Job Story: Clerk in aftermarket autoparts....ARRRRRGH!

[Jake Lightbearer1026@hotmail.com]

Sounds to me like you absolutely hate your job as an auto parts clerk. THEN GET THE HELL OUT OF IT! YOU, sir, are the idiot, not your customers! Life is so short that if you don't like what you are doing, quit your job and get another one more to your liking. Unless you are just an angry hateful person that uses the job to justify your inner turmoil.

[IVY]

Clerk, I have been there, did that for 5 years...I thought I was the only one who felt that way...yeassssssh...now I have a worse job. So cheer up...it's not as bad as it seems...I look back fondly on my auto parts day...compared to this.

You need to quit your job! Why are letting it take over your life like this? Get a temping job - they can be boring and monotonous but at least they're not stressful. Plus, you can try out different types of positions.

[Matthew Witt its_chet@yahoo.com]

I used to be a clerk in a video store. I had the same experience. It seems like all the annoying people in a 20 mile radius flock to these small stores. And some of them are truly not in possession of the family brain cell when doing it. Customer service may be for some people, but for others it actually damages their perception of people in general. I think you'll like to be around people a lot more if you get a job where you deal with them a lot less.

[boon]

Dude,it's not your parts, money,paperwork,or counter. Those customers pay the bills for you and your company, do what the man pays you
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to do. Enjoy life or get get out of the business. It's condensending,thoughtless, burnouts like you that give professional counterpeople a bad name. Better yet stay in the business and I'll take your business, but that wouldnt be your fault, would it?

[Ron partspro3@hotmail.com]

It's hard to get away from people when you become popular at your job I know I have been a counterman for over 6 years I leave town when I have a day off to get away and relax I think you need to do the same.

[Joe Burnout]

Hey Boon;
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Sounds like you are one of those toothless, hillbilly, incest-loving folk who make us hard working people hate our jobs. It must be awfull to have a wife who is also your sister... My heart goes out to you, loser! For shame!

[Franko]

Hello;
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I must agree that retail can take it's toll. I've worked four long years in autoparts and am looking to find another career (if you can refer to selling autoparts as a career). Autoparts has a way of drawing every idiot in town. It kind of makes sense, if these people had half a brain and were educated in the first place, they would have the money to hire someone to fix their cars.
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As for Boon's above comment to Clerk, I feel it is totally inappropriate. Either Boon has never had to deal with these idiots, or, as is probably the case, Boon is one of them himself ;-)

[Michael Dim]

14,000 ppl served and still sticken up the finger wtf get a life

[Chris newg155319@aol.com]

I've worked the 3-11 shift at a convenience store/gas station for three years now. My biggest peve is when people throw a fit about being carded for cigarettes. They don't realize that if I don't do it I get fired and I can't possibly remember every face that walks through the door. I know my customers get good service because many fo them tell me so and my company's office get calls complimenting my service. Nevertheless it is incredibly hard to satisfy every want and need of the 200+ people I see every night. I'm usually working alone and people expect me to everywhere at once. I'll be watching people at the pumps, ringing someone up at the register, giving directions to some lost person all at once and in the background I'll have someone upset at me because I can't go out and show them how to put air in their tires or show them how to pump their gas. (Its self service.) The job sometimes just sucks the life out of me. After I'm out of work I just want to be left alone and not have any contact whatsoever with humanity. What really irritates me is when people take advantage of me when its busy and drive off without paying for their gas. You need to watch people like a hawk. As a result, the people who I'm with inside the store don't get my full attention which they rightfully deserve and they get frustrated about that. Please people, when your at a gas station take a look at the pump number: "That car over there" usually isn't sufficient to let us know where you are! Thanks for letting me vent.

Your basic problem is that you're extremely lazy. Get a college education. Don't waste your life working at Exxon.

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by boon
Dude,it's not your parts, money,paperwork,or counter. Those customers pay the bills for you and your company, do what the man pays you
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to do. Enjoy life or get get out of the business. It's condensending,thoughtless, burnouts like you that give professional counterpeople a bad name. Better yet stay in the business and I'll take your business, but that wouldnt be your fault, would it?

Ah ha ha.. listen to you.

You must be a Republican. Otherwise you wouldn't be so condescending about 'regular' people stuck with shitty jobs.

God, I hope they re-enact the draft, so rich folks who can afford college can share in the glory of dying for their country than us chumps usually get.

[Unregistered]

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As for Boon's above comment to Clerk, I feel it is totally inappropriate. Either Boon has never had to deal with these idiots, or, as is probably the case, Boon is one of them himself ;-) [/B][/QUOTE]

Nah. The idiots described (I did auto parts for 2 years) are not the type to come onto a board like this. That implies a level of thought and compassion.

He's just an elitist shit. He probably runs your local planning board, pushing ordinances such as prohibiting new housing construction for plots of land smaller than 2 acres (meaning, keep out the low income white folk and the ghetto, without coming clean and admitting any elitism)

[muhammad qasim]

Originally posted by Michael Dim
14,000 ppl served and still sticken up the finger wtf get a life please informe me on this address: shamqasim@hotmail.com

[Unregistered]

worked in an autoparts store for just 4 months... and totally burned out just off of that.

let's just face it... people these days are nothing but nasty, and not getting any better in addition to the fact that retail just sucks period.

you get to sell autoparts, act like everyon'e psychologist, do everything and "go the extra mile", and essentially work your rear off... for probably no better than 8 bucks an hour.

For just about the same pay or more, you can just work at a fast food joint. Sure, the prestige isn't there... but more often than not you'll get the same or better pay, and better benefits too, not to mention being free of the worry of how seasonal sales will cut your hours all the time.

I had a midnights paper pushing job before. I didn't have to deal with people, I got consistent 40 hour weeks, and the pay was 2 cents an hour less. All I had to do is keep myself awake and listen to audio books to keep me entertained. I'm going back to it.

[AutoParts]

Excellent Salary, Benefits and Profit sharing. Does anybody know anyone who may be good for the job? Please have experience! Email me if qualified or pass the word along! Barry2kp@aol.com

[carpartsguy1]

Twenty five years in the auto parts business just when you think you've seen or heard it all ...just wait another day is at hand. I can understand the frustration that can come from this job. I am ASE certified and have taken all the manufactures courses that are available to anyone in our business. Auto parts for me in the beginning of my career was fun. The stress level wasn't so much,there was loyalty from your customers, mechanics fixed cars,your chops didn't get busted because your brake pads cost a dollar more than brand x down the street. People then understood about there cars and there maintance and what it took to keep them on the road. Nowdays everyone thinks that they can fix a car,where that ever came from now that cars are more complicated,I'll never know. Sometimes it scares me what people will do,not only the diy but the so called professionals out there too. I have the experience, I have the training, I have the knowledge. I know I can help if I'm given the correct make,model, and year.

[Unregistered]

settle down bevis

[Unregistered]

Lookie, ma, internet losers all calling each other the worse hillbilly!!

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