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My name is willis l. Price. I am a former o’reilly employee by my own choice. I began working as a delivery driver for the company on february 4, 2008 at store #680. At the time of my employment, i was informed that i would have the opportunity to move up within the company; be it at this store or at one of the other stores. I resigned on march 6, 2009. During my 13 month tenure with the company i experienced many instances of discrimination and disparate treatment. Following is my summary of many of the events that occurred. (Please note: some items documented are to provide a picture of the overall working atmosphere at o’reilly.)

Working at store #680 (The hub) was an experience in itself. There was a very big turnover because of the working environment. This place was very dirty; the upstairs portion was an ashtray to say the least. There were cigarette butts everywhere, there were butts on the shelves and tossed on top of the shelving units below. My manager and most guys and women that were smokers would always do this; if the guys working the counter had to go upstairs to get a part for a customer, you can pretty much guarantee that it was going to be a smoke break. The so called break room was a pig pen; the fridge had stuff in it from employees that were long gone. I remember asking my manager why the break room was so nasty. His response was, “why don’t you clean it up; so i did. That did no good because the employees would throw their trash on the floor or leave it on the table after they ate. There were times when the trash can would be running over and they would still stack trash on top of the trash. I would inform the manager and once again his response was “i don’t care, i don’t eat up there”. I was starting to get the picture real fast.

Well after busting my ###, doing a great job and seeing employees coming and going, i was asked by my manager if i would like to be third in charge of the hub with a whopping. 50¢ / hr pay increase. All this meant was that you would very seldom have to go out on runs anymore unless someone did not show up for work or was late, which was quite often. Well before i had even taken this assignment, i was already helping brenda and john check in the truck on occasion. If i were doing runs, i would pull the totes from the top of the pallet for them. This was due to the totes being stacked higher and heavier than what the standard requirements were. It was unbelievable how heavy some of those totes were and this was an everyday thing. There were times when we would receive in forty to fifty totes daily and had to have them checked in and put out front for the guys to put away. What a joke; why?, because we busted our ### to get stuff checked in and take to the front only to come back the next morning and see the totes still sitting right where we had put them. That was strange because according to policy all merchandise must be put up before employees leave the store, but not this store.

There was a truck that had been wrecked before i started working at this location. I asked an employee why it wasn’t fixed and they responded by saying “someone” had a wreck in it. I will tell you why it was not reported; within the o’reilly auto parts stores that i have worked at and delivered to there are quite a few employees that do illegal drugs. This i know for a fact as i have been told by the employee (S) doing the drugs themselves. As third in charge and trying to do the right thing for the company, i had expressed to my manager on several occasions that if you would not let the employee go to their vehicles or home prior to being sent for a drug test you may see for yourself how many of the employees were on drugs. The manager did no investigation and would not even check out the situation with the employee in question. I did realize that had i gone up through the chain of command there would have been a good possibility that i would have lost my job.

While working in the hub they rehired a black woman who was nothing but trouble since she was there the last time. Anyway, i became somewhat friends with her and then found out she was a major pot head. This woman had her boyfriend come up to the job to beat me up without my knowing; although everyone that i worked with knew about it including hank which was my manager and brian matthews my district manager. Their reasoning for not telling me was that he said he knew him and he was not like that, it was her. This did not make me feel any better, what if he had done something to me while i was walking to my vehicle? Then what would my manager and district manager have said, what would he tell my wife if i was seriously injured or killed, explain that.

Ok, back to me obtaining a different position within the company, this gets good. I had shown interest in moving to the front counter, i was told by my manager that it’s a good possibility that they may have a spot for me with the hours that i had inquired about. I was excited and told my wife that i could be getting out of the hub pretty soon. This was my goal to move up slowly yet as quick as i could. Well everything fell into place, the position came available and then i was told that the hours were no longer available. You tell me then why can an older white man come in and negotiate his hours which allowed him to go play golf in the mornings and stop by the local slot game houses pretty much every morning, but me being black was not allowed to pursue the same type of hours. Once again i was informed about another opening at this location and what the hours were and what the job involved. I was passed over again for a white female employee who was a driver that could no longer drive because of medical reasons. She gets the job and i find out from her that she will only be in this position for around three months. So why then would you waste your time putting someone in a position and training them knowing that they were not going to stay in it? She should have been placed in the hub to help pull orders and put up stock. I have done merchandising for a major company some years ago. I have done complete resets and also handled specialty food products all over south texas, but i was not qualified for the job. I’m starting to realize that a black man was not going anywhere within this company and in this district. So now i’ve been passed over twice for employees with less experience and ambition and the drive that i have. So here we go. This is when i learned that there was another player in the game. He was none other than the snake brian matthews. I hadn’t had any dealings with this guy at all, but i soon found out a lot about him. You either played on his team by his rules or you weren’t going to play at all. Yep this guy could charm anyone, strictly a ladies man and he had no shame getting to the point and asking them out for lunch or let’s go somewhere after work this is how one employee ended up getting a dui after going out drinking with him. The employee had a little too much to drink. Why didn’t he offer to drive her home or call a cab and pay for it and if needed the employee would pay him or the company back somehow. Was i there, no i was not but word travels fast within o’reilly, trust me, do not judge me by saying this is hearsay because there’s a lot more to come. Mr. Matthews would always walk up to certain women and touch them on the shoulders or give them a little squeeze. He once asked a female employee what kind of work does you boyfriend do. The woman did not show her dismay towards him but she did show it to a few of us here. Exact words were, “it ain’t non of his f*****g business what my man does for work and if that mother****** ever puts his hands on me again i’ll get his ### for sexual harassment. ” he does not know to this day that the employee at hand is the one that got the dui. But to move up in the company; after the lady that was first in charge resigned and i refused to take the hub position; she was more than eager to fill the position.

Let’s take a step back may we. After my so called hub manager resigned, i was asked if i would like the position and that it would be salaried position which would involve working around forty - five to fifty hours per week. I was told the job was mine in fact. Then i had employees at store #680 and other stores telling me personally that the job at hand had been offered to them. Needless to say i was disgusted by this so after discussing this with my wife we realized that the best thing for me would be to decline the offer and transfer to another store. Well after everyone turned them down cold, including the young lady that is now the hub manager, they come back to me as a last resort. I’ll never forget that morning. Here comes my manager smiling. Willis do you still want the hub manager position? Nope i said i just want to get out of this hub. Talk about pissed, he was. The look on his face said it all.

