Advanced auto parts vent session...

[SLP IROC-Z]

lol. i remember the guy at the norwood advanced auto parts arguing with me about using dry gas in diesel engnes. alcohol based additives are a big no no in diesels.

i went in to the advanced in salem the other day to get an oil filter, when i walked in the kid behind the counter asked if i needed any help and i politely said no thanks, he replied with OOOOOk. so i pick out the filter and go to the counter he says you sure you got the right one? lol are u kidding me buddy??? so he rings it up and tells me its 13 dollars, im like the price on the shelf says 6 dollars, he proceeds to tell me that there was a price increase and they didnt change the prices in the isles yet. a 100% price increase???? so i show him the price on the shelf and tell him theres now way they doubled the price of all the oil filters so we go back to the counter and now 3 of them are trying to figure this out, so i turn the screen around and look at what it says he rang up, which was the wrong part number, i point this out to him and say see i picked out the right oil filter but you rang it up wrong, now hes two associates are laughing and making fun of him. hopefully he learned a lesson.

[*LS1* Queen]

that advance sucks now...i cant deal with most of the morons in there...they love to think they know shit when they have no idea.

[fluffy]

uti kids are pretty bad we had one put a car into our shop wall because he forgot to pump the brake pedal after doing a brake job...... not really sure how he graduated

[black heartbeat]

I work at an Advance Auto Parts....enough said lol

[KLAB]

Originally Posted by SLP IROC-Z

lol. i remember the guy at the norwood advanced auto parts arguing with me about using dry gas in diesel engnes. alcohol based additives are a big no no in diesels.

i went in to the advanced in salem the other day to get an oil filter, when i walked in the kid behind the counter asked if i needed any help and i politely said no thanks, he replied with OOOOOk. so i pick out the filter and go to the counter he says you sure you got the right one? lol are u kidding me buddy??? so he rings it up and tells me its 13 dollars, im like the price on the shelf says 6 dollars, he proceeds to tell me that there was a price increase and they didnt change the prices in the isles yet. a 100% price increase???? so i show him the price on the shelf and tell him theres now way they doubled the price of all the oil filters so we go back to the counter and now 3 of them are trying to figure this out, so i turn the screen around and look at what it says he rang up, which was the wrong part number, i point this out to him and say see i picked out the right oil filter but you rang it up wrong, now hes two associates are laughing and making fun of him. hopefully he learned a lesson.

What did he look I know the guys that work there they know everything you know. This kid told me I had the wrong coolant one day I was like nope this works.

[84ta406]

Originally Posted by fluffy

uti kids are pretty bad we had one put a car into our shop wall because he forgot to pump the brake pedal after doing a brake job...... not really sure how he graduated

I went to Wyotech and I will say the same thing. I wouldnt let 95% of those kids touch my cars. The problem is the school weigh too heavily on what you do in the shop. Like Wyotech for each class you can get up to 2000 points. 1000 in class grades from tests and 1000 in shop. The problem is shop is mainly groups so you dont have to do shit and still can get a good shop grade. You dont know how many kids get 50's 60's as test grades but then get a decent shop grade to boost their grade to passing. Thats where I think their system is flawed, if you score so low on tests, obviously youre not retaining the knowledge from our lectures so why would I want you to go near my car.

/rant LOL

[holokosta]

Originally Posted by 84ta406

I went to Wyotech and I will say the same thing. I wouldnt let 95% of those kids touch my cars. The problem is the school weigh too heavily on what you do in the shop. Like Wyotech for each class you can get up to 2000 points. 1000 in class grades from tests and 1000 in shop. The problem is shop is mainly groups so you dont have to do shit and still can get a good shop grade. You dont know how many kids get 50's 60's as test grades but then get a decent shop grade to boost their grade to passing. Thats where I think their system is flawed, if you score so low on tests, obviously youre not retaining the knowledge from our lectures so why would I want you to go near my car.

/rant LOL

Exactly same thing my cousin said. He went to UTI and he pretty much said if you don't care enough to teach yourself then your ginna be a bum nugget mechanic