Group 59 Bill Fairbank - is he still around ?

[Crumphater]

so what is the story with Bill , is he still around ?

Originally Posted by Crumphater

so what is the story with Bill , is he still around ?

still around.
can't be long before he walks though, everyone else (at least in 59n) has been removed.
he did always seem like a solid guy

[Crumphater]

Yeah he is a solid guy, hate to see that happening to him. thanks for the info.

Originally Posted by Crumphater

Yeah he is a solid guy, hate to see that happening to him. thanks for the info.

he always struck me as too executive for ERAC, too proffessional for these fucking amatuers.
disgusting how many people are riding his nuts in Lansing.
he caught me in my office without a tie on once...at the time i was worried, in retrospect it makes me laugh

[Grover]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

he always struck me as too executive for ERAC, too proffessional for these fucking amatuers.
disgusting how many people are riding his nuts in Lansing.
he caught me in my office without a tie on once...at the time i was worried, in retrospect it makes me laugh

Too executive?? I worked and drank with him--I've seen him get shitfaced in front of his whole team several times.

[GreaseMonkey]

Originally Posted by Grover

Too executive?? I worked and drank with him--I've seen him get shitfaced in front of his whole team several times.

Group 59 admin are mostly full of drunks. Several have shared their drinking stories with some of my co-workers at training.

Originally Posted by GreaseMonkey

Group 59 admin are mostly full of drunks. Several have shared their drinking stories with some of my co-workers at training.

i know of a certain admin trainer who fucked a MT
which always confused me, i thought you were supposed to fuck your superiors not your underlings

Originally Posted by Grover

Too executive?? I worked and drank with him--I've seen him get shitfaced in front of his whole team several times.

Really?? i guess i never saw that side of him
what a slimy company

[hunterm4]

I worked for group 59 for 6 years and I must say there are a few valid points on this site. I will say there were tough times at times, but in my time there were great times as well and I made great friends for life and learned alot. Enterprise was a great stepping stone and would not be where I'm at today without that experience.

There are reasons or should I say roadblocks why Group 59 isn't as successful as many other groups. One being the MI economy; labeled as one of the worst in the nation, how can you grow when campanies large and small are leaving MI at a staggering rate. There is not a favorable tax structure there, creating a tough environment. Also there has been praise for tremendous fleet growth in New Orleans, California and other groups down south or out west. Unfortunately they seem to be hit my huge natural disasters, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc. In MI they get snow storms from time to time, and that is minimal at best. Last but certainly not least MI is a no-fault state when it comes to insurance. What that means if I smack your car, my insurance company pays for the damages to my own car and your insurance company pays for damages to your car, even though I smacked your car. The downfall for ERAC and other rental companies is that if the other person doesn't have car rental on their insurance policy, they are SOL. In an at-fault state the at-fault party's insurance company pays for all damages and for a car rental. What an at-fault state does for other groups is that gives gaurenteed business to ERAC in other states who have been doing great beacuse they have larger fleets. What happens is all costs and expenses are spread over a larger number of cars, therefore increasing operating profit. This has been an area of struggle for MI as long as I can remember. And these roadblocks that I mentioned in this message are a cause.

In my opinion, the Group 59 folks are some of the hardest working employees that ERAC has. Put these individuals in a different environment with different circumstances and they would shine. As for admin, these folks do a great job with what they have to work with. They work harder then anyone I have ever worked with in the past. I give accloades to Bill, Pam, most of the area managers and branch managers who do what they do every day and make most with what they have in their situation. As for professionalism at the top, they work extremly hard, but they can play hard too and I appreciated that while I was there.

Hunter

Originally Posted by hunterm4

I worked for group 59 for 6 years and I must say there are a few valid points on this site. I will say there were tough times at times, but in my time there were great times as well and I made great friends for life and learned alot. Enterprise was a great stepping stone and would not be where I'm at today without that experience.

There are reasons or should I say roadblocks why Group 59 isn't as successful as many other groups. One being the MI economy; labeled as one of the worst in the nation, how can you grow when campanies large and small are leaving MI at a staggering rate. There is not a favorable tax structure there, creating a tough environment. Also there has been praise for tremendous fleet growth in New Orleans, California and other groups down south or out west. Unfortunately they seem to be hit my huge natural disasters, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc. In MI they get snow storms from time to time, and that is minimal at best. Last but certainly not least MI is a no-fault state when it comes to insurance. What that means if I smack your car, my insurance company pays for the damages to my own car and your insurance company pays for damages to your car, even though I smacked your car. The downfall for ERAC and other rental companies is that if the other person doesn't have car rental on their insurance policy, they are SOL. In an at-fault state the at-fault party's insurance company pays for all damages and for a car rental. What an at-fault state does for other groups is that gives gaurenteed business to ERAC in other states who have been doing great beacuse they have larger fleets. What happens is all costs and expenses are spread over a larger number of cars, therefore increasing operating profit. This has been an area of struggle for MI as long as I can remember. And these roadblocks that I mentioned in this message are a cause.

In my opinion, the Group 59 folks are some of the hardest working employees that ERAC has. Put these individuals in a different environment with different circumstances and they would shine. As for admin, these folks do a great job with what they have to work with. They work harder then anyone I have ever worked with in the past. I give accloades to Bill, Pam, most of the area managers and branch managers who do what they do every day and make most with what they have in their situation. As for professionalism at the top, they work extremly hard, but they can play hard too and I appreciated that while I was there.

Hunter

your accolades may be a bit late
word in the corp room is that bill is on the cusp of "quitting"
(erac term when higher-ups quit or leave the company)
his area has been sucking for so long, you can only blame your employees for so long before you get yours.
and i've seen pam so drunk that an mt had to give her a ride home
real professional, i don't think higher ups in more respectable companies act that immature in front of the whole company.
I think your praise of corp is waay out of line and touch.
fuck these people, they are clogging up the few top spots with their fat asses, meanwhile the rest of the group starves and/or quits. shuffle up these spots w/some new faces, obviously the old est people aren't getting the job done, this group has sucked for yrs and yrs yet these people retain their jobs somehow...and the overworked/underpaid rental kids get all the blame for 59's less than stellar performance.
now you've got some out of staters replacing michigan people, they've come from texas to save the rental world, lol
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