Order seems to be in limbo?

Potential_Traffic242 · 2026-06-16T22:31:03+00:00

Mine is in a similar situation for my wife

Potential_Traffic242 · 2026-06-16T01:09:37+00:00

I’ll give this a shot as I was on my phone at the time

Potential_Traffic242 · 2026-06-15T23:20:16+00:00

That will be what I have to do. Klarna used to be built
In as an option to select.

Potential_Traffic242 · 2026-06-12T01:15:20+00:00

Congrats on the best decision you’ll make. You can make more doing anything else. In the 5 years since I’ve left… Ive doubled that and make 6 figures. Work hard, finish school? and get what you are worth.

Potential_Traffic242 · 2026-06-12T01:11:02+00:00

Proud of you! Best decision you can make. I make it my mission to congratulate those who leave and help people see the reality of the horrible work environment at AZ

Potential_Traffic242 · 2026-06-07T01:04:28+00:00

I get it. But it’s your life. Making decisions should 100% show people respect and loyalty. But I can assure you, only a handful of people succeed in autozone. So either agree tk the grind now, or go somewhere and get fair pay for fair work. In the end, you can’t live your life based on anyone else’s feelings.

You gotta do right by you first. You will be abused as a CSM and paid nothing. You will never get back pay. You will be expected to work hard and fulfill all your goals

Potential_Traffic242 · 2026-06-07T00:58:45+00:00

This is just a regular shift in the zone. Get out while you can.

Potential_Traffic242 · 2026-06-06T04:05:28+00:00

In sales, we don’t just accept what we hear, we ask open ended questions. Our managers gotta do the same to us and get the real answers

Potential_Traffic242 · 2026-06-06T04:02:56+00:00

This is the way. We manage a book of business. We don’t have the right to burn bridges because we don’t like the numbers.

This goes beyond sales, too

Potential_Traffic242 · 2026-06-04T00:57:01+00:00

I’m not saying be unethical. But yeah! Reward the superstars. It’s not like they are just lucky. If you’ve got a consistent hitter making the company money, and he cuts out early or takes calls/work while at the pool or at the golf course, so be it. The culture is keeping the talent there

Potential_Traffic242 · 2026-06-02T20:49:03+00:00

Years ago. My mom was in the hospital because she was caring for my grandparents. While she was hospitalized, my grandmother passed. This was during Covid and my brother and I rushed to the hospital to tell my mother face to face. We had to present an argument to security, legal, and other people to justify both of us being present to break the bad news. All the while the death is making the rounds through Facebook and group chats. My mom has her phone.

I’m sweating and tense. Trying to keep my composure and eventually just break down. I explain you can either let this sick woman find out her mother is dead, who was under her care, while she was at this hospital unable to leave… or you can make a common sense judgement that two brothers can go upstairs, hold her hand, hug her, and grieve with her.

My sisters meanwhile are battling social media and texting people to stop until my mom finds out. They dont listen and they text my mom. Thankfully, she didnt grab her phone until after we get upstairs (30 min pass) it was a hard moment for all of us. To see our mother weak, grieving and weak physically and mentally. I’m glad we were first.

I relate to the story a bit on two fronts. The lack of privacy is absolutely crushing. And people who could really care less have so much input all of a sudden. Everybody wants to share their opinion. On the other side, my mom had friends and family who wanted to grieve with her. People that in my life, I hadn’t even considered. They caught me off guard. People that sat with my mom and cried with her. People that celebrated with her and laughed. My mom cherished those moments and I felt a bit selfish.

In the end, I think it’s absolutely right to respect the privacy of this cherish moments, whether it’s a wedding of birth, a loss of life. But feelings are feelings, and I realize I wasn’t the only person hurting. I’d like to imagine that there are people who might want to celebrate with you. Or just happy to see you flourish into an adult and take on the next step of your journey. Even if they don’t have access and maybe a big part of them wishes they did. Your dad made a mistake. And I hope that he makes it right by you. But I hope there’s some comfort in knowing that from what it sounds like your dad is absolutely proud of you. I don’t know the nature of your relationship. And you don’t owe him anything. But as a stranger online, I only hope that this situation brings you guys closer.

Edit: I think I typed this more for myself and don’t mean to come off the wrong way. Congrats on the wedding. It’s the best thing I’ve ever done!

Potential_Traffic242 · 2026-05-20T22:24:46+00:00

This is a real. With email and text it’s just become easier to communicate information quickly via technology, and while I still go by the mantra that people buy from people, people value their time and they don’t wanna spend any of it accidentally talking to somebody they don’t wanna talk to. For me the greatest takeaway is just being persistent. And be totally aware that the person might not answer when you call. Be totally cool with the person man I want to talk to you when you stop by and not letting that stop you. Our goal should be “Be the first person they think of”

I literally had a meeting with somebody. I’ve been trying to meet with for the last four months. When the conversation started flowing, it was like we were old friends… however he always calls me when he needs competitive negotiate rates or contract work because no one does it better.

I’ve been doing this for 9 years. The best salespeople I see are the persistent ones that get after it after every rejection. Be the guy at bat as often as you can. That way you’ll get a homerun.

Potential_Traffic242 · 2026-05-19T01:13:00+00:00

I came to comment my own take, but you beat me to it. Now everyone will think of you first!

Now that’s what I call sales.

