i was recently fired from autozone because of there new bull**** points system for being late or absent.i had 9 points when my fiancee was life flighted to a hospital,when i arived at the hospital she asked me not to leave her because she was afraid and did not want to die alone.autozone would not give me my vacation days or help me in any way to preserve my job,autozone managers are scum bags. i was fired a week before christmas because i needed to be with my fiancee before she died,what a way to take care of your employees.but it is kind of strange how some employees are late or absent and dont get points or others don’t get fired untill they have 20 or more points.i will see you in court scum bags
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i completely agree with you on the points bull. its bogus and I’ve seen the same thing with the lucky few people who survived over the 12 point max. i had to resign from autozone because of points and 50% of those points were medical related.
kyle on January 17th, 2010 at 12:01 am | Link
The store manager or any grey shirt has the ability to make those points appear. Its in the “end of day attendance” portion of the closing tasks. They can put in certain things to make the points disappear. Seems to me that your manager just didnt care.
Eric on February 26th, 2010 at 2:29 pm | Link
i recently got fired by this piece of dodo company as well, i had emergencies, for the reason my wife is chronically ill, and it was so severe i had to call in a day or in the middle of the night before so i cant get any points, an sure enough, in a day she wasnt, i had a schedule that said 5:30, and the store schedule said 5. i was 10 points, and since its the weekend which is friday, when did friday count as a weekend??? any how, i was 18 mins late. and did not “call” stating i was going to be late, and i had 2 points, and then i made it to the magic number. i had know proof that my schedule said 5:30 for i had lost the paper, but the thing is they always redo the schedule, for reasons that the district manager has to say yay or nay on the schedule. so thats what had happend…
heres the thing the store manager didnt like me, since i worked with him before, and i transferred, and then quit the first time i worked with the company, they where wagging the supervisor position which i knew a whole lot than the manager and most psm. then saddly i came back, for i was going full time at a college, and i love dealing with automotives, and i needed money as well, and sure enough the point system came into play, and the the old manager i worked with took over the store i started to work at, and we became “real good”friends. i complained to the district manager that i wasnt able to work with him since i had worked with him i knew i was not going to get along with him, but nothing happened.
well shows you that AUTOZONE is a company that have people that kiss ass for the manager and move up, and those who are not have either the option of quitting or biting the bullet, for the sake of having a job.
did you know that store managers are the only ones that dont get the point system???
and did you know they are the laziest ones that always say they are “doing paper work” and when they come up in front dont know what they are talking about in parts, and are enforcers of wittdtjr?
and they either call and take the day off, or leave early, and either dont ever work on sundays, or do, but leave extremely early?
did you know the upscale sales are money in the District managers, and regional mangers pocket? that is they are gaining commission, while the “RED ANTS” do the most ****tiest job of trying to sale them, so they can get a higher position.
if anybody posts a comment here, is there a way we can do something about this? i am willing to do whatever it takes that this company is being unfair with their employees and that we need to stop this…
sailo erl on April 8th, 2010 at 2:32 pm | Link
The point system is 100% not reliable. Store Mangers can basically modify tardiness and/or absences. It seems you had a Store Manager as an IDIOT. I recently seen where an employee has 31.5 points and are STILL currently employed with the company.
Ex-Autozoner on April 26th, 2010 at 9:42 pm | Link
http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0522-32.htm
Scumbags they are. Not any grey shirt can change the points. Store manager can fix all they want even after payroll closes.
Look at the site above. The LP department is the worst. They coerce employees in false guilt then fire them.
BOYCOTT AUTOZONE!
David on May 21st, 2010 at 12:38 am | Link
I tried to start a very large lawsuit against Autozone at LawCash.com under the title Autozone - Wrongful Termination Discrimination Harassment because of the points system and the way they treat their employees. I still got tons of evidence on how they manipulate the points and the threats that are made against the employees. I DO NOT GO THERE FOR ANYTHING ANY MORE!
Anti-Autozone on June 2nd, 2010 at 2:09 pm | Link
i recently have been employed by Advance auto 10000% better company in my perspective , employees are NOT threatened with points or poorly treated , mostly the people i currently work with are EX employees from autozone , autozones best commerical specialist in my area is qutting and going to advance , SCREW autozone and there bull…. oh and another ” special ” thing about autozone is they have a ” special ” internet task force which monitors websites EX facebook , myspace , yahoo for complaints , and negative rants about autozone
SO GO TO HELL AUTOZONE , THERE WILL COME A TIME WHEN THE TRUTH COMES OUT AND YOU WILL BE HELD RESPONSABLE FOR YOUR COMMUNIST WAYS , UNAMERICAN IS WHAT AUTOZONE STANDS FOR…….
HIEL AZ!
biscuit on June 2nd, 2010 at 8:50 pm | Link
Its obvious you didn’t pursue the issue to much Ive been a auto zone part time psm for 6 years now, yes there are guys that do not show up late, and sometimes run a little behind there is nothing wrong with letting the point slide. but for instance you already had 9 points before your fiancee was even sick, you were on your way out the door anyways. It seems that the people that have an attendance problem are the only complainers or scared of going up the ladder. My store manger wants to give me a point and i don’t feel comfortable about it, i talk to my district manager. i currently have 1.5 points and they have been doing this point system for how long now?
Jimmy on June 8th, 2010 at 4:28 am | Link
I’m sure we’re not the only ones who’ve been unfairly fired by this nazi company. We need to do something about this immediately…
Autozone treats their employees like robots, we’re not allowed to have any type of emergency because even if we’re on our death bed, we get points.
I’m a hard working redshirt but I’m getting canned for being human and having an emergency on a weekend. But let me tell you corporate pigs something if you’re reading this:
THE PEOPLE YOU SHOULD SCRUTINIZE WITH A SERIOUS EYE AND MAGNIFYING GLASS IS THE STORE MANAGERS!
I’m sure LP will have a field day when I alert them of all the crooked **** my boss does.
Autozone acts like they care about their employees with their piece of **** generic pins, but in reality this company’s “point system”
only goes to show their lack of consideration towards the specific needs of each employee.
bring autozone down on June 14th, 2010 at 1:37 am | Link
In my store alone we have been through 19 store managers in 20 years. Fired more psm’s then i can remember and even more red sirts. My district manager first words in the last meeting was hey thanks for winning me a vacation keep it up. Now how am i sappose to feel at the fact we did all the work and he gets a vacation and punches us in the face. Our store manager is under so much pressure to sell the wittdtjr goop and checkout challange he has to buy it just to make the guy happy. We live in a small town where most of the people are regulars. You can only sell so much goop to the same people b4 they get pissed at you. We have been even getting threts of being written up if we dont sell it like thats realy going to make me want to sell it. As far as the point system i understand it and why they use it but it is not a fair system. You can get 4 points in one weekend day but it takes 90 days per point. You get a half a point even if you call in on time with a note. Now im waiting to get realy bad sick and go to work just to let it rip all over the store. Ive tried to stand my ground on returns and follow policy lol that is a waist as soon as your done the customer complains and then the dm or corp is calling you telling you just make them happy and give them what they want making you look like an ass infront of your co workers as the customer smiles at you like he won something. You tell me people are happy working for the company i bet if you did a study you would have more negative comments then positive ones mainly on management. I have a lot more to say but I think you all know what im talking about.
Chris on June 24th, 2010 at 9:28 pm | Link