[E-WHACK]

Oh, truck rental. Set a meeting with the GTM of Ohio and ask him about employee retention over the past 4 months. He'll give you the corporate BS answer about "regular turnover," but it is far from the truth. There is a major problem within the group. According to my calculations, 5 employees have quit since October (1 Manager, 3 Assistant Managers, 1 MA, and 1 MT). So if you're even considering Truck, make sure to keep your schedule open on Saturdays and holidays because you'll be on the clean-up crew as upper management tries to pick up the pieces while still earning those fat commission checks at your expense. Forget flexing if you working that Satuday, you have accounts to close and trucks to clean!

Empty promises and dead-end positions are the "norm" for E-Whack, and it is no different in Truck. The upper level management of Group 38 will dangle the proverbial carrot in front of your nose until you wake up one day and decide to grow the cojones to search out greener pastures. Don't be fooled by the rhetoric of corporate puppets, that's a lesson I learned way too late in the game. It's all just smoke and mirrors when it comes to Group 38, and the opportunity for advancement is bleak. Management won't want to write recommendations for a transfer out of the group because they can't afford to lose another employee...it is all about their bottom line, Pion. Basically, someone will have to be fired, quit, or die in addition to an act of divine intervention in order for a Columbus Truck rental brach manger to be "promoted" and support anything other than a middle-class lifestyle. Go out and find yourself a truly rewarding career with an upstanding company that will recognize you for something other than your beer-guzzling skills and how well you can clean a truck in a suit & tie without looking like that's what they make you do between sales calls. Good ol' E-Whack living up to its crummy reputation.

And good luck this winter, boys, Mother Nature has been very kind to the Northeast so far. Truck engines have a tendency to freeze up when it's bitter cold outside, and the hourly truck preps tend to disappear when the going gets tough. So dust off your long underwear, roll up your grease-stained sleeves, smile, and act like it's worth it to make yourself feel better. Everybody else is faking it, and so can you!!!!

Another piece of advice that I should have mentioned at the beginning: Listen to your wife, Man. The person who suggested E-whack, whether Truck or Car, as a possible career move should not be considered a "friend"---unless you're splitting the referral bonus. Wait, it's still not worth it! That person deserves a swift kick in the a#%!!!