U-Haul reviews

3.3

51% would recommend to a friend

(4,157 total reviews)
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59% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

U-Haul has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 4,157 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The U-Haul employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transportation & Logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Jun 27, 2013

GM

Recommend
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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.

1.0
Sep 2, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

You can make good money if you are completely heartless. The benefits seemed ok.

Cons

The training was ridiculous. For the first week we sat and had literally hundreds of pieces of info thrown at us in a webinar. Then tested, which was open book , so easy. The second week there was a different person, who would be a SENIOR agent when I was done with training. She talked more about herself and her kid than anything else. Then tested us on things she hadn't even gone over with us. When you tried to ask any questions she would shut you down and make you feel stupid for asking. The third week they threw you on the phones, alone. They said you could instant message people with questions but usually the responses came 5-10 minutes after the callers hung up. The fourth week, they threw you on the phones and interrupted several times. Look if you don't care how you treat people this is the job for you. The want you to get reservations, credit card #'s, period. They have interoffice competitions among the managers and also pay you for the amount of reservations you get. But if someone won't give you their credit card because they want to know if they can pick up at a location near them, and you jump ahead to see for them without pressing for that credit card a second time, they will pull you off the phones immediately. This company is about $. Period. They don't care about the customers. All of the bad reviews online from the customers are real., And I'm sure the same 'culture' reaches down through the whole company. The just don't care. If someone has a lot of questions and needs options I was told by this same senior agent, set a timer for 4 minutes and if you don't have that credit card, move on. Another words bum rush them off the phone.

1.0
Jul 16, 2014

Run!

Recommend
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Pros

Above average salary for accounting jobs in Phoenix. Cafe in one of the towers that has affordable, delicious food.

Cons

Parking is several blocks away. It takes 3-5 years to get in the garage which HR doesn't tell you when you interview. The department I am in is full of negative, back biting people who openly talk about each other. The workload is heavy, lots of emergencies and angry people calling. I've worked every weekend since I started and since I'm salaried don't get anything extra. Co-workers use the F word like it is a regular word to use at work. Also the buildings are really old so no sinks in the breakrooms and the bathrooms are old and smell.

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