Exhausting and stressful - Anonymous employee Hertz Employee Review

2.0
Jul 22, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Free car, gas, and insurance if you make it to Branch Manager. Great experiences dealing with the customers that are polite and respectful as well as the vast majority of employees are agreeable and friendly.

Cons

-Extremely long hours. Not uncommon for Branch Managers (BMs) to work from 7am - 7pm several days a week and potentially work Saturday shifts as well with no overtime for any of it because you are salaried. -EXTREMELY high stress; run yourself and your employees ragged literally all over the city to get cars for accounts and customers all while having a seemingly endless number of tedious reports and back office procedures that have completed by the end of every day (hence why BMs often stay late). -Fluctuating to non-existent incentive pay (even when it was clearly earned according to the plan they provided) and absolutely zero explanation or communication as to why. Positions below BMs can receive monthly incentives as well but the values that they have to acquire to make any real gains from these are for the most part ludicrous. -Strictly negative reinforcement. Meet their (lofty) goals or you're written up and fired. -Upper management completely out of touch with day to day operations of a branch. Increasingly impose new mandates and rules that must be adhered to often times in complete opposition to the way things need to be done to get through the day. -Dealing with the half of customers that are not polite and/or respectful.

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