I'm a little confused...

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I'm a recent college graduate having a difficult time finding a job. I constantly see Enterprise advertising for MT positions but I have been trying to find a better company to work for. Unfortunately, after having spent months looking, and living in a college town with few corporations or major businesses, I am seriously considering accepting the MT position. I do not have the option to move away from this town. I have gone on many interviews and I always feel that employers are not happy with the amount of experience I've had (retail mall jobs, office secretary, waitressing, etc.). I just need a job that can be my stepping stone into other fields and career options. I understand that the job, the pay, the hours, the management all suck, but almost everyone on this site seems to be a former employee who claims to moved onto better things. Didn't Enterprise open the doors, if only a little bit, for you?

In your opinion, does it seem like spending 1-2 years gaining the experience is worth adding to my resume or should I continue with my job hunting. If so, does anyone know any company that hires business majors with little to no relevant experience that I can apply to?

Also, I have had my share of shitty jobs. I have listened to customers bitch and complain and been on my feet for 8-12 hour days and had managers always defend the customers abusive natures, so I believe I can handle Enterprise, as could anyone who has waitressed and worked retail. However, I have never come across a site like this! I just don't understand what is so terrible about Enterprise that former employees who have supposedly moved on to better things still manage to find the time to come on this site and continue to bitch about it. Some people claim to have found better work and have been at their current job for 3 years and are still making weekly comments to this site about how great their life is now and how shitty Enterprise is?!?! It AMAZES me. Personally, I haven't thought about my past jobs, I hate them, they sucked, I've moved on. I wouldn't waste a moment of my time on them anymore. Isn't that how most people are. Why dwelve on the past, especially when it was as terrible as you claim. Why aren't you enjoying your life and your friends and family, hell, even television, now that you aren't working so many hours and have the time to relax. This site makes me feel that Enterprise so intensely f*cks people up that they just can't seem to get over their experience with the company or it is a bunch of current employees venting and vicariously living through their online identities as people who are happier employed elsewhere. Please enlighten me because I just don't get it

Originally Posted by is this site for real?

I'm a recent college graduate having a difficult time finding a job. I constantly see Enterprise advertising for MT positions but I have been trying to find a better company to work for. Unfortunately, after having spent months looking, and living in a college town with few corporations or major businesses, I am seriously considering accepting the MT position. I do not have the option to move away from this town. I have gone on many interviews and I always feel that employers are not happy with the amount of experience I've had (retail mall jobs, office secretary, waitressing, etc.). I just need a job that can be my stepping stone into other fields and career options. I understand that the job, the pay, the hours, the management all suck, but almost everyone on this site seems to be a former employee who claims to moved onto better things. Didn't Enterprise open the doors, if only a little bit, for you?

In your opinion, does it seem like spending 1-2 years gaining the experience is worth adding to my resume or should I continue with my job hunting. If so, does anyone know any company that hires business majors with little to no relevant experience that I can apply to?

Also, I have had my share of shitty jobs. I have listened to customers bitch and complain and been on my feet for 8-12 hour days and had managers always defend the customers abusive natures, so I believe I can handle Enterprise, as could anyone who has waitressed and worked retail. However, I have never come across a site like this! I just don't understand what is so terrible about Enterprise that former employees who have supposedly moved on to better things still manage to find the time to come on this site and continue to bitch about it. Some people claim to have found better work and have been at their current job for 3 years and are still making weekly comments to this site about how great their life is now and how shitty Enterprise is?!?! It AMAZES me. Personally, I haven't thought about my past jobs, I hate them, they sucked, I've moved on. I wouldn't waste a moment of my time on them anymore. Isn't that how most people are. Why dwelve on the past, especially when it was as terrible as you claim. Why aren't you enjoying your life and your friends and family, hell, even television, now that you aren't working so many hours and have the time to relax. This site makes me feel that Enterprise so intensely f*cks people up that they just can't seem to get over their experience with the company or it is a bunch of current employees venting and vicariously living through their online identities as people who are happier employed elsewhere. Please enlighten me because I just don't get it

Go ahead and accept the MT position, honey. No one here is stopping you. Just get ready to apply your lips to alot of overweight, beer-guzzling, no class, living with mommy and daddy at 26 cock to get ahead in the company. Let us know what you decide and how it goes.

Originally Posted by is this site for real?

