ExERAC

One time I was going on a pick up in the palisades (if you don't know where the palisades are, they're by Malibu and the PCH/Santa Monica) and this black guy on a motorcycle knocks on my window while I'm at an intersection. He asks me where I'm going, and thinking he's lost, I tell him that I'm headed for the Palisades. He asks me what I'm doing there and I tell him I'm going to pick someone up.

Him- A friend? Me - No, a client. Him - Do you want to pull over and give me a blow-job?

Light at intersection turns green. I roll my window up, shake my head no, and continue driving.

He follows my car (I'm in an SUV, so I don't feel in danger, but still weirded out that this is happening) and at the next light he shouts through my window to tell me he really wants me to blow him.

I can't tell if this is a joke or not, but I don't turn to him and keep driving. I make a lot of random left and right turns to lose him, and eventually he loses interest and lets me go.

I don't know what I would have done if I was in my personal car, but thank god it was a rental and I didn't give a shit.

Lots of used condoms.

Wash your hands if you ever get into a rental car. Wash them a lot.

I think Enterprise teaches you to grow a backbone for sure. They teach you how to lie and to think on your feet, but I wouldn't say they give you the skills to be your own boss.

Being your own boss would mean making your own decisions, not short-staffing people because you wanted to make numbers. It also means paying your employees fair wages and not expecting to run them into the ground with 65-70 hours of work each week.

I applaud them for being such a huge business, but have you ever gone into work and asked how some people got the job? I asked myself that every day when I saw who some of my co-workers were. Enterprise is good at recruiting, and pick people up right before they graduate. They tell you that you'll be part of a management training program, but don't tell you that you'll be working crazy hours or that you're essentially working retail with a fancy title.

Their turnaround, on average, is 4 months. Anyone who stays longer than a year is a saint.

We've had questionable people come in, but I can't pinpoint the weirdest customer. A lot of the people who came in were fresh from car accidents, and one guy was bleeding in the head when he came in. We told him to go to the hospital, but he told us he had to go to work. I remember writing him up, and he pulled a piece of glass from his forehead. Scared the shit out of me, but he was functioning just fine. I never saw him return the car, but that doesn't mean he didn't.

Like I said in a prior post, I wasn't some delinquent who went around trying to fuck shit up.

I don't regret anything I've done, though. Enterprise paid me $11 an hour and told me to expect overtime, all the while working me 65-70 hours a week. They told me that I was learning how to run a business, but with that, they meant washing cars and getting harassed by other co-workers. They also meant pitting all the employees up against one another to make sales numbers while telling you that you were a manager. Apparently everyone in the company started out as a manager or had "manager" in their title somewhere.