Please Read Before Taking a Job with ERAC

I want to say thank-you to all who have posted on this website. I was recently offered "the dream" and I was ready to jump on board. However, in the backof my mind I had some reservations. So I decided to do a little research on the company. I first found a website that has employee surveys...I am sure you know the results. I then found this webstore and THANK YOU for all of your comments.

I want to be chaleenged... I want to be challenged....I don't mind working hard or putting in long days....

BUt I don't want to joina frat or give up my life. I don't want to work for a company where everyday feels like a "Black Monday" and I don't want to be anybody's Bitch.

So thanks to the disgruntled MT's...but more inportantly thanks to the people who stuck with it for a few years and then shared their experince.

Finally, to all other recent college grad or to anyone who is thinking about joining this compnay. You should know that there are GOOD HONEST companies out there. You may not be promised 6 figure salaries--but ther is more to life than money. Currently, I work for a company that respects it's employees and their customers. This site has only made me appreciate where I am....so THANK YOU!!!!

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Originally Posted by thank-you!!

I want to say thank-you to all who have posted on this website. I was recently offered "the dream" and I was ready to jump on board. However, in the backof my mind I had some reservations. So I decided to do a little research on the company. I first found a website that has employee surveys...I am sure you know the results. I then found this webstore and THANK YOU for all of your comments.

I want to be chaleenged... I want to be challenged....I don't mind working hard or putting in long days....

BUt I don't want to joina frat or give up my life. I don't want to work for a company where everyday feels like a "Black Monday" and I don't want to be anybody's Bitch.

So thanks to the disgruntled MT's...but more inportantly thanks to the people who stuck with it for a few years and then shared their experince.

Finally, to all other recent college grad or to anyone who is thinking about joining this compnay. You should know that there are GOOD HONEST companies out there. You may not be promised 6 figure salaries--but ther is more to life than money. Currently, I work for a company that respects it's employees and their customers. This site has only made me appreciate where I am....so THANK YOU!!!!

Congratulations!!!! We are all really happy to make a difference.

Every time a potential ERAC changes his mind, an angel gets their wings.

I worked 6 months for ERAC. Like many others of the people here I was promised the moon and stars when I started. My Area Manager told me I could start making over 70k in 2-3 years. When I asked him how many hours I would work a week, he told me 60 hours (which would actually turn out to be 65 hours a week). I should have ran for the hills once I found out I would be working 60 hours a week for 30k a year. After the first month I began to hate ERAC. I worked Monday-Friday 12 hours a day (7:30am-7:30pm) and Saturdays from 8am-5:30pm. The Management were selfish, money hungry and aggressive for us to sell insurance to the customers (in which most of the customers didnt even need it).
Even though ERAC tells you in training that you are free to negotiate your own prices and to excercise independent decesion making skills it is rarely true when your working. My boss would constantly overlook and criticize our negotiated prices with the customers, claiming they were way too low.
2 out of my 3 Assistant Managers who ran the branch were on "Enterprise Probation" for Integrity issues. Because promotion at ERAC depends on your branch's stats and customer service scores, a good portion of Management will manipulate document sheets, prices and customer service scores to get ahead.
The most annyoing part of ERAC was their inabillity to grant you time off. During my employment there, I would also train in a Boxing gym after my shift. My Management would always give me a hard time for leaving at 6pm (the actual time that the branch closes) instead of 6:30pm (after inventory). The Area Manager would always stop by the branch after work and want to party and drink beer after a 12 hour shift. Because I do not drink alcohol nor was I getting paid to party after a 12 hour shift I would always tell Management that I was not intrested.
After 3 months of trying to find another job (during my 65 hour work week) and training in Boxing I found my self tired and burnt out. I finally resigned but because I got along well with everyone the Boss kept me at ERAC as a part time shuttle driver making $8 an hour (close to minimum wage). My health benefits were also taken away because I was working under 40 hours.
My advice to anyone considering employment with ERAC is "DO NOT DO IT". All the free food, beer and sweet talking cannot make up for the fact that you will be making 30k a year working 60 plus hours a week. ERAC is a viscious pyramid where the workers above you profit from your work and your personal statistics. Your chances of becoming anything higher than a branch manager is very minimal as well. There is so much competition for so few administrative jobs. Its quite common for employees to resign after 5 plus years when they keep getting passed up from promotion after promotion. If you have a College Degree, you have so many more options than what ERAC has to offer you. You worked hard for that College Degree there is no need to be doing slave labor.

