Long Hours, very little respect for employees. - Store Manager Pep Boys Employee Review

2.0
28 Jan 2015
Recommend
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Pros

If you can get in on the Pep Boys side (under the one team concept) it is a slightly better environment.

Cons

Very long hours which offsets reasonable salary to nothing. 6 days a week/ 10-12 hours per day. Call out and you may be working on your day off. Difficult upper management. Unreasonable expectations. Camera on you 24/7. Not allowed to sit down behind counter...even during 10 hour shifts. Very high turnover. A very stressful work environment. Hard to keep technicians due to hours and pay. Upper management made me send techs to their car to eat so they wouldn't be seen in the building (even during snowstorms) Yet they are not supposed to leave for lunch. And the building had no break room. There is a general feeling of negativity in this company.

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5.0
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Pros

The people were fun and committed.

Cons

Risk Management Department was undergoing shifts making progress challenging

2.0
2 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The competitive pay. Thats about it

Cons

The whole guarantee system. Management, equipment. To anyone who decides to go to pepboys as a flat rate tech, they changed the guarantee system to where if you're not efficient, you only get what you flagged. So if management is bad, the location is bad and its slow, it gets rough. Prior it was a guaranteed pay based on you hitting 40 hours. Their excuse was people "abusing" which is really backwards thinking. If you're starting out, I recommend Firestone. The pay might be slightly worse but you'll have a guarantee of at least 30 hours. Also management at my location seems content only doing tires and flat repairs that hit budget. All while I have to come to them to see if my ticket got sold or if the fleet company approved of the work.

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