Thread regarding Advance Auto Parts Inc. layoffs

I use to be a driver for them. I was hired just to deliver parts. At first i was treated ok. Then they hired more and more ppl after me then worked me 6 hours a week. At least 15 ppl hired after me then they all quit.
They don't pay enough for what they expect.

I was really disprespected and not valued. I am 66 and i needed the extra money.

AAP bonus money goes to upper management while there is only 2 ppl in a store not making much. Its ridiculous.

It seems to me they want a turn over rate with employees.

Because of covid 19 i no longer work for them. Best thing that could have happened to me

Well, no wonder why you people are getting laid off: You ALL have absolutely ZERO command of the English language, nor the ability to articulate a valid thought. Maybe the biggest flaw with Advance is the recruitment standards. This is self evident, especially considering you losers somehow managed to get hired in the first place.

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I gave my all and Advance executives did not check not check why DM and CAM's never visit accounts.

Using gas and no accountability.

I have worked for advance just over two years. Upper management has no interest in anything but covering shifts and them not having to work more then there 45-50 hour week. My store has had customers reporting the key duty manager smoking dope outside the front door, employees reporting him disappearing long periods, finding him sleeping. Stealing parts drinks and snacks, doing unauthorised work such as completely removing bumpers to install headlights for extra cash. And leaving safe open cash box on counter unattended leaving the store. Reporters concerned employees who report say something are told to make a lot book of infractions and to monitor and keep it written down. Troublemakers rewarded, those who stand up go for help punished themselves blackballed. The company policy seems like they just don't want to hear it, I have found it just better to ignore problem. Had a issue Myself and AGM another employee going to all other close by stores making all kinds of accusations. We were stealing money,parts. Spending our shifts doing nothing that he was forced to do all work tasks and run the store and operations himself when working with myself and agm. When my agm had enough and took things to HR. We found that the DM had made arrangements to transfer both AGM and myself, to keep him where he was, which would give him the opportunity to reach his goal get agm or my job, lucky for us as our DM met to talk to him he gave his 2 weeks notice and given 2 weeks paid leave instead, I decided at that moment I have had enough of advance auto, soon enough I shall move on . All kinds of rumors going around that our location has been sold or closing down, or shall become a carquest. Last year the company built a brand-new advance between my store and nearest location, we now have 3 stores within less the 3 miles. I was offered a better job asked my gm if I gave my notice that I would also get the 2 weeks severance paid? Told because of staffing I wouldn't I could give my required notice but need to work the 2 weeks to keep get my vac/sic time. Go figure do your job work hard nothing, cause trouble get a 2 week reward. I for one hoping the rumors are true.

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Barrons' article, dated 07/29/2017, AAP ticker symbol, Advanced Auto parts on road to financial recovery! Really, is it really a self made , success story type recovery in America, when it's accomplished by massive shadow layoff tactics to cut wages, hours and benefits from it's own hardworking, underpaid and too loyal employees?????? Layoffs started in June of 2017, when stock was down to roughly $100 per share, now , after 30 days and almost 1,000 workers , kicked to the curb, it is now suddenly, and miraculously on financial recovery, really the workers of America ask?

By Vito J. Racanelli

July 29, 2017

Advance Auto Parts Is On the Road to Recovery

The auto-parts retailer’s cheap shares discount the potential for significant profit-margin expansion and earnings growth. The stock could rally 30%.

Shares of America’s leading auto-parts retailers—Advance Auto Parts, O’Reilly Automotive, and AutoZone—have lost around 30% this year, on disappointing first-quarter earnings and fears that Amazon.com is about to muscle into the roughgly $125 billion U.S. auto-parts market. Yet, there are reasons to be cheerful about Advance

