Sunbelt Rentals reviews

3.5

64% would recommend to a friend

(1,496 total reviews)
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Brendan Horgan

78% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Sunbelt Rentals has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,496 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sunbelt Rentals employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.6 stars).

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1K reviews
3.0
Dec 5, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits. Company truck w/ gas card. Company is truly an industry leader and is growing very, very fast. Operations is the backbone of everything and with the right people placed in the right areas, we can deliver on what we promise. District for the most part works hard and together to make it happen for our customers. Good district manager that mentors the new managers down the right paths.

Cons

Sales reps are expected to help cover in the store with operations when short handed and make deliveries and pickups - both of which are requested often and extremely time consuming. I don’t mind doing this from time to time to contribute to the team, but having expected to do it the entire time we are short handed, the time spent compounds quickly. All the while we need to execute and work around these asks around our daily and weekly sales duties. This last year, sales reps were asked to demand more rate, which we exceeded and brought the company record profits. Awesome! What do we get in our September review? A new commission plan structure! Oh this will be good. Because we are so busy and the cost of trucking is so high, they raised the bar for sales reps’ commission rate achievement so they make less if they don’t ask for more rate a SECOND time! It feels like they needed to trim some fat and where better to do that than sales reps’ commissions. Who else in the company gets a pay cut for doing what they’re asked to do? Along with territory cuts and accounts being taken for strategic reps, these sort of plays make sales reps feel neither valued or safe in their roles.

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Sunbelt Rentals Response
3y
We appreciate your feedback and sorry to hear about your concerns. Please contact HR at 866-573-6246 if you would like to go into further detail about your concerns regarding the sales structure. Thank you for all you do!
2.0
Jun 11, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Money, health benefits, sleep at home every night

Cons

long hours, management at store level and senior level make rules up as they go, salesman and management follow you around and take pictures and use them against you. constant threats of write ups for everything. they preach safety, till deliveries are not being made at overlapped irrationally planned times by salesmen and dispatch then they want you to break protocol to get the job done, but beware if something happens they will deny deny deny and write you up.

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Sunbelt Rentals Response
5y
We regret to hear that you had such a negative experience while part of our team. We do work hard to make it happen for our customers, but it should never be the intent to do so by breaking our own rules. We hope you’ll consider contacting our HR Helpline at 866-573-6246 or via e-mail to humanresources@sunbeltrentals.com to provide additional information so that we can investigate these concerns on your behalf.
1.0
Mar 30, 2019

rough place to work

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You get a paycheck and benefits. Coworkers can be fun. Excellent choice if you are single and can give your entire life to the company and if you are in an area where the drivers and mechanics are union.

Cons

They give no training.I was never given a chance to complete my on boarding. I am expected to be on call 24/7, which they neglected to tell me until they handed me a cell phone on my first day. Store managers constantly make there own rules and then cook books so corporate thinks they are doing amazing, and the district higher ups know about all this. I am surprised they still have a customer base with the just say yes mentality, they promise so much to the customers face and then the individual stores can not deliver that. No one thinks with realistic expectations since if your not a sales person or higher up manager you are treated like a piece of rental equipment, not a human.

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