I was curious to see what all of you losers cry and bitch about. Now I know, you are all so damn pathetic. There are days that make you question your sanity as an employee in any corporation, but damn if it is making your life that miserable...QUIT! After you quit, get a life! You said you had no life working at Enterprise, but you still don't have one because you can't get over it. I respect our rights to freedom of speech even if it is given to lazy and thoughtless idiots like most of you.

I bet the webmaster won't respect my free speech and erases my comments.

[gp65:(]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I was curious to see what all of you losers cry and bitch about. Now I know, you are all so damn pathetic. There are days that make you question your sanity as an employee in any corporation, but damn if it is making your life that miserable...QUIT! After you quit, get a life! You said you had no life working at Enterprise, but you still don't have one because you can't get over it. I respect our rights to freedom of speech even if it is given to lazy and thoughtless idiots like most of you.

I bet the webmaster won't respect my free speech and erases my comments.

Ummm....I think the folks that quit are trying to warn others about the lies at ERAC so they don't waste time there. It's sort of like community service.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I was curious to see what all of you losers cry and bitch about. Now I know, you are all so damn pathetic. There are days that make you question your sanity as an employee in any corporation, but damn if it is making your life that miserable...QUIT! After you quit, get a life! You said you had no life working at Enterprise, but you still don't have one because you can't get over it. I respect our rights to freedom of speech even if it is given to lazy and thoughtless idiots like most of you.

I bet the webmaster won't respect my free speech and erases my comments.

Hey douchebag, you don't have to post the same fucking reply in a bunch of different threads.

[FailingEnterpriseAdmin]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I was curious to see what all of you losers cry and bitch about. Now I know, you are all so damn pathetic. There are days that make you question your sanity as an employee in any corporation, but damn if it is making your life that miserable...QUIT! After you quit, get a life! You said you had no life working at Enterprise, but you still don't have one because you can't get over it. I respect our rights to freedom of speech even if it is given to lazy and thoughtless idiots like most of you.

I bet the webmaster won't respect my free speech and erases my comments.

I've erased all the other copies but I'm leaving this one intact. I don't mind if you disagree with me; in fact I want good, open, raucous debate and when people disagree with me it's an opportunity to learn something.

Welcome to our community.

I erased the other copies because there's no reason to post the same message to multiple threads and it really pisses people off.

[slave no more]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I was curious to see what all of you losers cry and bitch about. Now I know, you are all so damn pathetic. There are days that make you question your sanity as an employee in any corporation, but damn if it is making your life that miserable...QUIT! After you quit, get a life! You said you had no life working at Enterprise, but you still don't have one because you can't get over it. I respect our rights to freedom of speech even if it is given to lazy and thoughtless idiots like most of you.

I bet the webmaster won't respect my free speech and erases my comments.

Are you a current or previous employee of Enterprise? The reason I ask is that unless you are then you would have no clue what goes on in a branch. Also, if you are an employee and you have been in the position that the people who are on this website have been in then you know that there are hardships and different people come on this website for different reasons. I think it is funny that people bitch to a website and not to their manager. When I left the company I told them the truth about management (ARM was great) but I also told them about it while I was there. There are two ways people can bring about change, complain and be considered a bitch and get canned or passedover or be constructive and do something about it on a local branch level. I was told I had almost free reign over my branc so I changed everything I hated when I was an MT and an MA and an Assistant and made sure my people were happy no matter what. I had extra employees (2 extra) and made shifts so no one worked more than 50 hours (usually it was around 45-48) and I made sure that was okay with my people as far as pay goes. I also made sure I was staffed for the right times and my people would kill for me if they had to because I made sure they were happy. I was a BM for 4 years almost and neveronce had an employee quit on me. Employees quit managers not companies. I had great ESQi success at an office that never even sniffed an 80, great OP and fleet growth and I was passe over because I was not a kiss ass so I bounced and i am much happier now...I own my house outright (paid cash) and my wife does not need to work and we are starting a family. I made sure I created my opportunities for myself but most importantly my employees. Happy employees mean good business but you have to make the changes yourself first in order to change others. Show people your way can work and they will follow. Don;t JUST complain to website because it is not going to have an effect. (SEE ADMIN, NO EXCESSIVE PERIODS :-) )

[Last Angry Man]

Originally Posted by Tim O' Tei

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.

Maybe I'm confused. Isn't the US Dollar weaker than the Pound? Better check your math.... £8.96 is closer to $15

[slave no more]

Originally Posted by Last Angry Man

Maybe I'm confused. Isn't the US Dollar weaker than the Pound? Better check your math.... £8.96 is closer to $15

How did this post end up on the before taking a job with Enterprise thread? You are bringing in a quote from some other thread homie!