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My job consists of making decisions in an office, picking people up while driving a nice car and rocking out to satellite radio and selling. Yes, there is pressure to perform in protection and upgrades. It's a job and they would hire anyone if you just went through the motions. 50 hours a week happens because it is an MBA packed into 10 months. Wouldn't trade it.
I would tell you so many terrible things about this company if I didn't get sick to my stomach just thinking about it. Listen I know you got to start out small and all but this, well this ain't worth it. Two years of my life I will always look back on as the absolute worst I have ever lived, and I put up good numbers. You should see the sorry bastards who struggle. Just do something else. Anything else.
Salary Terrible, Vaca Time okay after first year but you are gonna be working Saturday's and 60 hours a week so it won't even out (oh and you ain't getting to use any of that vacation time during the holidays), reimwhatments?, no perks unless you jack a gas card every now and then.
One of the worst experience of my life. If you like to lie to people sell them
unnecessary insurance. get no vacation work 6 days a week then this is the
perfect for you to work. I have never ever seen a company like this. they fool these young college graduates into working for them. Next thing you
know you are working 50+ hours a week and getting paid 12 dollars an hour.
what a joke. Most of your co-workers and managers do drugs and specially
pot before they come to work. you see lots of employees drinking coffee and
energy drinks to stay awake!
Once you work there enterprise basically becomes your life. you go out drinking with your co-workers and bosses 3-4 times a week.
the more insurance you sell and the more you cheat the customers the more rewards and promotions you get.
12/hour
Look.....Anything anyone has to say that is good about Erac is completely false. Enterprise is a terrible place to work. I have worked in places I thought were bad, but Enterprise has taken the cake as the worst place I have ever worked.
Please, Please, Please, save yourself the emotional and physical stress that this job can cause. Don't do it. They prey on young college students who do not no better, and trick them into believing the hot garbage they spew from thier mouths. I could write a book on how much B.S. Enterprise feeds its employees.
no pros
all cons
If thier is a way to sum up Enterprise with one word it would be........unethical. They tricked me into working into an environment that was supposed to be a "Meritocracy". A place where if you work hard you get great rewards. Truth of the matter is, all you get is duped. You get duped into be a phony business-person with an inflated ego. You get duped into using ALL of your free time to work at place where you are NOT fairly compensated. You are duped into believeing in a phony dream that may have once been attainable in 1960, but in no way could possibly pan out in the company today. It is a trap, and the worst soul-sucking experience I have ever had. I can't believe I was fooled by them so LONG! Stay away from this place.....it is just plain awful.
Peanuts, no vacation time.....it is called CHOICE TIME. It is your "choice" to get strep throat and take a day! Pure unadulterated GARBAGE.
The whole company is based off of lies. The way they get you in there is a lie. "You'll get to see how a company operates and get good marketing experience."... you don't get any marketing experience. But you will get experience in washing cars all day, and tricking customers into buying insurance.
They work you too hard for what you get. Long hours with crappy pay. Very unprofessional environment.
$8/hour
Vacation time- lol, it's the car rental business, you work on christmas, thanksgiving, and any other busy holiday.
I wish I had anything good to say, but unfortunately I do not. This is a terrible place to work. I started working as an Accountant, unlike lot of others who begin as MT. But there is a common theme, it is still a horrible company to work for. They are understaffed, they do not train you and expect to know how to do things such as operate DOS. Unless you work in an office with doors, you are a nobody. There is lack of respect, and you will be forced to work Saturdays at least once a month after you have already put in about 45 hours of work week. Not only that, there is a lack of ethics. They tell a college graduate that their MT program is equivalent to having an MBA. Anyone outside of Enterprise doesn't think so, and neither should you. I do not have a single good thing to say about this company. Not worth the time, STAY AWAY AT ALL CAUSES.
