Poor Management & No Future - Sales Representative Cintas Employee Review

1.0
10 Aug 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Good Initial Training Program. They have a 12 week sink or swim training that has you outbound prospecting by Day 2 at the job. They have Quality products well-positioned in the industry. Their marketing team is the best in industry to generate leads and raise awareness. They provide you with an internet ready tablet that can perform all the tasks required to close a sale.

Cons

Good Territories are the ones with leads ( Downtown for FS, SE Quadrant for Uniforms). Every other territory has a new rep turnover every 6-9 months. Preference is given to “Management Trainees” FIRST, and “Bros” that knew sales manager outside of the company SECOND. Company doesn’t support you at all. After your 12 weeks of training, you will never receive extra training or management support again. They expect most people will leave after 6 months and just want to use you to prospect for the MT or Bros to get the leads you created after you quit. If you ask management for help or assistance it will be seen as weakness and they will write you up or fire you. You are expected to pay 25% income tax on all the gas you use for work. Cintas is only company in industry who requires this. If you don’t start as a Management Trainee, you WILL NEVER EVER be promoted. You’ll be in this same sales role until you quit and passed over for every opportunity. You will be competing against 2 other reps in your territory for the same business. (FS, FAS & Uniform). Creates terrible culture where you lie, cheat and steal to ensure you don’t help anyone else but yourself.

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5.0
2 Jul 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Work life balance, pay structure

Cons

None to add, if you have great management it’s great

2.0
23 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The Commission is great. You can make good money in this place.

Cons

While the pay is good, the culture here is not. It is incredibly restrictive. It is very much a “Do what I want you to do, how I want you to do it, and when I want you to do it” management style. They constantly remind you of how much money you can make there which gets annoying after a while. The service team and the sales team are constantly at odds. Not just Cintas, but the industry in general is very sleazy, much like a car dealership. They screw over their smaller customers with enormous year over year price increases. I know a particular salesperson who is having a lot of success their who has no problem lying to his customers, and never answering their calls when the problems come. As long as he keeps the deals coming Cintas does not care. Corporate greed is on full display at Cintas. The Management Development program for college graduates seems like a great opportunity. If you are a young college graduate and you get the opportunity, I would recommend that.

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