God help those still working for that GOD FOR SAKEN COMPANY

People, if this is the best it gets for you... God help you. I am a former ARM, nearly 7 yrs in group 15. I was fortunate to wake up one day, and realize that I was completely wasting my life at this joke of a company. I walked into my RVP's office, and told him I wanted out. I got paid (per contract), and entered pure HEAVEN as I have been in Healthcare Sales ever since.

Many of you can guess who I am, but that is not important. What is important is that you realize that you are worth much more. I can't believe I wasted as much time as I had at ERAC. I am now a vigalanty of sorts, trying to help as many people as I can see the "light".

Do you really know the truth? Do you know how much RRM's and above really get paid??? Many are paid less there first year or two then they were making in there previous position. And more importantly, do you really think people at other companies, more respected, desired, companies out there in any industry-don't get paid what these absolute chumps are making???? Moreover, will you ever even have the opportunity to interview for ARM, RRM or above? Will your 60+ hr work weeks ever put you in position to see six figures??? Maybe, but why at Enterprise??????? That is the real question.

Most, if not nearly all RVP's and above happen to start ERAC in the late 80's or early 90's, where 20% annual growth was a given. Those days are long gone, for over a decade. Now growth comes by natural disasters, other companies going out of business, or competing against a dismal year prior. They are no better than you, but they happen to start at a better financial time. A time where putting up new branches was a must to keep up with demand. Now you are competing primarily against yourselves. Sure Hertz and co. may have some business, but competing with the branch down the street is your biggest concern.

Understand that ERAC treats employees like pure shit. They have no respect for any employee. Even the fat cat RVP's and above. There are a thousand drones waiting in line to move to Kalamazoo, or Tuscaloosa and get that coveted "next deal". Your benefits are miserable, your pay is lack luster at best whether you are an ARM or even RRM (ask Stadler who didn't make 100K until he was fired, or Petrella who didn't make 100K until his second year as RRM, or Cruickshank who made less his first 2 years as an RRM then he did in CA).

Sure with flip back, maybe money is a little easier now. But the real question you must ask yourself is: IS IT WORTH IT? What are you worth to the outside world? The real business world out there? With all of your "rental" experience???? What are some of these ARM's and RRM's, even RVP's doing now??? Unemployed, or working some POS retail mgmt. job. Maybe Target, Public storage, some absolute miserable job.

Get out now, get into a business to business sales positoin, outside if possible. And work your way into the Healthcare arena if you can't get there directly from erac. You will quiet literally be in heaven, and you will command respect by everyone you meet personally or professionally. You will have hundreds, maybe thousands of opportunites in a real and professional industry and not be forced to take another retail job like many of these level 3 employees have been. True retail maybe better than erac, as you will likely not work 60 hrs plus in many of these jobs. But you deserve better.

Stop defending, and having to explain why you work for a rental car co. . Start getting your balls sucked by everyone you know and meet because you are a sales professional in a desired profession working for a company that values you. I have nothing to gain by writing, this. I think of it like charity work, for if only one person listens to me-a former "success story" at erac, and believes the truth that I am saying. Digests it and comes to the realization that they do in fact deserve more than working for a true dirt bag of a company... Then it was well worth the time, and...

YOU ARE WELCOME MY FRIEND. You can do it, and most importantly, bring your sunglasses because the grass is so, so, so much greener-I promise you.

Originally Posted by White Knight

People, if this is the best it gets for you... God help you. I am a former ARM, nearly 7 yrs in group 15. I was fortunate to wake up one day, and realize that I was completely wasting my life at this joke of a company. I walked into my RVP's office, and told him I wanted out. I got paid (per contract), and entered pure HEAVEN as I have been in Healthcare Sales ever since.

Many of you can guess who I am, but that is not important. What is important is that you realize that you are worth much more. I can't believe I wasted as much time as I had at ERAC. I am now a vigalanty of sorts, trying to help as many people as I can see the "light".

Do you really know the truth? Do you know how much RRM's and above really get paid??? Many are paid less there first year or two then they were making in there previous position. And more importantly, do you really think people at other companies, more respected, desired, companies out there in any industry-don't get paid what these absolute chumps are making???? Moreover, will you ever even have the opportunity to interview for ARM, RRM or above? Will your 60+ hr work weeks ever put you in position to see six figures??? Maybe, but why at Enterprise??????? That is the real question.

Most, if not nearly all RVP's and above happen to start ERAC in the late 80's or early 90's, where 20% annual growth was a given. Those days are long gone, for over a decade. Now growth comes by natural disasters, other companies going out of business, or competing against a dismal year prior. They are no better than you, but they happen to start at a better financial time. A time where putting up new branches was a must to keep up with demand. Now you are competing primarily against yourselves. Sure Hertz and co. may have some business, but competing with the branch down the street is your biggest concern.

Understand that ERAC treats employees like pure shit. They have no respect for any employee. Even the fat cat RVP's and above. There are a thousand drones waiting in line to move to Kalamazoo, or Tuscaloosa and get that coveted "next deal". Your benefits are miserable, your pay is lack luster at best whether you are an ARM or even RRM (ask Stadler who didn't make 100K until he was fired, or Petrella who didn't make 100K until his second year as RRM, or Cruickshank who made less his first 2 years as an RRM then he did in CA).

