Tire Discounters Reviews

3.8

63% would recommend to a friend

(320 total reviews)
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Jamie Ward

82% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Tire Discounters has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 320 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Tire Discounters employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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320 reviews
1.0
4 Mar 2015
Recommend
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Pros

None other than being closed on Sundays. That is the only pro period. Nothing else to offer other than that at all.

Cons

Very unhealthy work environment. Upper management does not have a grip on reality but instead they have almost a dreamlike reality they believe in and drive into you at the store level. In this area if you are not a "yes man" then you're not good enough no matter how good you are with customers and sales. You're expected to bow down to upper management. They play favorites. Your work - home life balance is non existent. It's only your work life that is important. It is frowned upon if you take a lunch break whether you're a salaried store manager, salaried service manager, or hourly employee. The words "we don't take lunches around here" were uttered by upper management on more than one occasion. That was said while expecting your store/service management team along with hourly sales staff to work bell to bell every day they were scheduled. From 7:30am to at least 8pm each day. On your feet, on concrete and again with no breaks paid or unpaid. Just doesn't happen. Their pay is sub par for the industry and there bonus plan is sold as a wow plan but is more like a dud plan. Spiff plans for sales.... laughable. You never see a p&l to see where all the numbers are based on at the store level. How do you tell a Manager to run it like he owns it but he never sees a P&L??? You never know how much your profits are to calculate bonuses or just know what your business looks like from the inside. They keep that hidden at headquarters. They say we are here to coach and build up the team but in reality they will take that bonus or spiffs if you don't jump through every hoop they set in front of you. They make it unobtainable. You will never reach that 100% mark. They find every way possible to take what little you earn away from you in those bonuses and spiffs. The upper management for this area sent to recruit you puts a song and dance routine together so perfect to get you to come aboard it would make even the most greasy "used car salesman" seem like a saint. Once you're in, you tell yourself......... I really just screwed myself and let my family down.

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Tire Discounters Response
10y
While it hurts getting a bad review, we really appreciate getting the honest feedback. Thank you for providing a review.
1.0
24 Apr 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Coffee machine, Accounting and Safety were pretty cool.

Cons

Micromanagement to the extreme. Everyone's validating their jobs, half of which should not exist. Endless, worthless meetings. Weekly “huddles” devolve into power plays—no real decisions are made, and you leave more confused than when you entered. Culture of jockeying for position. Everyone’s angling for the next title bump; collaboration goes out the window. No reason to try. Nepotism is the only thing you need. High turnover. Most of your teammates won’t last past 12–18 months. The ones that do are gone after 2+ years. Leadership disconnect. The CEO and upper management (18 VPs!) are completely detached from day-to-day operations. They dole out mandates with zero input from the folks on the ground. Patriarchal, old-boys’ club vibe. Ideas from newer or female employees are routinely sidelined or ignored despite there being four or so female VPs. Pandering to ego is the real job.

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Tire Discounters Response
11mo
We’re sorry to hear about your experience — it doesn’t reflect the standards we aim for at Tire Discounters. Please reach out to us at HR@tirediscounters.com so we can talk more and understand your specific situation.
1.0
27 Aug 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Salary was reasonable competitive compared to other opportunities

Cons

The moment the pandemic hit, the President of the company (Jamie Ward) had a company wide mandatory meeting. In this meeting he looked us each in the eye and ensured use that we are an essential business, and that no one's job's were in jeopardy. Two day's later, some of the most seasoned employees in various home office roles were made to print out "essential worker" permission slips so they could drive to the office amid a global pandemic, just to be laid off by the company. Within two weeks, rather than bringing back the members of their "TD Family", each one of these positions were listed as 'Hiring' on TireDiscounters career portal, making it obvious that this company did nothing more than take advantage of a global pandemic and use it as an opportunity to cute down on overhead. If that weren't enough, they followed up by threatening lawsuits on anyone who didn't personally deliver their company equipment rather than putting up the pocket change it would have cost them to simply send their ex-employees post paid shipping boxes. I've been apart of the development for more companies than I can count, and I've never once felt the need to warn other developers about the potential bad decision they would be making by working for a company, but in this case, you should absolutely just turn around and run.

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