I'm warning all of my fellow mechanics out there about Firestone. Please listen to me and don't get suckered into working for minimum wage!
Firestone pays flag time to their mechanics and say that they pay "book labor", claiming that the book labor they go by is AllData or Mitchell. And everything you do, you'll get paid for.
Here's what they don't tell you:
Firestone has their own labor guide for paying mechanics and it doesn't pay the labor times you'll find in AllData or Mitchell. Most times, it pays less.
They like to overpopulate their shops. When I was hired, and finally got through all the red tape to start work, I found out they'd hired two more mechanics as well. There were going to be more mechanics than there were bays in the shop!
The "garanteed minimum" is what you will earn. Period. Nothing more. You'll have to work open to close seven days a week to earn more.
You won't get your first paycheck when you're supposed to. They conveniently "don't get you in the computer system" and end up getting some free work out of you unless you threaten to contact the Department of Labor. I had to do that. It was only after I called their internal "make the right call" line that the district manager made the manager pay me, and he paid me out of the cash drawer.
You can do better. Firestone isn't the place for you.
And you customers out there, keep in mind that if they treat their employees like this they'll treat you even worse.
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