I'm a recent college graduate having a difficult time finding a job. I constantly see Enterprise advertising for MT positions but I have been trying to find a better company to work for. Unfortunately, after having spent months looking, and living in a college town with few corporations or major businesses, I am seriously considering accepting the MT position. I do not have the option to move away from this town. I have gone on many interviews and I always feel that employers are not happy with the amount of experience I've had (retail mall jobs, office secretary, waitressing, etc.). I just need a job that can be my stepping stone into other fields and career options. I understand that the job, the pay, the hours, the management all suck, but almost everyone on this site seems to be a former employee who claims to moved onto better things. Didn't Enterprise open the doors, if only a little bit, for you?

In your opinion, does it seem like spending 1-2 years gaining the experience is worth adding to my resume or should I continue with my job hunting. If so, does anyone know any company that hires business majors with little to no relevant experience that I can apply to?

Also, I have had my share of shitty jobs. I have listened to customers bitch and complain and been on my feet for 8-12 hour days and had managers always defend the customers abusive natures, so I believe I can handle Enterprise, as could anyone who has waitressed and worked retail. However, I have never come across a site like this! I just don't understand what is so terrible about Enterprise that former employees who have supposedly moved on to better things still manage to find the time to come on this site and continue to bitch about it. Some people claim to have found better work and have been at their current job for 3 years and are still making weekly comments to this site about how great their life is now and how shitty Enterprise is?!?! It AMAZES me. Personally, I haven't thought about my past jobs, I hate them, they sucked, I've moved on. I wouldn't waste a moment of my time on them anymore. Isn't that how most people are. Why dwelve on the past, especially when it was as terrible as you claim. Why aren't you enjoying your life and your friends and family, hell, even television, now that you aren't working so many hours and have the time to relax. This site makes me feel that Enterprise so intensely f*cks people up that they just can't seem to get over their experience with the company or it is a bunch of current employees venting and vicariously living through their online identities as people who are happier employed elsewhere. Please enlighten me because I just don't get it

The only thing ERAC teaches you is how to increase your alcohol consumption along with fast food inhaling. And also how to cheat and fuck people over, customers and co-workers alike. Have fun!

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Originally Posted by Deep Sea Diver

The only thing ERAC teaches you is how to increase your alcohol consumption along with fast food inhaling. And also how to cheat and fuck people over, customers and co-workers alike. Have fun!

Although I may personally not learn anything, do you think other companies will believe it is beneficial expereince and a valid stepping stone?

Could working for such an unethical company hinder my career search oppurtunities in the future?

Originally Posted by is this site for real?

Although I may personally not learn anything, do you think other companies will believe it is beneficial expereince and a valid stepping stone?

Could working for such an unethical company hinder my career search oppurtunities in the future?

bro i'll give you an honest assement.
first off, the job most certainly sucks, but it's not completely unbearable.
for the first few months it's actually kinda fun, but the hours, demands, incompetency, and "ego checking" gets old real quick.
ERAC will train you in certain regards, mainly sales and a little management.
your main goal is to sell "Dub" which is insurance that most people do not need.
but your advancement counts on this, so you learn to hustle a bit. Depending on how you fill this out on a resume, it can look good. same with management...for example, even as a MT you manage car preps so this is how it could look on a resume
-Managed a team of employees at 2 different locations
looks good for certain type of jobs, sales jobs mainly. if sales is your forte, then i'd say go with ERAC for a few months. if you have no intention of being in sales, then fuck erac...like i said before sales is really all that you learn. get a job waiting tables or bartending, you'll make more money and work less, which will allow you to seek out a perfect job.
ERAC is a baby step up from high school type of jobs...that kid working at jiffylube? the equal if not slightly superior to an ERAC MT.
ask anymore questions i'll be online for most of the morning

here is a good quote from someone else

"DON'T SEE HOW ANY FORMER / CURRENT ERACers COULD DISAGREE WITH THIS

(I DID NOT PROOFREAD THIS AND AM A POOR SPELLER, I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE FOR ANY ERRORS)
ERAC teaches you attention to detail, time management, inventory management, people management, and multitasking under intense pressure and chaos. Sure, a trained monkey can wash cars, write contracts, and be nice to people, but in order to run successful branch one must become skilled at the aforementioned attributes, as there are, to be sure, many front-end and back-end procedures and analyses relating to, but more than just “renting cars.” These are valuable tools and one does not gain a proper perspective or appreciation for them until he advances beyond the MA level.

There are drawbacks to ERAC as well. We all work too many hours for the money we earn, the job can be arduous, tedious, repetitious, not intellectually challenging or stimulating, and washing cars in the cold and heat for customers who hate us wears us down. In addition, the ERAC check-your-pride-and-self-worth-at-the-door mentality is hard to swallow for many, as we all are expected and trained to smile as we take it up the ass from customers, dealers, body shops, et cetera ("Thank you sir, may I have another.")

