Originally Posted by
Tuneman1984
then you could cut yourself down to an hourly rate for just a couple of hours overtime.
Note that the hourly rate would be the full daily rate of the non-weekend day divided by 3. So two hours is 2/3 of the weekday's daily rate. Not a lot of savings.
Most locations (but not all) have a 59-minute grace period (though a press release was issued by DTAG recently that corporate locations will no longer offer a grace period at all!), so you can take that into consideration.
Also, since agents usually work on a commission system, you can attempt to bribe them: say you'll buy a tank of prepaid gas if they can bump your pickup time back a bit or, if they'll be working the day of your return, can backdate your return time. The savings actually could pay for a good portion (or all!) of the tank of gas...but that may backfire if the manager suspects the employee of gaming the system to pay for a value-added option to line their own pockets, so they may not want to do that for you.
That's how I usually get the underage fee waived, though!