Salary $40,000
Vacation - 7 days a year
Yes it's a tough job with long hours and average pay but I got a lot out of my experience and it helped me move on to better things. I don't agree with all of the reviews here.
everything that everyone has posted here is true, except for that freak who put this company was worth it, notice there is only one person. I fell into depression working here, 60+ hrs per week. There is no such thing as flex time, usually it was 5 o clock and she would be like go home your flexing now. There is no such thing as a lunch break, they make you go to happy hours and drink and then wonder why you feel like crap the next morning at 7 am.
There is no pros. None. Seriously, you don't learn how to run a business, manage people. You learn how to take money away from people, lie, and wash cars. You get no vacation time, no sick days. Nothing. I hate this company more than anything.
Truth be told, no one cares if you satisfy the customer, they care if you sell insurance. Once you get in the company the area managers will tell you this all the time. Expect to spend 12 hours or more and several days at the branch. You will wash cars, if this is a problem then you should move on. It is not uncommon for your assistant manager to "cherry pick" easy insurance sells, which leaves you in the cold in terms of promotion.
I think some employers like that you can handle high stress and ever changing conditions, but it isn't the gold medal on the resume that ERAC makes it out to be. You can gain this experience elsewhere and not have to worry with all the hassle.
Pay is low, but you work overtime so you do ok. Bonuses don't apply until you make it to management. The only other "perk" I can think of is that managers get to take branch cars home with them. Big whoop!
I worked at Enterprise for little less than a year and I think it has taken three years to recover. We had to work 12 hour days, then go to "Happy Hours" where they would pour on the liquor and expect you to get yourself home and get to work by 7:00 a.m. the next day. It reminded me a bit of a cult, they wanted almost ALL of your free time. Not to mention that I gained NO management experience as I was stuck at a Cadillac dealership all day where people who had real jobs looked at me like scum because I would try to sell them insurance they didn't need and were too smart to buy. Again I know the job market in Detroit is really bad right now but I honestly think you could gain more experience in management running a McDonald's.
I think my paycheck was like $900 every two weeks. I didn't get any vacation (I wasn't there long enough) and "flex time" is a freaking joke. I also have to say that the two or three times I had to call into work ( I was really sick!) I got a major guilt trip and had my manager calling my house not checking on me, but making sure I would be in the next day.
Unless you want to stay in the car rental business look elsewhere. You can get more relevant management experience working for a major retailer.
The hours and culture at Enterprise were just too rough for me, I got burned out real quick I will say though that coming out of college I did develop patience and some very good customer service skills.
Low but you can move up and then earn decent bonuses but it still may be too low.
Working at Enterprise was mistake. Don’t expect for the ‘management” experience to have any value anywhere else. You are going to learn a lot about the car rental business and not much else.
You are held liable for many things which are out of your control at Enterprise. Let me explain, a big part of the enterprise pay is a bonus which is based on how much money your store makes. If someone doesn’t return a car or damages a car your store makes less money and so do you. What happens when someone doesn’t return a car? Do you declare it stolen? No. You must knock the door of the person who rented it and ask for the keys back. Even if you have a key and you see the car in their parking lot you must knock on the door of the person who didn’t return the car and ask for the keys. I happened to be in inner-city Atlanta so this occurred often and it never went well. I feared for my safety. It’s a ridiculous policy. This is just one example of some of the unpleasant things you will go through at Enterprise.
You do have the opportunity to move up to branch manager rather quickly but opportunities get slim after that. You will be working extremely long hours. 7-7 on Saturdays is the norm. Unless you are fascinated by renting cars I would avoid this company.
Enterprise was a great place to gain knowledge of the business world. Most people think Enterprise is just a place where employees only rent cars. It is so much more the company teaches you how to run a business while maintaining customer satisfaction.
It is true the hours are long and the work is tideous at times, but for those who can look past the grind of the workplace will have a great experience. ERAC thought me how to market, grow my business, accounting, managerial duties, customer relations, sales techniques, and how to motivate people around me. The best part of it all is I got paid to do it.
For those of you thinking about working at Enterprise you will be asked to do alot and work long hours, but the rewards are worth it.