Don't move for Enterprise

[spisak76]

Enterprise is built like that money scheme pyramid. In order for you to get payed you have to sign up new people. The difference here is the top execs are not going anywhere. Therefore, the positions they have you believing as attainable are filled. So while you are sweating and washing cars and driving crazy people and being harrassed by dirty body shop owners the execs are cashing in on your hard work. When I quit I was "promoted" to assistant manager and was working more hours and making the same money. I actually had to pay them back when we had a bad month! Long story short don't do it. Do anything else!

[FormerClone]

Originally Posted by spisak76

Enterprise is built like that money scheme pyramid. In order for you to get payed you have to sign up new people. The difference here is the top execs are not going anywhere. Therefore, the positions they have you believing as attainable are filled. So while you are sweating and washing cars and driving crazy people and being harrassed by dirty body shop owners the execs are cashing in on your hard work. When I quit I was "promoted" to assistant manager and was working more hours and making the same money. I actually had to pay them back when we had a bad month! Long story short don't do it. Do anything else!

That's a pretty good analogy of Ecrap. I had a buddy that took a promotion halway across the country from home, and when he got sick of it, it cost him an assload of money to move back. Don't do it!

[Realistic]

Originally Posted by spisak76

Enterprise is built like that money scheme pyramid. In order for you to get payed you have to sign up new people. The difference here is the top execs are not going anywhere. Therefore, the positions they have you believing as attainable are filled.

And... higher ups making more money than those below them and working fewer hours... um... how is this different from any other company? ERAC has its faults (many of them in fact), but seriously... to think that is a fault is just retarded.

Bill Gates made more, and worked fewer hours than any of those under him... he was pretty much set till he decided to leave...

Until you've observed something like Amway or other types of REAL pyramid schemes, you have no idea what you're talking about.

[pacman]

Pyramid... Pyramid...

I was told on day one by the Jacksonville, Group 43, Trainer that it was a Pyramid. He told this to the enter "class" and, most everyone just looked on in amazement.

I stand by what I have written on this sight. Most of the people that work(ed) for ERAC are some of the hardest workers I've ever seen but, some are just evil. I no longer work for ERAC due to... the hell on earth feelings I had and really disliking the LIFE IS GOOD t-shirt wearing population.

Today I'm happy to say I'm one of the LIFE IS GOOD folks... There is LIFE after ERAC and if you use the tools that you teach yourself while working for ERAC you'll be better off but slightly damaged. I always will look at people with ERAC eyes... judging looking for a weak point...

[FormerClone]

Originally Posted by Realistic

And... higher ups making more money than those below them and working fewer hours... um... how is this different from any other company? ERAC has its faults (many of them in fact), but seriously... to think that is a fault is just retarded.

Bill Gates made more, and worked fewer hours than any of those under him... he was pretty much set till he decided to leave...

Until you've observed something like Amway or other types of REAL pyramid schemes, you have no idea what you're talking about.

Your screen name does not relate to your opinions. I have been offered Amway, and nine million other pyramids, and have worked for ERAC. ERAC is EXACTLY like a pyramid scheme! What's the turnover percentage 99%? Do the math, jackass!

[32AATopIPEandDub]

Originally Posted by Realistic

And... higher ups making more money than those below them and working fewer hours... um... how is this different from any other company? ERAC has its faults (many of them in fact), but seriously... to think that is a fault is just retarded.

Bill Gates made more, and worked fewer hours than any of those under him... he was pretty much set till he decided to leave...

Until you've observed something like Amway or other types of REAL pyramid schemes, you have no idea what you're talking about.

There is one key difference here. Good companies keep their current entry-level employees happy. Hell, even the investment banking industry does that by compensation of pay. Enterprise, on the other hand, promises that you will be rewarded for your hard work *LATER ON*...

My branch manager makes a little over 60k a year working about 60+ hours a week. It took him 5 years to get there. I, a fresh college graduate, makes 62k working only 35 to 40 hours a week, half the time where I'm surfing the internet like how I'm doing right now and drink coffee while chatting with co-workers. My company is very good to me. They keep me happy and reward me right now for my work, not with ice cream bars and happy hours, but with MONEY, comfort, etc.. At the same time, my experience here will be highly valued in a few years and I will be in a bidding war between other companies, thus more opportunities for advancement and pay increase.

I have so much more free time on my hands, I now even have time to go to grad school, which will be reimbursed by my company and I even have time to study to prepare myself to be an international investment banker one day.

But I do agree, Enterprise is nothing like Amway. It is inaccurate to correlate Enterprise with a pyramid scheme. Enterprise's system is brilliant. Car rental is so damn simple, even a drunken frat boy with no real education straight out of college can do it. Why overpay your employees when you have a high supply of fresh 3rd and 4th tier college graduates hungry for a real world job? If I was Andy Taylor, I would be the exact same thing.

[whatdude]

Originally Posted by FormerClone

Your screen name does not relate to your opinions. I have been offered Amway, and nine million other pyramids, and have worked for ERAC. ERAC is EXACTLY like a pyramid scheme! What's the turnover percentage 99%? Do the math, jackass!

Ok, couple of things. 1. Enterprise is a shitty company to work for and they really could care less about their employees. 2. I quit 3 years ago and it was the best thing I've ever done. 3. ERAC is not a pyramid scheme.

A lot of people on this site make that connection, but it's just not. Just because people in higher up positions make more money than those in lower ones doesn't make it a pyramid scheme. Even the fact that the higher ups paychecks are based on the performance of the lower level employees doesn't make it a pyramid scheme. Are there similarities? A few. They overpromise and underdeliver in most cases. They tell you there's all the opportunity in the world when in actuality there isn't.

The basis of a true pyramid scheme is the concept of enrollment. Each time someone involved recruits another person, they make money off of that person and everyone else that person recruits. The person who enrolled you also makes money off of you and whoever you enroll, and so does the person that enrolled them, etc. The better the person you enroll performs and recruits, the more money you make, the more money the person who recruited you makes, so on and so on. If you recruit your friend to work for enterprise, you get the same bonus whether they sell waiver at 10% their entire career or they become a BM in 8 months. You also don't continue to make money off of that person once they've been hired, it's a one time bonus.

Pyramids are about recruiting people for the purpose of recruiting more people. In a pyramid scheme you only get paid off the people you bring in, then the people that they bring in, etc. You can follow a line from the person making all the money at the top to the people making no money at the bottom. In theory, you can get to the VP level at Enterprise and only ever recruit 1 person (at least in the group I was in), and that's only so you can take the MQI. They don't even have to stay with the company.