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| Originally Posted by Group 32 Yes, when you start working with Enterprise the pay is low but the experience obtained is beyond recognizable in any resume. My name is Wendy and I started working with ERAC a week after my college graduation from UCLA. I am proud to stay that June 2006, will be my 2 year mark. Do I have any regrets? No! Which job will give you experience in fields of customer service, sales, and marketing? While working with ERAC different companies have offered me positions because they recognize that ERAC only hires top notch educated individuals. Furthermore, once you grill the opportnites are tremendous. I take great pride in taking away business from our competitors because I know that no other rental car agency will offer the same service we do. It is no wonder why even Hertz is eating out dust. Failing Enterprise? I DON'T THINK SO!! IT WILL KEEP GROWING AND GROWING. If ERAC were considered to be a public co, it would be part of Fortune 200, but it's private, it prefers to share the wealth amongst its employees through profit sharing. I recommend ERAC to any college student. |
Wendy, I'm glad you like it so much, and there will be MANY, MANY people on this board that will rip you apart for what you said so be prepared.
But the opportunities you speak of only come from replacing people that quit the company, or positions that open because a new office was created which will work in the territory of an old office, thereby cutting the profit from someone's livelihood who worked so hard to grow their branch.
Or the opportunity is a position created to further add to the sham of opportunity such as the Regional Rental Manager. They are just dividing up the proverbial pie even more, not generating more profit.
It's an illusion of opportunity.
And 'prefers to share the wealth amongst its employees through profit sharing' is laughable. Any company worth its' salt will match employee contributions to 401(k) from the first day an employee is eligible. Enterprise figured out a long time ago the vast majority of its' employees will not see 7+ years with the company, so they make that the vested date in order to fully share the wealth of profits. And the other little tidbit they fail to mention to you is your contribution to the wonderful profit sharing plan is based on what your length of service is on July 31st of each year. What does that mean to you? Well someone who starts in August works the entire year for free on the profit sharing plan, because when July 31 rolls around, they have officially been with the company 0 years! Yet another way ERAC can lessen its' employees pockets... the good ole 'length of service' clause. That's why you see a mass exodus of upper management, or other tenured employees, in the months of August, September and October.
The profit numbers are mythical anyway. There is always a 'screw' factor. By and large the numbers are manipulated each and every month to even out net profit because the higher ups get paid off net profit and they want to avoid wild fluctuations in their paychecks. Believe me it's more than a coincidence that when OP is up, flip is down, and vice versa.
Just wait until you get to manager and they practically force you to pay them $200/month to be on 'the plan'. Yet even though you work for a rental car company, with cars coming out of their ears, you have to pay them to get a company car? And there are restrictions on it? It never made sense to me.
I hope your bubble with Enterprise doesn't ever burst. And I hope you go very far with the company. Just know that when the 'air is let out of your balloon', get out quickly. Don't linger and think you can't get another job because you work retail in the rental car business. You have already stated that you have received other job offers working there. One day you will do yourself well to take one of those jobs.
I know I sound bitter, and clearly I am a former employee, but believe me when I tell you that I was one of the rare people who got to go behind the curtain and see the great and powerful Oz pulling all the levers and making things happen. I'm not bitter. I learned a lot working there and mostly enjoyed it, but it is a stepping stone job for 99% of the people there. Good luck.