I'm out... TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm an ERAC employee who got a job offer TODAY and will hand in my 2 weeks tomorrow. It's a real job, a 9-5 one, where I'll make more and work 1/3 less hours (pretty much like every former ERAC employee). I'll have an office and it's casual dress and no sales or customer service dealings. It's an analytical position with an big time investment firm.

CURRENT ERAC EMPLOYESS -- you can do the same thing I did, b/c i'm not very smart. Granted, I did major in real subjectmatter in school and graduated with above a 3.5 GPA (I worked hard) BUT what really won me the spot was spinning all the shit you do at ERAC into exmaples of what the interviewer was looking for.

If you are looking to change careers and get out of God-awful sales and customer service or dealing with the general public, you may have to start at entery level (though if it's a good position wou'll make more than ERAC money with fewer hours!). Becuase it's entery level, most of the questions will not be skill specific (the job teaches you this), but will be behavioral-based ("desribe a time when you solved a complicated problem" etc.). When asked these questions by the interviewer, I could think of ten examples from this month alone. Plus, getting to a position of management (which isn't that hard with ERAC) is a great selling point for interviewers. If I can make this leap, practically anyone car.

Wanna know how twisted I am? I'm taking 3 weeks off after my last ERAC day. On one of those off Monday mornings I have I'm going to drive to my old branch, at 7 AM, get a 12-pack, sit in a lawn chair across the street from my branch, drink my beer and laugh at all the ERAC peeps running around while customers yell at them and shit on their faces. It'll be the best feeling in the world not to have to deal with that stuff any more. WHO's WITH ME???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

good thing you saw the light and had the will to go through with it. i left about 8 months and am pharmaceutical sales. it was absolutely a 200 pound weight off my shoulders leaving that place. i go by my old branch to get my dry cleaning for a real proferssional sales job. not one with ripped ties and stains around my cufflinks and collar. the same people are there and they look in bad physical condition and are still bitching. do not invite, leave this place behind you and be glad you had the balls to leave. there are hundreds of better jobs that 90% of the workers at erac can get but they are being sold a bag of shit and they bought into it big time. sooner or later they will realize. you can;t tell somebody to leave there, it is something most people have to figure out on their own. because when they do they will be like you. getting beers togther watching morons (which was once both of us) run around rampant for no reason other then RENTING CARS. by the well the irony of your paragraph was that you are not the smart and the next sentence you said you graduated with a 3.5 and then you spelled entry level "entery level" i guess you are just pumped because you are leaving. do yourself a favor and call in tommorrow morning and do it that way. you will not burn bridge. employers can only verify employment not a reference. do to go back to that circus. unless your coool with your manager but i would bounce, they will understand that you have checked out and do not want to be there. they will pay you your vacation time.

[ERAC Flunkie]

Drinking beer across the street is an amazing idea. You can laugh at what you used to be.

Originally Posted by Unregistered456789789

I'm an ERAC employee who got a job offer TODAY and will hand in my 2 weeks tomorrow. It's a real job, a 9-5 one, where I'll make more and work 1/3 less hours (pretty much like every former ERAC employee). I'll have an office and it's casual dress and no sales or customer service dealings. It's an analytical position with an big time investment firm.

CURRENT ERAC EMPLOYESS -- you can do the same thing I did, b/c i'm not very smart. Granted, I did major in real subjectmatter in school and graduated with above a 3.5 GPA (I worked hard) BUT what really won me the spot was spinning all the shit you do at ERAC into exmaples of what the interviewer was looking for.

If you are looking to change careers and get out of God-awful sales and customer service or dealing with the general public, you may have to start at entery level (though if it's a good position wou'll make more than ERAC money with fewer hours!). Becuase it's entery level, most of the questions will not be skill specific (the job teaches you this), but will be behavioral-based ("desribe a time when you solved a complicated problem" etc.). When asked these questions by the interviewer, I could think of ten examples from this month alone. Plus, getting to a position of management (which isn't that hard with ERAC) is a great selling point for interviewers. If I can make this leap, practically anyone car.

Wanna know how twisted I am? I'm taking 3 weeks off after my last ERAC day. On one of those off Monday mornings I have I'm going to drive to my old branch, at 7 AM, get a 12-pack, sit in a lawn chair across the street from my branch, drink my beer and laugh at all the ERAC peeps running around while customers yell at them and shit on their faces. It'll be the best feeling in the world not to have to deal with that stuff any more. WHO's WITH ME???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats to finally opening your eyes by leaving your "job" at ERAC and much success with your new "career".

[leeniep50]

Originally Posted by Unregisteredasdf

Congrats to finally opening your eyes by leaving your "job" at ERAC and much success with your new "career".

Instead of putting ERAC down you should be thanking them for the experience they gave you. Hard work pays off!

[Frank the Tank]

Originally Posted by leeniep50

Instead of putting ERAC down you should be thanking them for the experience they gave you. Hard work pays off!

Thank them? What for, stealing your youth?

[ehater08]

why wake up at 7am? I say call the branch whenever you roll out of bed. Ask to speak to someone you disliked in the branch. Inform them you just woke up, ate some crunch berries and had a breakfast beer. Tell them you might doze off or play some xbox. Ask what they are up to. Then tell them it sucks to be them. Roll back over and never worry about them again. Welcome back, your life has missed you.