Hertz Management Program

To all those interested in working at Hertz in the Management Program in any capacity (MT, Asst. Mgr., Branch Mgr.) do not waste your time. In addition to working 55-65 hours per week (regularly 13 out of 14 days) you also get to wash cars in your required shirt and tie. I ruined numerous ties by getting them stuck in a vacuum cleaner. Also, during my interview, I was informed that employees regularly make a commission and that once you reach Management Level you can then also make bonuses based on performance. If you are lucky enough to make commission--which is unlikely due to ridiculous and arbitrary standards that are nearly impossible to meet--it is barely enough to buy yourself a bottle of water. I was with the company for over a year and I cannot recall ever seeing any branch get bonuses. They are great practitioners of creative accounting that makes it look as if your branch is ALWAYS losing money.

The whole point of Hertz is to rent cars and their organization makes that nigh impossible. We regularly had to squeeze people into the wrong size cars, give them cars that were thousands of miles overdue for an oil change, and beg "distribution" to give us cars when we had none. "Distribution" would always point out that we are scheduled to have cars returned today and that we did not need any cars even though we had lines of customers and barely any cars, if any at all.

Finally, Hertz touts that they regularly promote from within and that making Branch Manager is easy and expected. Not only is this not true, but very important information is left out. Promotions are based SOLELY on sales numbers--not on a combination of recommendations, work record, customer satisfaction and sales numbers, but ONLY sales numbers. This not only leads to rampant falsification of sales, but also to basically taking customer's money. Don't waste your degree on this place or job.