Relating to this point, is Enterprise Rent-A-Car simply McDonald's-prise Rent-A-Car? Are situations of managing an ERAC Branch similar or identical to managing a McDonald's? Are ERAC employees simply McDonald's employees who shirts and ties instead of vests and funny hats? The answer to all of these questions is an unequivocal yes. Yet, this is not to say that neither career is valuable, because they both contain elements and nuggets of value, should the individual employee be savvy enough to glean their value. This is why am never angered or offended when treated with little respect or outright disdain by customers. I am realistic enough to know that my career has not elevated me to a position worthy of the respect of most of my customers, namely people with "real" post-undergraduate or graduate traditional careers (with personal offices or cubicles instead of a front counter, with their own phone line with a personal voicemail, who attend meetings to strategize and forecast, not to just get yelled at or threatened after work every so-often when the "numbers look bad," and who don't have to deal with the general public). I never let wearing my shirt and tie fool me into thinking I'm some kind of business executive or corporate hot-shot (as do some of my ERAC brethren), I fully realize what I do is merely an extension of working at Foot Locker or at the pet store after high school -- as the ERAC business model for the rank Branch Manager or below is quite similar to these, except it requires 60 hours of work per week and for me to call it my "career" to my co-workers and employees, and my "great career" to upper-management or interviewees.

THERE ARE TANGIBLE BENEFITS TO ERAC, as I discussed in the first paragraph of this dissertation. In addition, a benefit of ERAC is that a new hire can graduate from a below average "ham sandwich" University with a sub-3.0 GPA in a vacuous major such as ubran studies or exercise science, be a tremendous partier, not be particularly bright or worldly (this is probably >80% of the MT base), and be welcomed into ERAC with open arms, be accepted and even elevated in the company culture (especially if he still maintains his fondness for partying), and stands great chance of making 50K or more in 3 or 4 years. This is a good thing. Along the way this person will learn, perhaps for the first time, about hard work, dedication and all the attributes described above.

I am different though. I have always been a hard worker, went to a top-tier university, and earned a mathematically-related business degree with a good GPA (over 3.5). That's why I'm ready to move on. I am able to be able to move on due to my credentials, an opportunity which I realize is not afforded to most other ERAC employees. In addition, I am tired of my parents, grandparents, and significant other stating they are "embarrassed and shamed" to tell people that I work at ERAC (I have realized for quite sometime they are right, but will debate them endlessly that they are wrong, just on the principle that they are not completely wrong -- they don’t know this either. This is why you’d never guess I’d write this statement if you met me in the ERAC world – I am one of the most strident defenders of every aspect of ERAC and can B.S. a positive spin on every practice of ERAC). In addition, I tell customers, if/when they ask, that I didn't go to college and earned only GED because I'm tired of them asking me why I went to college and I’m renting cars (my GED story makes working at ERAC seem like an over achievement for me, HAHA). As I currently interview for positions with other firms, and am asked behavioral based and career oriented questions, I realize fungible nature of the benefits I have gleaned from ERAC. I can answer every question with experiences I have had at ERAC -- I can give dozens of examples. I want careers like the people I rent cars to all day – to many degrees I envy them. Also, I must caution that had I left ERAC before entering the ranks (lowly though they might be) of management, I would not have completely realized the benefits of my job (NOT CAREER) experience so far. ERAC is a fine starting company, but if you have your druthers and the qualification to move on, at least stick it out at ERAC until you get to management level (2 yrs or so), as this will make you a more attractive candidate for other jobs.

I'm sorry for the length of this. It's just that I've been reading this site for two years now and have yet to come across a comment that provides a comprehensive and realistic full view of the pros and cons of ERAC, at least from the branch manager-on-down level in daily rental. I've given as accurate and objective account of the situation as I am able considering my bias as a current employee -- and not a disgruntled employee, just a realistic one.

Any one who disagrees with my analysis, please don't be shy about letting me know. I'm sure you won't."

bro i'll give you an honest assement.


Cardinal....it's a ho not a bro.

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thanks for the posts cardinal, honesty without the bitching is really refreshing to see.

Originally Posted by is this site for real?

thanks for the posts cardinal, honesty without the bitching is really refreshing to see.

no problem bro
so what have you decided?

Originally Posted by cardinal woosley

no problem bro
so what have you decided?

Mr. woosley:

You are speaking to a ho not a bro.