Thread regarding Hertz layoffs

To be blunt and non b–chy or personal.

The way the ILT have left their teams without any support, updates, team communications and to allow us all to fester and worry is inexcusable. This has to be the worst example of internal communications ever. I cannot believe they are so silent about any strategy or moving forward plans, all we hear about are email updates of leaders jumping ship. It really is disgraceful and unforgivable and the ILT should be ashamed of themselves.

One would have hope the senior leaders would have gone into ‘top gear’ but sadly all we hear is... nothing.

Tremendously disappointing.

Announcement what are you expecting information about the Business?

Communications on what’s happening with People?

Perhaps a plan of how we get back from this crisis after all she’s a turnaround expert so it’s reasonable to expect a transformation plan which will inspire us and recover the business.

I don’t want to be the bearer of bad news and I know many of you have been at home for some months so are a little disconnected however Angela has nothing, no ideas no plans no expertise, in fact she’s ignorant rude and lost in her self importance to even acknowledge her business understanding is still zero.

Look at the current crisis global as a leader she should have an opinion she should be saying something but trust her silence is potent.

And she wants to communicate one thing how wonderful she is she wants to PR herself externally about how wonderful she is, It’s a nonsense and the company with her at the helm is doomed, stop expecting anything she and her ILT have no plan no ideas and spend most of the time attacking each other due to the toxic culture that’s been created.

Look for other options and run run run.

Is she going to make an announcement this week?

She’s Back

A worse version than before..Acid Mouth.

If there was no money left how can Hertz afford to continue to pay the salaries of the leadership (director level above) team? They don’t come cheap. One of them could probably pay for 5 other employees. I do believe some of them are working hard, but I’m sure there are others just swanning around (like they have done for many years).

The Culture in International and how the business and people are being managed is disgusting..

The Leadership team should be ashamed..

Seriously it looks as though Brav has hit her personal profile KPI it’s all about ME ME ME.

She is now famous in Hertz for being the biggest looser that they have ever employed, can’t think of anyone worse ever your are a hurricane that has ripped the soul heart and love from this company it’s awful now not because of Covid, I would rather have Covid in fact than stand behind you.

The IHG guys were right we will pray for the day you leave and celebrate into the night.

I have followed many great companies since this crisis began and honestly ours must be the worst, even people in small companies are doing things better, what is actually wrong that you treat the employees in Hertz like second class citizens, have you made a statement on your opinion on the current World Events??

Your silence is enough to confirm what we believe, #ONLY ANGELA matters..

We saw Paul’s statement you’re silence is deafening....

But before your big and great announcement next week.... know, no one cares you have wrecked this team and culture You and only You.

The only announcement we will celebrate is your departure from this great brand that’s if anyone is left after your reign of terror...super sad what’s happening here and no one even cares enough to see.

Only a few - most have been told furlough extended until end July.
There really is no money.

Thanks for the update.

Are they bringing back furloughed staff as well?

I’m part of the furloughed staff but haven’t heard anything, my furlough is meant to end this month.

Uxbridge Update.

The following is mostly true (you decide which):

• Plans are afoot for a select group of minions to return in the next few weeks.
• Social distancing measures have been put in place so that Brav doesn't have to come within 10 metres of an employee below VP level (when she returns from holiday in the 'States, and after 14 days quarantine in her luxury mews house next to Buckingham Palace).
• Calculations are being made to decide how many will be fired once the government money stops.
• Procurement are negotiating with suppliers to see if GSD wristbands can be used to pay invoices.
• Daren Monk and Wayne Kerr are going on an 'id–ts guide to lying on linkedin' course.
• The accountants have been in and calculated that the vending machine in the canteen is the most profitable part of the company.

Message ends.

Exactly, they’re all sitting there on full pay ‘saving the company’, whilst the furloughed lose money just before being made redundant.
Sickening really.

VP communications hasn’t been furloughed.
Isn’t that ironic.

They don’t want to pay us any redundancy. Keeping all the cash for themselves obvs.

You just earned my vote for VP Communications.
Enough of the lies and deception.
Serve us the notice, pay us the severance and then you can continue dreaming about your great future.

