Pros
You’ll meet some great people If you can survive here you can survive anywhere The training provided can give you a good platform to build a wide skill set
Cons
You’re nothing but a number when you’re in ‘the green machine’. You’ll quickly learn this is one of the most shameful and unethical companies around who use and burn through staff at an alarming rate, but with the money they turn over they truly don’t care. I know for fact at the peak of the pandemic they were applying pressure to people who had been exposed to return to work breaking isolation rules and in some cases not even telling staff members they had been in the same vehicle as someone who had tested positive, they truly don’t care about staff. A lot of cars during the pandemic were being cleaned with glass cleaner and the condition some of the vehicles are rented in needing services or simply having faults, they don’t care much for customer safety either. I’ll quickly debunk some of the the ‘positive’ reviews you’ll see on here, most of which are made by people who are fresh in the company HR have asked to leave reviews or simply fake ones made by HR. Yes, there is the opportunity to progress quickly, but on the condition you can put up with the pretty awful working conditions, are happy to do unethical things, like scamming customers to inflate your sales numbers, work 60+ hours weeks and make sure that your face fits, the promotion system is a complete farce, most interviews are pointless as management know who they’re promoting well in advance. Yes, there is also a lot of money to be made, but it’s very dependant on the same points as above, in my 3 years I must have seen 100+ staff come and go, so how many must the area managers have seen gone. This job is blast furnace the managers at the top are in no way the best, they’re just the staff who could deal with the politics and nonsense the longest, or who didn’t get caught doing the unethical things literally every member of staff is doing, head office don’t care if you’re being unethical, they care if you get caught, if you can survive the politics and nonsense, you can definitely succeed. Whilst the training itself is good, there’s definitely skills to be picked up in sales, logistics, account management etc, there’s almost no training at all on how to be a manager, so the standard is appalling, I’ve seen countless examples of staff mental health suffering due to appalling management. The politics and bullying are the biggest thing to overcome, if you don’t immediately fit in here you’ll quickly know, a lot of kids straight out of uni get suckered into this job due to the decent pay and job progression opportunities and quickly think this is what a normal full time job is like, trust me it isn’t avoid this place like the plague, there are plenty of better graduate schemes to turn to. There are plenty of ‘green clones’ who would argue a lot of this and show off how much money they’ve made and it’s unarguable, but you really have to be a certain type of character to do well here and I can happily say I’m not one of those, I actually have morals. If you want a true feel of what the company is like to work for go and look at the things I learned on enterprise Facebook page, which head office despise because it shines a light on how poorly they treat staff.
