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Originally Posted by FailingEnterpriseAdmin I passed through the San Antonio airport today. The other rental car desks were serving a customer each, but nobody on line. Enterprise had two additional people on line and they had to wait there a long time. There was a sign on the counter that said "Cars Available", which made me laugh. I guess this means they know it's Saturday. Is there a corresponding "Cars Not Available" sign that the branches have for Monday through Friday? You should provide chairs and soft drinks for customers during the mandatory upselling seminar. I'll bet the interrogators in Abu Ghraib prison could learn a thing or two by observing these "conversations". I'll bet the ERACi's could have the Iraqi's begging for CDW protection within just a few minutes of extra-legal pressure. Another agency fulfilled my reservation is less than 30 seconds. Enterprise should create an "Enterprise Airport Edition" and actually start tying to get the business traveller market. They'd have to change their whole culture, of course. |
I actually worked at the airport office in San Antonio for 6 months. Cars, contracts or keys were lost on a daily basis. The place was a zoo; nobody knew where anyone was or when the next car would turn in. We had more complaints about that office than any other office in the area. The phones never stopped ringing, the computers always crashed, and there was always 2 or more customers in the branch "waiting for their reserved car". I would say this made more than a few customers blow their stack and chew us up one leg and down the other. This led to a high turnover of employees due to the constant stress of no cars and many reservations.
I left in the middle of an endless frustrating Summer afternoon while I was writing up a ticket. I told the customer and the others in the office that I was going out "to check on the progress of the rental" getting prepped. Instead, I jumped in my car and never looked back. I figured that getting sworn & yelled at for something beyond my control was not in my job description.
I found a job three weeks later. Never look back.