Started Out Great
Pros
I’ve had the ability to work from home 50% of the time since 2019. The work hour flexibility is second to none. One day you could log in at 6:00 a.m. and at 9:30 on another. As long as you work a minimum of 40 hours, management doesn’t make a fuss over when your day starts. I also enjoy not working weekends. My past two positions with former employers required us to work a minimum of one weekend monthly, and I hated EVERY minute of it.
Cons
You talk to any Enterprise employee and chances are they’ll tell you they’re underpaid. Let’s face it, the company is stingy and could definitely pay its people more. My role comes with a huge work load and incredibly high stress levels! A VAC is the point person for several departments throughout the company and can easily be pulled in 10 directions by 10 different people in a matter of two minutes. And the pay does NOT compensate for all that this role entails. The max annual base salary is just under $45K, which is an absolute joke given all the headaches and nonsense that come with the job. My salary with a past employer was a little less than $100K a year, and the stress load was a cake walk compared to what I deal with now. My career at Enterprise started off with very high hopes. COVID obviously impacted the business (as it has other companies globally), which is no fault of Enterprise. But things could’ve been handled better. While it’s understandable executive management made financial decisions to help the company sustain and stay afloat, the additional restrictions (no pay raises for over a year, increased workloads with zero overtime, and other ridiculous decisions that didn’t allow us to effectively do our jobs) put morale in the dumps. Employee satisfaction suffered and people are burned out, miserable, AND not making enough money.