Hertz reviews

Starting pay is EXTREMELY low considering the preferred candidate is suppose to have a bachelors degree. Now, I'm not one of those arrogant people who graduated and expected to make 50K plus coming out of college. I believe in earning everything you do in life and starting from the bottom up, but the starting pay is not competitive. There is a huge amount of talent loss due to the uncompetitive pay. Area managers try real hard to sell you on the GREAT BONUSES and getting a car when you become a branch manager during the interview. Location bonus structures are rigged. It only favors upper management (Area manager and above), unless you are a branch manager who happens to be running multiple locations, which is pretty rare. College graduates, be prepared to vacuum and clean cars in your dress shirts and dress pants even if your location has a car wash servicing its vehicles. I can't recall how many expensive shoes, shirts, pants, and ties were destroyed due to doing multiple car washes. After 3 months, I finally wised up and just started wearing cheap dress clothes and shoes. Even if it is 110 degrees outside, you will still have to wear ties and clean cars. Extremely understaffed. Staff from other locations have to be pulled because 98% of locations are all understaffed and have to be shared. There is a high and quick turnover rate of new hires so it makes it harder for the people who manage to stay remain positive. Long work hours and non existent lunches. I've worked as much as 55-60hours a week and have taken a lunch as late as 5pm even though I clocked in at 730am. I am thankful I have a job, but when you work that much, it is pretty hard to be happy, excited, effective and customer service oriented at the job. The whole having lunch by your fifth hour does not work for this company. Breaks do no exist either. You are suppose to get paid for not having lunches or breaks but you don't. A lot of scare tactics are used at this company. They will tell you that they only want top performers and that if you don't do this or that than you will get written up or be terminated. Positive reinforcement is pretty much non-existent here. Don't worry too much about being fired though and even if you were, it'd probably be a blessing.

I was on a conference call last week and upper management wanted employees to post fake positive reviews on this site to help improve the company profile. I am a morale guy and do not believe in cover ups. The problem needs to be fixed. Please read on... The turnover is really high. Because of this it makes it extremely difficult to keep quality people at the company. There is no staff. You will be working the job of 3 people and have no breaks. A bloated management system creates a severe disconnection with the baseline operations. There is no support from our territory and general managers. They just send us emails throughout the day telling us to improve and grow the business but offer no resources and support to do so. These positions need to be eliminated and more support needs to go the bottom. The area manager needs to report to our regional Vice President. The sales goals are nearly impossible. If you somehow meet them (which is rare) they change the bonus payouts which results in no bonus payout. It is very frustrating and downright cheating. Also if you do not hit your sales goals three months in a row it is automatic termination. No fleet and that leads to busted reservations and very upset customers. The stress is unbearable and long 11 hour days will run you into the ground. The quality of life is bad, and there is no balance between work and life. You will work all day, sleep, then go back to work. Your life is rental cars. Salary is below average for the service industry.