No incentive for high performers - Anonymous employee Extra Space Storage Employee Review

2.0
Feb 13, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The company has good hours and you do not have to work any nights or Sundays at most locations. The job is also not very stressful

Cons

You can have the absolute best sales skills in the world and you will get almost nothing for it. All the incentives are based on rentals and a tiny portion of it is revenue but the numbers are set by corporate and set high so that you never get too much of an already small amount. There is no incentive to the individual to exceed goals or to sell high levels of insurance. Health care is also very expensive, wages are okay at best, and there is zero overtime allowed.

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Cons

Very large rate increases really upset customers and that's just too bad. We are given word to tell them but it just isn't true. Putting more money in stock holder's pockets is the bottom line and it doesn't matter how much anger we have to deal with. You are absolutely expected to sell insurance to every renter. However, you must be careful because you aren't "insurance salesmen". You get a ding when you don't sell it. We are encouraged to use evasive language and rush through it so the renter thinks it's required without quite saying so. You would think this large of a corporation would have handymen available but it is so, so difficult to get the smallest repair done due to getting bids from vendors, turning them in, reminding the person you turned them in to what needs done maybe getting approval, then scheduling. By that time lights (or whatever) have been out for a month or 2. Benefits are very expensive and cover so little.

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