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Gateway Classic Cars

I was hired as the videographer for Gateway Classic Cars of Las Vegas. In the beginning, I loved my job. I was encouraged by my regional manager to be creative with my pictures and videos. I was given a lot of praise from my co-workers and my boss.

Eventually, my regional manager expressed that upper management made it difficult to operate and make changes for the better, and decided to leave the company. That's about when things started to go downhill.

Gateway made it very clear that they preferred quantity over quality. So I began cookie cutting all my videos. Everything looked exactly the same, the only difference being the vehicle. 

I did that for a while until gateway decided to eliminate my position and offer me another lower-paying job within the company that was the equivalent to a janitor, all while still having to take pictures and videos, but no longer editing them. Other videographers in the company decided to leave right away. Either way, I chose to stay with Gateway, but I decided to take all my equipment home and the quality of pictures and videos dropped significantly more than before as I was now using Gateway's extremely cheap equipment, and seeing how I wasn't a videographer anymore I shot as a janitor would.

With that being said I still got all my duties done in a timely manner.
Eventually, someone called Human Resources and told them that I would disappear for hours on end, fell behind on my work (pictures and videos of cars). All of which were lies and I could prove it. But Gateway never even thought about investigating the claims or talking to other people about it including myself. Instead, they just decided to fire me. They also toss a "missing a mandatory meeting" on me that I was never informed about. Even though I was in the showroom moving cars around to get one ready for a photoshoot and all they had to do was walk over and get me. 

They decided to take someone's word at face value and run with it. Mind you I maintained a perfect record while working there, never having a disciplinary action taken against me.

I only ever felt that the company cared about its employees while I was working under my regional manager before she left the company.

This company is built off of the backs of the hard working sales and consignment staff. The trio whom run this company are completely clueless. Not only on how to motivate and inspire the people whom they are privileged to have work for them, but the cosigners in regions that have the worst customer service track record. A typical day is following leads ranging from 50-125. You must follow these leads daily, regardless if they have stated they are no longer interested or need more time to decide. Pay in meager to say the least. You make a guarantee of $90 a day, with 2.5% of total gross profit for that sales week. You make 3% for working 6 days. You have the potential to make $750 bonus assuming your showroom profits $80,000 for that month. However, the only showrooms grossing 80k each month are Dallas, Atlanta, the Florida showrooms and lastly the cooperate location in St. Louis. The bonus is not paid until 60 days after the bonus month has hit. For Midwest showrooms the average gross is between 40-65k. Expectancy salary each year is somewhere between 25k-35k. 
The pros are the people you work with, who see the travesties and share the same sentiment of wishing you and they could do more. Ideas are not heard, and constructive criticism is a dealt with as treason and a terminating offense. They still continue to expand showrooms yet operate as a mom and pop store. They fail to adapt each showroom for its own survival, they operate each showroom off of one eBay account, one email account, one classic market account, so on and so fourth. Showrooms are falling apart, and money is taken from the gross profit to address issues not only from accidents with cars, but general up keep as well. Like stated, they lack overhead to facilitate showroom upgrades nor insurance for the cars they are privileged to consign.

This is a job that should have been extraordinarily enjoyable.  Many aspects of the job were very enjoyable.  As an Inventory Consultant, I got to work car shows, schmooze with wealthy car collectors, work with some amazing automobiles, hang out with show car builders and car clubs, and get involved with the areas car community in general.  Those things are great and you can have some success if you're good at networking and know cars, however, if you care about your personal reputation or ethical business, stay away.  Dishonest sales teams, poor management, lack of communication between departments and a general lack of ethics make it hard for a genuinely honest and ethical person to maintain much enthusiasm.  Success is built on relationships and relationships require trust for success.  When a business repeatedly takes advantage of it's clientele, eventually they catch on.  When they do, you are the who has nurtured the relationship with them and you get put in positions to either lie to a customer or close your eyes and claim ignorance when they ask questions such as how much profit margin we made on their auto.  When unethical practices are reported, it falls on deaf ears.  You learn that these practices are coming from the top down.

