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Originally Posted by Dom182  Now that carpenter has been brought up here's a funny fact. Brad was an area manager when I worked in Vegas. He has been with the company over 11 years, and must have posted 10 times for promotion to GRM. Marion Townes has been with the company for 4 years starting as an intern. Now both work in remarketing and I believe Marion is senior to Brad having taken a position there 1st. I will say that Marion Rocks! Very levelheaded girl who doesn't buy into all the ECRAP but is still moving forward. As for Brad. Completely green, spouts all the ECRAP propaganda. I think this is justice and for Brad well it can't feel good to have a person who started as an intern in your area move forward and end up being your senior. OUCHHHHH. |
This is just too funny. I came across this site by accident through an unrelated google search. I have literally been laughing since I started reading.
Like many of you, I worked at Enterprise in Las Vegas back in the late 90's and Brad Carpenter was my manager. I had just moved to Vegas and needed a job quickly. So, I answered an ad in the paper for recent college grads, and the rest is history.
Well, it didn't take me very long to figure out that ERAC was not going to work. For one thing, the pay was terrible and I barely had enough money for living expenses. Second, the hours sucked and I never remember having a 2 day weekend. Third, I would go home from work dog tired and have nothing to show for it. I think they were paying something like $8.15 an hour for college graduates in 1999. So, you work 60 hours a week and have no disposable income left over. Fourth, I remember the vacation time sucked as well. I don't think they gave any unless somebody had been there at least a year. I started looking for a new job within 2 months and don't think I even stayed there for 6 months. I started in the summer and was gone by Christmas.
I still remember when I went in and quit. Brad told me that I should really reconsider what I was doing because I wasn't going to find another job like Enterprise out there. Well, when I informed him that I was taking a job with a better salary and a 40hr. M-F week, he had the nerve to bring up future opportunities!!!! Bwaa ha ha ha ha!! Now, let's take a look at what happened in the mean time. Within 1 year of leaving ERAC, I was able to buy a home, in 2000. I would have never been able to do this with the peanuts they were paying at enterprise. In fact, I was able to put those sales skills to use at a job that actually paid commissions and more than doubled my salary, working much better hours and with a matching 401(k). It sure beat the hell out of selling ins. package, washing cars in 110 degree heat, and dressing like a mormon missionary every day. This is the funny part of it all. Even with the recent downslide in the RE market, the house is still worth more than twice what I paid for it. I remember Brad one day during closing bragging to me that he was pulling about $50K as the branch manager. He thought that was pretty good for a guy in his early 30's at the time. One year later, I was making more than that and was still in my mid-20's. Oh yeah, I had much better hours, too. I would have to say leaving enterprise was the best thing I ever did, and it sounds like staying there all these years was the worst thing Brad could have done.