He then starts to question me and tell me this is what you wanted and now you’re saying no. Now here comes the threat. Well this is your last chance. I stood my ground and he didn’t say a word to me for almost two weeks. Brian matthews would insult you by saying if you learn how to mix paint and learn how to turn rotors i will give you an extra quarter per hour for each of those. Let’s talk about team member development plan, what a joke. I believe that i’ve never received anything less than a four on my evaluations and when asked what my career goals are, i always put to move into marketing after i stop racing. I also stated that people who worked in the corporate office should introduce themselves to the employees in the hub. My first encounter with one of the unknown was none other than malcolm; this was my first and only experience with this ###. I was interrogated about a large amount of parts that i had purchased. Not a problem as all of the parts in question was for my race car. A 1985 monte carlo ss dirt track car; i was completely redoing all of the suspension, brakes and lines, calipers, well you get the picture. I felt like i was on trial for murder. I suppose he thought that i was either selling the parts or repairing people’s cars. Wrong, i am the owner and driver of a dirt track team and car. This is my fifth season and i was so excited about working at o’reilly that i put huge stickers on the top of my trunk area and on both front fenders but never named the company as a sponsor. So happens my car was voted the best looking care in the nation for the month of june 2008.

It just seemed that the corporate people felt that we were nothing compared to them. I myself am by no means an idiot; i’m educated both in law and real estate and have had dealings with some of the top motorsports organizations in this country. Sometimes i would bring a photo album when they would question my dealings, oh well i know what i’ve done and whom i’ve had professional dealings with, this is why i had aspirations to be in marketing. Did i just mention the word professional, ha! That word i believe was tabbed from mr. Chubb o’reilly himself. It’s an absolute travesty that what he set forth for his company does not exist. Most of the store managers hire a woman that is willing to do whatever they say. Here’s a good example, store #1700, a woman by the name of stephanie / steph. She would wear her shirts untucked with only the bottom two buttons closed. She always wears a tank top with her breasts bursting out of the top. This is everyday and nothing was done about it because i was told that she goes out to dinner and drinking with the district manager and that they have slept together. Well i did ask her about the rumors and she did not deny any of it. So i made a comment saying you slept with brian and she stated that he wasn’t all that. Last year when her one year review came up she was very pissed because she only got a twenty - seven cent raise. She told me that she had to get out of his district and tried to move to the store where i had transferred to. She asked me if i could help her do a resume and i responded yes. She came by and my wife did it for her. (We still have the resume in case she denies it) she was also pissed at ashley from store #547 saying that she was trying to talk to her man and that she was going to the store to kick her ###. I said what is that going to prove, and she stated that i don’t know what the f*** she wants with my man. She’s brian’s new piece of ### - in other words steph was no longer number one and now ashley has been prompted to hub manager. Steph was on probation in tarrant county for drugs of some sort, she came up dirty on a ua and she was going to be retested a few days later. She called me while at work and asked if she could borrow some money so that she could go to walgreens and get a test to see if she was clean because she had smoked some ice. This is not a lie because she had also told another employee about this. I had purchased this woman some jeans and socks when we were told that we could not long wear shorts anymore because the season was over. I do have witnesses to this and i do still have the receipt and yes my wife does know about this because i let her know while i was on my way to the store. So let’s not have any bull s*** about me trying to get in her pants because i told my wife about every dime that i loaned this woman. Needless to say she came up with every kind of excuse not to pay me. I could go on and on about this woman, but let’s get back to store #680.

We had an employee transfer to the hub, she would take forever on her routes eat and drink and spill food and drinks in the company vehicles. She actually convinced brian matthews to change the rules about this matter because she refused to stop eating and drinking in the vehicle. Brian and hank came up with a solution to allow employees to carry a ice chest in the back of their trucks and that we could eat and drink during our stops damn, this was not part of the company policies. Just goes to show you what you can do if you’re white and a woman. That store had pot heads and pot dealers and former meth heads. I saw drug deals transacted within a foot of me. I even saw an employee go to their vehicle and get a bag of pot for an employee that had gotten off of work and came back to work to pick up pot. Guys and women alike would come to work high and drunk, don’t think the manager didn’t know it. How could he not especially since his assistant day manager smelled like a walking beer can. He was fully aware of it because you could smell it on him. When i was third in charge we had an employee come in one morning a few minutes late. She walked in and her eyes were glassy as hell. She was speeding around the place and licking her lips and could not look you in the eyes. She was allowed to drive a company vehicle. This was one of our former meth heads except she was on it that morning. The same person would speed in the vehicles, be on her phone talking to her daughter and son and boyfriend and of course nothing was done about that because she would flirt with the right people and is still employed by the company today, check that, heard from a reliable that brian had his new girl ashley fire her. Her daughter has even been promoted to iss which is in store set up at the store that she works at, and she hasn’t even been employed by o’reilly a year yet. Man, just be a white woman that goes out to lunch and have drinks with your district manager and just look what you can accomplish however she can no longer drive due to her night out drinking with brian matthews. I had asked brian if i could transfer to another store and he said yes if i could find an opening and there were enough people in the hub. Bingo, got my break, opening at store #726, i would be out of the hub and away from brian matthews and my manager who had still not done my six month review. More about this later. Going to another store and district and manager was a blessing at first. I figured i’d give everyone chance as i always have. Beverly summeral, what can i say, she is truly one of the best superiors that i have ever had the pleasure to work with. She was very fair and listened plus she would respond and investigate any situation at hand. Beverly is an example of what mr. Chub o’reilly meant by professional and other employees should follow her lead. She saw how hard i worked in the hub and welcomed me to her team with open arms and i thank her for that. If she had still been our district manager, i would still be working for o’reilly, as as you will see in the short time after she left and the snake, brian matthews took over it became the boys club all over abain. Let me enter mr. Mike chapman, this man was very respectful of all of his employees, he would speak and greet you with a firm handshake and even ask you how are things going. I wish i had gone to him about some of the things that were going on within the company, but you have to remember that this is the boys club and if you stepped on their toes they would cut yours off at the leg. They would get even and then some day at store #726. I was assigned to ride with the happy hooker lacey mungia, this name is well deserved as you will see. As we pull out of the driveway of the store she has phone in hand and is texting which i realize is something that she does all day every day were driving and after a few stops she tells me i’m not wearing any panties and i need to know why this is. I also find out from her that a lot of guys that work at the commercial accounts in which we services she claims want her. Needless to say she has slept with quite a few of them. My first couple of weeks she pulled some stunts on me, she would come to me and say willis what time are you getting off today, knowing quite well my hours because they are posted right by the office. If i were getting off at five o’clock she’d say can you work until six, i’d say yea only to find out that she has taken off, she would tell the manager ben that i said that i would work until six and he would let her leave. That happened three time and never again. It’s pretty sad that the manager knows that she does this to people and did nothing about it.

