Micromanager's heaven - IT Professional Sunbelt Rentals Employee Review

2.0
Oct 14, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Sunbelt has a lot of pros starting with their hours and benefits. They are a growing company. They support veterans and do community work. They are working toward work/life balance and their middle management teams are engaged.

Cons

The salaries are under average for all positions. Sunbelt's biggest cons are micromanagement and employees who are hired from the same companies. The cliques are numerous and will side with each other over new and innovative thinking (we've always done it this way). Sunbelt has entirely too many "buddies" up the chain. All management levels micromanage every detail. They do not trust employees to do their job and require more documentation than necessary. If an employee is asked to do something, numerous people send emails to request that task. While you're trying to answer all the emails to say you've received the request, your manager or director has asked someone else to do the task because you haven't responded quickly enough and now two people are stepping on each other to complete the task. Sunbelt has tools in place but do not encourage the use of those tools to avoid wasting time and resources.

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Sunbelt Rentals Response
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We appreciate your feedback and sorry to hear about your concerns. Thank you for sharing your advice based on your experience and we always encourage our team members to discuss their concerns with HR. We wish you the best of luck!

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Cons

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The local teams doing the work in the branches are the only team members that make it a positive experience.

Cons

Senior field leadership and it's byzantine hierarchy is filled with matrixed leadership jobs for people who have been good soldiers with long tenure. They don't know anything about the actual work at the branch level or in the markets. Often they spend thousands at meetings in hotels and at bars in the evening which is extremely unprofessional. These same individuals press their political advantage to make sure the people they don't like get dismissed or marginalized and often move people into leadership to virtue signal DEI values. C-suite has been lost since 2021. Budget forecasting, fleet planning, and execution has been weak and lacks strong leadership position. Geographic territories don't make any sense and regions are oddly divided up based on tenure loyalties and not the needs of the business. Senior leadership can be counted on to work Tuesday - Thursday but have no problem asking front line employees to diminish their salary with 60 hour weeks, and pointless Saturday shifts.

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