If not Enterprise, then where?

[FailingEnterpriseAdmin]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Admin, I nominate this to be included in your "best of" listing.

Done. See "Advice" on our Discussion Board "Best Of" page.

just to add few things on to realitycheck's post:
- realize that you will work more than just one saturday a month ( or every 6 weeks ). more like every other ( or sometimes every ) saturday.
- realize that until you get to Area Manager, you will probably be working most ( if not all holidays or saturdays before holidays ). If you are at an airport office, you WILL BE working thanksgiving, christmas, new years and many other family holidays. You are the newbie so you don't get to pick holidays!!
- do expect to report to work even if a hurricane strikes ( GP 14 - New Orleans GM just issued an order that all employees must report to work on 9/7 even though most of their branches are non existent ), your city gets snowed in or a heat storm of 120F strikes. You will still be wearing long sleeves(in the summer), panty hose if female, while washing the cars outside.

After writing this last paragraph, I realized once again that even Starbucks sounds better than ECRAP. But its your choice, and good luck!!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

ask what happened to the MT before you...
ask why those people are wearing suits and washing cars...
ask about the kissing some customer ass, and screwing others policy...

Every job that ive been researching offers less hours, more money and half the crap


oh and have fun washing cars you college grad you

washing cars is an insult for all college grads .. we hate it stop making us do it and hire more car preps you cheap a$$ morons!

Originally Posted by JD Dude

Try it if you want, if you're in a worse situation now you'd be nuts not to try it. Just don't become a kool aid drinker! The think I hated the most is when we'd go out to the bar afterward, and instead of talking about hot blondes, football, or beer, everyone there always wanted to talk about occupancy, whether the bar patrons would take damage waiver, and other stupid garbage. To this day, I can't believe how much this company ruled the lives of people I used to work with.

"hot blondes, football, and beer" ha ha ha, talk about drinking the fucking kool aid. You are that stereotypical guy who has had your likes and dislikes fed to you by popular culture. Probably the only reason you prefer blondes is because you and all of your meathead friends think that a bunch of girls that look identical, can be easily fucked, and that you never have to worry about your friends thinking she is unattractive because there is nothing unique or exotic there to question is the ideal. You can't think outside of the box. Some blondes are attractive of course, but guys like limit your search to blondes are so brainwashed by society. Also, football is just filler conversation for guys who have nothing else to talk about. And beer, well that is just something you can blame your stupidity on. How is all of that any different than the Enterprise kool aid? I am about to get a job at enterprise and the only thing I fear are pricks like yourself who want to bang "hot blondes" and talk about football with all of your "cool" friends.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hello,
I have just excepted a position at ERAC. I’m excited but at the same time I feel somewhat guarded. I have a few college friends who started as Interns with ERAC and are still there. They seem to like it well enough, which is the reason I choose to apply in the first place. I also have a friend who is former BM and loved it as well. He used it as a stepping stone for far greater things.

So, my question is this…can anyone who’s worked for ERAC in the past give me any advice on what to really expect? I know that being a MT is going to suck. Where I live the pay is pretty good, but I know that the hours are horrible and that I will be asked to do things outside of my comfort zone. I’m thinking that if I can get past the first 8-12 months I can make it. Any other things you all my suggest? Such as where comfortable shoes…which a friend told me.

Thanks!

"excepted"? are all of you people fucking retarded? Maybe a college degree isn't enough to filter out the morons.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

"hot blondes, football, and beer" ha ha ha, talk about drinking the fucking kool aid. You are that stereotypical guy who has had your likes and dislikes fed to you by popular culture. Probably the only reason you prefer blondes is because you and all of your meathead friends think that a bunch of girls that look identical, can be easily fucked, and that you never have to worry about your friends thinking she is unattractive because there is nothing unique or exotic there to question is the ideal. You can't think outside of the box. Some blondes are attractive of course, but guys like limit your search to blondes are so brainwashed by society. Also, football is just filler conversation for guys who have nothing else to talk about. And beer, well that is just something you can blame your stupidity on. How is all of that any different than the Enterprise kool aid? I am about to get a job at enterprise and the only thing I fear are pricks like yourself who want to bang "hot blondes" and talk about football with all of your "cool" friends.

Not high on yourself are you, no on is better then you huh. Why don't you get your head out of your ass and stop be so god damn judgemental. It's "people like you" that make the world SUCK.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

"hot blondes, football, and beer" ha ha ha, talk about drinking the fucking kool aid. You are that stereotypical guy who has had your likes and dislikes fed to you by popular culture. Probably the only reason you prefer blondes is because you and all of your meathead friends think that a bunch of girls that look identical, can be easily fucked, and that you never have to worry about your friends thinking she is unattractive because there is nothing unique or exotic there to question is the ideal. You can't think outside of the box. Some blondes are attractive of course, but guys like limit your search to blondes are so brainwashed by society. Also, football is just filler conversation for guys who have nothing else to talk about. And beer, well that is just something you can blame your stupidity on. How is all of that any different than the Enterprise kool aid? I am about to get a job at enterprise and the only thing I fear are pricks like yourself who want to bang "hot blondes" and talk about football with all of your "cool" friends.

this is the perfect ERAC employee right here
will be selling out his employees to upper management before long mark my words

[ravencr]

Hello everyone,

I've been working for Enterprise since Oct of 2003. I started as an MT after having a few different jobs, such as a financial planner, car sales, and an executive director for a non-profit. Once beginning with Enterprise you realize that the hours are tough, but the people are great to work with. On top of the hours, you'll work non-stop hard all day, ranging from washing cars in a suit to hearing a customer yell at you for something either legitimate or pointless. But, after a hard day's work, you go home very exhausted and ready to relax.