An older man named tommy said she did the same thing to him when he started there. Every time that beverly or mike chapman would come to the store unannounced the first thing out of lacey’s mouth would be what in the f*** is she or he doing here. Why in the f*** didn’t somebody tell me that they were coming. This is because she followed non of the rules / polices set forth by m. Chubb o’reilly. Shirt untucked all the time this girl’s mouth would make a sailor blush. She would use profanity towards employees and commercial customers. I got cussed out by the little ### more times than i care to remember. This girl would belch really loud and pass gas right in you face and laugh about it. Ben would do pretty much nothing. His resolution was always you guys need to get along and figure something out. He would not take charge and do his job as a manager. I had never in my life been subjected to this type of verbal abuse fro many employee. She was allowed to punch in, get in the company truck and ust take off and disappear without saying a word to anyone of course ben didn’t know because he wasn’t at work. She came in one morning and was complaining about her car, so she gets in a truck takes off and comes back with a passenger, she went to one of our commercial accounts and picked up one of the owners at advance tire and auto, totally against company policy. The guy took her care back to his business for repair. She didn’t even ask for permission because she didn’t have to. She had ben in her pocket and wraped around her little finger. This girl could throw parts in the back of her delivery truck, speed in it, wreck a truck without having to file a report or take a drug test. I took pictures of the truck that will be sent with this letter. Why wasn’t anything done about the incident? Because ben allowed her to do whatever she wanted to do. There were actual witnesses to this unreported accident, it happened at one of the commercial customers accounts. The place is called corvettes north, scott parrish and ej forrest saw this transpire. . We had a bbq at ben’s house on one saturday night, lacey got really drunk and was swearing all over the place. Well at one point it was just she and i on the patio and she made a comment to me that she wanted to make out with ben. I brushed it aside as no big deal, well couple of hours later she say it again, except it was like this – i wish all these people would get the f*** out of here so that i can make out with ben. This leads me to believe that this would not be their first rodeo together. She also told me that she and ben had smoked pot together and that dino also smoked pot, but that his doctor gives him stuff so that if they ever test him that he would come up clean. Now since everyone pretty much believes everything that lacey says, will they now believe this. This girl after she transferred to another store #700 – she said to an employee when she saw me pull up in the truck that she used to drive, she said i can’t believe that ### is driving my truck. The employee responded to her comment by saying that she should not have said that and that this was not her truck and that it belongs to o’reilly. That employee told me about the incident in front of another employee so i have a witness. Needless to say when i mentioned this to brian matthews i was assured that he would investigate. Yeah right!. She is still working at that store and this is even after she wrecked another truck. She was given a drug test which was diluted and given a chance a week later to be clean. Don’t say that this is a lie, like i’ve stressed here employees talk a lot including the district managers. She wrecks two trucks, calls me a ### and still is employed by o’reilly. I will have these witnesses brought forth when the time comes. This girl was a thief, she would take cash money from a commercial account and most of the time not return their change instead pocket it. I know this for a fact because when i would make a delivery to them they would ask me if i had their change. I in turn would say who did you give your money to, well you know the answer. Lets add some more, drive right, one of #726’s biggest commercial accounts – lacey sleeps with one of the mechanics there. He drops her after sleeping with her in only a couple of days. She is blowing his phone up texting and calling him all day long. Well the owner tyler is so pissed about what is going on that he confronts me and asks me if i know anything about this. Of course i did because she told me everything. He was ready to fire the mechanic because there were police officers coming to his shop asking questions about lacey. Needless to say lacey was not allowed to go to drive right for quite a while. The store almost lost a major account because of her and once again nothing was to her. Ben must have really cared about this piece of ###. She would openly tell us and most of the commercial accounts that she has stds. This is not a lie, this girl also lied on one of the accounts, crawford and bargus saying that the owner rick had said to her, i can’t believe o’reilly hired that ### and what were they thinking when they hired that ###. This was told directly to an employee at store #726 whom in turn told me.

I called human resources and had the employee explain this to them, however nothing was done. Some of the first things that i noticed at store #726 was that everyone pretty much has their cell phones either on them or in their trucks and so did i. When i worked at store #680 i carried my cell because we had no radios, well here we did have radios in our trucks. Hell, how could the manager say to you no cell phones when he would be doing returns and talking and texting. There were people smoking in the office (Steven good) in the early morning hours they would also smoke by the back door inside the building and put their cigarette butts in brake dust where they turn rotors. That was ben’s ashtry. Steven good’s ashtray was right across from the office on a shelf in some type of cup. It would sometimes get knocked over and it was gross. I have pictures of all of this, even cigarette butts that are still under the shelves. These will be given to mr. Mike chapman to see first hand. Doing deliveries and filling out your trip sheet did not reflect how hard you worked although some of us worked a lot harder than others. Example bernardino garza’s fake back injury, my god, i have seen it all. This guy would call in and say i have just taken my pain medication and i’m not going to make it. He did this numerous times, he would come to work and then find an excuse to leave. He missed more days than were allowed by company policy and had threatened to sue and had an attorney and they were scared. This guy would come in late and sometimes bring his lunch with him punch in and then take his lunch on the clock, nothing was said. He was allowed to take one item to deliver and walk out the door, nothing said. Here the shelf is full of deliveries and guess who gets to deliver it all, me. This usually occurred when he and i had to work together or even when there was enough drivers he would still pull this stunt. The commercial guys would say just look at it this way – that’s less s*** for him to f*** up. Come on now, so the rest of us pick up the slack and bust our butts so that you guys didn’t have to worry about him filing some type of suit on the company. So what in the hell do you think i am getting at here. By the time you finish reading this you will clearly understand the jest of this letter. I believe that i actually punched out for lunch maybe twice in six months. Hell when did you have time to eat lunch, steven goode would send lacey out in the mornings in the company truck to pick up breakfast for him and her. I was instructed daily to pick up lunch in the company truck by steven goode for most of the employees in the store. Yes i would get myself something but had to eat it on the run. I explained to store manager ben that this had gotten out of hand, he said that he would have a talk with steven goode, but it did no good. Working from 7:30 am to 4:00pm and sometimes 5:00pm without being allowed to take your allotted one hour lunch. Can you say wage and labor board? I can. There was an affair going on between two employees that got way out of hand. Disagreements, fighting and sexual harassment plus stalking, nobody was fired. Instead the guy was transferred to another store but still kept his job. Man just to be white has it's benifits in o'reilly. There was a guy that lived right around the corner that was a key carrier that could not come to work on time because he would get drunk the night before and come to work still drunk, not hung over. This guys drawer would come up short at close they they did write him up a couple of times, but i do know that he got a dollar an hour raise for being a drunk and a thief because he told me. After a heavy night of drinking on saturday the key carrier was supposed to report to work on sunday morn. Well he called steven the asst. Mgr. And said that he couldn't make it. Asst mgr. Calls ben mgr. , ben calls the key carrier bobby, bobby used lots of profanity towards ben and comes in and slams down his keys on the counter and uses a few choice words then storms out of the store. Now after all of this ben tells steve a couple days later, if bobby had of come and talked to me about what the problem was, we could have worked something out and he could still kept his job. Damn, now bobby can still go right around the corner and continue to purchase and warranty parts from o'reilly. I did none of these things and are not allowed to set foot in any store that is in brian matthew's district, and all i did was answer a question that he asked me. The week before i resigned they hired a woman that had worked for napa auto parts. She tells me that she had not had a job for three years and couldn’t find one. She gives me this long story about her husband going to prison for transporting meth and that she had no idea that he was involved in such dealings. It didn’t take me but a few seconds after she told me the story that she was a meth head. I could see it by the way she kept shifting her lower jaw from side to side. This is a tell - tell sign of a meth monster. Brian brought her in to move her up the ladder and she will move up because this is how the company is run. I have had my battle with drugs and it’s all in the open on my application and i didn’t hide a single thing. I spent ten years on probation for my crimes and drug use, never had a dirty ua, never missed approbation appointment in ten years. But you have employees working at every one of your stores that are using and selling illegal drugs and are under the influence and these are the types of people that climb the ladder. It seems to me that certain people within your organization do not want to see honest hard working aspiring black people move forward within the company. I wasn’t asking for much, just to be respected and rewarded for my hard working and being a team player. I know of a hispanic employee that had an accident in a company vehicle, they failed their drug test and were given a chance a week later to redeem themselves, but they still failed. Is it company policy to allow an employee to have multiple chances to pass a drug test? I truly believe had this been myself, i’d have been terminated on the spot. I had expressed interest in returning to my previous position at o’reilly but was however told by ben that he would have to check it out with brian matthews.

