Lemmie tell ya. They GUN for older guys at OReilly. I had it happen to me and then very shortly after that, they made things "very difficult" for a friend of mine who was still there. He finally gave up. We are about the same age. The problem is simple math. They want to pay school kid wages. Period. I was assistant manager there for almost five years. I pulled every weekend and every week night. Never complained. I did the schedules, new hires, discipline and any terminations...which there only one I had to do. I also handled all of the parts returns, both new, defect and cores. I also got there early on Saturday mornings to check in stock. a LOT of that was supposed to be split evenly between manager and assistant. It wasn't, but I never complained. I wasn't even making 12 an hour. Everyone under me was a either minimum wage ($7.25) or 8 an hour. Just pathetic. I remember all through 2018 and into 2019, they were touting pushing "20 billion" in profit for the year 2020. I left about April of 2019. Let's just say they made things incredibly difficult, which they already were, due to my health issues. I was already on disability and working closely with social security, because I had planned on coming off SS and permanently returning to work. I started having chronic back and foot pain. Come to find out, I had plantar fasciitis. That was also causing my back pain. Although now that I'm completely retired, the plantar fasciitis is gone, thank God, but my back problems persist, along with everything else. So I'm not the sorry son of a ***** no working bum some people around here think I am. I actually TRIED to get outta the wagon and pull it. It didn't work out.
Having said all that, I cannot in any way shape form or fashion recommend an auto part "career". It will not be a career if you are older. It will be a dead end job.
Oh and they CRUSHED the 20B in profit. I don't remember what it was, but you know what the employees got? Not one damn thing.
