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College Works Painting

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Sad Business - Anonymous employee College Works Painting Employee Review

1.0
Jun 27, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Couldn't even tell you any cons to this job, everything about it is a scam.

Cons

Biggest scam I have ever seen, everything that was promised to us by the managers was a complete and utter lie. After working 90 total hours in 2 weeks where in one week we worked over 50 hours and they get away with not giving us overtime pay, I was giving a check in which I was very disappointed with. We were told if we would finish our jobs and beat the budgeted time we would receive much more money. Even after our student manager had told us that we had beaten budget on almost every house, the paycheck had suggested that we had only finished the houses on time on every house we had did. If the payment had worked for how they told us we would have been payed for more than the 90 physical hours that we worked because we had beaten these houses by several houses like we were told. But instead of being paid for more we were just paid for the physical hours that we had worked. So after the hefty efficiency bonus of a whopping 5 dollars my hourly wage came out to be a couple cents over minimum wage. If I would have known that I would work for more than 10 hours a day just to receive minimum wage I would have laughed at the thought of this job. There were so many promises I was given that I have either not gotten or was just a huge load of bs. It is such a shame that they scam us like this especially for college kids who could really use a job in which they could make more than minimum wage. Working for more than 50 hours in one week of painting houses really puts a toll on you physically and mentally, and to only be paid minimum wage for this kind of work is such a disgrace. The only reason i am still employed for this business is because my best friend is a regional manager and I have seen how much time and effort he has put into this job and to see him get screwed over just as bad. I don't want him to be screwed over even more by not having enough workers, and I can speak on behalf of the rest of the kids that work with me that they feel the same way. I can't believe half of the stuff they do they can legally get away with. I hope other people are well aware of this before they decide to get involved in this pyramid schemes scam.

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College Works Painting Response
1y
Our goal is to build leaders through real accountability and performance-based rewards, and we always appreciate feedback that helps us improve.

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Pros

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These people are awful. Worked here 10 years ago and I still think about how bad it was. First off they manipulated me into taking the job and then when I got there I was feeling pretty paranoid and sketched out by their behavior. By the end of the first training they were openly picking on me because I wasn’t participating. From that point on I had lost any trust in the staff as they were making everything about me. Some kind of bullying campaign was being done against me. They were putting stuff in my food and water to mess with me. The second training the Vp was talking about how much he hated me using indirect terms. Such as “I hate PowerPoint” but he was referring to me. In hindsight I should have just left and quit but I guess I didn’t want to just let them win. In the end they quit on me and basically went against their company values such as relationships are everything (didn’t talk to me), results matter (less time focused on me would have gotten results) , and never give up ( I never quit but they did).

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College Works Painting Response
1mo
We have a zero tolerance for bullying. Relationships, integrity, and respect have been at the core of College Works for over 30 years and have only grown stronger. What is described here does not reflect who we were ten years ago or who we are today. We are committed to excellence and anyone with feedback can reach us at customercare@collegeworks.com.
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