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Plaza Tire Service

A lot is asked of you when you work for plaza tire. they are good about offering incentives, the harder you work the more you get paid. but the base pay is nothing to brag about, although it will pay the bills. there is plenty of opportunity to rise in the company if you are willing and interested. the only way to really make any kind of serious money is to move up the ladder, because starting out at the bottom, you are paid just above minimum wage. the benefits are great, you are provided with full insurance. and pretty decent insurance at that. after your first year you do receive paid vacation, and after five years you are given two full weeks of paid vacation a year. but at the same time, taking vacation is generally frowned upon because each store is ran off of the very minimal amount of employees possible to sustain a profit. so therefor missing any time makes it very difficult to keep up with what they expect from above. overall I would recommend a career within plaza tire, I have valued mine greatly and always appreciate the opportunity they have given me.

A typical day at Plaza starts understaffed in the shop area to meet budget. 
What I learned is it's not the same company as before it sold. Corporate disconnect.
Upper management will tell you they have done it, and most have, however before constant oversite and added constant job requirements that have changed the timeline and workload of staff front and rear.
Hardest part of the job, is meeting expectations put on by corporate disconnect both in the front of the store and the guys in the back, not meeting set time limits for functions in the back of the shop and the front as well. The company is great at getting customers in the door and making the phone ring, be prepared. 
The most enjoyable part of the job, for the most part is selling tires and helping customers, if you need tires, it is a great place to get them .


This was a decent job and I was paid fairly well considering the payscale in this area. It is family owned and operated, and everything that goes with that is present at this job. At times the workload was slow and uneventful and at others it was a bit out of control. You have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and get dirty when the need arises. The owners personal philosophy is that work is first before anything else in his life...employees are expected to put their job before family or personal needs regardless of circumstances and will be shunned for not doing so. 

Commission aspect places co-workers at odds with eachother - invoices and tickets will get rewritten under another name (taken from you) if you don't pay attention.

My review is simple I loved working with my bosses and all co-workers except one person. The job is fast pace with quick decision making with accuracy. I went from not knowing anything about cars, trucks and the automotive industry to being the person to go to if your in a bind. If you do your job and do it right management really didn't bother me or restrict me. The job idea is great thou, I disagree on the hourly pay for the amount of work that a general tech does compared to some of the mechanics pay that are working for Plaza at the time I was employed. One point in time of my 4 1/2 years of employment with Plaza some of my co workers became family plus having loyal customers request my service knowing I'll treat their car with care and do the job right the first time.

Overall job base for this type of work is there but due to failure of upper management to give any options for training or learning in the automotive field and pettiness of owner(s) makes this a difficult place to work. Management that I have experienced can be a gambit of good humored folks or fall to racist, rude and hateful. The lack of ability to speak with employees in a respectful tone and lack of training makes this a crippling company to work for employee wise. customer wise they try to take care of customers but due to lack of training leads to not being able to serve the customers to their fullest potential. it is a good entry job for a person wanting to learn tire basics but would recommend proper schooling or a different company offering training to be successful in the automotive industry.

I had a shop job with a different company years ago. The pay was decent at the time, but Plaza is offering that same pay for that same position 10 years later. The pay offered to all staff doesn't come close to what their job listings say. Despite the harder workload in a harsher environment, shop pay is lower that other companies pay for fast food or cashiering jobs. Most of the pay seems to go to the sales people, not the techs doing the real work.

There's too much work for too little pay, never enough people, and never enough time to train the new guy that probably isn't gonna stick around anyway because he didn't get trained well enough or get a good enough paycheck. The only reason to work here is if you need to start working tomorrow because people are disposable so they're always hiring. But if you can afford to take your time you should just look for work elsewhere.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Discount on tires. And holiday pay

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
6 day a week every week. No overtime, constant changes in quota to get half of your normal pay. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very stressful, never knowing what your pay will be. The company does everything they can not to pay your have of your normal check. Some months you can afford your bills then others you can't.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Go in make coffee and hope enough people come in needing tires. Waiting to find out sells goals. Pray enough people need a plaza credit card so you can get the other half of your check.

I've worked here for sometime and over that course of time, I have strived to be an example employee but it often comes in return of not getting a raise that you will find life changing or very helping. It feels like the management will try to fight for the raise or for your hard work but it will be met with corporate not wanting to give you a dime. Take it from me if you want a stable job then working here can be alright at times. I find the moment you offer more they will take that and not give you a raise on top of the extra initiative you've been showing as if your hard work means nothing. Work here with your own caution I've never worked with too many smart people here so it can be quite stressful.

Typical service manager day of work is bringing in as much work as possible, then having to do it  yourself because the technicians are lazy, poor at their job and/or the Manager or District manager's pet. It doesn't matter how much you do, they will raise your goals until they're unattainable so you don't bonus. Every day is a struggle with techs walking out or deciding what work they want to do. If you write them up, they do even less. The worst part of the job is receiving no help from management and dealing with a terrible work force. The shops are VERY unsafe! Unfortunately there is no good part of the job. You will also work every Saturday. 

PLAZA TIRE SERVICE is a fairly well known automotive maintenance and repair store. Definitely higher up on the list for excellent and proficient and outstanding workmanship. If I had never gone into plaza and became a employee as a tire tech. I wouldn’t know jack about how to maintain a automobile still to this day. Sadly... Yes they are outstanding at being punctual and ready to take on any work load that the front store associates decide to take on for both our mechanics and our techs. If you have never been go. It’s with a shot. And in the worst case scenario you loose a couple dollars in Taco Bell money for a oil change with the wrong date written on your oil change sticker.

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