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You know you work for a bad dealership when . . . .

We all know many dealers still make money the old fashioned way, in spite of themselves. If we want to attract top notch professionals to our industry we need to be able to quickly identify attributes of the poorly managed and not employee focused stores.   Lets put together our Top Ten (or 20) Ways to know you work for a bad dealership. 

Keep responses down to two brief sentences. 

Mark

Tags: auto, bad, dealerships, environments, for, performing, poor, retailing, work

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Bookbinder on June 15, 2011 at 8:23pm

.....the keys are under the control of the flooring company

.....the the computers at the sales desk are "green screens"

Permalink Reply by Tom Gorham on June 15, 2011 at 8:43pm
When they are completely unaware of how many bad reviews they have online...  and probably don't care anyway.
Permalink Reply by Steve Madden on June 15, 2011 at 11:08pm
...When the new GM's name is Anthony Weiner and he insists that you follow him on Twitter.
Permalink Reply by Stephanie Young on June 16, 2011 at 10:44am
When the crisis management plan for your dealership is to pass the buck or play the blame game instead of take on challenges head on.
Permalink Reply by Randy Warren on June 16, 2011 at 2:47pm
when they've hired three other sales people besides you and the rest of the sales staff have a pool going to see who lasts the longest.
Permalink Reply by Richard Emmons on June 20, 2011 at 7:53am
When there is a big turnover of personell.
Permalink Reply by Ric McCoy on June 20, 2011 at 3:05pm
When you reveive an NSF notice from your mortgage holder because your paycheck bounced...
Permalink Reply by Ric McCoy on June 20, 2011 at 3:09pm
When they hand you your check on Friday, and they ask you not to deposit it until Monday.
Permalink Reply by Brian J Walter on June 20, 2011 at 4:42pm
... the pay plan changes month to month.  As well the sales managers seem to change month to month.
Permalink Reply by Brian K. Martin on June 21, 2011 at 2:40pm
Well, when I hear salesman and managers alike speaking rudly and using discriptive and fowl langauge in describing or streo-typing there customers that they rely on to make to a living, you know you are working at a bad dealership.
Permalink Reply by Ric McCoy on June 23, 2011 at 10:41pm
You've been there 6 months and you're still hand writing your name on previous SP business cards...
Permalink Reply by John Fuhrman on July 1, 2011 at 7:26am
When any manager or dealer says, "We tried that once and it didn't work."  OR, "This is the way we've always done it."

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