Sure with flip back, maybe money is a little easier now. But the real question you must ask yourself is: IS IT WORTH IT? What are you worth to the outside world? The real business world out there? With all of your "rental" experience???? What are some of these ARM's and RRM's, even RVP's doing now??? Unemployed, or working some POS retail mgmt. job. Maybe Target, Public storage, some absolute miserable job.

Get out now, get into a business to business sales positoin, outside if possible. And work your way into the Healthcare arena if you can't get there directly from erac. You will quiet literally be in heaven, and you will command respect by everyone you meet personally or professionally. You will have hundreds, maybe thousands of opportunites in a real and professional industry and not be forced to take another retail job like many of these level 3 employees have been. True retail maybe better than erac, as you will likely not work 60 hrs plus in many of these jobs. But you deserve better.

Stop defending, and having to explain why you work for a rental car co. . Start getting your balls sucked by everyone you know and meet because you are a sales professional in a desired profession working for a company that values you. I have nothing to gain by writing, this. I think of it like charity work, for if only one person listens to me-a former "success story" at erac, and believes the truth that I am saying. Digests it and comes to the realization that they do in fact deserve more than working for a true dirt bag of a company... Then it was well worth the time, and...

YOU ARE WELCOME MY FRIEND. You can do it, and most importantly, bring your sunglasses because the grass is so, so, so much greener-I promise you.

Outstanding post brother, alot of the myth of Enterprise is just that: a myth.

I had the same dream and woke up one day and told my rrm that I am leaving and this meeting is not a please try and keep me but a thanks but no thanks and a goodbye. I work for a pharma company and am in heaven as well. I have tried to sway people but they get stuck in that rut there and don;t know if they can do better or are afraid of change, I don't know. Erac is a complete joek and yes why ERAC is the ultimate question????

[bill_and_paystub]

It's been said so many times on this site, but the feeling of driving past a branch on my way to work in the morning and knowing that the employees there have already been at work for an hour and a half, it is priceless.

To add to the list: going to work in an air-conditioned, business casual office while Enterprise makes its employees sweat away during the summer and freeze their asses off during the winter, only having to answer a phone when it's one of my friends saying they're going to lunch, actually getting a real hour-long lunch break, making more than $32k/year, and, oh yeah, I almost forgot, not having to wash cars for some ignorant, smelly, obese ghetto queen and having to treat her like f*ing royalty because she decided to spend an extra $18.99 a day.

All of that really makes me glad I didn't buy the dream of the "Virtual MBA." That term is such bullshit, I can't believe recruiters keep a straight face when they try selling that idea to people.

Thankfully I was never an MT, just an intern and part time CSR, so I knew exactly what Enterprise puts its employees through before I'd become just another hit to the retention stats. Much of the "dream" of a level 1, 2, or 3 employee has to do with simply getting the hell out of the rental office, either as an Area Manager or in another department. There's something fundamentally wrong with a job whose only motivation to perform well is to one day be able to avoid absolutely everything that you're currently doing. Thanks to the original post in this thread, maybe some people's eyes will be further opened to the fact that "making it" at ERAC is, in all fairness, not necessarily that great.

That's not to say that I don't respect ERAC employees now that I've moved on, in fact it's quite the contrary. I still have good friends that work there, and just thinking about that daily meat grinder that they go through reinforces everything that there is to dislike about that cult, oh I'm sorry, company.

[Robert]

Originally Posted by bill_and_paystub

It's been said so many times on this site, but the feeling of driving past a branch on my way to work in the morning and knowing that the employees there have already been at work for an hour and a half, it is priceless.

To add to the list: going to work in an air-conditioned, business casual office while Enterprise makes its employees sweat away during the summer and freeze their asses off during the winter, only having to answer a phone when it's one of my friends saying they're going to lunch, actually getting a real hour-long lunch break, making more than $32k/year, and, oh yeah, I almost forgot, not having to wash cars for some ignorant, smelly, obese ghetto queen and having to treat her like f*ing royalty because she decided to spend an extra $18.99 a day.

All of that really makes me glad I didn't buy the dream of the "Virtual MBA." That term is such bullshit, I can't believe recruiters keep a straight face when they try selling that idea to people.

Thankfully I was never an MT, just an intern and part time CSR, so I knew exactly what Enterprise puts its employees through before I'd become just another hit to the retention stats. Much of the "dream" of a level 1, 2, or 3 employee has to do with simply getting the hell out of the rental office, either as an Area Manager or in another department. There's something fundamentally wrong with a job whose only motivation to perform well is to one day be able to avoid absolutely everything that you're currently doing. Thanks to the original post in this thread, maybe some people's eyes will be further opened to the fact that "making it" at ERAC is, in all fairness, not necessarily that great.

That's not to say that I don't respect ERAC employees now that I've moved on, in fact it's quite the contrary. I still have good friends that work there, and just thinking about that daily meat grinder that they go through reinforces everything that there is to dislike about that cult, oh I'm sorry, company.

I have always thought the cult aspect of ERAC is something overlooked by employees. I guess thats why it is called brainwashing, you dont even know your getting fucked.

Why does Enterprise accept reservations and then not honor them? That sounds like the looniest thing I ever heard of!