I left on good terms, i thought. I was constantly told that “willis you rock, all i hear is compliments about you from the accounts”. Well i know this to be true because i have i believe twelve letters of appreciate from all of store #726 commercial accounts but you would have to think about rehiring me. I, out of curiosity asked ben what my pay was per hour before i resigned – he said $8. 00 per hour – i took a pay cut when i came to his store but was never informed so then i realized why he never pushed hank to send over my 6 month evaluation from store #680. I was also told by ben that he was trying to get me a dollar an hour raise while beverly was our district manager. He told me that she was cool with it and that it was going to happen. Well once i found out that brian matthews was going to be our district manager i knew that there was no way in hell that i was going to get that kind of a raise. I expressed to ben that we needed to get this done before brian takes over. Are you kidding, this guy drags his feet on everything unless it’s for him or his buddy. My one year review was thirty days late and i received it two days before my last day at o’reilly. I found out that there were eight reviews that were past due and six were at store #726. Not a surprise. How can you call yourself a manager when you come to work late every day? Your schedules hours say one thing but you show up one to one and a half hours every day. But never fear old steve good will lie for you to beverly when she would ask him what time did ben get here and he was always quick to cover for him. But he sure would talk about him behind his back everytime that he was late and take bets on what time he’d get there. During my last week at o’reilly i found out from ben that i had said things behind his back about him which was a total lie told by steve good to cover his own ###. My last three weeks at store #726 were pure hell. It was friday the thirteenth, i’ll never forget it myself. Steve and ronnie everage are in the store, it’s around 7:40am and miguel calls from store #700 needing an alternator which we had in stock. Steve instructs me to take it over to their store which i responded, let me finish putting the statement with the return tickets and then i’ll go. Needless to say our fearless manager would not be here today because he is sick. Then i asked him don't they have a driver that can come and pick this up? I had some items on the shelf that needed to be delivered to our accounts and going to that store was going to put me behind. Ronnie told steve that the hub driver is going to be here in about ten to fifteen minutes. Steve told me to go anyway so i did. I get to the store, go to the back door and beat on it and no one answers. So out of frustration i threw the alternator in the back of my truck. An employee saw me do this and i didn't deny it. I dropped the part off and go back to my store. I start doing my runs. Later on ben shows up and calls me outside. He says did you throw a alternator and i said yes. Then he said did steve explain to you what’s going on and i said no. Anyway i was given a first and final and i was very pissed off about that because nothing was explained to me how this process worked and how they came to this conclusion. I was just left in the dark so to speak. Ben didn’t give a s*** because he was mad that he had to come in and do this. Steve lied and told ben that he had already talked to me. A few days later when i tried to discuss this matter with ben, i was told to get over it and it is what it is. So let me explain how this is going to play out for o’reilly auto parts. Anyway, i left the company in pursuit of other employment, and things did not work out the way i had hoped they would. A few months passed and i had expressed an interest to my former manager ben about coming back to work at o’reilly. He would not give me a direct answer even though he knew that i was a very good employee. I had applied at another store in mansfield texas and the manager took my resume and looked it over and he seemed very interested especially when some of the employees knew who i was and they had told the manager that we could use him. Well i waited a couple of days and decided to go back to that store. Boy what a difference in attitude, the manager would not even look me in the face and told me that we don’t have anything here for you. I felt like i was back in the 1960's do i need to say that i was in brian matthew’s district / a few days later i went to talk to ben about rehiring me, well to my surprise he told me if it were up to him he would hire me back in a heartbeat, but brian matthews ain’t going to let me. I told ben you have to be kidding and ben told me i know brian better than you do and that was the end of our conversation. I was a bit puzzled so while on my way home i decided to go and have a civil talk with brian matthews at store #680 on matlock rd. I walked in and he was talking to one of his managers named marco. I suppose that he could tell by the look on my face that i was not too happy, so he says what’s on your mind? I said to him who makes the decision on being rehired at o’reilly? His response was human resources.

I said to him that i was told that you said that i could not be rehired, he told me again i don’t make these decisions that human resources does. Next thing he says to me is do you think i am lying. I said yes. This is all that was said, if he didn’t want to hear the truth then he shouldn’t ask. I told him as i was leaving his office that we’ll see what eeoc has to say about this and he responded i don’t care, you can go to eeoc all you want and that was the end of that so i thought. Well like the snake he is, he called my former store and told them that i was no long welcome on the property. This was told to me by brenda nash not by ben bearden which was standing there when i had stopped by the store a few weeks later. I was fine with not being able to go to that store no big deal, but when i go to store #1700 on new york ave. , less than a half mile from my home and am told that i am not allowed to be on the property and if i refuse to leave to call the police on me and have me removed. Now you talk about going too far just because you ask me a question and i tell you the truth you then decide to ban me from all o’reilly stores in your district. Now as you can see this is how it's done within o'reilly auto parts, brian calls hr. And tells them what he want's them to know and not the entire story. No one even contacted me to here my side they instead just agreed with the white man, and i thought we had freedom of speech in this country. Bobby sure did at store #726 let’s see here, i am a consumer that has purchased a few thousand dollars in parts from this company and a lot of them are still under warranty. So brian matthews has taken it into his own hands with help from the hr department to satisfy his ego. As a consumer or former employee i have not made any physical or verbal threats toward any employee or to company property i have been purchasing parts from o’reilly auto parts before i started working for them and will continue to do so. Brian matthews nor does the hr department have the right to ban me from any stores period. I have done nothing wrong except spoken the truth and brian matthews being a white male is in no way going to have a black man tell him the truth about himself. Like i told mr. Brian matthews i will let the eeoc take care of the matter. I am willing to subject myself to a lie detector test at my own expense to prove that i am speaking the truth. Let’s see if mr. Matthews is willing to do the same to clear his name and prove to the company of o’reilly auto parts that he has not in any way broken the rules withing the company such as taking women to lunch and having alcoholic beverages and asking them out to dinner and various other indecent proposals. I have people that are willing to step forth and speak up on this matter so let’s see if mr. Matthews is willing to put his job and reputation on the line. I don’t want my job back because it’s not worth the headache and besides i’m too old to be playing games with a prejudice racist, however i do want all of my back pay for not taking lunches at store #726 because i know for a fact i may have punched out twice in six months and i also want to be able to warranty all my parts at any store that i want to, especially since i was a consumer before i even started working at o’reilly and will continue to be a consumer for the rest of my life. I really had ambitions to be in motorsports marketing within this company however there was no way that they were even going to give me a chance because of the color of my skin. I have dealt with teams / owners in all types of motorsports all over this country from nascar, cart, irl, ihra, nhra, ascs and the imca. Man some people really know how to put an end to other people’s dreams just to satisfy their own ego. Everything that happens here will be done by the book within the legal system and i do realize that it does start with eeoc.
Mr. Chubb o'reilly has a slogan in all of his stores behind all parts counters on the wall. It reads professional parts people, so what happened to his dream of employees being professional in every aspect and to represent the company in a positive way. I carried myself in a professional manner and also dressed the part and was well groomed and tucked in my shirt and wore a belt.

