Failing Enterprise Blog 2005-05
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The Admin talks about our online community
Tuesday, May 31st, 2005
I keep getting requests for Failing Enterprise t-shirts and the
like, and now I'm hearing from people who want to make and sell
their own. I've done a lot of thinking about this and have
published my thoughts on the issue
here.
I'm curious to see what's going to happen.
Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
It was bound to happen. Because Failing Enterprise has
become such a popular community for current and former Enterprise
Rent-A-Car employees to share their misery and help each other out,
we've now attracted employers and recruiters interested in hiring
people with Enterprise experience.
There have been enough requests that I've now added two new
forums on the discussion board for job listings and positions
wanted.
If you're a current or former Enterprise employee and you're
ready to move up to a better position, check out the job listings
forum. If you're not ready to move up to a better position,
spend a few more minutes on the discussion board and you probably
will be.
If you're an employer or recruiter who's interested in hiring
current or former Enterprise employees, post a listing on the board.
Please note however that Enterprise has a reputation for actively
searching for employees looking to leave so they can be fired
pre-emptively. Therefore, I recommend you use your post to
attract people to your website where they can judge your legitimacy
themselves. If you're obviously cloaking your identity, I
imagine current employees would suspect you might actually be in the
Enterprise HR department with a pink slip in one hand and a mouse in
the other.
Of course there's no charge for posting jobs or positions wanted
on the discussion board. We're a free site for public
discussion.
Thursday, May 12th, 2005
Some more good news from Google. With any of the most
popular phrases that concerned customers, employees, or potential
employees might use to begin their search, we're ranking higher than
ever. I think the fact that over 1,300 other web pages now
link to us is starting to give search engines some pretty strong
clues about our content and its importance.
Just for starters, searching for any of the following phrases in
Google will return Failing Enterprise as the very first listing:
Enterprise Rent-A-Car Reservation
Enterprise Rent-A-Car Customer Service
Enterprise Rent-A-Car Sucks
Enterprise Rent-A-Car Human Resources
Searching for "Enterprise Rent-A-Car Management Trainee" shows us
only at #2, so we have some work to do.
After looking over the web log data and reading my e-mail, I can
see that Enterprise has now blocked internal access to
Failing Enterprise essentially everywhere. This is a real
tragedy. Not for us, of course, as our traffic just keeps
growing, even without them (actually, probably even with them, as
those employees who are blocked are now just going home to browse).
No, the tragedy is that Enterprise has apparently decided that since
the Internet now documents some of their more unpleasant truths,
they're going to block their own access to the Internet,
doing the modern equivalent of sticking their fingers in their ears
and saying "Nah nah nah nah..." at the top of their lungs.
They've decided that rather than adapting themselves to the modern
world, they're going to cut themselves off from it.
Of course, their employees won't cut themselves off from the real
world; they all still have Internet access outside of work.
I do fear that this will simply delay even further the
recognition that they're going to have to make some changes to end
these unethical and possibly illegal practices. I'll bet that
with such a rigid, top down, closed bureaucracy, the fact that they
can't get to Failing Enterprise on the web is probably met with a
response of "Whew! I'm glad that problem's solved!".
Meanwhile, the villagers gather torches and pitchforks,
organizing themselves with cell phone text messaging.
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