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Idens Dealer Services

Iden's dealer services is a great place to work whether you're looking for a first job or your 15th. The management at the location I had was the best I've had in all of my jobs, and the managers are always fair and understanding. Depending on location, you could get an extremely fast paced work environment with cars coming in or out, or a slightly steadier one that works at whatever pace you go (but you are still expected to work fast and efficiently either way). Working here, I got the opportunity to be around great coworkers, and the management is all people who started from the basics and worked their way up. Overall, I think it was a great atmosphere, and you can even detail your own car for free off the clock! I had an unfortunate accident in the workplace that ended up with a scratched car, and if I'd followed the procedure for accidents better, it wouldn't have been as big a deal, but you live and you learn; it was definitely justified letting me go for what happened. The biggest thing to prevent accidents in the workplace (including mine) is to always use a spotter when you're backing out of somewhere, or have to get through a tight spot. I'd absolutely recommend working here, especially since you can get paid more for working faster (which is always a plus). If you can work fast and have a good attention to detail, you should apply and see how the job treats you. It isn't for everyone, but it's a great job for those who can do it.

They emphasize being a "career company" but do not provide holiday pay to nonmanagement employees. They provide the legal minimum of sick time, but call it "combined" time so they can claim it as PTO. Production based pay, and misleading about the upper limit. The realistic upper limit is $22-24, NOT 27. No holiday bonus, instead they raffle a bunch of small appliances.

Work day varies depending on location, some work on trucks and very messy vehicles, some work on luxury models that are much cleaner. All cars are paid at the same rate. You may be occasionlly required to fill in at other locations. There is a "slow" season, where you may be invited to take an unpaid day off or use sick time. Production pay means if there aren't any cars to work on, you don't get paid. They'll rarely make exceptions to pay employees for shop maintenance tasks.

Not recommended for parents, as you can only earn 6 days sick/paid time off. And again, no pay on Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc. Also psychically taxing on the upper body.

It is however, entry level and a good way to get into the field. There are opportunities to move within the company, to other departments mostly.

I started as a detailer here in 2012. After a year of hard work and putting my best foot forward I became an assistant manager. After a year of that I worked my way up to become a location manager, and I have been running my shop going on 9 years now. I have worked at a lot of places that say they promote from the inside and was let down by the lack of advancement opportunities. I moved up pretty quickly here and i try to do the same for my employees. I have had at least 6 of my detailers become film installers, and about another 7 or 8 got promoted to assistant managers where some of them eventually got to run their own locations. Hard work does not go unnoticed here at IDS. 

Fast paced work. Always plenty of work to be done and no shortage of hours. Sometimes too many hours. If you love cars it’s a great place because you’ll enjoy working with cars, but you don’t have to be a car person to enjoy the work either. Opportunities for career growth. I went from detailer to Assistant Manager in 10 months then to Location Manager after another 11 months. Helped the company expand and take on new locations. The challenge is balancing your time spent keeping dealerships happy, spending time coaching and developing employees, and just keeping up managing the shop and other management duties. I’ve been working for Idens for over 12 years and I love it for the most part. I don’t wake up in the morning dreading to go to work like many Americans these days. There are stressful days but you push through it and move on to the next. It is truly an enjoyable company to work for with plenty of room for growth from detailer to Assistant to manager or to the film install department.

I have only worked here for going 3 1/2 months. My family relocated to WA earlier this year, which is never easy. They are family oriented. With out me even asking or saying anything, management switched up my schedule so I could spend more time with my husband! 

But on the flip side, the owner is always checking in with me to see how everything is going with me. Are people in the office being respectful, is the workload too much, am I getting the right kind of training needed.  He makes it appoint to say hello to everyone in the building, even goes out of the office to the back shop to check in and say hello to the guys back there. I worked for companies in the past, where the owner didn't even learn my name for two years and was known as "that girl".  

Needless to say, in the little time I have worked here I can see why people would stay working here for not just years, but decades!

I started from the bottom as a detailer. Now I run my own location.  Great work ethic plays a big role if you want to advance. I worked my way up to assistant manager always trying to stay on top of everything. Anything to help your shop progress will help you get further in the company. Also came in because it was easy to just come in detail cars mind your business time flies, when your only responsibly is to make that dirty car looks as good as a new car. This job is not hard it can be if you have a negative attitude but other than that great company too work for. They try and help you so you can also enjoy your time away from work with family. Very flexible and they try and work with your schedule. 

I had bounced around in the skill/labor trade for some years and was not successful finding consistent work for some years. Iden's provided the work consistency and offered me a career I didnt know I wanted. Professionally I've grown and Iden's gave me many tools and opportunities to chase this career path. 14 years later I still love this job, the people and the professional connections it brings. I was a foster parent for several years and the worked with me and were flexible when I had stuff come up involving the kids and I needed to attend certain things, appointment etc. 

This place has no culture what so ever they are stuck in one way of doing things I multiple times gave great information for easier details that would cut time and with products that were more efficient and cheaper yet they continued to denie my request I even bought products myself to show and demonstrate how much more efficient and easier they are to use but was still denied even with my 16 years of details experience plus I had to fight to become a master detailer even though I was teaching both my assistant and manager things they both did not even know I will never work for a company like this ever again in my life

At Iden's, it's all about you and what you want to make of it.  They have a career path if you want to pursue it, a production-based pay plan where you are in control of how much you make, advancement opportunities if you want to earn them, supportive and positive culture, the best shops/supplies I've seen, benefits, flexible schedules, etc.  The only people giving this company a less than good review are likely ones who didn't do their part or were unreliable from my observation.  People are rewarded for their efforts.  Many of my co-workers here have been here for years and I personally have been here over 5 and keep moving up.

Working as an Autobody retailer for this company is extremely physically demanding and requires a very high level of time management. Detailers are paid based on how much work they get done. So their is no time to slack off at all. 
As the assistant manager their was a required amount of vehicles that you are required to detail each day, all while managing the shop, dealing with customers, training new employees, tracking each detailers amount of work, replying to upper management via e-mail or phone, quality checking each and every vehicle, etc. It is alot of responsibilty, alot of work, and long days.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
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