tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550834162311687123.post3808556488769429350..comments2023-05-16T03:42:25.953-05:00Comments on Dustin's Brain Dungeon: If you can avoid itDustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07112868266687057225noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550834162311687123.post-16514643112107704042011-03-05T13:49:05.624-06:002011-03-05T13:49:05.624-06:00This place is a rip-off and I wouldn't trust t...This place is a rip-off and I wouldn't trust them at all. I am not saying this as a buyer from them, but as a former employee. First, let me set the record straight. I did not get fired or laid off or let go or anything of the sort. I left on my own free will. Second, I was not a bad employee, stupid, or lazy. In fact, I worked for this company for less than two weeks. Now usually two weeks is not much time to make a sound judgement of a job, but this place showed some serious problems to me immediately. On my <br />8th day at work, after busting my butt, and doing nothing but reading and sending approx. 700-800 emails per day, the owners called me into their office and told me that they were cutting my salary, that they were not going to pay me what they promised me...at first they threatened to cut my pay by as much as $8000 but then decided $5000 would be ok for them. Remember, this was after I had been on the job for less than TWO WEEKS. They claimed that I needed to prove myself. That I wasn't doing as well as the other management employees. Here is the kicker: I wasn't aware I was a management employee...nobody had ever mentioned this to me, nor had they mentioned what was expected of me. Also, and not to knock the people who work there, but the other "managers" in my department were all about 21-25 years old, with little to no work experience and some of them still in school, and not graduate school. A large number of them only had two years degrees, and once specifically was not even finished with his two yeard degree. Now, I have nothing against any of the employees there, and I am sure they are intelligent, capable people. However, I highly doubt that my performance at sending emails was not what it should be. And, even if my performance was not as good, it was my 8th day of work! What employer cuts a brand new employees pay on the 8th day of employment when that employee is working hard completing the tasks asked of them. This news of my pay being cut and my performance came out of nowehere. I can understand if I had been a bad eomployee, laying around in my cubicle, painting my nails and smacking my gum...but I was doing all I was told to do and working as hard as I possibly could, given the fact that when I started they gave me no job title, no job description, and didn't tell me what they expected from me...They simplu sat me down in front of a computer with another person and told me what to click and what to send. I truly feel like they suckered me into this place by telling me I would receive a high salary then decided they could screw me over by cutting my pay on my 8th day of employment b/c they thought I was desperate for work. Additionally, the CFO, the owners wife, proceeded to insult me by stating that I can't just come to work and look pretty and drink coffee while sitting at my desk, and fly inder the radar. She also told me, condescendingly, in reference to replying to emails, "Use your gut, and your instincts when replying, YOUR FAIRLY INTELLIGENT". At this point <br />I was in complete shock. I may not be a genius, and don't pretend to be, but I am teachable, smart, and hard working. This company is B.S. They use fake names when they correspond with customers, and they basically lie about a lot of the things they do. One of these things is telling customers that they are putting a tracer on a lost package, when in fact they don't, they just tell people that and then do nothing. They are under scrutiny by the Attorney General and the BBB, and it seems like every email I read from customers was about a product that was broken or not the product they ordered. I can see this happening a few times, but not 8 out of 10 times. Don't buy from them or work for them. They are scammers, and rip-off artists, who want to keep their millions while screwing other people at any cost to those other people. After all of the strange events that went on while I was employeed with them, I resigned on my 10th day of working there.CBloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01385360756296836782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550834162311687123.post-50948266596812912642008-03-03T06:54:00.000-06:002008-03-03T06:54:00.000-06:00This is exactly why regularly nice and normal peop...This is exactly why regularly nice and normal people snap and drop boxes of broken furniture pieces inside a showroom. <BR/><BR/>I think the furniture place has sent all of their employees over there!The Rock Chickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04653277401124290907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550834162311687123.post-84469537113015253792008-03-02T15:07:00.000-06:002008-03-02T15:07:00.000-06:00Reporting to the BBB is a waste of time anyway.Reporting to the BBB is a waste of time anyway.Crystalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02046306355404937213noreply@blogger.com