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Yucca valley,#2UPDATE Employee
Tue, February 22, 2011
Right On Claude! I am Happy for you. I am a current employee and Oh boy! do I have some info . Well I know this was awhile ago but it is still happening.
Claude
League City,#3Author of original report
Fri, March 02, 2007
Just to finish this once and for all...The State of Texas confirmed that I was in the right. I recieved $166 a week for the 3 weeks that I wasn't employed. I now have a better, higher paying position at a competitor. In addition, the unlawful termination suit that I filed was also successful. And to beat it all, the DM that was over my area is now gone, and the company wants me back! AS IF!
Chris
Houston,#4Consumer Comment
Sun, November 26, 2006
From what you've told me, I'm actually quite impressed with Autozone how they bent over backwards to accomadate you. You moved all over the place and you always had a job with them. Even at the expense of someone who probably applied for that postion and didn't get hired due to them trying to keep you. Just because they couldn't give you a promotion that required you to be able to close the store when they needed you to, your going to come on here and call the whole company discriminatory which is total nonsense.
Edward
Vine Grove,#5UPDATE Employee
Wed, November 22, 2006
Yeppers, your post makes it all understandable. On 11/18/06 you state that you were still working at AZ, as a part timer. On 11/21/06 you write that the State of Texas agrees with you, you presented your issues with a lawyer and now you are thinking about a lawsuit, and even better, you are starting to receive unemployment benefits. What an incredible weekend you must have had. Do everyone a favor, especially yourself. Find employment that will allow you to go to school full-time. There are many different types of jobs that will allow you to work specific days and hours. Your demanding that a customer service business comply to your demands of scheduling is unrealistic. Texas is a work at will state. You are not able to demand specific accommodations to suite your life-style. It is obviously time for you to move on into some other field of work. Other-wise you will be spending most of your day crying over spilled milk. You should realize that not everyone has a hatred towards their work place. Albeit, not everyone will sing praises about AZ or any other place they may work at, most realize that they do owe a duty of good faith to their employer. You are obviously unhappy at AZ. Good luck to you. It may be the right time for you to move onto something else
Cory
San Antonio,#6Consumer Comment
Tue, November 21, 2006
All I can say is this is typical of the what is coming into the workplace today. He wants the money, he wants the benefits, he wants the position, he wants the location, he wants the hours, ALL ON HIS TERMS. Typical.
Claude
League City,#7Author of original report
Tue, November 21, 2006
I posted this to let others know how Autozone treats their employees. Since the original post, the State of Texas certainly agrees with me, as does an attorney that contacted me. With my unemployment benefits now coming in and a possible lawsuit in the works, I'm GLAD I'm out of that place. As I stated in my letter, the 4 managers that I worked for and STILL are friends with would gladly have me back working for their store. I laugh at how you said that Autozone was nice enough to let me work after Katrina; hell, they begged me to work at their stores. Autozone NEVER has enough staff; they push most of the work on the poor folks like myself who "go the extra mile". Since I left, 4 other PSMs in my district have left for other employment after finding out how "nice" Autozone treated me. Good riddance!
Edward
Vine Grove,#8UPDATE Employee
Mon, November 20, 2006
Your entire post seems to be nothing but a self-serving claim of what you think is an entitlement. I have worked for AZ for some time now and I do have a working knowledge of their policy. First, on the employment application that you filled out before being employed, it states that you need to be available during all of the hours the store is open. Arrangements for your schooling that were made at one store should not be expected when relocating at another store. It seems as though you were expecting the other managers to work the shifts and days that you did not want to work. Great teamwork there. I would think that all of the other employees also have outside interests that include but are not limited to family, other work, community functions, and personal interests. Are you expecting you co-workers to forfeit their interests so that yours will be accommodated? Again, read your hand book. You are not entitled to paid vacation time until you have one year service, and even with the one year, the vacation time is added to your benefits on either Jan, 01 or July 01, which ever date follows your anniversary date of hire. It seems that AZ did very much to accommodate you. AZ worked with hundreds of zoners who lost their homes during Katrina. They let you transfer to Florida and then to Texas. Autozone employs nearly fifty thousand people and has never had a lay-off. I myself transferred from Texas to another state. I have seen dozens upon dozens of people transfer from one state to another. AZ has always found a home for these employees. The most important point that you are not understanding is that AutoZone is a public company. . They must run the company to be successful. In your own post you said that you said that you were fully capable of being a student full time and working at AZ full time. If you want restrictions on the hours that you are available, then you are not available to work during all store operation hours, thus not available for full time work. With your way of thinking, working 40 hours that YOU select, qualify you for full time employment. That is not realistic in a retail customer service based business. You only seem to have limited gratitude to what AZ has done for you in the last 16 months. It seems to be give me more, more, and still more. Working in a customer service type of environment, sometime requres working a different schedule from one week to another. Those different hours from one week to another happens in most every type or retail business. Not only does most every employee in a retail business work different hours from week to week, they also work days differently from one week to another.