Update by WILLIS PRICE
Dec 07, 2012 8:45 am EST

Been a while since i've had anything to say about this subject. I was told to go to orielly's website and let everyone know that we had worked things out and of course i would be able to still purchase parts and be able to warranty items purchased while i was now a former employee. I did just what ron begay or bejay asked me to do and he told me that i was still eligable to work for orielly, hence the word he spoke outta both sides of his mouth. His words were do this and if you apply for a job within the company, call me personally here is my cell number and i will take care of it. Yep he took care of it all right, applied for a job at a store where one of my managers that i had gotten along with really well wanted to hire me. My friend tells me a few days later that one of my former district managers beverly summerall said that i was not rehireable. Now mind you this if you read the my orginal letter above i had nothing but good things to say about beverly. It's obvious i was lied to by mr ron begay and ms beverly stabbed me in the back, oh well that's their way of showing there little bit of power they have over the regular employees lol! As for people getting of their lazy ### and making sure that they get their raises, i worked with lots of people that were very hard working and were promised a lot by managers and dm's only for the upper level guys to drag their feet and give you your review and hopefully a decent raise and these are facts. Needless to say when i did contact mr. Ron begay about being rehired, he acted like he didn't remember a single thing that we had discussed and said he would look into it and give me a call back. Well that has been almost two years ago and i have yet to receive a single e - mail or phone call, but i'll probably get one now! Roflmbao! Right now i pretty much shop at one store, the manager at store 1700 is awesome and so are his employees, this young man has assembled a team that other stores should follow, no attitudes, favoritism or prejudice towards anyone.

Update by WILLIS PRICE
Dec 15, 2012 11:41 pm EST

STUFF WILL NEVER CHANGE BECAUSE UPPER MAMAGEMENT ONLY CARES ABOUT THEIR PROFITS, AND BONUSES NOT THE EMPLOYEES.

Update by WILLIS PRICE
Sep 19, 2013 1:59 pm EDT

WOW! THIS MUST BE ASHLEY, FUNNY THING IS I HAVE NEVER SAID ANYTHING BAD ABOUT YOU PERIOD! OH WELL YOU WEREN'T THERE SO HOW IN THE F*** WOULD YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED! RACIST HMMMMMM! FAR FROM IT YOUNG LADY! BEEN MARRIED TO MY WIFE FOR ALMOST 27 YEARS AND ALL OF MY IN-LAWS ARE WHITE! SO GET YOUR FACTS TOGETHER BEFORE YOU CALL ME A RACIST! AND BESIDES THAT MY GRANDFATHER WAS BRITISH AND MY ENTIRE FAMILY IS MIXED WITH LOTS OF DIFFERENT RACES! SORRY BUT IT JUST HAPPEN TO BE WHITE WOMEN THAT I WORKED WITH AND I GOT ALONG GREAT WITH THE MAJORITY OF THEM AND THOUGHT YOU WERE ONE OF THEM! LOOKS LIKE TO ME YOU'RE THE ONE THAT'S IGNORANT AND I REALLY DON'T GIVE A ### WHAT YOU CAN'T STAND! THIS POST HAS BEEN ON THE COMPLAINTS BOARD FOR YEARS AND YOU'RE JUST NOW SEEING IT! OH! THAT'S RIGHT SOMEBODY IS BLOWING IT UP ON FACEBOOK SO YOU WANNA ATTACK ME! WELL STAND IN LINE! ROFLMBAO! ATTACK THE PERSON THAT'S BLOWING YOUR ### UP ON "FB"

Update by WILLIS PRICE
Sep 24, 2013 8:03 pm EDT

REALLY SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS WITH THE COMPANY BUT IT SEEMS TO BE A COMMON PROBLEM! THEY COULD CARE LESS ABOUT THE EMPLOYEES ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE AT THE BOTTOM! MANAGEMENT IS ALL ABOUT THEMSELVES AND ONLY WANT THEIR EMPLOYEES TO WORK HARDER TO MAKE MORE MONEY FOR THEMSELVES AND THE COMPANY, THAT WAY THEY GET MORE PERKS FOR THEIRSELVES! "TRUE FACT" SINCE I HAVE LEFT THAT C****Y ### COMPANY I HAVE PURCHASE 4 NEW VEHICLES AND TWO HOMES, ONE BUILT FROM THE GOUND UP! SO IN OTHER WORDS MOVE ON CAUSE LIFE IS MUCH BETTER WITHOUT THE ### KISSERS THAT YOU WORKED WITH AND FOR! LOL! I ACTUALLY BUY MY PARTS AT AUTO ZONE THESE DAYS, SAME FREAKING WARRANTY! :)

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Kimrocs
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Apr 15, 2022 10:52 am EDT

I am from the store from 2810 and I was on break my managers talking to two customers in the parking lot which was parked beside me she was sitting there chit-chatting and she proceeded to tell these two customers that referring to me that I could suck a hundred dicks off the wall and I thought that was the rudest most uncomfortable thing to say she's been she says that all the time and she makes rude comments about me and I don't know how to handle it who do I get to talk to to make a complaint against I don't think she should be a manager if she's doing sexual harassment for making sexual jokes towards me to customers with two customers that she told this to will make will give me a written statement saying what she said how do I handle this

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Benaflac
, US
Aug 25, 2016 1:46 am EDT

O'Reilly Auto Parts is an outstanding, overall employee related company which has developed an O'Reilly Culture ideal. The associates around the country show this in their love and loyalty to the company. The O'Reilly culture is working in the south, as enforced by their people's attitudes and excitement for the company.

The problem in Wisconsin as shown by other comments, is the employee's have been robbed of all self respect, self motivation and sense of accomplishment in their stores and maximum efforts. They live in daily anxiety that either the DM or RM will walk in and ruin their day for really no good reason. Certain District Managers and The Regional Manager are completely out of touch with the O'Reilly culture of fair and equal recognition for performance. They are drunk with the power of their positions and wield their power by intimidating and threatening their people with the power of who they are. It would be hard to count the number of people's lives that these two people have negatively effected the quality of their lives by twisting circumstances to justify their ends, with complete ignorance or disregard of the O'Reilly Culture ideal.

