Originally Posted by Unregistered

What constitutes career suicide in Group 32?

One word: Honesty.
Honesty on all levels, I-III, and in all contexts;

MT's: You, that are the footsoldiers in this big Ponzi scheme, who must face all the bullshit being thrown your way from all fronts, can't be honest with your customers about; where there car is, or that we will not have a certain size car, or any car for that matter, available Friday evening (because like managers say, "Just book'em, we'll handle them!" yeah, right), why they're being charged premium rates for a VW Jetta (Oh, it's an exotic car, see, VW, oooh!), why driving with their insurance is a risk and ours rules (even though at times it isn't), telling them we're gonna take them on a "little trip up the street (and across town) to get their car; with body shop and repair shop customers who were promised a rental no matter what they lack in terms or CC, deposit, insurance, driver's licenses even ("LOOK, YOU ARE JUST TOO GHETTO FOR ME TO TRUST YOU WITH A CAR!!!), but with whom we just don't wanna lose their customers, God forbid; with our friends who have better jobs, lying and telling them how great our job "really" is, when deep down you want to yell at them and beg them to save you and help you get a real job. You can't be honest with any of that, because then you're not "Bleeding Green". Well I'd rather bleed red to prove to myself that I am a real person and not some mindless robot sweating it out in 100 degree heat in my shirt and tie washing cars and not even being able to roll up my sleeves or undue my tie for relief because some fat ass condescending, skeevy AssMan, who cares more about his silver pen (you know who GP 32, WW), thinks that would look "unprofessional". Put it simply, you can't be honest, period, or else it's ESQi, and career suicide.

Ass. Man.: You can't be honest with yourself, first and foremost, or else you must admit that the plan you've made has fallen apart:
If you've been an ass't. man. for more than 2-3 years, and I'm not talking about just being with the company 2-3 years, I'm talking about being an ass't. for over 2-3 years, and not been promoted yet, chances are you're not gonna be anytime soon. Try as much and as hard you want, be the best damn frontrunner in the region for who knows how many months, gain MT loyalty, but forget it. You're best hope is to make a "lateral" movement (car sales, truck rental, fleet, etc.), or pray for mass attrition (or another slapping incident in Orlando, "Movement! Movement!"). You may be sitting there asking "WHY? WHAT (OR WHOM) DO I HAVE TO DO TO MOVE AHEAD ALREADY? WHEN LORD, WHEN, IS IT MY TURN??? I'VE DOEN ALL THAT'S RIGHT!" The sad part is that it's maybe because you just haven't kissed the right ass, laughed at the right person's corny joke, rooted for a certain AM's college team (even though you went to a rival school), didn't go to the right happy hour (because, SURPRISE, you do have a life other than ECRAP!!!), or maybe you vented the obvious branch problems to an AM who didn't want to hear it for the umpteenth time because they're running late for lunch at McCormick and Schmicks with the RRM to talk about their own promo. But don't be mad at yourself...maybe that's just not you, and you should be applauded for that. Maybe you don't believe in the whole ECRAP "Yes man" mentality, and are clinging on to the "merit based" hope that's gotten you at this point, but just not put you over yet. Then you can't be honest with yourself, because your eyes will open, and that is ECRAP career suicide

Managers and above: Well, have you ever heard of a manager (okay, maybe one or two, in a GROUP) who got where he was because he was honest with his employees at the beginning: "This job is gonna ruin your best suits, shoes, ties, your eating habits, make you a (?)-addict, make you cynnicle, expose you to all kinds of harassment, expose you to the lowest of the low (in business management and in customers), have you out in the sun (or rain) most of the day, and teach you how to lie your way to the top! Whatta ya say?" Of course not, retention numbers would fall even lower, and morale would be dismal.
Or honest with his own bosses: "Yup my (branch, area, region, group) is on the skids , my employees are quitting on me left and right, their's fraternization with management and the females, my ESQi is at about 69%, I've got two conversions I personally signed off on and will not go look for myself, oh and my reserves are at a negative, but we're working on that. Now, how about my promotion?". All they can pray for is that the quarterly's match with their estimates and slick presentations. If this was a public company, do you think the stockholders would be happy with the company image and management style? You think honesty isn't career suicide at this level???