Originally Posted by Tim O' Tei

I come here because I choose to. Choice is something ERAC doesn't encourage. It's therapeutic!

We have been around. We know the tricks. Shit, I found most of the short cuts in RALPH 2000. We come here beacuse we left because we woke up. After many years we realised it was a lie. A scam. We were sick of making others money then to be told that the goalposts had been moved for our own progression.

Besides it's called FailingEnterprise - why are you here?

There are two reasons for your defence of this company:

You're a relative newcomer to ERAC who has been lied to about promotion, made to work ridiculous hours, seen friends and colleagues leave and still believe "it's character building".

If so, why are there so many regular posters here slating the company? If there is a problem, the easiest solution is to find the common root and eradicate it. The common problem seems to be the lies of uppermanagement and the dangerous situations people are placed in. Repossessing cars at 4 in the morning for example. Is that a safe way of conducting business? Having female workers abused at bodyshops and then trying to get them to laugh it off because we can't lose the account. Sooner or later someone is going to be seriously hurt, potentially killed because the company won't affect their bottom line by doing the right thing or calling in bailiffs. AND THE COMPANY SUCKERS YOU INTO DOING IT.

For someone who works for the company and therefore is likely to have a degree, you should be able to realise thats downright fucking idiotic.

However, if you are the same poster you evidently posted whilst at work the other day. which would lead me to conclude you are an area manager - I'm assuming BK, because no-one else will stand up for you- or above who is too scared to register.

You are still bought in. Fine. No problem to me or anyone else. You go ahead, screw everyone over. Lose your friends - they won't miss you. Go to work and leave branches in the shit when you take on extra deals knowing there are no cars. Then how about you rant and rave at the poor sods trying to do their best because ESQI has dropped.

You know why it's okay?

Because they laugh at you. They laugh at your poor attempts at humour. They laugh at you ill-concieved attempts to motivate them using words that you have just learnt but don't understand their meaning. They laugh at your abysmal business decisions and are just embarrassed when you deal with customers. Hell, they laugh at your monogrammed shirts and lairy trousers. Why don't you go and have a little cry (I'm sure you'll feel better).

But then you know all of that.

But what hurts you most, really deep, deep down, when you crawl into bed knowing you are a poor manager -that you only got where you are by lying through your teeth, by your parents being the friends with ERAC hierearchy, by having conversations that "didn't occur", by bringing people into head office and giving them a disciplinary without going through the right proceedures- what really, really hurts, when it's all said and done, is that you know they're right.