Straight Talk From the Top: An Interview With Andy Taylor, CEO of Enterprise Rent-A-C

Originally Posted by Black Collegian

Nationally, about 27 percent of Enterprise's employees are minorities (the minority population in the U.S. is currently 25 percent) and 60 percent of all minorities working for Enterprise are African American (more than 16% of our workforce in the U.S. is African American). An Enterprise National Diversity Team works with local diversity teams to help individual operations achieve local diversity goals.

27%???? I bet that number is closer to 10%, at least that was the case in my group. I have a hard time believing that 1 in 4 ERAC employees are minorities, but they are probably using "creative" ways of defining a minority (my great-grandmother on my mom's side was...)

[FailingEnterpriseAdmin]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

27%???? I bet that number is closer to 10%, at least that was the case in my group. I have a hard time believing that 1 in 4 ERAC employees are minorities, but they are probably using "creative" ways of defining a minority (my great-grandmother on my mom's side was...)

He's probably not lying on these numbers. Enterprise is a big retail company and with the exception of Failing Enterprise, they really care about their corporate image (hence the forced United Way contributions). If the word were to get out that Enteprise had minority numbers significantly different than the population at large, they'd risk getting severely hammered in the press. Jesse Jackson and Oprah would just slay them. So they run very scared, monitor the percentages and keep leaning on the recruiters to do whatever it takes. You can't run a big business these days without doing this.

Having seen the list of their top 100 officers, though, I think they've got some more work to do in the upper ranks.

It's 2005, he's got to use whatever force it takes to make this right, and then keep talking the happy talk that's been approved by H.R. and the legal department.

He knows what happened to Denny's and he's willing to spend millions of dollars ever year to avoid it. These numbers are powered by fear.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

27%???? I bet that number is closer to 10%, at least that was the case in my group. I have a hard time believing that 1 in 4 ERAC employees are minorities, but they are probably using "creative" ways of defining a minority (my great-grandmother on my mom's side was...)

That HAS to take into account part time car preps etc. In rental in my old group there was like two african ameican Branch Managers out of 100+ offices. It was a joke. Lot's of diversity in the garage though, washing cars.

yeah I think that is a lie as well.In the midwest there was one black guy...and he quit last year!

The 27% number may be correct for the company as a whole which would include car preps (50% minority) and NatRes (I am guessing a high % of minorities as well). But those are extremely low paying jobs, and in fact one of the car preps at my branch lives in government housing. If you only include rental, which is the face of the company, the number is 10% or less. In my area, which has 9 branches and about 30 employees (including BM's, AM's, MT's) there is 1 black MT and 1 black AM. Thats it---everyone else is white.

[ExLossControl]

Originally Posted by ExERAC656

Andy's daughter is doing a similar thing from what I have heard. She started out as a MT and i think she is a RVP in the St. Louis area.

It is all bullshit.

From day one ERACexec's have pegged who they want to promote and who they don't. Why do you think so many people get stuck in the Branch Manager spot and never move anywhere after that.

Last I heard, Chrissy Taylor was working at corporate with the title "Corporate Specialist."

Who knows what that entails...

I imagine she'll find herself on the level 2 side of things until she gets married, then she'll be a level 3, then she'll have a couple kids, jump on the executive mommy track, and be Pam Nicholson by the time she's 40.

Of course by then, Pam and Don Ross will be co-CEO's because Jack will be dead and Andy will want to retire... when Chrissy comes of age, career-wise, depending on her capabilities, she'll either take over for Pam/Don or the company will either go public or she'll take a board position and be a figurehead.

Perhaps the Corporate Definition is anyone that stays with the company 3 years or more? Kind of makes sense... 27% are "minorities"? :)

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Question:

Does the evil start with Andy, or is it further down in the food chain of management?

[FailingEnterpriseAdmin]

Originally Posted by ExLossControl

Last I heard, Chrissy Taylor was working at corporate with the title "Corporate Specialist."

Who knows what that entails...

I imagine she'll find herself on the level 2 side of things until she gets married, then she'll be a level 3, then she'll have a couple kids, jump on the executive mommy track, and be Pam Nicholson by the time she's 40.

Of course by then, Pam and Don Ross will be co-CEO's because Jack will be dead and Andy will want to retire... when Chrissy comes of age, career-wise, depending on her capabilities, she'll either take over for Pam/Don or the company will either go public or she'll take a board position and be a figurehead.

It must suck to be her. So long as she works there, no one is ever going to think she's earned anything. No one will trust her. She probably often considers leaving and going somewhere else to earn a name for herself.

[gp65:(]

Originally Posted by FailingEnterpriseAdmin

It must suck to be her. So long as she works there, no one is ever going to think she's earned anything. No one will trust her. She probably often considers leaving and going somewhere else to earn a name for herself.

The Poor Little Billionaire.