[One The Way]

Speaking from the UK side of things, a lot of the things our American friends say on here do go on in the UK. The common complaint levied at ERAC is that it's a cult - and it is. There's no escaping that. If you show signs of disloyalty then your whole 'career' starts to go down the toilet. And if you say anything remotely uncorporate whilst at Admin then it always, without fail, gets back to your Branch Manager. Hence, my impression is that the company is always looking out for new people to bring down and another reputation to ruin. So, working for ERAC, you have to be very careful over what you say to who.

As for the hours, if you work in Daily Rental then you're looking at a 50 hour week minimum. Generally this'll be 7.30am to 6.15pm. You will seldom get more than 20mins away from your desk to have lunch. In fact, it gets to the point where you don't even get up from your desk to have lunch because there's no point!

Often immense pressure to speed from your superiors, yet if you get caught speeding or wreck a car, then you get screwed. And lack of understanding from Admin-based staff and constant stream of bullshit makes you question your existence.

On the positive side now: The people you work with (in my personal experience) are generally pretty good people who you can have a laugh with. There is a real sense of team work and a "them and us/Daily Rental vs The World" attitude. You'll become very close to your branch-mates, but only you can decide if it's genuine friendship or the cult rearing its ugly head.

You'll also learn a lot with the job and the experience will (I believe) look half decent on your CV for when you move on.

There are many more negatives and positives, but speaking from personal experience things in the UK don't seem as bad as in the US (where typically each rental employee has more cars to take care of). The reason that the negatives hurt so much is that they are easily rectifiable faults, yet no-one listens and no-one acts on them. All the time we're under a constant barrage of green crap, having our intelligence insulted at the same time.