But, to give you an idea of my career, do I like working for Enterprise every day? Nope, sure don't. Do I like it somedays? Yep, definitely. Have they treated me as they promised? Yes, over and above what I expected. Why you ask when all these other folks are bitchin' and moanin' about how bad they are? Why? Because they're not a good fit for the job. They were a bad hire, in most cases, or they lied in the interview that made them appear to be a better fit than they actually were.

So, you wonder how I can say this, right? Well, I started as an MT, probably worked more hours than most, probably cared more than most, took care of customers more than most, and got promoted quicker than most. I was an MT for 6 months, got promoted to assistant manager and was only an assistant manager for a couple of months. From there, I was promoted to Branch manager where I managed a branch for about 8-9 months. From that point, I decided I wanted to go into the fleet management division of Enterprise to really take advantage of my personal sales ability. I've been in the Fleet Management Division now as an Account Executive since April 2005.

So, big deal right? But, imagine this. If I had started at Enterprise straight out of college, I'd be approximately 24-25 years old making just shy of 6 figures, have a company car, 3% matching 401K, profit sharing, full benefits, 17 vacation days a year, and my next step is Regional Sales Manager running an office for Enterprise Fleet Management definitely making well over 6 figures. Now, in my case, I'm 28 years old, but still not to shabby for 28 years old considering I've been with the company for less than 4 years. How many other companies give you the opportunity to earn 6 figures that quick with the potential for millions later in your career.

In fact, Enterprise Fleet Management is similar to how Rent-a-car was 20 years ago. We're not in every state, we're not in Canada, and we're not overseas. If any of you had any idea what the opportunity here at Enterprise was, you'd probably change your point of view. Do I think the job is for everyone? Heck no? But what job is, right? But, for the right person with a personal drive to be extremely successful, it's a great place to grow. To give you an idea, after becoming Regional Sales Manager for a few years, performing well, my next would be to open a new group or state. To give you an idea, my Group Sales Manager makes over $400K/year and there's folks making well over $1,000,000/year, because they've worked their butts off to get there. Nothing great comes easy! Enterprise may appear to good to be true, and it's easy to focus on the the negatives of renting a car at Enterprise. But, the fact of the matter is, for the right person Enterprise is a great place to earn a living and retire very early, if so desired.

There's a lot more I could talk about, but keep in mind there's plenty of days in my career at Enterprise that I've wanted to quit. Did I? Nope, because that's the easy thing to do, just like the rest of the folks on this forum have done. Sure it's easy to get hired into pharms sales after working at Enterprise. But, will you ever make the kind of money I will, not even a chance in hell. In fact, to give those that are interested in tech sales a quick version of what they have for opportunity. Sales is the only positions that make the big bucks. Move up in the company and you'll decrease your pay. How's that sound? Pharm sales? Sounds great and is great if you want to be a salesperson you're whole life and make a solid 6 figure income, have more flexibility, etc. But, what happens when you underperform, the drug(s) you're selling go in the toilet or they lose their rights to a certain item? What kind of job security do you have? Do you think everyone in Pharm sales makes 6 figures? Do you think it's easy too? Have you ever asked one how much paperwork and time at home they spend doing reports? Nothing, nothing great comes easy regardless of the company or job, trust me.

Do you think the Taylor family got lucky and struck gold and it all just happened that they became a 9 billion dollar company. Heck no! They worked their tales off? Do you think Bill Gates has worked long hours? Heck yeah, probably way more than the average folks out there.

I could write a book at how lazy our age group of college grads are. The fact of the matter is our parents have most likely done okay for themselves and as your whippersnappers we expect to be able to do the same with a lot less work. If you ask most successful people in the world today, at some point in their life they worked harder than most, loved it more than most, desired their goals more than most, etc to get where they are today.

I'm done, hope you enjoyed!

Chris

Shame on you! You are only a very small minority of people who have had a good experience working at enterprise. Everything you said is Enterprise propoganda. Do you work in HR or something? Those are the only people who spew out of their mouth exactly what you say. Either that or you are extremeley naive and happy-go-lucky. You talk about making money, stop lying to people! Only a very very small percentage of people make the 6 figures...a very small minority! I still have over a dozen friends who work at E at all levels and departments. The sad thing is that their salaries have been stagnant for the past six+ years. And none of them makes the six figures you talk about, several of them have been there for over a decade.

So shame on you promoting Enterprise as a great place to work. Especially in the long term. Money should never supercede happiness. Shame on you!

To the guy who is taking the Enterprise job because it is better than his current job: if your current job is worse than enterprise, and enterprise is a step up, take it. You're retarded anyways. I don't feel sorry for anyone who works at Enterprise because if you show up for work despite hating it, blame yourself.

Stupid people should not breathe, but there you are.