Advanced Auto Parts desperately fighting state of Iowa unemployment on folks. Laying off massive, 475 cuts from the June 27, 2017 USA Today article. Company is smart, they are publicly decrying 475 cost cuts, to skirt under federal rules of 500 or more, massive layoffs, would require the company to give 30 and 60 day notices (which cost money, and of course, they are not going to do). Also, on this thread and from Bizwire , 06/23/2017 article, unofficlal layoffs now over 900. Note; company is trashing working families and incomes, to short termism stock buybacks and give profits, to only top level brass. Tom Greco makes $23 million, one million more than PepsiCo, which is much more high capitalization value conglomerate. Company is also not honoring full-time employee handbook on benefits, and stealing vacation days, and also not paying for sick days. Sending folks home early off the clock, to pump up store mgr and dm level bonus structure, all in name of store sales slow, stock down 46% for 2017 and yes, store sales down from 10 to 30%. how do you compete against Amazon.com, who now has 40% share of online do-it-yourself sales? Top mgt, store mgrs., sales, won't even address reality, just continue to take the chickenshit way out and take it out on back asses of working American families, shame on them. Karma is coming for you AAP, I hate to be there, when it comes to call and thank god, I'm not gonna be there. Yes, they canned me at $13 per hour for $9 per hour part time guy, my first Monday I was absent, they made part time guy full time, so this was bang up savings of $4 per hour. They are doing this across the board, and still reporting less than .5% layoffs, when unofficial layoffs will top over 1% of total company. Stay clear of this place, working America, you have been forwarned.

Long term current employee here and how I see it is.

1. Aap buys api to learn how to do commercial a waste of funds.

2. Aap buys cq and did not try to learn from them they just started doing stupid. A waste of money again.

3. Aap use to offer raises not any more because the people at the store level get a bonus. I call BS..

4. Aap hires a tarer chip manager to run a Auto parts company. I call BS.

5. Aap needs and has to return to the basics and stop selling non automotive items and impluse items. When. I think candy bar I don't stop at an auto parts company. When ineed a part I don't go to a grocery store. Aap hires people to run stores with little to no automotive experience leaving the store team to train them.

Too many times aap dm have told lies just to make someone happy. In the past several years dm has lied to me several times and since it is a one on one conversation they just say they said that.

Last but not least aap has to stop cutting hours and forcing the knowledge out the door for part time help that has to be trained again and again. Right now I think NAPA is looking good.

Top performers WERE let go in the most recent round of layoffs. My RVP said: "there's no rhyme or reason" for who was chosen. To those remaining, you are working for a company who makes its decisions by eenie, meanie, miney moe ----- good luck!

Advance really s---s I see good workers leaving all the time because pay is too low. Then they hire someone for 9.00 an hour to fill their spot. Maybe we can get a raise now that high paying Executives doing nothing are gone, Always short handed, how can you run a store with no help.

So I read a lot of these posts, and some read its about time and it was all performance. I'll give yall some clarity. I was a CAM, number 2 in my region, top 25 in company, and gree thisbyears sales by over 200k so far. And yes I do take a lot of credit for that, even my managers who are the hardest working people in this company in my opinion, would tell you the same I'm no longer with a job. I started as a driver, counter, manager then cam. And yes I started with GPI so I'm not a true born AAP guy but ive been doing this for over 15 years, I've probably forgotten more than most of you know. A lot of this was geographical with the recent realignment, but trust me when I tell you this, 1 of 2 things are happening, AAP is either being bought which im 90% sure of or going to try buy another competitor. A lot of good people who were performers in the company are no longer employed. At the end of the day it's just business. Half of yall on here just spitting out stuff and dont know a thing about this business.

Last I checked, you SHOULD be afraid of losing your job if you unit fails to achieve goals. Happens all the time in all aspects of employment. The "whiners" here need to know that companies shouldn't pay for "participation" but performance.

Time will tell. This round of layoffs that started June 19 2017 hit a LOT of people who had been with the company 15, 20, 25, 30 plus years..........seems like they aren't interested in listening to folks who have grown the company to this point. We certainly have enough VP's and SVPs that have been hired in the last year. Meanwhile, we lay off 100's of the working staff. Maybe the infusion of fresh blood at the highest level will be able to finally turn it around, but I have serious doubts. Not impressed so far. But then, that could be because I am one of the folks let go.

I worked for Advanced Auto parts for 7yrs as a CPP I started out part time on the sales counter moved up to a key holder and had to leave the company because of my dad passing away and my grandad was sick but I stayed in parts The companies DM recruited me a few yrs later to come back to the store I started out I'm as CPP .I owed my commercial in that town eve with Oreillys across the road then they went to micro management and the customer slowly went little by little they do not care about there people they just want a warm body to stand There and fill I. Space to piss customers off

Don't be afraid to speak your mind people, it makes you look weak not to.

