as make sure the current vehicles we have are being repaired and going through the process correctly and are being repaired in an efficient and correct manner. Every week I am also responsible for the accounting and making sure our account receivables are up to date and we are being paid for the work we receive from clients and corporate accounts.

What is the best part of working at the company?
You get to leave at 5:00 ,The time you get alone, Management doesn't want to be around you, There care and time is spent on dinner that night,organizing There desktop, 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Getting your parts for the job you were assigned, and make sure your not repairing them, more than the ones you just took off the vehicle, 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Junior high school ,lunch time with all the different groups of kids separated, 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Survival, keep an Eye on your back. Your job, your life and everything else that everybody's coming to take from you. Feeling is though you're totally worthless,

Classic collision hires the stupidest an most,belligerent managers you will ever work for. They cuss an disrespect there employees. Try an lie an get stuff going between employees for there entertainment. If you don't stay late,an work while your family is home eating supper without you. You will be considered worthless. You will be expected to train an loan your tools to all the illegals they hire. They prefer illegals over citizens. No morning meeting or respect given here. Only work longer an harder to make up for all the labor they didn't give you when they switched the estimate over to there work order.

Employees are just a number, a few people seem to care but ,certain upper management do not  really care. Only care to do the right thing as long as the company profits, screw the little guy.  Forgot to pay me for one week, then when they did pay me, my pay was still not correct.  Wont pay out pto unless state mandated  which is convenient.  Did everything i was asked to do, but for some reason  felt like i was being punished for no apparent reason.  Extremely disappointed  in this company.  I do not blame the techs or office workers. It is the culture of the company . 

If you enjoy doing multiple things that aren’t related to your your job and then being critique on top of it with absolutely no help from a GM or upper management and enjoy a toxic work environment. This is the place for you. The pay isn’t terrible but pretty much everything else is they expect you to work 45 to 50 hours a week to be compensated for 40 the commission structure is almost impossible to hit all the way points to get your full commission, immediate and upper management treat employees as if they are disposable overall would give this negative stars if it was an option

What is the best part of working at the company?
Enjoyable work if you like working with your hands.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
They try to change you're rate constantly even up to 6$ an hour corporates budget is so tight you do not have any supporting staff such as a parts person which makes it difficult to turn hours already 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The culture is extremely corporate and nothing really gets handled properly if its broken.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Show up work on cars go home at the end of the day.

The days are mostly busy with taking apart or repairing cars. I learned to much about how a car works under the hood but more so on how to repair the damage on a car to make it look like new. The manager is very strict but understanding. So the work gets done in timely manner and precise detail. Many of the works there are easy to get along with. the hardest part of the job is putting a car back together after the parts are freshly painted so its easy to chip. The most enjoyable time there for me would be the actual repairing on a car.

I started at Classic Collision with very little knowledge of detailing but in less than a year I was shown a lot of different techniques of detailing. I was shown wet sanding and Buffing. I also helped the production managers with the list of cars going home that day. I worked with body techs to help communicate with adjusters about parts or anything needed.  I asked management to train me in production or front office. I have worked in the detail department for two and half years and felt it was time to learn more. I feel that they were not going to move me so I felt it was time to seek other employment.

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