Entry #6 Working at Discount Tire

Working at Discount Tire. Oh my god how awful it is, I hate it with passion I thought that it would be better when I first got the job because everybody seem so excited when I got there. They had smiles on their faces and everyone seemed to be in fit because of all the exercise every doing on lifting tires. It was June the 15th and I had just got this new job I was super excited because they had offered to pay me $9.50 after I had just got done getting paid $8.25 from JCPenney. Although JCPenney was a good job it never seemed to fit me. I was always the type to be more engaged in work, and Discount Tire kept me busy. It makes me tired when I go home but I then when you think About it I like it because of all the excise i get from this job. I guess when you think about it is a pretty good job. Its just the people I work with I have a manager that sucks he's never engaging in always bags on what we did wrong instead of congratulating us on what we did right. He tends to pick favorites and those who are not his favorite have to suffer through a boring day. My coworkers are mostly cool except for the ones that take their job way too seriously. For example I have a friend named Terry I guess you can call him an acquaintance, because honestly if it ever came down to it I'd probably would fight him if ever provoked. He likes to be super competitive and never likes to have fun. He always make sure that he's the first and never last, always tries to make himself look better by doing what he's told instead of having fun while he doing it. He just does it to do it, and I guess that what my manager looks for. But then I have my other coworker who is really awesome his name is Daniel we tend to have a lot of fun throughout the day. When were competitive we try to see who can change a tire faster. If the boss tells us to do something we do it but we also add some fun to it just to make the day more interesting. Whenever we race we try to see you can take the tire off from the car, change it, balance the tire, and put it back on in less than 10 minutes. Keep in mind there's four tires on a car both of us get to two. We don't want to keep customers waiting so we try to get them out as fast as possible. Also it makes the store look good. This is a process throughout the day. Our super long day consist of working from 7 am to 7 pm. A 12 hour shift with only a 30 minute break! That's the bad part of working there. Also we do so much exercise in this job, and to be honest there is so much that goes down at the job. Discount Tire  actually has you learn it on the computer before you actually start to engage in the back room. That's where everything happens. It's two very long weeks.When the user is starting they have to be on a computer that tells you exactly what to do, and what not to do. Then they test the user to see how much you have learned. If they pass a test then they are able to be paid more which is only a $0.50 raise but still more. Then send the user to the back room where they are able to change a tire and start they're everyday job.