I worked in Corp Finance for 3 years. I moved from Austin, TX to Roanoke, VA for the position. I left a few months ago and it was such a great decision.

So many issues going on that I could go on rants for days.

1. Chairman of the Board. He wants AAP to be sold, plain and simple. He would like it if AAP were bought by a competitor and he earn his ~100M. That is what he does as an activist investor.

2. P&L. No oversight at all with finance. I complained all the time about spending from certain Directors and VP's and was ignored. There is a contractor from one department who makes 250K a year as a CONSULTANT for AAP. That is insane and everyone knows who it is but won't say anything about it. I am young, so I wouldn't let fear cloud my judgement and left after being begged to stay.

3. Acquisition of Carquest. What a joke. So many failures for this buy. DJ was a horrible CEO and should have been terminated years ago this acquisition was the straw the broke the camel's back for DJ.

4. Headquarters. We get it, Roanoke is not a hotbed for talent and it is difficult to recruit to the area(not sure how I was convinced). Within three years, it will be completely removed from Roanoke and everything will be in Raleigh. So, if you work in Roanoke, get the hell out of the company or get something in writing that you're moving to Raleigh.

Don't be afraid to speak your mind people, it makes you look weak.

Hmm! Heard the news and I'm thrilled! Could it be they have finally sniffed out the big spenders in Loss Prevention😊 Now if only they would look at their HR Big Man in Roanoke who doesn't have a clue will be next ! 😂 Let the employees at AAP rejoice over these cuts because trust me folks , they were a major drain on your stores ! You cannot get buy in or understanding of company culture if leaders don't lead in the direction of the Company Mission Syatement !

Carquest was a sh--ty company before AAP took over! The HR out of riverside and the DM don't take complaints seriously, my car was vandalized because I spoke up and told them my manager was having a s-xual relationship with a coworker, they were stealing, drinking on the clock, also left a dirty thong in our store. Let the employee sell weed out of the store. The Manager talks sh-- about all employees putting them down, talks about being in a gang beating up people, giving her lover a higher raise over hard working emp, had to get another job because all the HR and the DM did was fire the driver. Nothing happened to the manager no consequences because she has been with the company for over 20 years. Nothing changed in that store!

The culture at aap has drastically changed in the last decade. Input from store level, cam level and DM level is no longer desired.

This is very much a top down ,out of touch culture. I have contacts in Roanoke who explain that employees are more worried about admitting problems than solving problems.

14 years in an aap store. I have a lot of connections at the cam and dm levels. Not one wants to admit what is going on out of fear for their jobs.

From what little information I have gleaned it appears that a lot of positions are redundant since the carquest buyout. They are allegedly cutting starting with underperformers and the dead weight in office positions.

This company needs to have actual staff in the field making money instead of in an office trying to justify their positions.

Dm's and Cams spend more time on conference calls and learning how to be politically correct than they spend in stores setting a high standard.

This is a company badly in need of restructuring. Lets just hope the crooks at the top get it right.

AAP has been letting District Mngrs go over a phone call.

O'Reilly Auto Parts is always looking for good people, nation wide! Industry leader that values their people. Please apply at: oreillyauto.com or inquire at your local O'Reilly Auto Parts store. Our District and Regional Managers names and phone numbers are listed on the front door. They would love to talk to you!

I worked at Advance Auto Parts for 7 years at all the yearly sales conferences in either Orlando Florida,Charlotte North Carolina, or DC they always preached that there were to many companies in the automotive aftermarket parts industry and that one of the big three Zone, O'Reillys, NAPA would fall by the wayside they are literally to stupid to realize they are the ones that will not survive.

Upper management is clueless and that cant keep any talent because anyone with half a brain realizes what is going on there and moves on if you have any stock sell it while you still can I sold mine a year and half ago at 170 per share

Over the 20 years of experience with aap, I have filled many roles from stockperson all the way to GM. I have been "forced" into positions to fix broken stores due to poor management due to favoritism of my DM and putting on the blinders to the real problem. DM's spend more time on conference calls than working in the field where they should be. That is why they are constantly puttin out fires in stores. The problem here is not necessarily AAP, the overall available applicant/workforce have turned into self-centered children. When I was hired we had a plethora of younger gear head types that were eager to learn and share knowledge...and now kids just want to make "easy money" on the internet or some other social networking scheme. Kids today don't know how to use wrenches and various other tools. I blame their parents and schools, knowing how to take something apart is a component to problem solving and learning how things work. It disgusts me when I have to explain to customers and Team members how to measure diameter or how to use basic automotive tools.

