So miserable as an advisor
I’m about 4 months into my service advisor role, and I’m really struggling. Even though I’m not handling a huge number of ROs each day (usually around 5–8 since I’m still new), my stress level is higher than anything I’ve dealt with before.
The shop hours are 7:30–5:30, Monday through Friday, and it feels like I have no free time. When I do get any, I end up falling asleep almost immediately because I’m completely drained—both physically and mentally.
On top of that, my manager seems to only really care about money and doesn’t doesn’t seem to show much empathy towards customer issues. Just always pushing the sell sell sell idea. So many people come in talking about how great he is, but I've always had a knack of reading people's true character and I've always gotten "off vibes" from him.
I also just recently started my pay plan (first 3 months was training flat pay) and pretty sure im getting screwed. $547 base pay, plus 6% individual commission, and 3% split between all 3 advisors. I did the math and my first paycheck only worked out to 3% individual. I've only got one paycheck so far on my pay plan so I haven't yet been able to see if it all adds up correctly.
Another big thing for me is the pricing. I understand the need for markup, but some of what we charge feels excessive to the point where I’m not comfortable with it. It’s been weighing on me because it doesn’t sit right with me ethically.
I personally also hate telling person after person bad news about their vehicles.
Maybe I'm just over reacting to everything, maybe it's definitely not a role that's for me.
Been applying to other places but out of probably 200 applications had nothing pan out