Your final straw?

[contracheck]

Originally Posted by 32AATopIPEandDub

Wow, what a story. That totally sucks how your ARM threw YOU under the bus like that. The RVP was just looking for scapegoat, that's all. Thanks to that greedy SoB ARM, you guys probably lost about 1000+ dollars worth of gas. Sounds like to me that the RVP needs to take some classes on how to effectively communicate with his employees.

ah ya .. effective communication with employees is not exactly ERAC's forte ... I have learned a very long time ago that a company and how it is run is a direct reflection of the president/ceo thereof .. so.. this joke is on Andy !

[whatdude]

Originally Posted by 32AATopIPEandDub

Wow, what a story. That totally sucks how your ARM threw YOU under the bus like that. The RVP was just looking for scapegoat, that's all. Thanks to that greedy SoB ARM, you guys probably lost about 1000+ dollars worth of gas. Sounds like to me that the RVP needs to take some classes on how to effectively communicate with his employees.

Exactly. The sad part is, as most people do I figured out very quickly that in order to succeed at Enterprise you need to look out for #1 at all times. I felt like my area manager was someone I could trust, both at work and outside of work, but obviously was wrong. I won't say that there are no good people at Enterprise - there definitely are - but I will say that they are hard to come by. In the end I actually called him and thanked him for the whole thing, it was the wake up call I needed to get out and find a career I cared about.

[32AATopIPEandDub]

Originally Posted by whatdude

Exactly. The sad part is, as most people do I figured out very quickly that in order to succeed at Enterprise you need to look out for #1 at all times. I felt like my area manager was someone I could trust, both at work and outside of work, but obviously was wrong. I won't say that there are no good people at Enterprise - there definitely are - but I will say that they are hard to come by. In the end I actually called him and thanked him for the whole thing, it was the wake up call I needed to get out and find a career I cared about.

I thank my area manager as well. I told everyone my co-workers on my last few days in December 07 that I was very grateful for the humbling experience working at Enterprise. It was definitely the wakeup call that I needed.

Now I'm at work getting paid 3x as much per hour than I did at Enterprise, making just as much as my branch manager in the biggest branch in 32AA while working only half of his hours. Tomorrow I will be only surfing the internet, listening to music, chatting with co-workers, and eating free company lunch because I finished my assignment already. Oh, and my company hired a professional ergonomics expert to look after our group yesterday. I'm getting a customized desk, personalized ergonomics computer chair, and a customized mouse and keyboard built for comfort. At lunch today, I was sitting with my boss with a few directors where he openly said to the directors that his group needs to try to keep me for a long time.

Life is good when you have the brains with to go with the work ethic and desire. I developed that work ethic and desire after having to experience life in ERAC.

[We'll pick you up!!]

Where the hell do you work and is there any openings?

[32AATopIPEandDub]

Originally Posted by We'll pick you up!!

Where the hell do you work and is there any openings?

I work in the biotech industry. As of now, we only hire temps. If you do a good job and your co-workers and supervisor like you, they hire you to be a permanent employee after a few months. Even if we do have openings, we never post them, but we go through recruiting agencies to hire experienced temps. A background in biology labs is a necessity.

[group12tpc]

My final straw...while working as a Branch Manager and working 80+ hours a week; I was told that if I wanted to get promoted I would need to work even harder. Ummm...hello! I guess I should have been workin a 100 a week seven days a week. I found a better job working less and making more money a few weeks later.

[32AATopIPEandDub]

Originally Posted by group12tpc

My final straw...while working as a Branch Manager and working 80+ hours a week; I was told that if I wanted to get promoted I would need to work even harder. Ummm...hello! I guess I should have been workin a 100 a week seven days a week. I found a better job working less and making more money a few weeks later.

The thing is that you get screwed even more as an assistant manager and branch manager. I knew I didn't want to be in that position after seeing the situations that ERAC puts them in. You constantly have dissatisified employees that are worked like dogs and their morales are so low from it, yet the only incentive you have to offer them are that one day they may have your position and by taking them out for frozen yogurt and beer.

I remember my branch manager, who's a passionate and delusionally overconfident guy, told me word for word, "You have so much potential as one of the best hires that we've ever had. I can kind of see where you're going to be in life 2 years from now. You're going to be an assistant manager somewhere managing your own branch and I'll be an area manager." Are you kidding me? This is what I have to look forward to IN LIFE two years from now?

[erudite"eracer"]

oh for damn sure!! You look at your assistant manager's raccoon eyes coupled with the look of complete exhaustion and snowballing depression from having to magically make cars appear and you are thinking)))yea fuckin right.....I'm going to be an echimp so I can move up into your sorry ass shoes!! It kind of destroys their ice cream bar dream stories about becoming a respectable member of the esore community!!! yea, if you play your cards right you can have no life like me and look twenty years older than you actually are-all for pennies on the dollar!!! shit stop the presses-where do I sign up!!!

[We'll pick you up!!]

i'm sorry to say that I actually did make it to branch manager after 2.5 years with the company... and then I quit a month after. Being an assistant is not that hard, to be honest with you, it's easier that being an MT/MA. MT/MA is harder on you physically, but being an assistant is harder mentally. So overall... it sucks ass either way. I left because I took a paycut to a branch manager... f*en ridiculous!

[johnsears1]

My final straw wasn't a specific deal, or anything.

One day I got home and looked at myself in the mirror and didn't recognize myself. I was fat, pale, and had puffy dark circles under my eyes. E was killing me.

I quit without having another job lined up.