Layoffs to pay for CEO raise - Anonymous Sunbelt Rentals Employee Review

2.0
Oct 1, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Hours and benefits are good.

Cons

CEO got a 7 million dollar raise and the same month they laid off 400 employees. SUS Then they can't figure out why morale is bad.

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Sunbelt Rentals Response
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Tough decisions have been made recently as we optimize our operations to ensure we can best support our customers. We appreciate your feedback and wish you the best in your future endeavors

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

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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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