The management spends more time harassing the employee's, than putting their hands on in a positive display of teamwork, or training associates their expectations, or showing appreciation for their hard work. Everything is numbers, protecting their bonuses, keeping their employee's at the lowest pay possible, with complete disregard of the effects their cuts in hours and pay and pride in their job, has on their their lives, job security, and performance. They take away hours, positions, opportunities, hopes for advancement, with complete disregard of the consequences to the associate. Truly not a good team to work for. Managers have all become yes men to preserve their positions. Very few would admit to their true feelings for fear of retaliation.

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hondamech
, US
Aug 03, 2016 5:02 am EDT

Oreilly's don't let customers swipe their cards on pos machines by themselves. I handed my card to the sales guy and he kept it in front of the computer for about 2 minutes. He could have copied all my credit card info with security code into the computer or he could have memorized it (the computer screen is not angled towards customers).
When you go to supermarket or in most shopping stores you can swipe the credit card without handing it to the cashier. Why do I have to hand my card to somebody else? This is stone age customer service.

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kswenson
Central Point, US
Aug 03, 2016 5:02 am EDT

Purchased a starter in 2006 that I was told it had a lifetime warranty. Paid 179.00 for it. Now that there is an issue guess what I am being told. It only had a three year warranty. If you are doing business with these people make sure you get it in writing and not of thier disapeering ink (Thermal Paper) so it is not readable. Nice gimmick

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asdf, US
Aug 03, 2016 5:02 am EDT

i went in this store on waring rd in san diego ca. the guy that helped me was named randy aka store manager i needed a battery and injecter cleaner i got my battery and he threw the red and black felt washers on the counter and said you have to get these and put there own injector cleaner up there and said here you need this i said i dont want the felt washers and i dont want a cheap cleaner i use lucas and he say ours is better and your gona buy it or you cant buy the battery. at that point there was another employee there said ill sale you what you want you dont have to take this stuff if you dont want it so i said ok ill deal with you then and the store manager told me to leave his store . so i said fine i will not come back as i was walking out he was screaming and yelling at the other guy that was gona help me. so i went to another store and got what i wanted and also got a phone number to there district manager danny and called him to complain and he said owell thats my boy when randy says you have to get something you have to because its his store he can run it as he wants.

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tabbycat
, US
Aug 03, 2016 5:02 am EDT

the manager is female and she will not give any other females a job in that store.The employees that work there will tell you that she will not hire females, even former employees will that you that. I don't think that is fair it's more like discrimination.

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Ian K81
, US
Aug 03, 2016 5:01 am EDT

I used O'Reilly's because the company I use didn't have the part I needed this time and I was in a hurry. The first thing I tried to get was a serpentine belt for a Dodge van, I waited in line for 20 minutes, got the belt and went home to put it on. After leaning over the van for 30 minutes I found out it was the wrong belt! I went back to the store, waited in line for 20 minutes and they apologized and I got the right belt.

The next time was waiting in line for 30 minutes, then ordering a rotor for a Mercedes. I picked it up at the store and went to install, wrong rotor. Went back to the store, waited in line and they said they could get it for me by 5:00 that afternoon on a Saturday:. I went to pick it up and do an exchange, but left the box for the old rotor at home!. It's Sunday afternoon and hot in Texas and didn't make it back!. Worked all week and went back to get the rotor on the next Saturday, they had shipped it back to their warehouse! I had talked to 3 different guys, they knew I needed the rotor and they had all my info so they could call and ask me if I still needed it.. No one called". So, frustrated, I asked for a refund/. They forgot to ask and instead of giving me cash back on a debit card they credited the card which will take 3-5 business days, . I'm done with O'Reilly's, waiting in line, mistakes, no one taking any real responsibility and poor customer service.

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wasewe
, US
May 18, 2016 7:15 pm EDT

Monroe, NC hires mostly Latinos and very popular women. That's how one woman stays...with the manager.

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bellhopjones
, US
Mar 28, 2016 10:54 pm EDT

O'Reilly auto parts is very racist with lots of discrimination going on. A very very uncomfortable place to be employed. If your a white male you'll be A ok. Anything other than that be prepared to hear unbelievably hurtful & rude racist, prejudice, & sexist remarks.

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Colbyjr1
, US
Sep 04, 2015 11:11 pm EDT
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My manager at store 4025 is being racist he keeps scheduling for 23 hours every week and sometimes I get less hours then that I feel if I'm a team member I need a equal opportunity to work as some of the other team members I keep a copy of my schedule every week and I only work nights every week and it be two of us that work night shift everyday it's 9 of us that work at store 4025 it's 5 Hispanics that work in the daytime plus the manager who is also Hispanic and it's me plus two other African-Americans that work there also plus the Hispanic workers get 40 hours plus every week and that's not fair to me or the other African-Americans that work there too...

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Jac3
Montgomery, US
Jun 27, 2015 6:58 pm EDT

I am a current employee and overall it is a good company to work for BUT the pay is all over the place and there isn't a lot of support from the outside (district manager and up). They expect the store manager to sell $20, 000 per month, do 20 sales calls per week, maintain overall store productivity, as well as your daily workload as a manager while struggling to provide for your family. O'Reillys needs to APPRECIATE their employees more because without us, you have no company!

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Instant_Karma
Fort Bragg, US
Feb 18, 2015 7:50 pm EST

Don't get me wrong, for the most part, O'Reilly's has been great to me. I'm just a lowly customer, but when O'Reilly's in Flagstaff kept ordering the wrong parts and cost me a week stranded living in a motel, the corp. office cut me a check for all expenses incurred over the whole week.

That being said, and hopefully to help O'Reilly's cull their herd of the bad apples, I submit to you two photos taken in Baton Rouge just after New Year's, 2015. The O'Reilly's worker was driving for several miles with her elbows while eating a foot-long sub in one hand and chatting on her cell phone with the other. It probably wouldn't have caught my eye if it hadn't been for the sticker in the window which proclaimed "Cell Phone Free Vehicle" and the other decals, "How Am I Driving?" with the 1-800 number and the truck number aside it. Let someone like this run over a kid or rear-end an elderly couple and see just how seriously something like this is taken. Enjoy the photos.

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YouDon'tKnow
, US
Oct 05, 2014 12:47 pm EDT
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I find it extremely hard to believe that your manager physically attacked you & nothing was done about it. There has to be more to your story than what you are willing to put in your statement here.

