A-holes at Autozone

I see these threads come up every once in awhile. I see both sides having come from working at a few parts houses over the years. On one side you gotta look at how the company sets things up. Big corporate companies think they can just throw someone in there and the computer system is so great that they don't need any training or other resources. Plus they never pay anything above minimum wage so you have no employee retention. Then lets add to the mix the guy who walks in the door who has "X" car and has modified it with some aftermarket brake setup and now 10 years later the brake hose is bad. He walked in with nothing to match it up to and no idea what it came from but somehow your supposed to read his F'n mind and know what it came from. If you modify your car know what parts you have or what they came from! I have a binder from when I did my V8 swap that has every single part I used to do it.

Now from the other end YES if you are going to get into the parts game you need to learn! People I worked with always asked either me or one of the other guys we worked with questions. If they didn't know what a TPS or MAF sensor was or what it did they asked. Hell I got a girlfriend a job at one of my old shops a couple years ago and before she started she knew to ask questions and started learning the basics. I myself am not that bothered by the dipstick at my local autozone who doesn't know his *** from a hole in the ground. I look at it like hey at least he didn't get a job at a shop putting brakes on someones car or a construction company building a roof over my head.