I think I’m done with the car business
After 6 years of working at the same dealer i think I’m drawing the line here. I was promoted after 5 years from sales person to sales manager and was actually very excited for the opportunity. I wasn’t getting as much as I made but I wanted the experience. I had more hours, more responsibilities and definitely more stress, after 9 months of it I wanted a raise and to start making real money. I knew how to do everything and my partner up here who trained me left for another dealer because of more money as well. So after the owners who haven’t been to the dealer in about 2 years because they have been Puerto Rico on vacation they got back and I called the owner and texted him for 2 weeks with no answer. I know it’s his number because I send him the numbers (how many we sold that day and how much for the month) and after the 2 weeks of no response I get a text from our used car manager saying come see him. So I’m thinking nice finally a raise and come to find that the owner told him to demote me back to a sales person? I didn’t want to let him have it because I know it wasn’t his decision but holy hell I was fuming. 9 months of being underpaid and doing extra work that isn’t my job! From service issues I handle because their manager is off, I handle to finances job with Power of attorneys and even our dmv department handing all that extra stuff for less money. I just felt used and honestly at this point idk what to do. Everyone treats me so differently like worse than when I was a sales person before, I gave away all my customers that I have built up and they still ask me to do a bunch of manager stuff like it’s wild how no one knows how to do anything. They have the BDC manager of a non existent department (we have no bdc) the used car a manger and finance just at the desk every now and then and they all ask me stuff like tax rates, money factors, how to ground leases, ordering cars and I just laugh and them and say that is not my responsibility anymore, let me know if anything changes. To get any numbers or any deals printed we have to look around for them because no one wants to sit at the desk. I even got yelled at by the used car manager to print my own deal cursing at me in the showroom in front of my customer and other sales people even though I’m not a sales manager. I don’t know what work I want to get into, but I honestly don’t want to do this anymore, I feel used and I just can’t anymore. I got into this business after I broke my tailbone farming and couldn’t lift anything much anymore (80 pound feed bags are a bitch), but I need to look for something better. Getting off at 8pm every day also is trash, I just turned 28 and thought this is the place I would retire, but I need to look into another opportunity now and hold off on looking for my own place sadly because of this. We went out to Presidents’ Day yesterday and the owner complimenting our used car manager and the people who can’t do anything for everything I have done over these months really got under my skin and I was honestly shocked that he couldn’t take out 5 minutes of his time to talk to me instead of having the used car guy tell me all of this. Sorry for the rambling and all over the place this month has been really rough on me mentally.