Number on a spreadsheet - Management Trainee Hertz Employee Review

2.0
Sep 19, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

The people that work for Hertz are often very helpful and friendly in the "we're in the same boat" kind of way. Also, on the rare days when nothing goes wrong, the work day isn't so bad.

Cons

Where to begin. Running out of cars, upset customers, having to clean cars in the sun/rain while wearing a shirt and tie, because Hertz is too cheap to hire a car washer so they make you do it, being left alone to run the location by yourself when you're only a trainee, being made to work open to close 65 hours a week 6 days a week because there is no one else there. Being treated as "a number on a spreadsheet", because management doesn't care that you're being overworked on hours and doing a manager's job for non-managers pay. All your bosses care about is sales, not that you're single handedly running the location and running yourself into the ground, going above and beyond and killing yourself for the company, only to get questioned as to why you aren't upgrading enough, even though you have zero cars on the lot.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

It is possible to make a difference if you are determined enough. Many engineers work hard and most try.

Cons

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