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robert possehl
Arlington Heights, US
Oct 03, 2014 3:06 am EDT

my name is robert possehl i worked at 3378 in arlington heights il. i was an underpaid rss/keyholder who put blood sweat and tears into my job, only to find out i was one of the lowest paid employees with my job title and staus. i worked the night shift gave up my entire social and family life to work these hours. another employee was hired with less experience and was paid significantly more. i was being pressured, set up to fail and ridiculed behind my back by managment. i have many many customers who will vouche for me, many of whom would only deal with myself, i was constinatly having tasks dumped on me that were not in my job description. I was forced to quit the company... i do not want to drag this out and or contact my attorney unless i am not compensated for my sick days and paid vacations day i had coming. i have plenty of things that i have witnessed at O'reillys that were very contriditive to the companys modo and if i have to i have no problem sharing these with the media i hope it does not come to this. all i want is what i had entitled to me. i will try to handle this via human resources before going that route. Robert possehl store number 3378. [protected]

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Black_Six
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Jul 04, 2014 9:40 am EDT

I am also a current O'Reilly employee. I was physically assaulted by a manager twice, but because they liked his sales numbers, I was punished for it by losing hours and very bad shifts after a transfer to a different store, but the manager who attacked me was not punished in any way. I have been threatened and told that I would be fired if I dared complain to HR. O'Reilly only cares about their money. An Employee could die at the hands of a Manager, and as long as the manager posted good numbers, O'Reilly would help cover it up.

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da_truth1
marionville, US
Oct 03, 2013 12:56 pm EDT

I worked for them in Springfield MO for many years. I was in a department that worked with corporate, warehouse and stores. It is without a doubt in almost every department an awful place to work. The only sure way to advance is to stab fellow employees in the back. It doesn't even have to be true. I witnessed people make stuff up about others and go to management. This got them promoted. Ever so often somebody would start talking union. Because people are treated so poorly they need protection. This is the companies biggest fear. They would send h.r. out to spy on people to figure out who was pushing unions. Then target and attempt to discredit them with others. If that didn't work they would try to make life miserable for them until they quit. Or find something to fire them for. People are routinely threatened and punished for having opinions that are pro employee. The work conditions are appalling. They harp on safety, unless safety included spending money to improve conditions. Then they sing a different toon. Cheapest company ever. They like having a high turn over, because wages stay low. They would much rather hire college guys without experience making 850 hr. That will only stay a couple years. Than have people stay a long time and make 13 an hour. They absolutely cheat employees whenever they can. A couple years ago they bragged about having record revenue even in the recession. Then turned around and cut raises to 50% using the economy as an excuse. The used the bad job market and economy to misuse and abuse employees. Forcing them to do work outside of job descriptions and if they didn't like it they were told to try and find a job.

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v850t5r
Springfield, US
Sep 24, 2013 4:34 pm EDT

I work at a store in Springfield, Illinois. apparently the whole high school cool kid group complex is company wide, because if you aren't butt buddies with the manager or the district manager, you aren't getting anywhere. I have worked there a year and a half with making $8.25 an hour (min wage in il) with no raise, and was passed up for full time for a guy who knows NOTHING but gets RSS in his first 2 months. Him and my manager steal left and right, but there is no point in reporting because everyone knows someone else. It'll just come back on you.
Also, I was fed some BS about only getting a 1.5% raise (which I still haven't seen)

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ash8857
Belleville, US
Sep 19, 2013 11:47 am EDT

WOW WILLIS PRICE... IT SOUNDS LIKE YOUR THE RACIST PERSON HERE WHITE WOMAN THIS AND THAT! I AM A WHITE WOMAN AND I DONT GET NO PERSONAL TREATMENT THERE AND THE PLACE RUNS LIKE ### SO NO ITS NOT BECAUSE U ARE BLACK YOU GUYS ALWAYS USE THAT EXCUSE WHEN SOMETHING DOSENT GO YOUR WAY THAT SOMEONE IS RACIST IGNORANT PEOPLE I CAN'T STAND...

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leemar
Arlington, US
Sep 13, 2013 4:43 pm EDT
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Hi Willis, I am sure i have worked with you at the hub but sorry to say I don't remember you, I had hit my 6 year mark when I was fed up with the hub in 2009. I too worked my ### off and in the end was accused of sitting on my ### all day from the store and hub manager, I was informed all employees that worked with me on that day were questioned by management about my performance, but when i questioned them they were not questioned at all. i started the company in 2003 and I will tell you that I am sorry you have had to deal with racial slurs but I assure you it was not your color it was because you were not the cool kid. I felt most of the time i was in high school and the cool kids hung away from the nerdy ones. I am a white female who was at the time and still today a very happily married woman. I saw a lot of people come and go and I assure you the only way to climb the corporate ladder is to spread your legs, there ain't no other way. Good luck to you in your case and hope you find peace. It's funny all the names you have mentioned in your complaint i know who they are. and witnessed a lot of the same things you have mentioned in yours.

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John Xanadu
Sugar Land, US
Jul 28, 2013 4:11 am EDT

To be honest, all automotive retail parts store are worthless. They are as miserable as a prison yard. To management, you are nothing but a worthless slave to them. They don't give a f*** about your low hours, low pay and working conditions. They just care about money and nothing else. I see that management has dehumanize managers into dictators. The chain makes good money and will never give a small 1% cut to all employees who helped. I hope these retail chains go out of business and more independent auto parts store open. At least they won't have to worry about HR, District leader and all that bull****!

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Jiggletheballs
Sandusky, US
Feb 12, 2013 7:50 pm EST

Um, corporate greed is O'Reilly's REAL culture. Never mind all that BS they talk about... what you experienced is what goes on everywhere. It isn't just your DM or RM. That's how O'Reilly rolls.

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dewiiesquire
Arlington, US
Feb 07, 2013 5:13 pm EST
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My client was insulted and racial and derogatory comments about people of color by employee when he purchased a battery and management did nothing about it.

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Chris40
Mountainburg, US
Jan 16, 2013 7:27 pm EST

Oreillys is the worst place I have ever worked! I am currently still employed with them, for as long as I can take the sexual discrimination and rude unprofessional behavior of the "Management". I am currently trying to climb the complaint ladder. I'm not holding my breath.

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katjim
Irving, US
Jan 10, 2013 3:11 am EST

oh yeah.isnt it against labor laws to make your employees work off the clock prepping trucks, gassing up etc.? well maybe theyre afraid not to do it. but walmart got sued over the same kind of issue

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katjim
Irving, US
Jan 10, 2013 3:06 am EST

all companies are like this.orielly looks the other way when their managers abuse the other employees. my guy has been with them for about 10 yrs. the manager wants to push him out because he makes more than minimum wage.it doesnt matter that hes one of the better employees.what this manager wants is employees that wont stand up to him. most of them wont, probably cause jobs are hard to come by for them.when you have no alternative you think you have to take it.

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Truly Concerned
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Dec 15, 2012 10:39 pm EST

I agree with all the negative comments. I work at Oreilly's DC9 in Nashville, TN. I have endured so many encounters with upper management. The Operations Manager, Brian Wade, is horrible. It is not proper for an Operations Manager to be dating or sleeping with an employee. It is not proper for Brian to be making advances at other employees either. We had a training on harassment and in that training it talked about management is not permitted to date employees. Well, he does not follow company rules. He is always talking about following company policies and procedures, but it is okay for him to date and harass other female employees.

