Your sense is wrong "buddy"...isn't that the term the apes use? Look dude, I am not out to get you. You seem like a nice enough guy. I was once where you are now. All I am saying is that you should re-evaluate your situation often. Erac considers you expendible...there is no doubt about it. Look around this board and your fellow employees that are long gone for God sakes! You have no idea of the dialogue that is occuring in the private offices of level 3 and 4's. I do know, because I was there, and I was one of them years ago! When the gun sites get turned on you, you will kick yourself in the ass for dedicating 65 hours a week to the big green meat-grinding machine! I saw many really good people get pushed out. Here we grow again!

I got out, ... and never looked back. Were there some useful skills learned along the journey?...yep. But I think they could have been learned in other companies as well that didn't treat employees the way this company does. They sell you a bill of goods as the best company ever created for employees, but behind the scenes...a whole different story! My choice to leave by the way so don't give me the "can't hack it" garbage they love to spew around. I had a few good managers that treated me well along the way, and I just kept moving up. BUT>...Every level you move up, you see more and more of the lying and deceit. It got to the point where I realized I really COULDn't make a difference....I was expected to lie and pull the same shit. The culture at RVP level is frightening. I have been in meetings where an RVP talked about "milking a few more months" out of employee A, employee B, before letting them go (they were BURNT) just to manage the retention number until the RVP got promoted. Is this doing the right thing for the right reason? That is what they always preach, isn't it? They talk about employees as "warm bodies", it got to the point where the money I was making was not worth it. I was selling my soul to that company, it effected my health, my relationship with my family, and I felt like I was leading the lambs to slaughter every time I hired an employee...and hire we would do!!! There is a REASON erac is the #1 recruiter of College Grads!!!! They need more meat to survive! With a retention of 50%, damn! One of my lowest days was when I tried to convince an education major to stay with ERAC when he wanted to quit to take a job teaching 5th graders. Is renting cars at ERAC more important than shaping the minds of our youth?? Many of the level threes I worked with felt the EXACT same way about this company...and most I knew are gone now as well. But I guarantee most Area and City Managers would jump ship if they thought they could. The ironic thing is they CAN... the company does a GREAT job molding people's minds over the years to the point where they instill this BELIEF in people they can't make the same money ANYWHERE on the planet. NO other company pays what erac pays. I am going to make over 3 times what I was making at the green machine as a level three (not saying it to brag, but I want people to know there is life after the big E..... and I DO get to spend a lot more time with my family during the week, I can watch my kids play sports, and I don't work weekends, and my marriage is much stronger because I actually spend time with my family now.