What do Avis, Hertz etc employees think of ERAC employees?

Do they look down on ERAC employees as less professional?
Do they think working at Hertz or Avis or the others as being a 'step up' ?
Do they think working at ERAC is for people that can't get hired by the Hertz or Avis or others companies?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Do they look down on ERAC employees as less professional?
Do they think working at Hertz or Avis or the others as being a 'step up' ?
Do they think working at ERAC is for people that can't get hired by the Hertz or Avis or others companies?

Just the opposite, bub.

I don't think they think anything. I imagine they are happy with their jobs because none of them have a college degree, and in general, it won't get much better for them than Avis and Hertz.

actually i believe most of them do

Here's why I asked the original question: My neighbor is the manager of an Avis location at the airport.... he seems pretty impressed with his company and specifically said that Enterprise employees are losers that can't get hired by a 'real' car rental company and that people are fools for working at ERAC. He says he works Monday thru Friday only.
I dunno who is right, but he makes a convincing case.

Enterprise vs. Everyone else

This Avis manager aka your neighbor is from a little town called DENIALville. And probably for good reason, if he never leaves the airport and looks only at the number of cars in his lot compared to Enterprise's airport lot, he probably thinks Enterprise is a joke. However, he couldnt be more wrong. Enterprise is exactly what it is: an ENTERPRISE. No other rental car company is within 90% of the population at a 10mile distance. Also, Enterprise may not have the largest amounts of cars at many airports, they defintely have all their competitors beat with their thousands of national branches with 40-500 cars within each branch located all over cities/states/small towns in the US.

Enterprise airport locals usually hold a competitive number of cars, but normally not nearly the number Avis, etc. will have, at least if you compare their lots. Most of Avis, Hertz, etc. business is from their large airport locations, that stocks thousands of cars, and they have small, meager branches around town holding 25 to 30 cars (maybe more depending on the city). All of those other companies airport locals buy tons and tons of cars gauranteeing the car of their choice to every single customer who walks into their airport locals. Except for busy holiday times or sporting events, who is going to rent ALL of those cars the rest of the 350 days of the year. No one, and so all of those cars SIT and collect DEBT. Just drive by an airport Hertz/Avis lot and look at ALLLL the cars just lined up, and not being rented, day after day...

Enterprise calculates roughly how many cars they will need versus last years numbers, etc, and tries to 'break even' daily. Thus, no cars are left on the lot, they are constantly being recycled. This means that if people are being turned away, new cars are ordered, but no cars sit on the lot which means no debt, only profit. Whereas, Hertz, Avis, etc. are sitting on thousands of cars daily just so they can say "yes, we have that, and you want red? oh of course! With 2 doors? Great!" That sounds all pretty and excellent, but the truth is these other businesses are poorly run.

Also, Enterprise is constantly being sued by all those other listed rental car companies for being a so called 'monopoly' and for bascially bogarting the entire car rental business. Just google Enterprise+monopoly. Enterprise's competition is grasping onto a slippery rope and falling off fast.


Keep in mind I have no idea where your airport is located, and most of my statements were blanket ones, and for your neighbors sake, he's probably just peaved because the E-train is gobbling up his national company, and if he isnt he should be. Either way, he's not very smart. After all, Hertz and Avis dont require a college degree like Enterprise does to work for them.

Also, it would be wise to ask the people in AVIS and HERTZ what they think about ERACers, not ERACers, that would make the most logical sense to answer your question effectively.


To all you Employees reading this: get out now and save yourself the wrinkles, broken hopes, and mysterious bar tabs. If youre at this site obviously you are not happy, save yourself: www.monster.com.

tell your neighbor to wake up. He rents cars for a living. Enterprise or Avis, he's still a loser.

Harsh!
Renting cars is not a total loser job, its on par with and no worse than flipping burgers or working retail.

i had actually APPLIED AT AVIS , going for the same thing i used to do at ECRAP, but the reason they arnt HIRING is because

A) waiting for BIG UPS to get them going
B) can't use their garages right now
C) not looking to hire right now because of both A AND B
D) DEC = SLOW MONTH

Originally Posted by Unregistered

i had actually APPLIED AT AVIS , going for the same thing i used to do at ECRAP, but the reason they arnt HIRING is because

A) waiting for BIG UPS to get them going
B) can't use their garages right now
C) not looking to hire right now because of both A AND B
D) DEC = SLOW MONTH

STBY....is that you?