Well, I guess shame on me for thinking some backwoods car dealership would hire professional salespeople. I just got confused by the fact they represent the FORD brand. So during this past Xmas break, I was looking at some cars and came across one I wanted on the internet and decided to drive to dealership. When I parked, out came 4 desperate salesmen to assail me. I get it guys, business is slow and you need your commission. But for the love of all that's good in the world, have some dignity. So I speak to the first one who accosted me, who told me I had to wait for the car I wanted to see as another client was test driving it. In the meantime, the car salesman wanted my license (I guess to conduct a soft search of my credit). I told him I could show it to him, but I wasn't gonna give him my information until I decided to buy the vehicle. So he goes away while I wait. In the meantime I notice they had set up the room for some holiday activity. After a few minutes, I notice sales people rushing in in a panic and some "pastor" starts to give some inane religious speech to everyone in the room. I really thought this was weird as I wasn't in a church, had I known there was a religious service going on I would have not come that day. Afterwards (I'm still sitting there in a bench and waiting) I overhear some other staff talking about their fundamentalist politics really loud, not caring there were customers walking around. I'm not gonna complain about what they discussed but about the fact they even felt empowered to discuss such sensitive topics in front of clientele who are strangers to them. I am pretty sure Ford would not approve of either a religious ceremony nor staff discussing politics (this is the deep south so you can imagine the kind of idiotic stuff they said). I also noticed what seemed to me to be a manager talking to what I assume to be his wife and spanking her in the butt and laughing like two middle aged love birds. Then the same idiot approaches me with his mustachioed creepy grin to ask if I was being helped, so I know he was spanking butts while on the clock. I'm not against displays of affection, but this was mind blowingly unprofessional. Wouldn't this be considered sexual harassment by the other employees? Nevertheless, my salesperson tells me the other customer decided to buy the car I wanted so on my way I go. Salesperson didn't even try to show me anything else and that's OK with me.
A few months later I got to talking with an acquaintance who happens to be familiar with them. I learn that one of the higher up accountants there is a religious fanatic married to a baptist pastor and that the management is composed by a bunch of loutish rednecks who don't understand what professional labor relationships entail. I was regaled of tales of how that creepy guy brings his wife to the showroom and puts on a display of extreme PDA in front of every employee and client without a care in the world. How they constantly discuss their negative feelings about gay folk and about minorities etc, in front of everyone, even clients!! Finally how they post anti immigration/pro Trump posters in their business office for everyone to see and when they get black clients they hide them. So, I'm not really looking to do any business wit them in the future and I am really confused as to why Ford would even lend their name to this dealership, as everything described is strictly forbidden by labor laws and could land them in legal trouble. The reason is that if they feel they don't need to follow the law in that respect, how can anyone trust them with my credit or that they don't sell me a clunker? I ended up going to the John Megel dealership down the road and it was worlds apart in service and professionalism. read more