Do not, I repeat do not take your car here! This place is nothing more than a scam who takes advantage of people who are less knowledgeable about vehicles. Trust me when I say this, I use to work at this store. The store manager Dave is two faced and is looking for nothing but to complete his quota of sales for the month. He does not care about the employees, the customers or their vehicles. First let's start with how they treat their employees, they begin with a "starting pay" of $8/hour and when they say" starting pay "they really mean the pay to the day you quit because they are never going to give you a raise. Also they sub out their Uniforms thru
A company called cintas, but get this. cintas only charges American Lube Fast 3$ per pay period( every two weeks) per employee but American lube fast charges each employee $10 every pay period for uniforms, and I know what your thinking, maybe they charge little extra for the employees belt or the flashlight. But no you have to pay an additional 30$ for a 2$ belt and a 5$ flashlight! So in a more compact explanation they steal $182 from every store employee every year. Now considering that American Lube Fast has 51 stores and they average 5 employees a store this means that they steal $46,410 every year from the people that are the heart of their company. Furthermore, A example of how Dave treats his employees is how Dave and district manager Mike handled a situation were I needed a day of bereavement leave when My grandfather had passed away and I needed Friday off to go to the memorial service. Well when I informed my immediate supervisor( Dave ) about needing that Friday off he told me straight no, he looked me in the face and told me I couldn't have the day off because Friday's are busy and it would leave them "short handed". So in order to get the day off I had to contact every phone number at their corporate office until I got ahold of the Human Resources lady. The only thing I can say good about this is the Human Resources lady did her job but I still had to literally pull teeth and go slap off on Dave to get that day off. So when I went to contact Mike (the district manager) about Dave's behavior he ignored every single one of my phone calls. I even called every store he was supposed to be at for that day and never heard a peep out of him and if this behavior out of people in management positions doesn't show you their values I don't know what does. Now that I have made my point about how they treat their employees, let me tell you about how they treat their customers. They literally make up things wrong with you car in order to sell you services. For example, during the "full service oil change" they inspect brakes and let you know if you need brake pads. But I have personally seen Dave tell people they need brakes and when we changed them they still have 50% or so pads left. Another way they scam you out of your hard earned money is they take a sample of your cars power steering fluid in this little clear canister in which they tell you your power steering is dirty because the fluid is a dark red and they tell you it's supposed to be clear like what in the other side of the tester, but it's nothing but
a complete lie. They do make some power steering fluid clear but the fluid in your car started as a dark red. Do not fall for it because I have literally seen them take thousands of dollars away from people with this gimmick. I have seen them on a daily basis screw older and poor people out of the money they needed to pay their bills because they convinced them they needed this service or their car is gonna die the next day. So next time you want ur oil changed or you need a job don't select American lube fast because they are greedy pigs looking to rob you blind including their employees. read more
