If you want to be told daily that you are garbage even when you are pulling double digit comp increases, then O'Reilly is the place for you! District and Regional management wants to constantly remind you that you need to think and act like a "business owner" except when thinking like a business owner interfers with their own way of thinking. Their idea of being a business owner is working 14 to 16 hour days 6 to 7 days a week to keep your payroll down so that their bonus or "Entitlement" isnt hampered in any way. But if you need to talk to a DM or RM after 5pm or on the weekends, call their cell's, im sure you will find them at home enjoying their family and their fat pay checks.
This is not a nice place to work, do not be fooled with the "You can make as much money with us that you want" or the "We promote from within" bull lines. Your pay is determined on a tedious daily audit, 1% of GP and 1% of controlables. The problem is that O'Reilly has such a hard on to have more stores than Zone or Advance, that they open stores within miles of each other and this limits the amount of money each store can make, hence it limits the amount of money each store manager can make. They also will not promote an ASM to a GM spot since they only want to do "Strategic Hires" for GM's of new stores, in other words, they want to hire Zone or NAPA managers who can steal their exisiting customers away to the big O.
The regional management staff likes to remind you how much smarter, better, and greater they are than you. The "Good Old Boy" policy is in effect in a big way at O'Reilly. The more back side you kiss, the better you chance of advancement. Be prepared to pick up your family and move to another state!
Their "Culture" that they brag about daily is a huge lie. The only thing that matters to O'Reilly is the bottom line. They don't care how fast they burn you out. They want their money and you better not stand in the way of getting it.
