Current BM

90% of making it at ERAC is luck. If I'm a BM in a bad branch, but a new dealership opens up across the street and triples my fleet I look great. My comp package is sweet so I make money and think that I'm great and write messages on Failing ERAC telling every how happy @ ERAC I am.

Move me to a good branch but lose that dealerhsip and my fleet shrinks by half, than I look like a jerk, but meanwhile I could be a great BM. But wouldn't be happy @ ERAC. My comp plan is worth nothing and I'm now miserable.

I HATE MANAGERS THAT MAKE IT AT ERAC AND THINK THAT THEY ACTUALLY ARE GREAT AND DESERVE RENTAL GOD STATUS.........I WILL NEVER GET MADE AT SOMEONE WHO IS LUCKY, BUT THAT LUCKY PERSON HAS TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT AS LUCK, OR ELSE THEY JUST SOUND AND LOOK STUPID.

Originally Posted by Happy @ ERAC

nobody works 60 70 hours 46-53 yes thats obviously another sign that you were a poor manager of time maybe you should have bought a watch?

so i see joely f is not only abused by the UK users of this site, but also the american users!

pat yourself on the back joely f, you are now known to being a twat on both sides of the pond! what an achievement, so what are you going to say in your acceptance speech?

[joely f]

Originally Posted by wanttoremainUnregistered

so i see joely f is not only abused by the UK users of this site, but also the american users!

pat yourself on the back joely f, you are now known to being a twat on both sides of the pond! what an achievement, so what are you going to say in your acceptance speech?

Oh look another 60-70 hours a week green blooded drone. You need to get to the point, trying to discredit me is not going to work.

How can you justify telling someone that starting at enterprise on £22,000 or what ever they offer as a starting salary in the US, and work 60-70 hours a week is good. And even if you say it is more like 47-53 (which it is not) that is still bloody terrible. In the UK thats works out as £8.43 an hour. You can abuse me all you like but I can sleep haappily knowing that you earn less than £10.00 an hour probably less as you clearly work more than 50 hours.

This is not aimed directly at you, but new intellegent graduates who will hopefully know they are worth more than £8.43 an hour.

As for you, you are way past saving. You have already been brainwashed. If you are a yank, I look forward to hearing from you when your flip bottoms out like it did a year ago, you are having a lucky streak at the moment,hence why you have come out of the woodwork and grown some balls. Wait untill ERAC fuck up (as they always do) and then we shall look forward to what you have to say.

Hi Five to you !!! LOL

Originally Posted by Unregistered26

I've worked for ERAC for 2.5 years. It's not an easy job, I won't lie. I have a different take then most money hungry frat boys that try the job and fail b/c mommy and daddy have taken care of them thier whole life.

You have to work hard to succeed and I do. And I do. After nine months my pay jumped from 28,000 to 52,000 a year. I now make close to 70,000/year as a BM. Name another company where your pay increases this % in a little over 2 years.

My take is this, people leave their managers, not ERAC. If you have a good manager that runs the business and doesn't let it run him/her then you will enjoy your job. My MTs each "flex" (leave early) 1 to 2 times a week, and they only work every third Saturday. They average around 46-48 hours a week and they perform quite well. One is getting ready to grill.

So get to a branch where a MANAGER is running it, not a salesman and you will enjoy your job.

I'll write again as an GRM making 350,000 to let you guys know what kind of car I just bought.

Thanks and good day,

It's A Decent Job so Quit Crying

NEWSFLASH: My Bullshit detector just went off scale and exploded.

Congrats you probably topped out compensation wise and there is someone else just a little smarter, quicker, and kisses up just a wee bit better than you gunning for your position. So, you better dust off that resume and have it ready when you suddenly get the boot for an "ERAC infraction" (like getting too close to being vested). It's a long ride to get to that magic year so hang on!

Thats really rich: "get to a branch where a MANAGER is running it" - like an MT Really has a chance to pick the branch he can work. They just stick you where ever they need a body. I was placed at three shitty branches (high turnover shit holes) in lower income areas around town and the customers would/could not afford dub. As a result my totals sucked. When I was moved to a more affluent area, magically my dub went up a lot.

As for the job you said :"It's not an easy job, I won't lie"- nothing could be further from the truth. ERAC has done a good job making you think the opposite! This is an easy repetitive occupation: you wash cars, drive customers, print tickets, you do all these things about 12-20 times a day. The job itself is VERY EASY. A chimp could be trained to do this occupation. The hard part is the rest of the crap that comes with the job: dealing with incompetent managers, unmotivated co-workers (I wonder why?) ruined clothes, shortages of cars, angry customers, absent ARMS & GRMs playing golf, very shitty pay and nearly 60 hour weeks. The 46-48 hour week does not exist at ERAC.

The folks leave ERAC, you green E-turd. When is the last time someone said: "Oh, I quit Lucifer Joe Bob's branch-wrong, they leave ERAC. They see what a crapper of an e-chimp treadmill of a job it is and they bail. If they stick around for 3 or 4 years maybe 5, ERAC pulls them aside for a "consultation" about job performance ESQI, and bam, like shit through a goose, they are gone. Most BM's that I worked for had a resume and were actively job hunting. Think about it, how many folks do you know that work there other than the admin weirdos and the ARM, RM, sales or human resc. are vested? I bet very few. It's just a simple matter of culling the sheep-replace them with cheaper MTs.

