Over worked/ understaffed - Anonymous employee Sunbelt Rentals Employee Review

2.0
11 Nov 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good experience and name on a resume. You are doing so many jobs at once you can build your skill set.

Cons

A lot of people in this organization are plain rude and callous. There is never a person genuinely willing to train and be helpful when you need to learn something. You are expected to figure a lot of things out on your own, which makes a lot of room for mistakes. Management is slow to tell you that you have been messing up something until your yearly review or when it's too late to fix. It's likely because they are overworked as well! The company has the English mentality of giving 1 person the job of 3 and expects you to do better and better every year which is not always feasible. The pay is mediocre compared to what they advertise they make in profit. Very skewed pay system. If you start making too much they will literally find a way to make your bonus harder to reach. Also, HR will tell everything you intend to be private to anyone they feel like, no integrity. There is definitely a clique mentality and they tend to hire friends/ family. The store managers have absolute power and tend to abuse it regardless of policy. This company is like the Wild West -every man for themselves.

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5.0
5 Jan 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good benefits, pay and voice is always heard.

Cons

Work life balance could be a little better.

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Sunbelt Rentals Response
5mo
Thank you for this 5-star review! We appreciate your feedback and hope you continue to grow with us. Thank you for all you do!
2.0
16 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The local teams doing the work in the branches are the only team members that make it a positive experience.

Cons

Senior field leadership and it's byzantine hierarchy is filled with matrixed leadership jobs for people who have been good soldiers with long tenure. They don't know anything about the actual work at the branch level or in the markets. Often they spend thousands at meetings in hotels and at bars in the evening which is extremely unprofessional. These same individuals press their political advantage to make sure the people they don't like get dismissed or marginalized and often move people into leadership to virtue signal DEI values. C-suite has been lost since 2021. Budget forecasting, fleet planning, and execution has been weak and lacks strong leadership position. Geographic territories don't make any sense and regions are oddly divided up based on tenure loyalties and not the needs of the business. Senior leadership can be counted on to work Tuesday - Thursday but have no problem asking front line employees to diminish their salary with 60 hour weeks, and pointless Saturday shifts.

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