Then there is the issue where the females whom he favors think they run the company. Every time there is an issue, instead of reporting it to their immediate supervisor, they go straight to Brian. Then we have other issues that stem from that. If these situations are not handled properly we may be seeing another workplace tragedy. People are totally fed up. I would not be surprised if someone comes into work and shoots the place up. That's how bad it is getting. We have seen too many deadly acts in schools (Virginia Tech), hair salons (the boyfriend of one of the girls the shop drove by and shot the shop up), the post office (several of them)...etc.

All I can say is that people are truly tired of the unfair treatment at Oreilly's in Nashville that there is a different situation almost everyday. There are always arguments between employees and management. I am just waiting on the day that someone shoots the place up. If corporate really cares more about people than making money, they need to get out of their seats in their offices in Springfield, MO and visit all the DC's and the stores before there is another tragedy. They need to talk to the employees themselves to see what is going on. Corporate needs to talk to the employees about the morale of the company. They don't need to send out another survey. They need to physically visit the DC's and stores. It is not time to be lazy. This world is going to HELL quick, and corporate really needs to get involved.

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mark sharon
Wickenburg, US
Dec 06, 2012 11:31 pm EST
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I have worked for this Co. when it was Checker, they cared about there employes, you got raises when you desierved them and over all where taken take off, you could raise a faimly. now with the money grubing Oreillys Co. who only cares about the bottom line, working comission and in a small town like I do I will never make the money bake they took from me, and what do the say(SELL MORE PARTS MAKE US MORE MONEY)
you will get a dime and we will ge fivehundred, no that's fair isn't it. as we sit in our nice houses drinking our wine while you and I try to make ends meet. I have no been to a movie or out to eat in so long I don't remember.
why can't we all ge together and let them know we want to sell the customer just what they need, no all the c*** they have us push them then they can't figer out why they next day or two they teturn it. I know this Co. is smart money, but if they would cut the comission and take care of there employes they would see a BIG increase. other wise they can just keet going on the same way letting Scott Kunz and the bigger boy's run the show untile they find out somday they will be in our spot, and when it happens there will be thousands of employes rolling on the ground. P.S. three weeks after they cut our pay and the d.m.get a brand new hummer h3 thats just an insult to all of us. at best he could have wated. store 2819 manager and districe manager are both ### out for there self who don't care about there employes at all just the all mighty dollar from the customer who when they walk out the door they care no more. from a employ with more than 6 years at 10.25hr. for all we have to know.

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Gargantuan69
Camarillo, US
Jun 29, 2012 10:21 pm EDT

I work at one of the stores in California, and have seen the depraved and abusive nature of higher level management. Well, I've talked to the EEOC and they've got another thing coming. I've been exposed to some the managers making racist and sexist comments. Managers screaming abusively at their workers and always threatening them with write-ups. The biggest disgrace in all this is the pittance of a salary these good, honest hard-working people make. Management is of the mindset that being oppressive and dishing out O'Reilly culture propaganda gets things done. They are ignorant of the reality that this behavior will eventually bite them in the ###. Let them keep it up, they rely on the revolving door of new workers so they can pay their workers the least amount possible and treat them like s***. Keep it up O'Reilly Management, you're day will come...

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who cares247
, US
Jan 05, 2012 3:16 am EST

SPEAKING MY MIND, ,

With all do respect, they never once had any training module about you having to agree with not saying anything bad about the company... and another thing. here in TEXAS i am an RSS and I make 10.75/hr. so it might just be everyone's lazy ### not demanding their raises on the review date... your lose

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kswenson
Central Point, US
Aug 03, 2016 5:02 am EDT

The costco shopping center store took care of the warranty

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SPEAKING MY MIND
Stevens Point, US
Sep 02, 2011 8:07 pm EDT

I agree with the comments and when I worked for Oreilly auto parts they had us do a modual on team net that the only way you passed was to agree you would not say anything bad about oreilly auto parts. They aparently can't handle the employees letting the people in the comunity know the truth the way oreillys treats their people. Every one I talk to in our comunity I tell them NOT TO SHOP at oreilly auto parts and anyone who reads this start spreading the word.

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shad0w_ninja
Rockford, US
May 02, 2011 5:00 pm EDT

I cannot state my real name here, I am still currently an O'Reilly employee. I will however tell a little of my story. The above man posting his complaint and stating that his situation is caused mostly in part because of a "white woman" among some other things, is bogus. Let me tell ya buddy, I came to this company with extensive personal knowledge of automotive. I generally work on my own vehicles if time is available, and constantly surround myself with mechanic friends. So, I know quite a bit. Yet, when I was offered a position with this company, I was only offered $8.50 per hour working the front counter and it was not open for negotiation at all. Being a single mother, a job was something I needed, so I had to accept. My boss was a young white male and a very chauvenistic one at that. He catered to all the men in the store, no matter color. I worked harder than most of the men there. Including freight on a constant basis and whatever else needed to be done. I was told that if I kept up the good work, there would be a strong possibility for short time advancement and full time status. I worked harder. Then, a new guy came into the picture that had NO automotive knowledge and within his first 2 weeks there, he was promoted to RSS (Retail Service Specialist). I couldn't take it anymore, the unfairness. I talked to my district and was transferred to a new store that was opening up. Well, it's worse. Little did I know that the female manager of this store was best friends with my old manager, and he talked s*** about me. Even though I have proven myself at the new store, and am averaging a monthly sales of $17000.00 as a part time employee, I am still not good enough. I ask for a day off to spend time with my son, I get told NO. I never ask for time off, yet I get denied everytime I put in for a day off. I work hard, yet I am not good enough for this company apparently to go much further than $8.50 per hour and full time with benefits. Oh, have I mentioned that I have been with the company now since December, and upon multiple times of asking, still have NOT received my 90 day review ! So, you think you have problems down there in texas ? Try living in my shoes and then complain to me again about how bad you (as a man in a man's company) really have it. I will agree that Mr. Charlie O'Reilly didn't have these intentions for a company he started so many years ago. This is ridiculous and people really do need to know and hear employee stories nationwide. Not just in the south, or even up here in the midwest.

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rustyail
garland, US
Aug 03, 2016 5:02 am EDT

sounds like he was flirting with you, kinda give off that vibe dont ya

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Wanda Sykes
, US
Apr 22, 2019 9:07 pm EDT
Replying to comment of rustyail

They seem to be treating their customers with bias tendencies as well. If they can't become an diverse company. Then maybe an class action law suit is in order and shut them down with this sort of treatment in every city and state

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Do-People-Matter
Eau Claire, US
Sep 25, 2010 12:05 pm EDT
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I will say that ever since O'Reilly Auto Parts, Inc. purchased CSK, the atmosphere at work has been terrible. CSK treated employees as people. O'Reilly treats employees as if we are machines. I wish I could say more at this time, but I am worn thin. --My advice to anyone reading this is to shop anywhere for your auto parts, except at O'Reilly. The O'Reilly clan need to wake up and understand that people need to be treated fairly and humanly; hopefully sales productivity will go down when the population begin to know the truth about them. I am still an employee so I best keep my head down. Signed, looking for another job