I predict you will get canned. You will get depressed, then addicted to meth. You will be damned to driving an 94 Taurus to your trailer every night to see your crack-whore wife. You will weep at pictures of Andy and sob: "where did I go wrong?"

Oh, and by the way I work at Toll Brothers in Land Acquisitions/development. I made $122,000 last year in commissions and bonuses after being with the company 14 months.

I am glad that everthing is going so well for you at ERAC. As others have said, "You are in for a rude awakening once you take the blinders off." I too spent my tour with ERAC, bought in and living the dream. I was a top performer at all levels getting promoted very quickly and reaching that "elite" status that everyone talked about. I was making some serious money, on pace to make $90,000 as a BM. Until my group felt that I was making too much. They cut my commission percentage, split my office, gave some of my accounts to other existing offices, and did not even give me a bandage to stop the bleeding from the raping they just gave me. I did not give up. I continued to work hard, grow my fleet, and have strong numbers in all areas, maybe it was the "brainwashing" I don't know. Every time I succeeded, I watched as more accounts I had worked hard to land were given away to struggling branches. When I finally had enough and questioned my ARM and GRM about this, they quickly wrote me up for challenging authority and was told to "deal with it." I went to ERAC because of opportunity, promotions based on performance. Performance at ERAC is unappreciated and taken advantage of. I watched the elite get over worked, under compensated, and eventually left while the average employee was getting promoted not for performance but for being a "yes" man. I read about how other employees were teminated before becoming vested. Two weeks before I was vested The Big Green Monster struck me, not for performance since I was a top performer and so was my branch, I was terminated for another reason. A 30 day employee overheard two other employees telling jokes out back of the garage and suddenly became offended. I was not at the branch at the time because I was out marketing. Upon my return I was met by a member of HR and my ARM asking how I could allow this behaivior from one of my employees, even though I still had no idea what happened. To make a long story short this was my last day at ERAC because they were worried about a potential law suit from a new employee and they solved it like they always do. Lets fire someone and make an example out of them to the rest of the group. Lets continue to manage the employees by fear not logic or reason. As I left that day I never felt better. I was not angry with the employees that told the jokes, who by the way kept their jobs. I was finally set free from the lifestyle that is ERAC. I was able to see what else was out there once the green colored glasses were off. I now have a real career with a company that appreciates my hard work and performance and I am on pace to exceed $200,000 in my first year plus I get to see the light of day and spend time with my family. If you decide to work for ERAC take it for what it is worth, do not give in to the "brainwashing", and remember that no matter how good you are, your employment is never secure.

P.S. The grass is greener on the outside.

Originally Posted by Happy @ ERAC

nobody works 60 70 hours 46-53 yes thats obviously another sign that you were a poor manager of time maybe you should have bought a watch?

REALLY? You should take a look at my personnel expenses before I left. We were in a dealership open from 7-7 mon-fri and 8-5 on saturday. Shortstaffed, (shocker!) so we had no possibility for flexing. Total up those hrs and you are looking at 63hrs a week. I could hardly justify to myself why I was there, and I was the manager! Try explaining to your poor rep thats making beans whay they should stay. I still feel guilty to this day for convincing my reps to not quit on me.

Have you ever heard of a rota? Giving people afternoons / days off ?? Your management style obviously sucked

Originally Posted by ERAC ROCKS

Have you ever heard of a rota? Giving people afternoons / days off ?? Your management style obviously sucked

Witty comeback, I bet your a shining example of what a successful, ethical BM should be. No, I take that back, you probably have no clue what's going on in your branch because you are out playing golf with the "golden boys" again.

A lot of good rota does when you are already understaffed, nimrod. People like you are the poster child of what's wrong at ERAC. You think rota will really change the prevailing mood/attitude of the MTs, AMs and the BMs at ERAC? Half the BMs and AMs are new in their positions and the other, smarter half of them are networking and interviewing. You think that giving someone a half day off will really make that big of a difference to him at the expense of the other over worked MTs at the branch? My advice if given a day off for what ever is to interview and get out of ERAC.

[Last Angry Man]

You know what really iritates me about this whole thing is the "them and us" mentality. I mean if your not a total green bleeding zealot then you're the enemy.

I too was once fully bought into the dream but found it more and more difficult to justify to my friends and family wht I worked harder and for longer than all of them yet never had any money.

Maybe I couldn't cut it or whatever or my managment style sucked - I like that actually, thats how a lot of people get to the top in ERAC right? - but all I know is that when I left along with 4 other BMs and a couple of AMs not one of use got jobs that paid less or worked us harder. In fact everyone I know that has left ERAC in Ireland is now getting paid more for doing a job that is more dignified, has less hours and are working for companies that don't need to keep telling thier staff how great they are all the time!!!!

I really enjoyed hearing how ERAC was striding forward with the work / life balance s***. As I recall it involved more happy hours and getting staff to bring thier mates along in a bid to get more employee referrals!!!!

I was typing up my resignation at the time.

[GoingCrazy]

The only way your making that kind of doe is your in an undeveloped area with no other competition or just full of shit. Just wait my friend because you too are in store for some exciting pound me in the ass kind of action. Your so cocky that you are destined to get your head handed to you-I've seen it a million times. You're always a target for upper mgmt especially when your making over 60k so don't be suprised when you end up taking that smug attitude of yours right to the unemployment line. Everyone is replaceable-and if you trust the people around you, your dumber than you sound.