Side eying the casual treatment of car dealership workers like they’re insurance people. Everyone’s gotta find work somewhere.
As someone involved in the industy I have to wonder if this is more indicative of Volkswagens greater issues than it is a focus on dealerships in general. I do administration for a Toyota dealer and Just a few weeks ago our owner was talking about how both Nissan and Volkswagen are in crisis mode. Nissan then like 2 weeks later, announced a merger with Honda.
Im not up to date on VW’s issues because they’re more of a european brand, but thats probably half the problem, they used to be fairly prominent in north america. but they just stopped making cars that people wanted to buy. I guess
My brother is a car salesman, I was a car salesman, it’s sleaze all the way to the top. Never met an honest car salesman, and the ones that were semi decent were still pumping their fists over 12-pounders sold to unwitting and often financially compromised individuals
“Don’t manage someone else’s money” was the sentiment I was told time and again if i dared bring up how shitty it was to even offer an old woman with poor credit a $700/mo payment on a shit CVT ass lease.
You don’t have to be a cop, you don’t have to sell insurance, you don’t have to sell cars. Calling jobs primarily inhabited by manipulative people ‘slimy’ is just how that works.
before I joined the company I work for, the sales manager pushed those kind of subprime loans that you’re suggesting with the old woman story. the business suffered a reputaiton hit locally, and sometime before I joined, the nuclear option was excised, basically the entire department was fired. New people brought in or promoted, and now its actually quite nice.
If I didnt say so before, I dont sell cars and have no intention of doing so, most of my job revolves around updating and being a contact point for customers who’ve already made orders for stuff not already on hand. doing motor vehicle registry paperwork, and managing the website. Its a fucking job. Thats it
Side eying the casual treatment of car dealership workers like they’re insurance people. Everyone’s gotta find work somewhere.
As someone involved in the industy I have to wonder if this is more indicative of Volkswagens greater issues than it is a focus on dealerships in general. I do administration for a Toyota dealer and Just a few weeks ago our owner was talking about how both Nissan and Volkswagen are in crisis mode. Nissan then like 2 weeks later, announced a merger with Honda.
Im not up to date on VW’s issues because they’re more of a european brand, but thats probably half the problem, they used to be fairly prominent in north america. but they just stopped making cars that people wanted to buy. I guess
My brother is a car salesman, I was a car salesman, it’s sleaze all the way to the top. Never met an honest car salesman, and the ones that were semi decent were still pumping their fists over 12-pounders sold to unwitting and often financially compromised individuals
“Don’t manage someone else’s money” was the sentiment I was told time and again if i dared bring up how shitty it was to even offer an old woman with poor credit a $700/mo payment on a shit CVT ass lease.
You don’t have to be a cop, you don’t have to sell insurance, you don’t have to sell cars. Calling jobs primarily inhabited by manipulative people ‘slimy’ is just how that works.
before I joined the company I work for, the sales manager pushed those kind of subprime loans that you’re suggesting with the old woman story. the business suffered a reputaiton hit locally, and sometime before I joined, the nuclear option was excised, basically the entire department was fired. New people brought in or promoted, and now its actually quite nice.
If I didnt say so before, I dont sell cars and have no intention of doing so, most of my job revolves around updating and being a contact point for customers who’ve already made orders for stuff not already on hand. doing motor vehicle registry paperwork, and managing the website. Its a fucking job. Thats it