A lot of truly great talented people work here, adding to the pleasure of classic cars and great customers.  Wonderful concept mishandled.  Salary estimates here presume you are hiring into one of the 5 cities that almost earn enough to pay for the other 11 money losers due to over-expansion of an obviously and significantly flawed model.  Past long-term management left for this reason and it hasn’t changed.  
After 2 years here, I just noticed these reviews average about 1 every 3 months.  Please take with a grain of salt that each and every 5 star review (5 total) were the only current employee reviews and only over a 15 day period.  Eliminate this brief cluster of gushing 5 stars from the only current employees would drop the average to closer to reality. 
Management choices have always defied logic.  Working here you just have to scratch your head, shrug it off, and dodge the write-ups that the business model requires each file to be filled with for every employee, regardless of competence, profitability, and skill.  Very Weird.  Maybe 1% outside of management ever achieve over 5 yrs. here.  Ownership should think hard about this… So much true talent lost…

So honestly I was a showroom support and the job was ok wasn’t the craziest thing in the world, if you like doing the same thing everyday with minimal difference each and don’t mind being alone for most the day it’s a job for you. I was showroom support for about 9 months and I had my fun driving cars that most people couldn’t even get near to touch and I was driving them and getting paid to do so, reason I left is because I really hated the fact I was alone the entire day, 80% of the time I was doing nothing the other 20% I was taking pictures or videos, cleaning or working on something small on the cars besides that I was doing nothing but just busy work. Would I go back yes but only if I wasn’t in college, if your looking for a job and ok with working 9-5 everyday and not full time anywhere else school or work wise it’s a good job but overall if your considering applying for showroom support you should do it for the experience but not for the reliability on a job

-management...terrible. your needs and suggestions fall on deaf ears constantly
-there is a 'do more with less mentality'. They will shovel more responsibility on you with no reward in sight. 
-you will have advancement dangled in front of you but ultimately is snubbed. 
-anything to gouge your pockets and make company problems your problem. Pay structure is terrible and the promise that you'll make 80+k a year is a lie barring your southern location. 
-they put quotas on Inventory Specialists while ignoring extenuating circumstances that may complicate their success
-ultimately it comes down to if you like the people that you're surrounded by and if you can hold your own amidst the BS, then yes, you can do this job. 
-there are periods of time where you'll make decent pay here but in the slow season of winter it will balance out. YOUR BEST YEAR you can expect 50k gross in a mid west showroom. that's the accurate truth. expect closer to being in the 40s though. 
-your life here will have its moments but is for the most part frustrating as a whole. Cars are amazing, some of the people are too. Just need to decide if it's worth it.

The previous reviews sums up a lot of what you need to know about this unorganized and unethical company.  Read and keep moving forward to a better job opportunity, or get ready to go through that rotating door. Its was amazing to work with classic cars. There is no doubt about that, but the cons totally outweighs the pros. Its sad because this company has true potential.  The owner has incompetent MANAGERS overseeing the company and implementing ideas on a whim. Its horrible. Owner himself makes it nearly impossible to keep his business afloat and running smoothly. There is no structure. Management  is consistently throwing stuff against the wall hoping it will stick. Beware, its not a good working environment,  no support. They've relocated several loyal employees and their families to work at their other locations to only then turn their backs and ultimately give them the boot.

Overall in the time I've been with this company I have built a garage, a classic car, and travelled. The economy took a dive and the sales and consignments screeched to a snails pace. I recently had my pay structure changed for the fourth time and lost time and a half overtime, took a 3.25 on the hour pay cut, and vacation time is now accrued rather than a set amount at the year renewal. This company has a commission platform of 12.5% minimum sales to 23.5% markup. The reality of the platform is 20-33% markup and no less than a 20% sale point. The company is failing like a rookie boxer and the employees are taking the hits. I would not recommend this job now but when I first started I absolutely would have. They cut people out who have the appropriate ideas to make the game work profitably but those people are a threat to their positions.

I’ve never worked for a company that was so big on “company policy” but had MANAGERS go against company policy on a daily basis who still had a job there and or were rewarded for their lack of “managing” . With 20 showrooms there is zero team strategies / goals or team development from corporate down to your showroom . I was told the only way to keep my job is to stay under the radar , do less then I was supposed to and to not over extend my customer service / above par work ethics and I would then be considered a great employee . There is zero room for advancement in this company  and people who have zero clue how to do their titled job who do nothing to enhance their showroom will never be demoted or replaced with actual humans who know how to run a classic car showroom . Best part about this company is being around classic cars who have more value then the vast majority of people employed by this company . 

I’ve been working since I was 15 and I have been with some great companies and some .. not so great. I am not going to sugar coat what I experience and this company has by far over reached my expectations. It’s an awesome atmosphere, the pay reflects what you as a team put into the deals you work on.  Home office is more than welcoming and supportive and treats you like a living breathing human being and not just an employee number. That goes a long way with me. Yes , the pay was lower than my last job as far as hourly but I’m telling you, you could make all the money in the world and if you don’t like what you are doing or have peace at work, you will be miserable no matter the dollar signs. 

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