K&M Tire

Our day begins by loading trucks for the daily delivery drivers. Several large trucks come throughout the day with merchandise to be unloaded and stocked in the shop and reloaded. Once the daily delivery trucks return they will be unloaded and returned merchandise is restocked.

I have gained valuable knowledge in the different brands and styles of tires. Also, how to check a tire's integrity to make sure there are no defects or that they are within the required date ranges to sell.

The management decline to listen to suggestions of how work could be streamlined. Instead, they allow employees to take advantage of the chaos and slack on their work. There is a lack of structure.

There is a very high turn-over rate and a lack of rehiring. Several employees have attendance issues. Some employees do not have a hard ethic that promotes productivity. This all leads to the workload being pushed on to the remaining employees. There is also not a lot of opportunity to grow within the company without relocation.

The hardest part of the job is when the workload is more than the manpower available to complete large tasks.

The best part of the job is when the boss provides positive motivation and acknowledges your hard work.

K&M has some excellent employees! I met and befriended many very good people. The problem is that hard work and dedication to the company is not rewarded. In fact, it is punished. The harder you work and try to excel, the more work is pushed on you with little to no reward/compensation. You are merely a ladder rung for the cut-throat management team to climb. 

Warehouse - The hardest working employees are in the warehouse. They work in extreme temperatures and have physically strenuous jobs yet they are the lowest paid employees. 


Office - If you are not willing to work in a hostile environment, this is not the job for you. Manager's who curse at their employees, treat them poorly (on a daily basis), and play on social media all day are promoted and hailed as excellent. Situations and proof have been taken to HR for more than 6 years, but nothing is done. 

Turnover - Ask yourself why this company is always hiring. Speak to previous employees and ask them why they left. This company would rather lose excellent employees and retain their current management team than to take a serious look at why their office staff leaves in leaps and bounds. 

Nepotism runs rampant at K&M.

I used to work for a Fortune 500 tire company and came to work here about 5 years ago. There are plenty of great companies and I got lucky to find one here.
The company is not perfect and probably never will be, but it really is a great place to work for the people who are willing to show up on time, work hard, and have a good attitude most of the time.
The negative reviews come from people who missed at least one of those three points. 
The company culture really is great at the company headquarters in Ohio because of the people. That's less obvious to varying degrees at the other 19 locations.
Opportunities for advancement are actually well above average at the company headquarters. Advancement opportunities are less abundant at other locations, but that's to be expected. 
For me, the most enjoyable part about my job is knowing that I can make a difference. Senior management includes some of the best people I've ever had the privilege to know and work for.

I've worked at K&M for many years now and I love it! My co-workers are some of the best people I've ever had the privilege of working with. K&M is a family-owned company and they genuinely care about their employees - whether that be helping them to develop and grow in their careers or ensuring that they have a work/life balance. I feel that K&M tries to ensure that they're doing the right thing for their employees.  

There are many opportunities for advancement within the company (especially at the Corporate Office in Ohio). K&M offers many types of training and development classes and other material to help you develop in your career. I've never worked for another company that has invested in their employees like that. 

As long as you work hard and share the same values that K&M follows, you will succeed in this company.

A typical day for overnight is coming in and having to finish others jobs and then do your own. The only thing I learned from here is how to operate machinery. The management here is very poor and show many signs of favoritism. The workplace is okay, but the management holds nobody accountable for their actions or words. The hardest part of the job is having to do and fix everyone else’s mistakes before ever being able to start my job. The job itself isn’t bad if the pay was fair and the management was actual management. The most enjoyable part of working here is that it’s a simple job just hard work on the body. 

The work is hard work and fast paced. Management is not that bad. Start pay is $11.00/h plus a shift premium of $1.00 for 2nd shift and a shift premium of $1.50 for 3rd shift plus a $100 untaxed bonus for 3rd shift if you show up on time all week. Trust me those premiums are there for a reason you get a bigger premium for more work you do. Get payed weekly which is great  PAY IS TOO LOW AND THE COMPANY IS STINGEY ABOUT PAYING EMPLOYEES MORE MONEY. K&M has a hard time keeping employees on 2nd and 3rd shift because the work is far to hard and exhausting for the little amount of pay.

Some really good coworkers. And the manager that they demoted is a really good person but upper management and 
corporate is where all the problems come from. The place is a revolving door because  no body wants to stay because the pay is not enough unless your young and live at home. So they have the same problems over and over because it's always new employees. And the ones that DO stay have to put up with repeated meetings for the same problems but management can't seem to figure out if they would pay better and take care of people then people stay and the problems would work themselves out. I would NOT recommend anyone to work there unless you plan on it being very short temporary!!

I worked my butt off for K&M just to be let go with almost no reasoning. The co workers and management in warehouse and drivers were cool but anyone in the office part was stuck up and mostly unapproachable. THEY DONT PAY FOR WHAT THE JOB IS WORTH. People who work hard get paid 11.00 an hour while the people who sit in a seat all day get paid 16.00. Upper management needs to pay more accordingly if they want to lower their turnover rate which is ridiculously high. 

The owner of the company was awesome. Older guy that would work you in the warehouse, I respect him.

The harder you work for this company the more they take advantage of you.  The work is very physically demanding.   The management is vulgar and incompetent.  Favoritism is rampant.  If you don’t fit in, you are isolated.  No matter how hard you work.  The pay is okay once they raised it.  Benefits are poor.  401k is pathetic. The forklifts and crown lifts are not “state of the art.”  They also do not promote from within. They lead you on then they tear you down.  The warehouse is a dusty mess.  All in all avoid this place.   

Bad pay and days are either short (with lots of sitting time) or long (no sitting time). Only way to make money is to take overtime, which means coming in two-hours early everyday and working weekends. Management was cool, HR are a-holes, drivers get hussled, by over ambitious sales reps, by getting unreasonably long routes without splitting them up. Customers are cool, but farmers, so they like to order a little most of the time, then a lot at inconvenient times (weekends). I wish K&M had a better handle on their policy and routes.

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