Please Read Before Taking a Job with ERAC

Originally Posted by Disgruntled ExERACer

This is a very real and on the money look at the rental path. Admin is just a different kind of screwed up...beware....

I agree. Was in rental for two years and have been at an admin spot for three years. Just waiting til January when the profit sharing vesting duration changes and I'm out!!

[FailingEnterpriseAdmin]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I would rather be from Bumfuck than be a dumbfuck.

OK, that's funny.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Ummm yeah. How did you manage to have 2 children during that time period? ERAC would immediately fire you after the first. That was the "only way out" for a lot of girls working at ERAC- get pregnant, so they can you. Otherwise, you're back slaving away for pennies.

Also.. you could not have children and afford them, on an erac salary. I worked 2 years for erac, and was on food stamps, government assisted housing programs and welfare.

You must have been a slacker always looking for the easy way out. SLACKER!

I am about to go for an interview as a Management Trainee. I will making 34k a year. I am a university graduate. What should I expect on the interview? As a Management Trainee how many hours a week will I be working? Will I be working weekends? I plan on just getting the experience and leaving. Do I get paid weekly or bi-weekly?

From your experience do Management Trainees also get a hard time. I am so nervous about the interview. What type of questions will they ask me? What dod they look for when hiring?

Will I be standing all day? Or will I have a office?

[The_Ineffable_Dunce]

Originally Posted by Cereall

I am about to go for an interview as a Management Trainee. I will making 34k a year. I am a university graduate. What should I expect on the interview? As a Management Trainee how many hours a week will I be working? Will I be working weekends? I plan on just getting the experience and leaving. Do I get paid weekly or bi-weekly?

From your experience do Management Trainees also get a hard time. I am so nervous about the interview. What type of questions will they ask me? What dod they look for when hiring?

Will I be standing all day? Or will I have a office?

The fact that this site exists should tell it all....

[Buttered Hard Roll]

Originally Posted by Cereall

I am about to go for an interview as a Management Trainee. . .

Will I be standing all day? Or will I have a office?

You get your own office.













LOFL!!! Ha Ha Ha!!!!!!!

I am a current very happy ERAC employee. I have been with the company 8 years and I am taking very good care of my family because of what ERAC has offered me. They did not sell me a dream, they gave me an opportunity to prove myself in a very difficult yet opportunistic work environment. ERAC is definitely not an environment that everyone can thrive in. I left a 42K job to come to ERAC for 19K, but within two years I was past 42K and I am still very happily married. If you are seriously considering a career with ERAC just know that you will have to devote a lot of your time and effort to being successful, but if you do make it, it is a very nice living.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I am a current very happy ERAC employee. I have been with the company 8 years and I am taking very good care of my family because of what ERAC has offered me. They did not sell me a dream, they gave me an opportunity to prove myself in a very difficult yet opportunistic work environment. ERAC is definitely not an environment that everyone can thrive in. I left a 42K job to come to ERAC for 19K, but within two years I was past 42K and I am still very happily married. If you are seriously considering a career with ERAC just know that you will have to devote a lot of your time and effort to being successful, but if you do make it, it is a very nice living.

This is the kind of stuff that propels newer people to continue to stay at Erac. The key to your post was 8 years. Usually the ones that talk about how much opportunity there still is are the ones that got into Erac when they were experiencing actual growth....the nineties. What many don't seem to realize is it's almost 2006. What was relative to your opportunistic experience nearly a decade ago is NOT even close to the opportunities that exist in present day. It is simply misleading to tell new and fairly recent employees your success story implying that the factors that helped you advance still exist. Sure, your story I'm sure is heard from some present day employees at Erac, but they are definitely in the vast minority. Xmas, 2005 is around the corner, not xmas 1997. Maybe somebody should stuff your stocking with a current calender.

[Cynical]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I want to start off by saying that I was on this website for one hour before my final interview with my RVP, and the worst thing I did was not pay attention to this website. I should have gone with any of my 3 job offers....but they do a good job selling the ERAC dream. Anyway, some things to consider:

1. You went to college!!!!!!!! usually those who graduate college have courage, integrity, and some backbone...none of which ERAC posseses. You are encouraged to allow customers have their way with you and you are supposed to take it. The problem? the customer has every right to be angry...b/c when you got to the branch, you saw you had 48 reservations and 2 cars on your lot...now the customer is out of a car..wouldn't you be mad?

2. You went to college!!!!!!!!!!!!!! why would you go through the trouble of going to college if you are going to work 12 hours a day making what teachers make. Do yourself a favor, become a teacher (something honorable) and enjoy your life.

3)Rule of thumb for all college grads: Anytime an employer tells you how much they make or offer to show you a pay stub......RUN!!!!! They WILL promise you six figures. What you have to think about is...what % arrive to six figures. A job should speak for itself, it should not be sold to you.

4) Choice Days: LOL! If you enjoy time off (remember...12 hours a day), if you enjoy holidays with your family, or going on vacations, then ERAC is not for you. You see, days off are referred to as Choice Days. The question is....who chooses them? You see, at ERAC, you can take days off, but they can't be on Fridays or Mondays nor during holiday season. One more thing, remember that part time job you had at Starbucks while in college? well, nothings changed. If another employee at your branch has already requested the same days you need.....well.... you're screwed.

BOTTOM LINE......IF YOU ARE SOMEONE WHO HAS NO FRIENDS OR FAMILY, NOT MARRIED, MONEY HUNGRY AND HAS NO VALUES......THEN MAYBE ERAC IS FOR YOU. AS FAR AS THE REST OF YOU ARE CONCERNED....DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME. I WAS BITTER AFTER 3 MONTHS...IF THAT IS NOT A RECORD THEN I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS......THANK YOU.

Bitterness Records-- i think my brother lasted 6 weeks maybe seven, either way your record is toast.

[Tim O' Tei]

Originally Posted by realitycheck

This is the kind of stuff that propels newer people to continue to stay at Erac. The key to your post was 8 years. Usually the ones that talk about how much opportunity there still is are the ones that got into Erac when they were experiencing actual growth....the nineties. What many don't seem to realize is it's almost 2006. What was relative to your opportunistic experience nearly a decade ago is NOT even close to the opportunities that exist in present day. It is simply misleading to tell new and fairly recent employees your success story implying that the factors that helped you advance still exist. Sure, your story I'm sure is heard from some present day employees at Erac, but they are definitely in the vast minority. Xmas, 2005 is around the corner, not xmas 1997. Maybe somebody should stuff your stocking with a current calender.

Great post. The problem is indeed that the cmpany has saturated the market with it's policy of throwing up stores every five yards.

The same is true in the UK with the additional fact that in orsder to get a greater market share, ERAC has taken on an incredible amount of low rate, must deliver deals. The company is simply not set up to do this in normal working hours.

There are branck managers earning £20400 basic and possibly £4-8k bionuses but they are in the minority (roughly US$15600-18200).

Lets assume you are lucky enough to work only 60hours (believe me this is a very optimistic guess) on £28k, it's only £8.97 an hour for all the stress you go through -roughly $5.83.

Do not believe anyone above MT level about the wages they earn. They are lying.