Pros
You get a lot of time off right away. It starts out at 10 Vacation days and 5 Floating Holidays which is better than i've seen anywhere else. After the first year and through the fifth year it jumps up to 15 Vacation Days and 5 Floating Holidays which is again, great! It's a great place to get your feet wet about how to run a business. ' It's also a great way to learn how publicly traded companies work to increase revenue and reduce cost throughout every year. You learn a lot about working with your employees and other branches to accomplish objectives. You get a lot of variety in terms of sales experience, including business-to-business and retail sales.
Cons
Managers are essentially Mules at Hertz. They are forced to work a large number of hours every week. Typically between 50-60. There is no life outside of Hertz since you will be essentially get up every day, go to work, get home eat dinner and go to bed. You get a lot of vacation time, which is great but you don't get to use it.. especially as a manager. Your always told to suck it up since the area is always way understaffed. Your told to go out and grow a business when you can barely manage what you have due to staffing. In order to try to accomplish that goal you have to short your location and hurt customer service. This results in upsetting what your trying to do to grow the business. On top of it all your expected to do more with limited staffing (2 to 3 people) than the competition (generally Enterprise) does with 5 or 6 people. If a holiday falls on a weekend hourly staff get paid for it and even though management is told they are supposed to get a day off for that holiday they are encouraged not to take it at the branch level. All the while the upper management above you gets the next work day or the day before off. You never have the fleet you need when you need it. Moving cars is sometimes impossible due to staffing and hours reductions. Your always being told to cut something and still increase your revenue and profit.