Enterprise Mobility reviews

*poor work/life balance (managers will regularly work 12+hr days with no lunch sometimes) *you never seem to have enough cars, but when you try to plan your fleet to make it through the day, you're suddenly not aggressive enough *managers are expected to do everything (manage sales, market accounts almost daily, collect ARs, employee development, job interviews, etc.) while managing an office full of people waiting for their car to arrive and being understaffed by 1-2 employees all month *positions above Branch Manager don't come by too often in smaller Areas or Groups. Area Managers tend to stay in their position until fired or they find something else *a lot of upper management will give their "back in my days" stories as a way to let you know they were better than you, not taking into account new challenges presented with stricter ethical guidelines, sales practices, easier access of technology for our customers to compare prices, etc.

There are quite a lot of cons of working at Enterprise and I wish I'd looked more closely at them before accepting the job. The hours are long (40-50 hours per week) some people in other branches are more like 60 hours. Airport location the shifts are horrendous - 14:00-00:00 but not getting finished till 01:30 on most occasions. So, please understand that you are working very long and unsociable hours, this is not a nice Monday-Friday graduate job. In busier branches it seems they overbook and don't have enough cars for the volume of customers they've booked - overall really badly organised. They need to hire more assistant managers who are fully trained in order for it to be more organised. There is simply too many trainees and interns who don't always know what they are doing and not enough people who know the job inside and out. Advice - hire customer service advisors who are not on a graduate scheme if you want sales monkeys! Another massive con is the salary. It's advertised as being competitive, however when you compare it to working 50-60 hours a week it's pennies. Also bonus is a complete myth - I worked ridiculously hard, creating thousands of pounds in revenue (higher than some very experienced members of the team) and received next to nothing bonus, coming from sales previously this was massively disappointing. Holidays aren't great - 20 days plus 5 choice days. But don't be off sick ever! As they use each day you're off sick as a choice day. Which if you're off 5 days means you only have 20 days holiday. I think for such a demanding job with terrible hours they should reward their hardworking staff with better annual leave. Don't get me wrong - progression does happen, usually after a year you will be promoted to assistant manager of an available branch. But the salary increase is not much and I've seen senior management out cleaning cars at 1AM. Not necessarily a job you want to do for not amazing pay. Branch managers are also working 70 hours plus. Please think carefully about taking this job and try speak to people who currently work there or have previously been in the job.