I have stories from my time working there, I want to hear some stories so I know I’m not the only one!
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Don’t touch the senior market sales managers in the VAS department!
@g5 everything said here is 100% spot on. I started in 2014!! It was completely different and exciting. I used to tell anyone I knew who was looking for a job to Apply to Hertz! Even the gym is awesome!!......I wouldn't tell my sworn enemy to apply here now.
@g5 Mind you, I was a temp in 2019. You know, I wasn't some fu--ing Gil West back then. I was a nobody and I was treated like royalty. God help us, life turned to sh-t in 2020 and it just keeps getting worse.
I want to say something. It wasn't always like this. When I started in 2019 I looked up to people and I genuinely felt like there was opportunity and I could advance my career at Hertz. This used to be a good company. I remember when every birthday was celebrated and we would have $35 Salmon at a restaurant in Coconut Point for lunch. We would have dinners after work hours with our business partners at Divieto wearing dress shirt/pants looking pretty fu--ing professional and feeling like it too ordering old fashioneds and having a nice conversation. I mean sh-t this company was fu--ing awesome in 2019 and I saw it. I will never forget those days and I really miss them.
In February 2020 that all changed and we layed off most of the company and they didn't come back. Hertz Estero has been a ghost town since February 2020 till today. We are talking skeleton crew of a skeleton crew barely hanging on. Sure there was some life in 2021 but it was never even 1/3 the capacity of 2019. When I came back in 2021 it was a totally different company, we didn't even wear dress shirt/pants anymore. I got to experience the last days of Hertz in its full glory and words can't express how deeply disappointed I am with the sorry state of this company now. Man we used to wake up fu--ing excited to go into work in the morning. Like we really enjoyed working at Hertz in 2019. Fu-k dude. I miss 2019 a lot. Why the fu-k did we let things get this bad?
Top experiences out of Estero. Hertz is already bankrupt culturally. Just a matter of time before we’re financially bankrupt again.
1/ Revolving door of C suite executives. The next batch is always worse than the last.
2/ Promoting toxic bosses that surround themselves with even more incompetent f*cks
3/ Bosses that play the victim card yet behind the scenes backstab everyone that is actually there go help the department succeed.
4/ Extreme success in pushing any residual talent out the door.
5/ Compensation practices that drive zero interest to go above and beyond mediocre performance.
6/ Supreme success crafting worthless strategies to drive the company deeper to its grave.
7/ Zero-sum/win-lose relationships rather than collaboration and trust.
Probably missed other observations. This is just for starters..
Could write a book on the things that happened at Estero. Paying people below their pay range for their own title. Promising promotions so people work extra hard and then just pretending it didn't happen. Being told by management to purposefully do things incorrectly to sabotage the company and getting yelled at when you clearly explain the correct way and you refuse to do it incorrectly. Management playing favorites and even having closed door conversations telling people they are their favorite. Setting people up to fail on purpose and humiliate them in front of others (documented and reported to HR and they did nothing). Upper management throwing a temper tantrum because they can't do their own job and they want you to do their job for them and of course you won't get any credit. Speaking of credit it is very common for management to throw you under the bus for their failed ideas and when your ideas work they will take credit for it. Wildly unwanted s-xual advances and revenge for rejection. Promoting incompetent people to cause drama and pi-s off the people who earned it. Leadership giving you an hour to meet a deadline that should have taken weeks to do even though they knew about it for months and then blaming you when things go wrong. Leadership loves setting people up as scapegoats and will actively make your life worse if you document and cya proving it was their fault. Just endless garbage. Estero management should be used an example in college courses on what not to do if you want to keep people happy and retain talent. Management purposefully pushes talent out of the company because they are on a power trip and are afraid competent people will take their jobs.
This could get interesting, and I’m here for it
@a3 which departments?
Reported fraud, embezzlement and other toxic behaviors being committed by 2 department heads. The auditor and the HRBP were mysteriously fired upon conclusion of the investigation yet the 2 department heads are still employed. This was a clear sign that the corruption goes further up the chain and broader than anticipated.