Manheim - Anonymous employee Cox Enterprises Employee Review

2.0
Jun 30, 2017
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Pros

Cox Enterprises is an extremely good company and is very generous to their employees when it comes to benefits and basically a great place to work. The Company itself is very ethical and has the best intentions to radiate high ethical standards and loyalty to their employees, and customers/clients.

Cons

Unfortunately, this is not the case at too many of their Cox Automotive Manheim locations. Vehicles are going through presale inspections and being failed by the mechanics, then management demands that the inspection be changed to passed. They also do this when a customer buys a vehicle and gets a post sale inspection. The mechanics will fail them, and management will instruct the Mechanic department managers to change the inspection result to passed. This is done for some of their high volume dealers that bring terrible cars to Manheim to Auction them off. The dealers are unethical, but are making a lot of money for Manheim. The GMs at the auctions are turning their heads and knowingly allowing this to happen at the expense of the buyers purchasing the vehicles and the integrity of the mechanics that are rightfully failing the vehicles.

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