Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruits. But you will not taste them at ERAC.
Pros
The people you work with are truly wonderful, you all suffer together and the bond that’s created through suffering is truly unbreakable. Once you hit the year mark, find another role that will pay and treat you better.
Cons
Very long hours- I have worked 50+ hour weeks and had to work several Saturdays in a row due to staffing issues. As expected with long hours, you have absolutely no work life balance, we were told never to make plans after work even if they were at 6pm onwards as you will have to stay late. You will eventually stop fighting it and just accept that whilst you work here, you will have no life. The pay a trainees receives is minimum wage, we are on 45 hour contracts with no paid breaks, and the breaks you will get will be staggered, you could have lunch at 12pm or 4pm, if you are lucky and actually get the chance to have lunch and do not even dream of having lunch with a colleague because that’s frowned upon. You will be washing cars, on average I washed 4 cars a day, completely filthy cars that needed to be spotless otherwise it could be a “hot alert complaint”. Upper management will try wolf of Wall Street motivation tactics to try and get you to sell insurance and fuel, but with no monetary benefits to you. If you come in the top 20 in the north west for sales you get a £100 for your efforts, reason why most trainees give up trying to sell and just do the bare minimum whilst looking for other roles.