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Originally Posted by Unregistered111222333  I normally would not reply to a post, but I feel obligated. I've been with ERAC for about 5 years. It can be a tough job, but I don't know of an easy job that exists, especially one that has potential for good money and one that is as good a "resume builder" as ERAC. As a manager, I can tell you we don't have meetings on how to control people leaving. Our talent pool is very deep right now and most of the people that leave do not have the talent. This job takes a certain kind of person. Someone that has to listen to customer's shit, clean cars when the weather sucks (in a suit), maybe stay until 6:30 when we close at 6, etc. The last post said you work 56 hrs/wk. As a group, we actually average just over 50. As an MT, you are also guaranteed to work close to your home, so no commute. Bottom line, you learn to run a business, from the ground up. I don't know of anyone who has ever said working for ERAC hurt them in any way. Yes, some days are tough, but running your own deal is never easy. I recommend you try it out, if nothing else, I promise the work experience will only help you. As a manager, I am on target to make 70K, which isn't bad for renting cars. You may end up hating it. If so, find something else, you're young. Personally, I love it and I know many people that do, you just won't see them on this site too often. Good luck. |
The part he left out was that he didn't have to do shit but show up for the alleged 70k he's gonna make this year. YOU, as the newly hired MT, will be the one putting money in his pocket. You sell CDW, PAI, and SLP which all increase HIS paycheck while yours stays the same. YOU write tickets, pick up customers, drive them back, wash and vacuum cars, ruin every pair of shoes and pants and shirts you own while he "markets". The car sales department "flips" the cars, which is where the branch really makes it's money, and YOUR PAYCHECK STAYS THE SAME WHILE HIS GETS BIGGER! Then one day, if you eat enough shit, you get to climb the pyramid and be just like him and do it to other people. Furthermore, he may not be the best mentor for success at ERAC. He admittedly only makes 70k after five years. By ERAC's standards, he's not doing too well. He has less than a year to increase his paycheck another 30k and hit the "six figures in six years" milestone. Oh, and "just over 50" hours a week is pretty close to 56 if you ask me. You will never be "running your own business" at ERAC. ERAC is the Taylor Family's business and you will be reminded of that at every turn. A real business owner is autonomous, which you will never be at ERAC. Just like any other RETAIL job, they simply allow you to manage one of their stores and they pay you a shitty base salary and a commission check (which they use some really creative math to figure) that other people earned for you. Good luck.