Hertz reviews

There are a lot of cons with this company. The top 5 include: 1) Upper Management does not care about you. You are merely #4215 at location 12345-67 that has a Service Revenue Per Day number of #.##. If you are or aren't meeting the high expectations of your Area Manager, then they probably hate you because you are hurting their bonus. You get your self-paid dry-cleaned clothes messed up daily cleaning cars (especially during the hot summers), are told you must bring your own water because they won't give you a drinking fountain and the bathroom sink is disgusting. 2) Advancing in this company takes an act of God or a strong relationship with upper management. You will work harder than all of your friends that work at different companies, having no personal life with chasing the carrot that feels impossible to catch. Usually outsiders are made Branch Managers while your hard work lands you as an Assistant Branch Manager if you are lucky. 3) The stress from a days work is crippling both mentally and physically. You are asked to do more with less at every turn and are consistently underpaid and under appreciated. You bonuses never make sense because they change every quarter. When the summer ends your hours get cut to the point that you are not sure how you will pay for your bills. You will get upset whenever anyone else talks about their "hard day" at their non-Hertz job because it sounds like a walk through a patch of cotton candy and rainbows compared to a regular day at Hertz. 4) Upper management is so brain washed that they have lost all empathy for human beings that work under them. They will do whatever it takes to make higher bonuses while yelling at you to work harder. It is a matter of an obscene company culture that is fostered by the CEO Mark Frissora. 5) You always feel in danger of losing your job because you aren't selling enough insurance. You get written up monthly for not meeting sales goals and it takes two months of meeting goals to erase one months write up. You try to pick and choose customers to rent to because you don't want them to negatively effect your numbers. It is easier to sell when you are having a good mental attitude, but that is hard to achieve when you are beaten down daily.

The best and brightest will never get promoted. You work long hours and get paid pennies. Don't even think of a work life balance.