Vantaggi
Corp Office- Laid back, business casual dress code, mostly friendly people. Top management tells you what is going on in quarterly meetings. Some employee recognition in quarterly meetings and letters to the company are read. Benefits are OK. Some management has an "open door" policy where you can feel OK to ask questions/advice. No real penalties for being late. There is a gym in the corporate office.
Svantaggi
Favoritism runs rampant at Pep Boys. Work gets pushed down to the staff and management doesn't pay attention or just don't care that this goes on. At times this can be frustrating knowing that the supervisors get paid almost double your salary. The company is pretty disorganized and lacks good communication between different departments. Computers are slow which makes it hard to get your job done. It seems like the same employees always are staying late (Some due to being overworked and some just prefer not to go home.) High turnover, recent layoffs, almost got bought out but the acquiring company backed out last minute. Low pay.