Pros
Some stores are well-managed (Chevrolet is held up as the gold star in the office, between the branches, and among employees, to give credit where credit's due). You aren't expected to do anything beyond the barest of bare minimums (they can't really ask you to do more since none of the management or old-timers do). You can (and many do) literally spend the entire day on Facebook and YouTube, and as long as you don't burn the building down, you're good. Other than that, the best reason to stick it out is the coworkers - those who are also willing to stick it out and find work-arounds to the deceptive business practices, incompetent management, and joke that is HR. Clever marketing sometimes works to employees' favor (having holidays off that you'd traditionally have to work in the auto industry, like Memorial Day and Labor Day), but beyond that, it's mostly a show.
Cons
Echoing pretty much every review on here, HR is a joke. Do not think for a second that they care about employees: they care about covering the company's rear. HR is the most condescending, deceitful, and ill-informed department I've encountered in some time. If you go to HR about anything, from unfair practices to downright illegal activity, HR will 1) tell you it is your fault, 2) go tell all of the people you've discussed that you went to HR to talk about them, 3) act shocked when you state that you didn't go to HR the next time the exact same thing happened (or that you faced backlash for HR's mismanagement of the issue). Rinse. Repeat. Every employee in this company has an HR story, or if they don't, it's because they were cautioned to steer clear of HR by other employees who've already learned that lesson the hard way. Incompetent and disinterested management (this is store specific, so just be careful and do your research). There is a running joke within the organization that, short of shooting someone in front of a police officer, middle- and upper-management can do anything they want without fear of reprimand, much less losing their jobs. I have never been at a job where this is more true than it is here. You are encouraged to lie, cheat, and steal your way to the top (so long as it helps your department's or store's numbers and you cover it well enough), and you are rewarded for doing so with special considerations (for example, sales associates at some stores are not allowed to have internet leads unless they are already sales "elite" status - which means more than half of the new lead traffic goes to people who already have a huge book). High turnover, especially among middle management (though nearly every other week lately we've been getting emails about another long-time employee leaving). The company is bleeding people at an unprecedented and alarming rate, and more are on their way out. On that note, know that it's kind of like trying to leave the mafia: Zimbrick has so many business ties around the community that you have to watch your back if you look elsewhere. I've witnessed numerous employees get blacklisted (from non-competing employers) when they mention having worked for Zimbrick, because Zimbrick doesn't always hesitate to throw its weight around when it wants to prevent an employee from leaving or working for another local business. Employees have learned to keep their new ventures secret to prevent retaliation. It's such an odd combination of a lumbering dinosaur, slow to change and adapt, with the institutional memory of a gnat. Every day is a guessing game in terms of what to expect, and when you add in the revolving door of middle-management, business managers, and sales staff, it can leave you dizzy.
