Vantaggi
Stable company and growing with the acquisition of Carquest. Good people to work around and a good retail environment
Svantaggi
Personal sales goals for Assistant Managers. As my DM said, we were his bench. Then let us in on the playbook more and having to spend less time on the counter. We were the ones who were supposed to be able to run the store when the GM is out and when GM spots needed to be filled, but were blocked out of GM spots when certain things in the office could only be done by the GM. I mean, what part of "assistant general manager" is so hard to understand. Yeah, I get it, we're the ones on the counter leading the rest of the staff to let the GM do his/her job, but c'mon. I shouldn't have to call the DM for permission to do something when the GM is out. Low pay for management. The only way to really get ahead is to become a GM, but when the company is hiring GM's from without because the AGM's aren't being groomed for that spot (I saw other AGM's be with the company for a decade and still not have a shot at the GM slot) it's time to put a better training program in place.