Great peeple, but poor work life balance in management. - Management Trainee Cintas Employee Review

3.0
30 Aug 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I love the people I work with. There is a lot of potential to move up in the company, especially with the rate at which it's growing, both naturally and with acquisitions. The company invests in its partners (at least in my experience in management).

Cons

This varies greatly based on each location and how well it's staffed, but the hours of being a management trainee can become ridiculous. There is a great program for management trainees, unfortunately that program is used as a guideline and you only train on what you have time for. I'm thankful for what the company has taught me, but I've missed out on a lot of my development doing grunt work to fill a need. I'm currently working around 60 hours a week and it's becoming overwhelming. I'm toughing it out because I see the potential to move up quickly after the MT program, but the program needs to be fixed.

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Pros

Work life balance, pay structure

Cons

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2.0
23 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The Commission is great. You can make good money in this place.

Cons

While the pay is good, the culture here is not. It is incredibly restrictive. It is very much a “Do what I want you to do, how I want you to do it, and when I want you to do it” management style. They constantly remind you of how much money you can make there which gets annoying after a while. The service team and the sales team are constantly at odds. Not just Cintas, but the industry in general is very sleazy, much like a car dealership. They screw over their smaller customers with enormous year over year price increases. I know a particular salesperson who is having a lot of success their who has no problem lying to his customers, and never answering their calls when the problems come. As long as he keeps the deals coming Cintas does not care. Corporate greed is on full display at Cintas. The Management Development program for college graduates seems like a great opportunity. If you are a young college graduate and you get the opportunity, I would recommend that.

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