 Looks Good on the Resumé
I just glimpsed through a post about someone saying that working for ERAC looks good on the resumé. DO NOT BELIEVE THIS LIE. Okay so it isn't a complete lie, but it isn't alltogether true.
Between leaving ERAC and getting my current job I had dozens of interviews. My experience with ERAC didn't help me get my foot in the door anymore than my experience with anyother job I have had. Truth is you can go work anywhere and get equal ammounts of service experience. Really the only case for working at ERAC looking good on a resumé would be if you went and worked for HLE, Avis, etc... and who is dumb enough to leave one rental company for another... well other than one of my old branch managers. lol! But she wasn't right in the head.
For some reason ERAC tells you this mumbo jumbo and then when you dicide to leave they fight tooth and nail to keep you from looking at other options. Six months before I left ERAC I got the urge to see what else was out there because I had been promised to grill several time, but kept getting the shaft. I had a killer resumé even without ERAC, so I posted my resumé to see what would come up. A few weeks after I posted my resumé I grilled and got a branch right away. So I forgot all about my resumé because I was not interested in leaving ERAC. 3 months after I grilled I got a phone call from my city manager who wanted me to stay late because he was driving in to talk to me. My branch was kicking ass so I thought he wanted to come offer me larger branch or take me out for a beer... however when he got there he wrote me up for having posted my resumé online. I explained to him what I wrote above. He told me I had to take it off. This just pissed me off. I asked him what business of his it was about my life outside ERAC. He said that if one of my MT's saw it online it would corrupt thier view of the "big picture". To which I told him that they would have no way of seeing it unless they subscribed as an employer. Again he told me I had to take it off. I told him I would not do it for the simple fact that it was no business of ERAC. This pissed him off, but I did have him in a tough spot. If he fired me it would be for wrongful termination, so instead he took away my bonuses until I complied.
I thought about it for a while. I called my old area manager who had left the company and asked him what I should do. He said to go into my settings in hotjobs.com and monster.com and make my resume invisible from any company that Enterprise in their name. So I did just that... called my city manager and told him I took it down and he gave me my bonuses back.
I still can't beleive that ERAC has so little confidence in themselves that they have to threaten employees that want to leave. To me it truly shows how unstable and insecure that the company is. If it were so great of a company they would encourage people to better themselves withing and without the company.
Anyway.. the moral of the story is that having you worked for ERAC on your resumé isn't a big deal.  |