Airport Location Manager experience - Airport Location Manager Hertz Employee Review

3.0
1 Nov 2015
Recommend
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Pros

COMPANY CAR! It is as advertised, you have an all expense paid company car(insurance, almost any model within last 12 months except premium/luxury cars). All location managers get free gas at any Hertz airport location nationwide. Major plus!!! And u get the freedom to switch cars at your leisure. No limit to miles,gas, or amount of times u can switch ur car! I was pulling up in something brand new every other day! Also, there is a chance to advance your career due to opportunity across the company all over the nation between Hertz/Dollar Thrifty/etc. Also great chance to network & interact w/ renter's from diverse backgrounds & the higher ups of major corporations if you're at an airport location.

Cons

The pay is a little subpar for the amount of work you do, but it's an entry level mgmt position. Simply putting it, this job needs to pay between $50-60k. U can expect to make right @ $38k/yr. The schedule is a beast. Please be ready, it is 24/7/365 operation. Don't get comfortable with a particular schedule, it changes monthly. The "normal hours" shifts are reserved for mgrs primarily by seniority. As a rookie LM, expect to work 3pm until 1 or 2am Thur-Monday. Also, you have to come in on your day off, unpaid, for any and all training/team meetings. Which causes you to lose between 1-3 off days per month on average for the year. Overall, u get good experience and a pretty decent resume builder. But expect to wear many different hats, manage a staff with extremely high turnover & put out a gazillion fires. Weird part is, for the biggest perk being able to drive any new car with free unlimited gas......The turnover for the Location mgr position is astronomical. They advertise this position every 90 days. Lol

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5.0
13 Apr 2026
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Pros

Great place to work in tandem with other professionals in your trade, always had a feeling of "family" working alongside my peers. We come together when times are tough, this is very rewarding,

Cons

The current economic and geopolitical spectrum have been proving a challenge to this industry as a whole, thankfully we are a resilient outfit with the best people at the helm.

1.0
4 Jun 2026
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Pros

Some good, genuine people and good PTO

Cons

Working conditions: you are expected to know everything about the car rental industry and expected to be an expert on the programs that are used. If you make a mistake, you are criticized and everyone loses trust in you immediately, even if you did good work before. If there is a difference in two numbers that is a very small difference, it's treated as if you murdered their family. You are asked to do big tasks, then the finished project is never looked at after a week. You are also asked to do something that hasn't been done before and you run into the problem where you are either told that you are taking too long or that the numbers are wrong, so either way you are going to get criticized for something. There is clear favoritism within the company, another employee is allowed to make a much larger mistake and it is brushed aside and a very, very small mistake that is fixable in 2 seconds is considered a cardinal sin. Promotions are also seemed to be a popularity contest and how many people know you or how many clubs you're in rather than how good you are at your job. The people: it feels that a lot of the people that work at the company never left high school, or are on power trips. There is constant gossiping and people will talk behind each others backs and say bad things about them all the time. You are not allowed to make a comment or opinion on something without people giving you trouble for it. I have seen managers call people "retards" and other names. The amount of unprofessional language that I have heard in the workplace was unbelievable, where any other company would fire the employees that said the words immediately, but HR does nothing. The company is performing very poorly, and you can tell based on the behavior of the people. It feels that they have no souls and the only way to get dopamine is by being rude or disrespectful.

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