Stay Away - Management Trainee Program Cintas Employee Review

2.0
16 Nov 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-You quickly learn about how the company functions a whole -Large company with heavy growth and advancement. -Decent pay and great benefits

Cons

-Definition of drink the koolaid -Super cheesy office atmosphere -They tell you that you won't work more than 50 hours but once you're in they'll work you to 60-70 hours regularly with no overtime compensation. 80% of the work you do is mindless and involves physical labor. They have no concerns for when you start getting muscle pulls. -If you don't kiss the butt of the GM they will start micromanaging you and get in your head to the point where you're constantly paranoid that you are doing something wrong. -HR comes across as someone to help, but ends up taking everything you say and becoming a tattle-tail (to a point where it becomes childish). -Tiny mistakes equal discipline sessions where they make you feel like you're screwing everything up when the reality is that it's not a big deal (even after a 12 hour day of hard work). -THE LARGEST CON: You can see it in the long term employee's eyes that they've sold their souls. They all walk around smiling saying that they love their jobs. But when you get one-on-one with them all they do is talk about how they wish they could've had a better life. -Tell all their employees "this is the best job ever" when in reality they could make a lot more with the effort they put in somewhere else

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2.0
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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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