Glorified Route Driver - Management Trainee Cintas Employee Review

3.0
20 Jan 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Cintas is known as an employee that will promote anyone regardless of degree as long as they prove themselves through hard word. Many of the middle management came started as hourly workers, many without college degrees.

Cons

Cintas works its lower-level salaried employees to the bone. Management trainees (just out of college) were often called in to work the production floors on weekends to prevent running overtime with hourly employees. While the management trainee program is billed as giving high-potentials exposure to many aspects of the business, I found most of my 2 years in the program was spent running delivery routes and cleaning restrooms late night (one of their services) in order to make up for consistent staffing shortages and high turn-over.

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2.0
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Pros

The Commission is great. You can make good money in this place.

Cons

While the pay is good, the culture here is not. It is incredibly restrictive. It is very much a “Do what I want you to do, how I want you to do it, and when I want you to do it” management style. They constantly remind you of how much money you can make there which gets annoying after a while. The service team and the sales team are constantly at odds. Not just Cintas, but the industry in general is very sleazy, much like a car dealership. They screw over their smaller customers with enormous year over year price increases. I know a particular salesperson who is having a lot of success their who has no problem lying to his customers, and never answering their calls when the problems come. As long as he keeps the deals coming Cintas does not care. Corporate greed is on full display at Cintas. The Management Development program for college graduates seems like a great opportunity. If you are a young college graduate and you get the opportunity, I would recommend that.

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