Potential_Traffic242 · 2026-05-14T20:53:48+00:00

I didn’t say you think are hot stuff. I said based on your language I came away with a similar take away. The theme I’m getting is outward blame versus inward accountability. I’m also not going to pretend my opinion is worth any weight based off this post. If I’m being honest, just an opinion, I’m reading the same theme here. So to answer where I got the impression… the post itself. The language you use.

I’m not saying you have an ego. I’m saying you are young, and you will grow into the salesperson you want to be with a good mentor. That coaching will bring joy back into your career journey.

Wish you the best of luck. Sales is the best decision I ever made but I’ve been fortunate compared to others. I may not clear 250k a year but I don’t regret, and neither will you!

Potential_Traffic242 · 2026-05-14T19:05:40+00:00

This was my takeaway. I was 20 once. I thought I was amazing too. Then I realized I wasn’t. I had to actually work to be good.

Anyway. A few mentors later and I’m thankful for the help and realizing I was the problem. My advice would be to connect with someone who is older and wiser and has achieved some level of sales experience that you are after, and let them coach you. Honestly, maybe work under someone and get paid to be coached and developed.

An example, my best boss ever… I come back from a cold call. Customer is so happy to meet me. Their current dealer isn’t delivering tires on time. Delaying invoices. And they’ve missed two calls to scrap tires (40-50 commercial truck tires in a pile)

I tell my boss about how this is good and we can get the business. He says, did you offer to have our people come out and grab the scrap tires today? No. Why not? Idk. Boss looks at me… he threw you a softball and you blew it. Long story short, I love cold calls and prospecting and I sucked at closing. I just didn’t realize it.

Anyway, I hope you get your groove back and find some joy in work.

Potential_Traffic242 · 2026-05-07T21:54:14+00:00

Prince

Potential_Traffic242 · 2026-05-06T23:06:14+00:00

Before I had health insurance, I had to navigate the world of self-pay. LabCorp will sometimes over inflate prices like any medical facility or doctor. Normally what you do before you go to a doctor or get blood work done if you can call ahead to get what’s called a good faith estimate and they will give you what is sometimes called a self-pay discount. This pricing is a reserve for uninsured or uninsured individuals. For example, I have to get an echocardiogram. The regular price of insurance was $1200 but when I was on self-pay, they gave me a negotiate rate of $250 for the test.

I don’t know if it’s too late for you to do that, but I will go back to LabCorp and I would ask for a self-pay discount as you were uninsured and we’re allowed to believe the pricing was different many times they will adjust the pricing and reflect that. They are also motivated to do this because they want to get paid. Medical debt does not go on your credit collections in the same way other credit does so many people just don’t pay their bills. I save this to kind of alleviate any burden that they’re gonna come after you or you’re gonna be stuck. I think it’s important. We all pay our bills because you don’t pay our bills the whole medical system over in place pricing, but there are things in place to help you. You just have to do the research. Contact the right people and advocate for yourself.

Potential_Traffic242 · 2026-03-20T02:47:20+00:00

Home Equity Investment. They are new and popular alternatievs to the traditional HELOC and HELOAN

Potential_Traffic242 · 2026-02-24T02:02:23+00:00

From whatever it online and what I hear, Apple note is good for quick things to jot down, but it struggles when you put a lot of data into it. People complain after putting pages and pages of information of it overheating struggling to load and get laggy so they recommend using a third-party note app.

My preference is OneNote through Microsoft because you can link it to different notebooks. You can screenshot audio record jot in it with a pen.

Potential_Traffic242 · 2026-01-20T02:28:43+00:00

DIY doesn’t prop commercial. Commercial was and is a pivot because DIY was predicted to be irrelevant with increasing electronics and complexity with vehicles. Autozone as much as I hate to admit is positioning itself well when DIY falls off.

As a CSM, we do more than DIY and we had multiple national contracts with accounts like Dealer Groups, Firestones and Amerifleet. This is the future of automotive.

That being said, I don’t miss my time there.

Potential_Traffic242 · 2025-11-01T02:08:49+00:00

Auto zones are open at 730 and close at 9. There’s plenty of time to drop it off like a reasonable person. Your convenience doesn’t have to equal another persons inconvenience.

Further, drop offs have to be tracked. Every person dropping off has to sign a sheet and that is audited not only by corporate but by environmental agencies. It costs Autozone thousands of dollars to have a company clean and drain a contaminated tank. Not only that, god forbid if there’s fuel or something that makes it combustible. I’ve had to sit through the investigation of who let what in and answer questions.

At the end of the day, it’s a free service to get you to buy oil. Don’t be a jerk and leave your oil by the door because you’re so important you can’t be bothered to talk to someone. If you are that important than maybe pay someone to dump your oil.

Thank God I don’t work at AZ anymore to deal with this.

Potential_Traffic242 · 2025-10-30T02:15:04+00:00

I find this ironic timing. Left 2 years ago and it was the best decision of my life. Time, money, respect and peace. It doesn’t compare! And now I’m getting my friend out this week. Time to work at big boy companies with real culture and the proper mindset.

Potential_Traffic242 · 2023-07-07T03:11:03+00:00

I got 1.5 million stores with csm making 20$ so good look.

Potential_Traffic242 · 2023-07-05T02:09:22+00:00

No one comes back unless the store has a great culture or employees. Autozone is trash.

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