All I hear is that everything is OK.
No layoff coming.
The business is back to some growth.
That shows that there are dumb–ses in command.
Take all the previous statements and apply the opposite.
You'll then have a clear picture of the situation.
And BTW, stop f—ing hoping it will be fine.
It won't.

What happened to the weekly updates AB promised? Anyone received any invites?

AB is not in the UK she’s WFH in the US😡, answer questions r u having a giraffe...she’s no idea what’s going on...

Is AB still in the U.K.? What happened to the weekly update calls where she will answer employee questions?

Your expectations are high AB can’t even turn on Zoom.

Strategy not a chance..

Here's the European strategy...

Dump the buyback fleet, raising as much cash a possible, and rightsizing for the likely volume of business for the balance of 2020 and improving the accounts to show a positive position.

Dump employees, as in line with above, then run the operation whilst arrangements are made to transition Corporate business to Franchisees. Some employees will be retained, but the majority of roles will be lost in this final move into the franchise model.

Hertz Europe headquarters becomes a franchisee management operation.

It's all Brav knows.

Ouch

Another read from a piece of paper, scripted call today from the Brav.. Captain Marvel saves the day.

Is anyone in the US is reading this because if so Europe has an 🆘. If you really want this company to survive listen the President is on another dimension behaviour and absolutely ridiculous leadership stop ignoring the noise it’s real.

Many of us have logged hotline complaints why is no one investigating!!!

And we are not on Furlough and don’t hate Hertz we just want someone to look, we want the company to survive..

It’s disgusting if their whole intention was to make us redundant but then took advantage of the government scheme (aka taxpayers) to delay having to pay redundancies. It’s disgusting and lacks integrity. So employees get scr@wed over twice!

‘Wave of redundancies’

It’s coming.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8368551/Firms-pay-20-cent-wages-furloughed-staff-August.html

Trust me senior directors are as much in the dark as everyone else, unless you are a VP you are told nothing .

Europe may have been bailed out but trust me my friends the US are still pulling all the strings
My question, do you really want to work for a company that treats it staff like this?

If the answer is yes, then prepare for the toughest , most political, toxic environment you will ever work in.

Trust in yourselves and make your own future, dust off that cv and get it out there. A person very dear to me once said “ never be loyal to a company because they will never be loyal to you “

Employers will have to start contributing from August.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/chancellor-extends-furlough-scheme-until-october

So expect Hertz to shaft you some time around end June/early July, as there must be a consultation period.

https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-rights/consultation

So we are basically sitting ducks? Until the government scheme ends in October (UK) our jobs should be safe.

So we are basically sitting ducks? Until the government scheme ends in October (UK) our jobs should be safe.

You need to keep up with the thread.

Very early on I pointed out that there are no redundancies because Hertz cannot afford it. The company is protecting what little cash it has by making the most of government employee protection schemes.

You cannot make employees redundant whilst they are enrolled in an employee protection scheme. It’s pretty obvious really - the clue is in the name.

As soon as the government support stops then the redundancies will begin.

It’s going to take a lot more than green shoots to stop the massive redundancies that are about to happen.

Revenue, utilisation and rpd are massively down, and will continue to be this way for the rest of what is typically the time when Hertz makes profit.

Hertz U.K. was operating out of 12 locations instead of c.140.

The plan is to close >50% of locations.

Do you still think there will be no redundancies?

So where’s the redundancies? Nothing so far. With there being shoots of recovery surely they would have announced something in Europe, considering what’s happened in the US.

Official Channels?
The whistleblower hotline, that either goes to a bankrupt company in the USA, or Mr. Blind Eye (Finchy) in Europe.
No thanks, I have actually blown the whistle before and it was IGNORED and I was LIED TO.
There is no recourse for Hertz staff.

What other official channels were you thinking of?

I’m sorry to have to break the news to you but Angela has left the Country for a little well earned vacation.

She may be back sometime in July after she’s done 4 weeks in quarantine but don’t hold your breath..I’m afraid only one lifeboat was available and it’s now gone so i sincerely hope you guys can all swim, this is not the place to complain start using official channels.

Come on Angela, when are you going to fire me?

