Earn more than all your friends.

[Curtis E. Carr]

This is one of the yarns spun to attract you to the job and to keep you from leaving. I bought in to it as I'm sure a lot of others did. But I've realised something and would ask you to remember this:
Think about all the people you know who have quit Enterprise (there will be a lot, no doubt); none of them, me included, have left to be on less money, have they?. Just another lie from the big green machine.

[voice of truth]

AGREED. 100% of those I know that left ERAC went on to make MORE money. This statistic excludes car preps and drivers.

[Kebab]

Certainly if you get to area manager, then you can earn decent money. It's just that seems a long long road. One that I don't think I'm prepared to drive down.

I actually quite like the job, despite the crappy hours. But the money is just laughable. People with decent degrees shouldn't be going right to the wire every month, financially.

I've given it a few months, and there's too many people at the same level as I am that have been with the company two years. OK, I can see why in some cases, but it certainly rings alarm bells.

[Curtis E. Carr]

It doesn't matter how long you work for ERAC or what level you are at. Every promotion makes you more qualified to do higher level jobs for other companies. No matter what level people have been at, from MT to Manager, when they quit they earn more. If Enterprise really was the market leader in wages, would they really have the massive retention issues they have? Any ideas what first-year retention is? Last Orlando trip, one of the breakout groups was about retention and presented the fact that ERAC UK lost 62% of all the employees it had hired the previous year.
So that's six out of ten people choosing not to earn more than anyone else they know!! As if.

[yambag]

The statement in my region read "earn more than all your friends*"

the * was in small print and read "within many promotions years and years down the line"
erac is truely a pyramid type of scheme...and like in any scheme, someone makes money and a few are successfull.
in order to truely make "more than all your friends" you'd have to be at least to the grm level...and the odds of reaching that level and being able to stomach erac for that long i'd reckon would be 1/1,000...one out of every thousand hired.
not very promising