Comments on: Which travel company’s CEO is rated highest by its own employees? The answer is …

By: barbie45

barbie45 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:55:00 +0000

Hester;As I have explained in a previous posting I have just had extensive eye surgery and am following up with treatment; Iam so sorry for any inconvenience I am causing you

By: Hester

Hester — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:46:06 +0000

barbie45, can you please make at least a rudimentary attempt to comment in readable English? There are some great spell-checkers and grammar-checkers out there. Trust me, we would all appreciate it.

By the way, data isn’t “skewered.” It’s “skewed.” Cubes of beef, chicken, and vegetables are “skewered.” That’s called a “kebob.”

Now I’m getting hungry!

By: barbie45

barbie45 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:03:54 +0000

Chris I enjoyed your GlassDoor study;Ilooked it over myself. Joyce you really cannot take any survey to seriously. Data can be skewered very often.Genarally speaking United does seem to recieve the most mumber of complaints. Keep up the good work.

By: Joyce

Joyce — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:38:11 +0000

Surely GlassDoor isn’t a scientific approach to rating companies or CEOs. Chris – you are suggesting readers avoid companies with low ratings that are based on very few ratings/comments, anonymous ratings, I might add. This is a real disservice to all travel companies and bad advice to your readers. I’m surprised you fell for this.

By: chris

chris — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:12:47 +0000

I thought Richard Anderson (not Bastian) was Delta’s CEO?

By: David Farnham

David Farnham — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:57:50 +0000

This has to increase my respect for the United Airlines employees. Without exception, those employees I have encounterd, whether flight/cabin crew, ground staff or reservation agents (and I am an elite United flyer) have been at the least professional and courteous and at the most have gone out of their way to make the travel experience more pleasant (I am thinking of, for example, the United captain who obtained authority to divert a flight somewhat so that all passengers could view the Grand Canyon)

By: Long Time Hertz Employee

Long Time Hertz Employee — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:20:47 +0000

As someone who’s been with Hertz for more than 14 years and started as a Station Manager, I have to add my two cents. I’ve spent my entire career at Hertz, and hard workers are the people who get promoted. You can’t expect to stay at a company for an extended period of time and assume you will be promoted for doing your job. Hertz is a performance-based company. The harder you work, the better you are rewarded.

As far as our CEO, if it weren’t for Mark Frissora, I’m not sure where Hertz would be financially. He’s implemented programs and initiatives that have made us more competitive as an organization. Not to mention, he understands that employee morale is tied to productivity and he’s working to make improvements. Just visit our NJ HQ to see a basketball court in the parking lot, ping pong tables in the cafeteria and lots of company spirit.

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:09:30 +0000

I have to agree with Mike in defense of Hertz. We went through a very rough patch with the recession, as did many other companies. But there aren’t many companies coming out stronger as a result. I feel like all of the Hertz executives, especially our CEO, are more focused on morale and employee-related concerns than they’ve ever been.

Plus, I don’t think 50 responses on Glassdoor.com are representative of 25,000+ Hertz employees.

By: barbie45

barbie45 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:39:07 +0000

Chris; thank you for the mention of Glassdoor;very informative and interesting website; Continental is way up on top 50 employee rated companies; a few years Consumer Reports stated some positive things about it; It has been around since 1936.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:45:59 +0000

Honestly, I think this must be a joke. I work for Hertz in New Jersey and believe that the cited comments must be from ex-employees. It’s true that Hertz has had a lot of layoffs in the last few years, but our CEO has always been forthcoming about those possibilities and why they needed to happen. As for the CEO is a ghost comment, that is utterly ridiculous. Just because you don’t see him strolling the cubicles on a daily basis doesn’t make someone a ghost. Yes, he has webcasts at least quarterly (this year we’ll have 5 I think) but those are just the formal interactions. I’ve heard that he works out in the gym with the other employees and is a regular at any employee events. I saw him getting ready to play ping pong in the cafeteria once. Add to that that he welcomes employee e-mails and answers employee questions whenever they are asked, by e-mail, on the intranet, or in person. Compare this to our past CEOs who truly were ghosts, only to come out for their annual Christmas luncheon speeches.

Considering the comment about companies with low votes being ranked this year, I would like to know how many votes were cast for Hertz in this.

One last comment to address the “no room to advance” statement. That actually may have some truth to it, but the WHY is really not a negative. I look around every day and see lots of people who have worked here for 10 years or more. And these aren’t just people in their 40’s, 50’s and 60’s. Hertz has a lot of employees in their 30’s that have already been here 10 years or more. If people keep leaving a company, sure there will be room to move up. If everybody stays though, which is more often the case at Hertz than not, you may have a tough time.

Sorry for being long winded, but I just hate to see Hertz, where I work happily, get slammed like this.