be prepared to sell your entire life to renting cars
Pros
- Great career progression opportunities if you are willing to move about (at least for the first 3 years) - For the most part colleagues were really nice and branch managers were incredibly down to earth because all of them started in your position. great for the CV as Enterprise is a highly reputed company
Cons
- 50 hours a week? that's an absolute lie. It is more like 60, particularly when you work the "late week" delivering cars for customers sometimes as late as 2am. - The hours get even worse when you progress to managerial positions - when you boil it down, £20,000 starting salary seems okay but you are working an extra 25-50% longer than normal 40 hour weeks. When you factor that down your 40 hour salary equivalent would be in the region of £15,000. - Bonus scheme is very weak, I rarely saw any of my team achieve the monthly £150 and even that is pretty poor. - They sugar coat the job as a graduate scheme where you will learn management skills but you will spend 80% of your time washing cars in a suit, driving to or from customers and tirelessly processing rental agreements. Of course you need to learn from the ground up, but the managers are so busy that they never really have proper time to teach you anything or help you progress. - Unless you commit to making Enterprise your entire life, you won't progress. I did not want to spend my 20's renting cars in middle management and because I couldn't fake the enthusiasm I soon fell off the intense working pace they require - no weekends, every other week you work a late week from midday until midnight. - No breaks. You will get 30 minutes for lunch but only if it is quiet. I often worked from 8am and didn't get a lunch until 3pm. Out of a 10-11 hour day that is disgraceful - Progression is only good up to middle management. From there the number of positions people are competing for drastically drops and you will find yourself waiting for 3-5 years to move up one more position in the company.