GM - General Manager U-Haul Employee Review

1.0
Jun 27, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of turnover = opportunity?

Cons

The rental equivalent of Wal-Mart -- rigorously anti-union (have shut down entire shop plantations over it). The payroll is absolutely embarrassing and ensures that the totality of things to be completed will never actually happen, which means that blame must be placed somewhere on the retail level. Center was given enough to payroll to run the entire operation with just me and a single counter person MOST OF THE TIME. At the time I was hired, I realized I was one of many, as 95% of the GMs in the entire region had not been there more than 10 months or so. If someone wants a hitch done you are supposed to drop everything and either the manager or counter person is expected to be able to do it. That's right, they will tell you to your face that anyone working there with zero mechanical experience will be held liable for the quality of the piece of steel they are often drilling in, and the wiring that they are splicing in to a customer's car. You will be given no mechanic at all, and be expected to actually maintain a fleet of 60something pieces of rental equipment with a series of part-timers making 10/hr. They expect you to "manage 30% of the time," the rest being regular old manual labor: cleaning trucks, working the counter, hooking up trailers, installing wiring on someone's personal vehicle. Trucks will regularly be gone for a month to get any kind of repair done because the off-site shop is absolutely swamped, at their own admittance. And if it goes there and something's not actually wrong then they will look at you, the mechanic-less manager, and act like it is your fault. They want to believe they are special and that it takes some kind of "special U-Haul person" to get in with their little game. This is really just another way of saying 'no one wants this job for a reason.' There is a reason why 7 different GMs were fired in 7 weeks.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

Zero Work-Life Balance: Your personal life is virtually non-existent here. Between working incredibly long hours without overtime pay and the constant pressure to be connected, you can never truly clock out. Unrealistic Availability Expectations: The owner (Joe) requires your personal phone number to be available to anyone, at any time. You are expected to answer work calls during your off-hours, completely erasing the boundary between work and home. Lack of Management Support: U-Haul focuses entirely on the customer at the absolute expense of the employee. Management routinely allows customers to curse at and verbally abuse frontline associates without ever stepping in or backing up their staff. Flawed Technology: The internal booking and rental systems crash on a weekly basis. This leaves associates stranded, forced to repeatedly apologize to frustrated customers because the tech simply doesn't work. Poor Communication: Corporate-level communication is completely dysfunctional, making it incredibly difficult to get answers or support when things go wrong on the floor.

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