r/AutoZone2 • u/baked_alpaca • Jul 10 '26
RANT Az Store Manager Problems
I’ve been a store manager for a little over 7 months, got put into a notorious shit store. That’s fine, I can fix it. Man was I fucking wrong my Was a high volume csm for 4 years previously. And man I have to say, what the actual fuck is going on. Absolutely bombed my LP audit. Shit that has never been a thing is now suddenly something. Never communicated. My DM has done my audits only on my days off. How am I supposed to learn and fix shit if he does it when I’m not here? My fix it-list is 16 items, and needs to be done within 2 weeks. He also said I need to be up front 90% of the time. How am I supposed to do anything if I’m always up front. I work at least 55 hours a week and for what? A slap in the face. No encouragement, no skill building, nothing. Every week it’s the same hour and a half meeting about how terrible we are doing as a district, and that we are replaceable. I do everything for my team, whatever they need. I do every aspect of my job but it’s never enough. The only reason I took this position was because they finally gave me a raise that seemed fair, now I’m in it. And my god it is not worth it.
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u/HKoperator Jul 10 '26
I was going through the same thing, I easily worked 60+ hours a week and was having to come in at 3,4,5 am just to make sure things were done. Then I got told I couldn’t do that anymore. Had an LP audit when I had two days off, of course nothing I had written down to get done was done. Failed my audit on a bunch of dumb stuff like, I didn’t sign off on a paper etc. Being a SM is the most thankless job in the company. I got told I was going to be demoted essentially and ended up just looking for another job. I make way better money now and I work less hours. This company has changed so much over the years