Stop scrounging off European governments, and do something positive.

You and your leadership team need to start earning your mega-salaries and start turning this company around.

Right now it feels like you don’t have a plan.

Posting ‘business as usual’ and ‘we’re still open’ on LinkedIn is not a strategy.

And finally, are you going to be able to pay me in June, because I hear that there’s no money left. Suppliers are not going to be paid, rents are not being paid, and we can’t afford the fleet.

SAY SOMETHING!!!

I’ve tried calling the number she gave us. No answer and I left a voicemail! If all 700+ of us give her a call and leave a voicemail I’m sure she will have to respond.

You could text her a link to this thread?

I’ve been tempted to post a link to it on LinkedIn and Twitter (Hertz accounts #hertz etc), but I’m not quite angry enough yet.

I mean that’s what our customers do when they lose it with us.

Why is the International President still lying?

Is one of Hertz Values not Integrity?

So how did we end up with a leader who since day one has not once expressed this value or anything close, her lack of knowledge it terrifying and the new team she put in place are all poodles...Yes people to scared to get fired to actually stand up and be counted guys they are all protecting themselves while she has consultants building an org with 60% less people, so her little 10min performance yesterday about how we will all be together soon, how lonely she has been how life will just go back to normal is more lies, Can’t people just do the right thing, just say things are tough we will undoubtedly have to make changes, this situation is not in my control, however me and my team are doing everything we can....nope she F complained about her situation, it’s sunny and she can’t go out even that’s a lie she can go out rules changed seriously even the basics are BS.

She’s treating us like id–ts and we are all just going along with it..

So she said call her! I suggest she gets 700+ calls today to ask her to be honest because since the day she has arrived she’s lied and it has to stop we want the truth even if that’s not good news..Do the right thing and stop protecting yourself if you can’t do that don’t come back from your trip to the US!!!

A few things you should know and something to prepare for.

1. The vast majority of furloughed employees will not be coming back.

2. UK employment law is very specific on how the redundancy process works, including how it is communicated - and it was highly unlikes that Brav would do it.

3. As ling as Hertz participates in the various Employee Protection Schemes it is more or less impossible to make redundancies.

Because of point 1, and bearing in mind that two thirds of the US workforce has gone (source Financial Times), the best thing you can do is prepare to find another job.

Get your CV together, and start the search.

Go on the government website and understand the redundancy process and your rights (it helps you calculate statutory redundancy payouts), your benefits and what you can do with mortgage payments, loans etc.

It’s going to be difficult, but it’s so much better if you prepare.

This was the most disappointing event of the year.

The call was ten minutes long. Two minutes explaining what chapter 11 is all about. Eight minutes of how lonely AB is being at the office for ten weeks by herself. “Please call me anytime as I am bored sh–less”.

I was embarrassed to then turn to my family, after only ten minutes to share the business update to give them the reassurance everything would be okay. My parents phoned me for the update, I was again embarrassed at how little I had to tell them.

The entire senior leadership team should be embarrassed if after ten weeks that’s the only update that could be offered to c800 worried employees.

It’s a very sad day for Hertz International.

Apologies it’s taken me hours to recover from the apparent business update call.

News we can all read we have seen all the press, filings and everything else reading us the press release like we are all stupid was totally ridiculous, and news flash we don’t care if your sad and lonely we want to know what’s happening how is business, what’s the risks, and what actually are your team doing Apart from getting paid, to hats your plans for the future how will you bring the customers back, how do you think the summer will preform.

Nope we got how lonely you are because your the only person in the world that’s impacted..I despair Pet your done please just leave it will be better we are not your people.

Yip call was a disaster not even clear what the point was apart from learning that AB is lonely 😔!!
Was this really it 10 weeks of nothing then this not sure what to tell people it was basically nothing..

you didn’t miss anything.
unprepared, unscripted, no info. was over in 10 mins. had she just read the press release, would’ve been quicker. oh yes, office in uxbridge preparing to reopen, angela has been feeling lonely... forget teleworking.

Well we now have the emails of everyone furloughed. So we can start mass emailing when redundancy consultation starts to make sure nobody gets shafted. Oh yes GDPR infringement. Nice.