From: Phantom402_REMOVE_256455_THIS_@yahoo.com
I have been selling parts for over 12 years with
my own buisness and 2 years for Auto Zone.
I am
also a ASE Certified master tech and Master Machinist
and Alternative Fuels,Exhaust Specialist, and I have
taken and passed ASE Parts Specialist, and now I STILL
have people come in and ask "are ya sure that oil
filter will fit?" and "can i put a starter from my 76
duster on a 85 sundance?"DUH?!?
I get so fed up with
the real stupid questions likw "will using this brand
of oil void my warranty?" or "do you have this thing
right herefor my ford mercury sable?"
OKKKKAAYYYYYYY,,,,,!
OR a stupid idiotic manager who cant fix his own
vehicle without asking me 50 questions and then still
f*&k's it up,OR when a customer comes in and tells me he
has a 355 chevy with a solid roller, ported
aftermarket heads,a huge by large intake,"can you recomend a
carburetor?"
so I take them over to the Holley carb catalogue and
start showing them hp carbs and then manager showed up
and told him tha those big carbs would put in too
much fuel and they need to buy a 600 Holley
instead.
I had a set of Holley heads ,intake, carb, Pro
strip anihilator,distributor and coil and wires sold to
one fella and when I got back customer had been sold
stock HEI for a 87 Monte Carlo and cap ,rotor
,coil,wires oh and a set of cheap valve covers and customer
trashed the bearings after putting on the valve covers
and his rockers rubbed chrome and metal off the
inside of them.
I tried to help customer but stupid
manager decided that he knows more than I do and i've
only been building engines since like 1983!
i get
no respect and the motto at Auto Zone is WITTDJR
"what it takes to do the job right" and when I try to
recomend the proper parts to do the job right (as I was
trained to do as a mechanic) and others with less
knowledge try to give the customer a "quick fix".
I
always recomend all of the proper parts and tools to
retro fit A/C systems to R134A and the stupid idiot
manager comes ove and drops a "kit" on the counter and
says that is all that is needed to "fix it up".
I
have tried to get him to understand that if you just
dump in the oil and refrigerant to a system you pose a
risk of getting the system oil bound and cross mixed
R12/R134A becomes FLAMMABLE! Trust me I know this for a
fact after trying to recharge a system which was a
mixture of both after this person had used a "drop in
kit" of R134A. The car had some bad plug wires and it
was running badly when wet but i was not told so when
i started spraying the system done with soapy water
to find a leak without recharging the system and
leaking it out.
After figuring out what was wrong I
fixed the leak and was recharging it from the R12
ssetup(which had been empty and only had what I recycled from
system)when I started the system to recheck for a restriction
aa hose ruptured and with wet wires the engine
missed,the spark lit the mixture and i got a face full of
flame(luckly all it did was singe a little hair from my
bangs)but then I calleda friend and he did a little
research and the mixture will burn if subjected to proper
conditions.
And later found out that "dipshit" the manager waso
ne who sold him kit,and it cost hime over $600
dollars to replace hoses,compressor,drier orifice tube
and flush system AND pay for disposal of contaminated
material(not cheap) but now he has a car that can run in 100
degree weather and maitain 45 degree outlet temp at idle
(god I love self adjusting orifice tubes hehehe).
I
hate working for idiots who know nothing about legal
repairs and recomend stupid crap that makes us all look
bad.
He also will not consult the catalogue for proper
part numbers ,just go grab a part and say that is what
they need.
AND now he gets a promotion to ASSISTANT
MANAGER!
WHAT A GOOF OFF,it infuriates me and I can do
nothing,I keep gettingtold I'm taking too long with
customers yet I sell as many parts as anyone there and IM
PART TIME!
Oh well thanks for lett
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