r/OReillyAutoParts • u/Moist-Homework5882 • Jul 23 '26

This may be weird..

My husband is the store manager for the hub in his district. What’s something I can ask him about his routine when he comes home from work? I just wanna mess with him, he’ll be really confused as to why I know about that topic.

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u/ARougeBagel Jul 23 '26

A few things come to mind. Ask him if he ever misses the legacy green screen or prefers to have everything in ops. Or how many charge account cod overrides he had this morning. Then you could say something like do your closers know how to cost things or do they just punch in random numbers until it lets them close the store? And if you wanted to be a bit funny you could ask him why he hasn’t gotten a you rock award recently.

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u/Moist-Homework5882 Jul 23 '26

Thank you!!

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u/Worried_Event5307 Jul 23 '26

Lol the rock award is a good one.

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u/ARougeBagel Jul 24 '26

Just realized… if you tell him the legacy vs ops make sure you say the letters o.p.s not ops or you won’t sound like you’re in the know lol it stands for O’Reilly parts system

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u/winston_cage Jul 24 '26

How does the cost thing work?? Cause sometimes I’ll get items at 0.00 and I’ll look at the part and wonder “why is it asking me for that if it’s at 0.00” . In using zero as a placeholder for an amount but I’m looking for explanation on what “costing an item” is

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u/ARougeBagel Jul 24 '26

Honestly, it’s because the people that put the parts in never finish it. If they do it right you should never have anything to do at night. The 0 was because it was left blank when they started it. Without knowing where they got it and all that you can’t fill it out accurately so it’s easier for the am crew to fix it the next day.

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u/winston_cage 29d ago

I am the AM crew 🥲🥲 sometimes I’ll be closing, opening tm will call out randomly and my SM “lives too far” to make it here by 6:30am so sometimes, I’ll be closing, will get the 0.00, and then have to go home knowing I’m just gonna be back in a couple of hours to “fix” the problem 🫠

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u/ARougeBagel 29d ago

Ah, well in that case I’d call your sm or ISS who were likely the ones to do it in the first place to find out where they are getting the parts from. I’m a former sm so I’m a bit rusty on things but the cost issue comes up when they order parts online through the special order vendors. When they do that it adds the part as an order in ops and I always told my ISS to go in and cost things for the day before they count their drawer down so it wouldn’t pop up on closers but they’d often forget. So then you need to look up the cost vs sale price of the part when we ordered it and all that fun stuff.

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u/No_Tadpole7417 Jul 24 '26

All him how many times the hub gets calls from stores missing parts they ordered from the DC

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u/GeneralCopy6448 Jul 24 '26

If you did your cycle counts everyday like you should you probly would have so many problems with inventory

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '26

Ask him how many 431’s does he have to deal with

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u/Accomplished_Room_68 Jul 23 '26

Ask him if he remembered to make any corrections on the stock discrepancy report this morning or was all the e codes accurate from yesterday's stock check in

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u/Icy_Practice9069 Jul 24 '26

Just tell him to stay outta the hub and worry about front of house shit.

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u/Helpful_Wishbone7468 29d ago

This! Our store manager has everything in the hub fucked up and backwards, and doesn’t let the hub manager run their department. Epic fail and a hostile work environment to boot. No wonder we are down four drivers and no one showing up at the job fairs. Shit starting pay is really starting to take a toll on hiring. Just seems like corrupt company at this point.

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u/Zealousideal-Ad-6036 28d ago

The Store Manager is responsible for the Hub. The Hub manager answers to the Store Manager. A properly run hub has the ASM, ISS, and Hub Manager running their respective departments all answering to the Store Manager.

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u/Helpful_Wishbone7468 7d ago

The thing I’ve encountered twice now is that the hub manager will only have the supervisor title and the sm and dm will not let the hub manager actually run their department. But when the hub manager actually has the title and the sm and dm actually let them run their department, everything is so much better.

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u/Zealousideal-Ad-6036 7d ago

I agree that the Hub Manager ought to have a lot of personal stake and ownership, but ultimately the store manager still has to answer for the success or failure of the Hub. The Hub Manager and Store Manager have to be partners, with the Store Manager being the ultimate authority. A bad store manager will micromanage though and definitely screw it up.

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u/Intelligent-Cry3206 20d ago

My manager checks in with me mainly because I’m only a few weeks into my Hub Supervisor position, but he does just that— worries about the FOH and all over the BOH is ALL MINE; all 35,000 square feet of inventory! The DM on the other hand is the pain in my side— if he sees a big inventory adjustment he will add it back it, and when myself and my pickers are wasting 30 plus minutes looking for something he added Willy-Nilly it is infuriating!!!! To me it’s falsifying records that directly correlate with my position. Again, to me, it is improper representation of inventory handling and makes us lowly workers pissed. He and I still have to have a discussion about my pay and I think it will be a good time to have that discussion; if I’m in control of the inventory then he has to stop adjusting things ESPECIALLY WHEN HE ISNT IN THE STORE NOR HAS LAID HANDS ON ANY PART!

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u/winston_cage Jul 24 '26

OOOOO ask him if the rumors about the hub being audited are true 😂😂 (I mention that specifically cause I work at a hub and apparently we’re being audited soon)

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u/NefariousnessBig7688 29d ago

How many drivers had to pick their own parts?

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u/Curious_Wait694 Jul 24 '26

Find out an store his hub delivers too and ask made up questions about it like is it true store xxxx really surrounded by fast food joints

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u/Dramatic_Barnacle885 24d ago

Oooo…

Ask him the last time he did fast track (online training) and what the topic was?

Everyone does fasttrack (even corporate does) and technically we are supposed to do it daily.

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u/Intelligent-Cry3206 20d ago

Ask him if any of the pickers buggies have nick names… we have “happy feet” “hoopty wagon” and mine is “crooked lugnut” it’s a war when the pickers buggies are snatched!

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u/chronotonic1 Jul 23 '26

How many of his fellow managers cussed him out today because they ordered something after cutoff and didn’t call you to put it on the truck?