sound familiar

[river1]

WARNING ADULT LANGUAGE funny stuff tho

https://jalopnik.com/5191437/autozone-customer-takes-matters-into-his-own-hands-after-45-minutes-on-hold

later jim

[kb426]

This guy is more determined than most.

[enjenjo]

I've been there Jim, many times.

[UGLY OLDS]

I used to have the same problem ...Now, ALL 3 of the local stores want to HIRE me    :!:  :!:   One Mgr. even offered me to pick my own deal ...Full time ,Part Time ,My Time , he didn't care ...He just wants my knowledge & patience as he can't seem to find it in ANY of the applicants he gets .....He once told me that he's happy when a new employee comes back the second day    :!:    


Bob..

[butch27]

Funny--but sadly true.  BUT I would be the same way with all of the new electronic parts.

[Rrumbler]

Made me chuckle, that did.  So many times I just lost it to the point of walking out, and the guys couldn't figure out why I was upset.

[WZ JUNK]

My brother Sam started work a couple of weeks ago at a Bumper to Bumper parts store.  He is going to work about 3 1/2 days a week.  His primary job is delivery but he says he will work the counter some.  He says he enjoys going into the shops to see what they are working on and what is hiding in the back corners.

John

[Charlie Chops 1940]

Seems like if you can't find it yourself you aren't what they call a customer. My speed shop guy is pretty darn good at sourcing and the neighborhood parts store owner/operator has his * together. He's older than dirt though and very cranky...I like him better all the time. He opened that store about 35 years ago and he brooks no nonsense. Period.

The advance auto parts type stores get very little of my business unless it's on the DIY shelving. I'm getting old (and cranky, too) and purely do not have time for them to burn my daylight. Besides, ya just can't fix stupid.

[UGLY OLDS]

the neighborhood parts store owner/operator has his ##### together. He's older than dirt though and very cranky...

 Charlie ,you should invite him to join us .....  He would fit right in with our group....    

Bob..

[lofat46]

About 10 years ago in Louisville one of the rear mag wheels came off my '46, took three of the 5 studs with it. I limped it back to my hotel with a tiny spare and two studs holding it on. Went to Auto Zone the next morning asked for three 7/16" studs and lug nuts for a Chevy rear end.  The teen-something guy behind the counter asks, "what kinda car?"  "'71 Camaro" I replied. Looks it up, goes to a drawer and hands me three 1/2" left hand studs.  "Not the right ones" I say, "yes they are, because that's what the computer said".  "No, no they are not right".  "Sir, they have to be right because that's what the computer told me."  An older (my age) guy behind the counter is watching and asks me what I need.  I said three studs and lug nuts for a Camaro rear end.  He walks over to a drawer pulls out five studs and lug nuts, puts them in a bag and says have a nice day.  The kid still insisted he had the right ones.  Sometimes I'll play with them and tell them it's a '46 Chevy when asked what kind of car I have and watch the look of confusion :? as they try to find it on their computer.  Then I'll make up some Chevy product that I know the part I'm looking for will fit just so they can find it.  Oh I miss the days of countermen just knowing where everything was on their shelves or on a rare occasion maybe having to look it up in a book, but usually knowing.

[416Ford]

Ask the young kid at the counter for a clutch fan some time and see how long they search or if you really want to have a good time ask them for a 72 VW Bug radiator.

[BFS57]

Hello;
Anymore nobody in a parts store doesn't recognize any car older than 1995 and if it doesn't say Honda on it, Forget It!!

Bruce

[tomslik]

Ask the young kid at the counter for a clutch fan some time and see how long they search or if you really want to have a good time ask them for a 72 VW Bug radiator.

that's nothin', I get the "who makes rambler?" question....

[Charlie Chops 1940]

Sam's Club opened here 10-15 years ago. Drove my '40 Chevy over to get a new set of bibs and littles installed. Couldn't do it because their computer didn't show a '40 Chevy. No one, up to and including the store manager hadthe authority to just go in the racks and get 4 matching tires and put them on. I occasionally buy a couple take away tires there but I took the bulk of my tire business elsewhere. Probably 8 to 10 sets they didn't get to sell through their centralized control structure.

[58 Yeoman]

That happened at Sears once. I had a minivan that had two different size tires on it. I took it to Sears and said that I wanted them all replaced with the larger size. He said he couldn't do it, because the door sticker didn't have that size on it.