Pros

Great company if you like to be challenged, tested and pushed to achieve what you thought was impossible. Tremendious culture, principal ojective and generally great people to work with. Very strong training programs.

Cons

Not many cons. At times senoir leadership makes people moves without regard to the track record of all possible candidates. Higher level protions are made out of convience versus promting the best candidate. On the flip side, there are enough opportunites based on 39 consequtive years of growth to allow everyone the opportunity to take on more responsibility.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't ever forget to recognize your top performers and the fact the everything starts and ends at the field location level.

Pros

The people I work with at cintas are very good people. The benefits are very good as far as the health insurance and 401k.

Cons

Cintas is the cheapest company ever. You would think that a company this big would reward their best and brightest with raises and incentives, but no.

Advice to Senior Management

Maybe management should think about actually rewarding the best employees with the only thing employees care about, Money!!!!!!!!! But managers at cintas are to worried about their jobs to notice their best employees leaving.

Pros

Been with the company 2+ years now, I will say the hours are minimal but the pay is as well. Very little micro-managing if you are performing, car package is decent too

Cons

Difficult to get a raise, have to wait till year ends and as was the case this year there was a pay freeze which took $4k out of my pocket, also cancelled President's Club so where is the incentive to perform.

Advice to Senior Management

Spend money on your top performers and they won't constantly leave.

Pros

This is a good company start working for right out of college. You earn a certain amount of respect for those people you see driving the CIntas truck.

Cons

If you work at one of the servicing plants I think that its not a good place to work due to lack of job opportunities

Advice to Senior Management

If the management team would like to retain their employees, they should encourage their plant sites to increase their wages of their employees and provide additional job opportunities for top performers.

Pros

many locations, which gives you an opportunity to transfer or get a promotion, good prestigious company, as a whole, to work for

Cons

stressfull, no home life as a STC, glorified route skipper, on route all the time, don't manage anything, terrible position

Advice to Senior Management

Show interest in your "partners"........ if a 1 question survey was given to the service department, and the question said; if you had a chance to work for a different company making the same money, would you leave? i'm sure a majority of everyone would leave. now ask yourself, why is that? the people that are working for you are your biggest asset. imagine half of the service department disgruntle, how would that translate to dealing with customers.........If SSRs and STCs are the face of the company, THEN ACT LIKE IT!!

Pros

Great Base, they pay for all fuel, can use their insurance instead of your own, benefits are good and they begin quickly which is nice, good corporate training. Good place to start a career in sales.

Cons

Work life balance has gone away, monitoring of when you start and end your day and where you are throughout the day is extremely high. Very structured which is more condusive to introductory sales person, which is often not what they are looking for. Very senior management seems to have a good idea how to train and motivate sales teams, that unfortunately is not translated to local sales managers. Nor is that ability looked for in the sales managers chosen, they seem to be promoted on numbers only, neglecting the leadership skills needed for such a micro managed position.
The communication between management on plans for employees and company seem to lack a great deal, leading to a large amount of frustration that seems to trickle down. How conversations and timing goes for things such as pay changes is very poor, again frustration.

Advice to Senior Management

Hard work is important, but managers need to be coached and should have to go through a training program for that transistion to occur so they know how to lead.
Work life balance is equally as important as hard work and forced micro-management can lead to less effective people, they need to try to find a balance.

Pros

Cintas is a great company, a Fortune 500 Company and has many chances to move upward. They were one of the only companies in the US to have continuous growth for 29 years.

Cons

Some of the managers do not know what they are doing. They push work to others to mask this and do a decent job of masking it. Some people also are promoted without merit.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to develop people within the company, however, realize that there is life beyond work. Working 55+ hours should be paid accordingly.

Pros

You get paid very well, and if you figure out how to do it, you don't really have to work overly hard.

Cons

They are never happy with what you do, regardless of how well you do it. All they ever want is "more more more" and it's ridiculous.

Advice to Senior Management

Find competent managers. Just because someone hits "presidents club" doesn't mean they would make a good manager. A lot of them get lucky based on having a good territory. Also, beware of getting brainwashed and drinking the "cintas kool-aid"

Pros

ability to move up with the company and take initiative on how things can be changed. Also ability to progress with company

Cons

Pay is low for the position, company is stagnant and culture has become number driven to the point of managers working on spreadsheet and not managing

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to employees and go back to taking care of the customer

Pros

Competitive pay, very good benefits, some very good people to work with.

Cons

I feel I am lead to be dishonest with customers by the management. Seems to be some very underhanded things going on recently with the management towards the partners at Cintas.

Advice to Senior Management

It is not enough to say "be honest with charges on your customers invoices" when the partners are subtly threatened to be replaced when our "goals" of replacement of product costs are not meet. If a customer does not destroy product we should not be responsible to find a way to charge them. I am looking for a career change for the this reason alone. I cannot take pride in my job and would not want my family to know what I do to keep my job and pay my bills. I will be leaving this job as soon as I find another. I am not grouping all Cintas locations into my opinion. I realize management differs from other locations. I can only speak of my experience.