Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire So I called AutoZone at 8:30 tonight...

As some one long ago said...................therein lies the rub.

protected class as opposed to protected from indiscriminate firing while performing satisfactorily.

What a world, eh?

Geno

PS, it seems they're all getting protected now, even old white guys.

Brakes are done, just finished a power steering pump in my F150...been a long day. The guy at AutoZone did his best to take care of the problem, can't complain too much about that..just wish the local Bumper to Bumper had better weekend hours...NEVER got a wrong part there.

Thumbs up Tim, glad it worked out OK.

Geno

Several of them were women, and the majority were Hispanic, because the majority of the available workforce around here is Hispanic. I have only ever seen two Negro employees in this factory since I was hired in 1976. And one of those swore he was Puerto Rican.

Protected class makes no difference as long as one can articulate a verifiable reason they are unacceptable.

Because you did not check the parts in the bag before leaving the store.

Take half, or more of the blame. Save yourself some aggravation in the future and look closely at what they are selling.

I was taught at a very young age that when I’m buying replacement parts, like brake pads, alterators, hoses..... bring the part you took off with you. Compare the parts right at the counter to avoid the clusterfukery that sometimes happens when you get home and open the box... or worse, when you’re trying to get the part to fit but something just isn’t lining up

Nevermind. Looks like you are rolling.

Idaho Shooter,

As a 17 year old working construction, I remember the old guys,in their 30's-50's, saying
they wanted no part of being a foreman. I knew they were full of --it. They wanted to be
boss, make more money, avoid the crap jobs I got. They were jealous.


At almost 50, having worked a number of very different jobs, with a lot of different people,
when a foreman job comes up, I don't even think of it. 3 new foreman ago, the one retiring
was talking to me about who would fill his position. I told him a person would be crazy to want to deal
with all management's problems,
all of labors problems, then deal with the personalities.
Add in that with some overtime I made more than he did,
and I would have to leave the union. Leaving me vulnerable to management whims, and they had
arbitrarily fired a couple foreman.

In the last 30 years, a lot has changed.
Including my mind.

I flew into Baton Rouge late one evening and checked my watch as soon as I drove out of the car rental lot. My business the next day was west of the city and I reckoned that I had just about enough time to make it to a fantastic restaurant called The Old Drefuss Store in a little town about an hour west of BR. It was owned by a chef formerly chief at one of the famous New Orleans hotels.

Being a week night, there was only one couple remaining when I walked in at fifteen minutes before closing time and they were halfway thru their meal. I asked the waitress what menu item was the fastest to prepare since I didn’t want to be a bother. She said that every item on the menu was available from opening time until closing time so I should order whatever I wanted.

I had only eaten there a couple times before so I surely was not a favored customer..... just a customer. I asked her to go to the kitchen and tell the chef there was a hungry Texan at a table and for him to just gather up a meal out of whatever was fast and easy for him.

About ten minutes later, she was back with a huge tray of goodies, mostly appetizer items, but in large quantities. There must have been six or eight varieties of seafood items on that tray........ a bona fide feast.

I was only charged the price of a mid range entree item from the menu.

It’s been at least twenty five years and I still remember them groceries.

99.9% of the auto parts i buy are online. Also, my dealer has an online stire with reduced prices. Order online and pick it up. I do like factory parts when I work on my 4runners. Advance auto and autozone suck and they are overpriced on everything.

Those two have been horrible for our independent parts houses.
They quote prices on junk parts that shouldn't even be produced.

Of course, the customer heads there to buy.
Then gets upsold. Then the sell him dielectric grease with his sparkplug boots, grease for his caliper slides etc.

The parts houses sell mostly to pros these days.
No mechanic wants to put junk on a car, then have probems.

They do actually deal in quality stuff.
But that's not what they will quote you.

I like playing social experients on auto zone employees.

Working on a 78 power wagon with 318, need a rotor button and distrib cap.

But instead, I tell them I need a cap and rotor button for a 1970 Road Runner Superbird with 440-6pack

Seemingly never get a register from the 26 yr old dolt working there nowadays. 25 years ago that wouldve made the average Ernie at the counter go into Dream Weaver mode. hahaha

I needed a new blower motor for my 99 Dodge Cummins. O Reilly claimed that a 3/4 ton used a different motor and blower wheel than the 1/2 tons. I’ll spare you the explanation I got when I pointed that it made no sense.

I went to Autozone and damned if their computer didn’t say the same thing. Both places claimed they couldn’t even special order one for a 3/4 ton.

I went to the local salvage yard and bought a used one. It came out of a 1/2 ton and was identical to the original one that I removed.

The counter guys can’t be expected to sell you what they don’t have, or order a prohibited item, but they shouldn’t offer some b.s. justification for a stupid computer error.

Why didn't you just buy one for 1/2 ton Dodge then?

I've always had better luck and pricing at Pep Boys.

I try to deal with napa mostly. When I walk in and the owner goes "when you gonna sell me that plum crazy mopar" I know he I'm still in a place where there's not been any turn-over in several years.
Most of the guys in there used to have their own shops of some sort.


They know I live 25 miles outside of town and always make sure best they can.


I only got to the 'Vato for trivial stuff.

Doubt I'll ever deal with rockauto.com again. They sold my contact info email/ cell phone to third party spammers.

Sure enough, and some of ;em woulda had jiiizzzzzl stains in their short later too.

Geno

I could order every part on the vehicle just to make sure they don't accidentally type in the wrong part number. My money says the one part they'd forget to order would be the one I need. Auto parts stores are the worst at it. If I'm able, I pull the part and match it up at the store. 90% of the time the first part they pull doesn't match up. Why they didn't have a driver's side headlight for a 92 Ford truck in stock ( I guarentee every Ford truck, 1/2 ton, 3/4 ton, 1 ton between 92-97 uses the same headlight) is beyond me.