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Extra Space Storage

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A little better than the rest, - Assistant Manager Extra Space Storage Employee Review

2.0
Jun 30, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Pays a $1 or 2 more than their competitors Closed Sunday You are allowed to think and use your own discretion You run the store with little bother from the DM Helpful co-workers

Cons

Understaffed. You work alone most of the time. They will lie to you about hiring more people. Deceptive technique of selling of insurance. Advertising first month free when no such discount exists, leading to angry customers. Always on your back to meet the many metrics. Some are hard to meet due to no fault of your efforts to try to meet them. Record and test call you all the time. Sometimes you are helping a customer and cant answer, They don't care. Assistant Managers perform the same duties as a Manager but paid less. They role play with you all the time. You will never be good enough. Expensive and bad insurance coverage.

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5.0
Jun 20, 2026
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Pros

Great benefits Work life balance Culture

Cons

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3.0
May 14, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Solid schedule - 40 hours per week, not expected to be there more than that. No one looking over your shoulder constantly (unless you have a new DM, they can't seem to help it) Mostly great people to work with Local, immediate management does care and are helpful.

Cons

Very large rate increases really upset customers and that's just too bad. We are given word to tell them but it just isn't true. Putting more money in stock holder's pockets is the bottom line and it doesn't matter how much anger we have to deal with. You are absolutely expected to sell insurance to every renter. However, you must be careful because you aren't "insurance salesmen". You get a ding when you don't sell it. We are encouraged to use evasive language and rush through it so the renter thinks it's required without quite saying so. You would think this large of a corporation would have handymen available but it is so, so difficult to get the smallest repair done due to getting bids from vendors, turning them in, reminding the person you turned them in to what needs done maybe getting approval, then scheduling. By that time lights (or whatever) have been out for a month or 2. Benefits are very expensive and cover so little.

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