Unattainable targets

I agree with the poster that talked about about store targets being unattainable. I worked in one of the DCs and every year it seemed the criteria by which we were judged would change. One year they had a piece conversion to compensate for items that AAP and CQ had different unit of measures loaded. The following year they removed that conversion, only to do god knows what the following year after that because to be honest I stopped asking. No one could answer how our targets were derived, including the people I spoke to at corporate. How can you be given goals that change every year on how they're computed, be held accountable for those goals, and have your bonus based off of them? NO ONE could explain how they came to the numbers, and they changed from year to year. Take care of your people and the people will take care of you. AAP does not look out for the employees.

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No one could explain the targets because the bosses you were asking were probably new hires from outside of the company and probably just happy to get their email up and running. Targets? Goals? Where the company was going? Answers to questions? Normally for companies that's not a lot to expect from your boss. Try working for AAP and get none of that. It's comical.

The store targets for employees was insane, it was a calculation based on your hourly wage, example pay $12.00 per hour required you to sell $125.00 in product per hour, $10.00 per hour in pay was $100.00 per hour aprox 10 times your hourly rate was the number you had to reach to not be written up and terminated. This created tension and dishonesty between the workers trying to keep their jobs by stealing sales from co-workers. So the knowledgeable higher paid older ex mechanic types that were called upon by management and co workers to help customers with mechanical and or drivability issues could never reach their goals. This is the main reason you no longer see the older knowledgeable guys any more, as they were booted out in favor of $8.00 and hour morons that can not tell you the difference between a carburetor and a fuel injector. All this so Advance could reduce labor costs at the expense of quality customer service.

The stores were given goals that didn't make sense either. Rather than motivate you it does the opposite.

Then you get to discuss with your boss why you missed and how you plan to hit that goal. Doesn't make sense.

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