Posted by Buzzman72 on April 14, 2014 at 07:55:53 from (74.138.169.48):
In Reply to: They did it again! posted by Greg1959 on April 13, 2014 at 18:23:56:
I spent a lot of years in the parts biz...and I was damn good at it. These days, parts counter people are paid peanuts...and you get what you pay for. In 1988, I was a parts manager making $500 a week + commission, and my countermen were making $10 an hour + commission. [Commission was based on the gross profit of the parts department, not strictly on gross sales.] In 2007 after the frame plant closed, I went to O'Reilly's seeking a counter job, and asked for $11 an hour...AFTER I received my AAS degree in Automotive Management. The manager of the local store told me that HE didn't get $11 an hour! And then we wonder why competent parts people don't stick around, or even stay in the business.
Adjusted strictly for inflation, that $10 an hour in 1988 would be $17.53 an hour in 2007, and $19.85 an hour in 2014. So that's why parts guys like me left the biz [I left in 2000, for a MIG welding job in a plant making Ford Explorer frames, making $16.29 an hour]. And that's why many parts people today don't have a clue...because we pay them like a burger jockey, they think like one.
As far as hiring older, experienced parts guys goes...I had one interviewer tell me when I was past 55 that he "might" [and DID] hesitate to hire me because hiring an older worker might "skew" their company's insurance costs [technically, that's NOT age discrimination, because it's about keeping their costs down...even though it has the same effect].
Not complaining; time marches on. How many saddlery and buggy whip manufacturers are still in business, compared with 100-140 years ago? Auto parts businesses are competing with Amazon.com as well as other parts houses...and Amazon is just a freakin' warehouse/shipping company.
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