Midas Reviews

I have been working at Midas full-time for less than a year

Pros – This location stays busy most of the time.

Cons – I have nothing bad to say about this store so far.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good work.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Midas full-time for more than a year

Pros – Customers appreciate your hard work, and when not too busy you are able to have a good time with your co-workers.

Cons – Management is always quick to point fingers, and will charge you for anything and everything they can. If you do a trans flush to a vehicle having shifting problems, and the transmission goes out 2 weeks down the road, YOU the technician are stuck paying for it. To top it off, you couldn't say no to the work, even if you were uncomfortable with it. Poor vacation and sick time policies, you can only start getting vacation after a year of employment, and it takes another year to generate a week.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop worrying so much about your bottom line and take care of your employees. They take care of you. Without them, you are nothing.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Midas part-time for more than a year

Pros – Worked around school schedule
easy entry level technician work

Cons – Dishonest practices, lied to customers and employees

Advice to Senior Management – create a culture of accountability and honesty

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Midas full-time for more than a year

Pros – It is a large international company and so there is opportunity across the country for jobs.

Cons – This is a very "Corporate" type business meaning NON-PERSONAL. The regional managers tend to only last about a year on average in their position before leaving the company. That is because of the stress caused by the yo-yo's sitting behind a desk in Chicago telling their subordinates that they are doing everything wrong. This of course trickles all the way down the food chain. Managers beware. For two years I successfully ran one of the busiest shops in San Diego (One of Midas' better markets) and my salary was still some $20K short of what their job listing promised.
My time at Midas was so thoroughly unenjoyable that I cringe whenever I drive by any Midas repair shop - AND I changed my industry after being in it for 10 years..

Advice to Senior Management – Realize that your employees are people, not ants. Give them reason to be motivated and stay with your company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Midas full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – revolving days off every week

Cons – revolving employees coming and going

Advice to Senior Management – Keep a manager more than 2 months and business might improve

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Midas part-time for less than a year

Pros – I got $10 an hour to work part-time, and my supervisor was a nice guy, and so was everyone else who worked there.

Cons – There were so many things to do, and it was very busy, sometimes the other people had no time for me., but I learned everything fast, so it wasn't really a problem

Advice to Senior Management – Everything worked out well for me, I have no advice.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Midas full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – TBC Corp has significantly more financial and human resources to help drive retail growth. They have a strong tire supply program to help offset lower margins. Very passionate group of employees. Several job openings to fill to make the acquistion of Midas a successful one.

Cons – Southern Florida headquarters is a con for many former Midas employees, most did not relocate.
Small office space. Franchisees can be difficult and an obstruction to meeting systemwide goals.

Advice to Senior Management – Develop a sound, profitible supply chain solution for tires and other parts. Consolidate vendors as much as possible so you can leverage the buying power and supplier marketing support.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Midas

Pros – They sell and stand behind the products they sell.

Cons – They will do anything to oversell a customer and force Managers to make hard sales

Advice to Senior Management – Have Alan Feldman go out and really see what the shops are doing. Never have a person training shop managers admit he would "cheat to win".

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Midas

Pros – The best reasons are of course, the commission based salary. The ability to work independently and grow your paycheck. I can't think of any other reasons to work here.

Cons – The downside will include management from the supervisors on up to the top level management. Most of them are incompetent and some introduce themselves over and over each time they come into the shop. WOW!

Advice to Senior Management – Management might want to consider putting the right people into the roles based on knowledge and proven track records. I think that better pay for all is long overdue, along with benefits. Which are unbelievably expensive.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Midas

Pros – The benefits are very cheap. If placed at a high volume store and with a good team money can be made.

Cons – Hours, its easy to put 60- 70 hours a week in this place. Being a Assistant Manager its difficult to separate your customer service with your Technician side. The manager is always in need of help and you can find yourself pulling the weight of two positions and not being able to make any money for yourself. The company is ran on sales, when sales are up everyones happy, when there down the finger pointing starts even if its a fallen car count which could not of been prevented. The ways to correct a managers sales from being down is to make the manager work 6 days a week 12-13 hours a day hoping that the manager would learn from his/her mistakes and be more aggressive.

Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of the Assistant Manager/Technician position, put a well trained assistant manager (customer service only) in there to ease the stress off the manager. Therefore a Technician does not have to suffer to help him/her out. Make the senior tech or most experienced tech be a shop foreman to keep the shop in line. By doing this it will help the stress between both shop and office. Less stress and hours on Management means better attitudes and increase in motivation, which leads to a more relaxed more professional environment. Many people believe this will lead to laziness however I've never seen a person that loved there work, was motivated to be there and not perform 110%. Its Stress that leads to laziness, a loss of hope. I've been through more managers in this company than any company I've ever worked for and its got to stop. The customers are talking, I hear them everyday, "so wheres so and so" "well he's no longer with the company" "oh well thats a shame you guys go through a lot of management here". Some customers follow that manager wherever they may go, some still stay because of commute reasons. Few don't come back. Make Midas a great place to work again!! You'll see the difference.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend