Run for your life! - Branch Manager Trainee Hertz Employee Review

1.0
18 Aug 2012
Recommend
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Pros

You get to test drive several different cars. You usually stay fairly busy so time passes by pretty quickly. When you quit you get to put a Fortune 500 company on your resume. I was able to pay my bills, albeit just barely, with the money from my checks.

Cons

They don't exactly "train" you, they just cast you to the wolves. They withhold your quarterly commission bonus from you if your entire area doesn't realize a profit, even if you're carrying your weight with great numbers. They didn't even tell us about that until I had worked there for five full months. The pay SUCKS for the amount of work you do and the petty complaints from customers you have to endure. This company doesn't respect its employees one bit and would just as soon spit on you as hire you. If you are reading this, do yourself a favor, and keep up your job search. Don't even interview. This is NOT where ANYONE sincerely wants to work. There were some manager trainees who had worked there for years without getting promoted, even though their sales numbers were great. The work-to-life balance was godawful. The cornerstone of the manager trainee position is sales, and sales to Hertz means that you have to lie to and manipulate customers into buying an intangible product from a company with zero moral fiber that you only need to use when something terrible, like an accident, happens to you while you're in one of their cars. Customers are just walking dollar signs to these people, and employees mean less than nothing. I got out before I was even employed there for a full year. Run. Don't look back.

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Cons

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Cons

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