there has been a lot of progress made to increase availability of parts, which has occurred due to many acquisitions over the years, yet the oversaturated upper management pool needed to be drained. As far as speaking up is concerned we all have a chain of command to follow, and I have and will continue to call out my DM when necessary but it seems that I'm the only one in my district that does...fear is in the air

Why is it on almost every thread about aap i read there is always that one reply that sounds like HR trying to spoon feed us dog sh--??!!

O'Reilly Auto Parts in Roanoke is always looking for great Team members. Contact a local manager for info.

In the decade plus I have worked for AAP, our Distribution Center has often bragged that we have never had layoffs. That doesn't mean there is much investment and focus on improving the conditions for employees. The other side of that coin is that the workers have to show better attitude also.

At least at the dc level we are all motivated by fear. Noone dares go against the almighty managers (who are nothing more than reagular blue collar workers that are in either too much of a legal or financial bind at home to do anything but s--- a-- and follow thru with the orders from above) for fear that they will be 'targeted'. In the 2 yrs ive been there, i have yet to see one person speak up and be heard. Its more like speak up and get fired. Its a horrible place to work. I do still work there....for now.

I know that they've been talking about this for awhile. That's why most stores don't have cpps

I worked for advance auto for ten years I got hurt on the job a 400lb. Transmission fell on me out of a tractor trailer they didn't give a sh-- about me at all I never missed a day of work until I got hurt then they pushed me till I couldn't work anymore . promised me the world to help me only thing that happened was they stuck it up my a** then broke it off this company is the worst I ever worked for good ridinence and watch your back if you work there

@1kpa good post, great. I've seen post disappear here when people are using names and personal info. If you read the rules in the footer they do not allow personal info on the site and they moderate and block users and delete messages.

Granted, you can argue that executives are public figures and that the media has every right to scrutinize their actions but at the same time wanted to point this out to you as my long post (almost a full page) got deleted this morning after just 20 minutes being on this board.

Cheers!

Get back to basics staff your freakin store and pay you people what they're worth trim the fat at the top

And give the employees a chance to Get involved

Jack Broulliard didn't know what he was doing either, it was his idea to bring in Darren Jackson. Neither of them had a clue about the parts business or how to serve the customer. The entire focus became and still is to hit a stock price and walk away with millions. How about focusing on customer service and stop designing incentive programs to cut hours and overload the few loyal employees you still have left. Greed has taken it where it is and all your experience was either forced out or left on their own. Was there 20 years, watched in all happen. If they cared about the company long term and not what it can do for themselves it might change. Use to be a good company, not any more.

I'm not surprised. Advance is the WORST place to work if you're looking for fairness and stability.

Should have just bought CSK in late 2000's and kept Jack Broulliard on longer instead of investing in DJ and the blue-shirts. There- problem solved, kept 2nd place in the industry, and jobs in tact.

In the Roanoke area, there are few if any jobs that can replace the roles that individuals have / had at AAP. Most folks are smart enough to know you can not disrespect your employer in public and expect another employer to hire you. So it is fear based. Additionally, you have such POOR leadership in AAP that keeps employees at odds with each other - departments fighting openly and workloads that are unmanageable. All this means that employees are simply too overwhelmed to talk about the culture. The company simply can not understand that by cutting people and costs will not bring them to a profitable place - they need to do the hard work of actually getting the right parts at the right place and sell them at a competitive price. It's not rocket science - but you would think after 3 years of purchasing GPI and a complete turnover of "C" level executives the company would be moving forward - that's simply not the case. If you work at AAP, i recommend you do what i did - get out. If you choose to stay recognize you name could be on the next list.

It's a taught / learned thing. I believe most are not surprised after witnessing layoffs in previous years.

If the company shows no loyalty to it's employees, it should be of no surprise those employees show grievances of departure.

Having recently worked for this company for a good number of years I can honestly say that at least in my district the company was full of people ready to f--- you over, any chance they get. I don't recommend advance, as a company they have no loyalty and I say f--- em

Yes fear--most people are too terrified to say anything.