Discount Tire reviews

Low pay than deserved per position

Discount Tire is smoke and mirrors. Its full of people fluent in double-speak. The Minnesota region is deplorable. None of the upper management cares for its technicians or assistants. They are solely focused on increasing marketshare and bending over backwards for their customers. Even to the detriment of a particular store. Sure, you'll be sold the dream. Sure. You do not get breaks at Discount Tire. If you are a technician you are expected - nay required to remain in the bays and change tires. Bathroom breaks? Frowned upon. Lunch breaks? "Sure." Its entirely depended upon how busy that store is and how "hungry" it's management is to win the day. Volume is the name of the game at Discount Tire. I hope you can keep up. I hope your body can handle the stress and strain. You don't get opportunities to stretch or drink water. It's frowned upon because there are cars to move. There are car counts to reach and maintain. There are bay times and wait times to keep low and consistent. 15 minutes or less is the true goal. Doesn't matter if it's a dually with 6 new tires or full rotation. Doesn't matter if it's a Corvette with run flat tires and it's been 26 degrees outside all week so the tires are bricks when they arrive. The pay is underwhelming. Severely. The scheduling is worse. As a part timer, you live in limbo. How many hours will you get this week? As a service professional (full time technician) you get roughly 40, but the pay isn't sustainable. Unless, of course, you're single and naive and this is your first job. The hours as a manager or assistant manager are far worse. You only survive financially because you *have* to work 16 to 20 hours of overtime at least. Every week. And those breaks? Pfft. As an assistant Manager you are expected to set the pace and tone. Translating to "if I can't do you, you can't do it either." Let me put it to you like this: how long an assistant Manager is at their store on a given day is proportional to how well their backroom (technicians) move cars. The worse or less experience you have, generally the longer you are there. You may decide to take on the work of 3 technicians just to avoid staying there late. A week of working from before open to 11 pm at night will irrevocably change your perception on your people and their skill/motivation. You don't get sick pay or leave. That's rolled into your PTO/TO. You only get 140 hours annually. The pay is not competitive. The company loves to promote you up quickly and underpay you for the new role you're in. You could be a Senior Assistant Manager (the #2 person) and be making $23 an hour. And that's from starting as a technician around $16-17. If you like having no life this job is for you. If you like pushing yourself and others until their bodies or mentality fails, this job is for you. If you have a family that you love and children you are close to: DO NOT TAKE THIS JOB. It ruins relationships and marriages. Divorce and child support is common amongst assistant managers. And be prepared to work your shift through injury. Be prepared to work when you are physically incapable of doing so. Be prepared to not be allowed to heal. The store comes first. It becomes your life. Either it does or you'll never advance. Finally, be prepared to play the brown-nose game. Its an Old Boy's Club. Ability, skill, talent all matter in the respect that it makes your boss richer (without payoff to you). If you are just phenomenal at your job; if you are an asset without question or rival, but you will not brown nose? You aren't going anywhere quickly. I hope you like spending 2 years as a technician or *maybe* sales apprentice. I also hope someone trained you properly. Its almost never the store manager doing the training. Play the game and give up your personhood/life and you can get a store. However, you'll quickly learn you don't know what you're doing. That you were not properly trained for your position and that your support is inconsistent. You better have made friends along the way. Because they will be the ones to fill in those knowledge gaps. I hope you made smart friends. If you chose unwisely, you and your friends will lose your stores.