Cintas – “Real Info on working in SE region”

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.