walked in the store one day, had a pissed customer b/c the monkey behind the counter couldn;t look up a marine spark plug, grabbed the plug and gave the guy a NGK number i remembered that it crossed to. Manager offered me a part time position while i was in college and that turned into running the commercial division of the store, which turned into management. Which turned to $hit. They do not care about their employees at all. I opened my own shop after that and promptly told the district manager to go pound sand.
3 months later they begged me to come back and i looked at him like he had a 3rd appendage sticking out of his forehead.
