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"But since I flew into O’Hare on a commercial flight, like a common schmuck, Hertz wouldn’t give me the car, even though they clearly had it to give. Basically,
by bb101 7y ago
"But since I flew into O’Hare on a commercial flight, like a common schmuck, Hertz wouldn’t give me the car, even though they clearly had it to give. Basically, I wasn’t rich enough to rent the car Hertz had allowed me to reserve, so they weren’t going to let me have it. Which, I don’t know. Seems like a real dick move on Hertz’s part, and doesn’t incline me to use them ever again for anything."
The author's experience with Hertz mirrors my own experiences with them. Much like using UPS, they are an absolute last choice for us. We have a saying in our house: "It's called Hertz because it hurts."
- mycall 7y agoTo finish your saying: Would you like a hertz donut? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7P7BFBWQ1E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7P7BFBWQ1E
- jeron 7y agoEvery time I think of Hertz I think of how Accenture royally fucked them in their website redesign: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/23/hertz_accenture_lawsuit/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/23/hertz_accenture_law...
- PhantomGremlin 7y agoThe salty language of these last few comments reminds me of the old FuckedCompany.com website. A guy named "Pud" ran it, and it was great. But I guess he got bored with it. He'd write about Accenture back in the days. And when he did he'd always say: Accenture (pronounced ass-enter). Sigh. Apologies in advance if this is drifting too much into Reddit territory. As for that website redesign, I bet that USA Accenture shipped the actual work off to some third world country, probably India. It seems like standard modus operandi to get stuff back from India that only attempts to meet the bare minimum. E.g. as the article notes, just hardwire Hertz specific stuff, so can't easily deal with sister companies like Dollar and Thrifty. It's a difficult problem to solve with outsourcing. You'll rarely get any sense of ownership from them. And why would you expect any?
- erik_seaberg 7y agoPud used to post here. They started selling ads on fucked company and realized there was money in adtech. Now he's over at distrokid.