Buying Greenhouse Gas Emissions Offsets when renting a car

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Worked at Enterpeise 13-16 out of college.

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Is it really the cult-like experience it's been reported as being?

It definitely has some cultish tendencies. Being around the same people 50-55 hours week and having no social life doesn't help. Depending on how much juice you drink, you can get stuck somewhere fairly easy. Overall it was good experience but the hours and pay suck. All the extra protection stuff available for rentals is used in a matrix for promotions so if you're good and convincing people to get it you can move up quickly, if not you get stuck even quicker than most.

After hearing about all the high pressure stuff from superiors at Wells Fargo going on, it gave me hope that something of that magnitude could happen to the machine (ERAC). The absolute only way to move up is "sales." Competency gets you nowhere in that company. The turn over rate is ridiculous but management does what they always do and pretend there isn't any issues. I personally never saw any of the hidden damage gimmicks going on but I'm not in the least bit surprised. What it boils down to is that ERAC is a wholesaler used car company disguised as a rental agency.

ETA: I remember when I figured this out. Could never understand why they never cared about profitability of the branch, or why they wouldn't just pay for to retain people and build profitability. The reality is the branches are just a way to gain depreciation write offs to lower the internal cost of the vehicle when they sell it wholesale. Any ability to gain market share even by offering prices lower than cost.