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Blackstone Consulting Jeremy Reboulet Lies about job description, frauding customers, inappropriate conduct. minnetonka, Minnesota
Blackstone consulting isn't a consulting firm at all. It is a door to door & wal-mart kiosk style scam. They are a Direct TV & Century Link reseller and that's it. They don't consult anybody, all they do is sell with no honesty or integrity directly to end-users. Here's a heads up for all of you, and why not to work for Jeremy Reboulet.
1. Hiring: They lie and say it's a consulting firm, it isn't. They say they have B2B jobs, there isn't. He never reveals what exactly we do until after people work here. Jeremy and his minions don't explain the compensation, and when he finally does... people quit.
2. Job Description: Bugging customers at Best Buy or Wal-Mart trying to scam them into buying Direct TV products by lying or doing whatever it takes to get a sale, i've even seen sales reps put accounts in peoples names that aren't even present at the time. This being becasue the person present at the time couldn't pass the credit check. The other job description is going door to door pedaling this stuff.
3. Supervision & Training: There isn't any!!! You are trained in meetings every day to lie to potential customers. Any of his so called managers are on commission too, thus nobody at Blackstone cares about integrity and honesty. I know that over half of the most recent training class quit once they found out about this. Jeremy says it's because they're scared to work, i say they refuse to lie!!!
4. How to get promoted: One's background, skills, leadership qualities, etc are not considered. It's structured like a pyramid. You sell lots, you get called a new title, then you find 4 people and make them sell lots, then you get those 4 people to each find 4 more people that sell lots, etc, etc... Jeremy of course is at the top of the pyramid.
5. Typical Staffers: 90%+ of his staff is under 35. Most have no business expirience, the ones that did quit. So it's kind of a bunch of misfits. I know that on Monday 1/09/2012 multiple account managers failed their drug tests and Jeremy had to have a talk with them. Though his only client (Century Link) requires clean employees, Jeremy told these people to take a few days off, clean up, sober up and take the drug test again. We'll talk about Jeremy's habits later. You'll see why they weren't fired.
6. Jeremy Reboulet: I've kept my opinions aside and only given FACTS until this point. Now i will do my best to tell you events as I know them and not be bias. About half the time Jeremy shows up he seems to be sniffly, bug-eyed, and talk very loudly about how awesome he is (much like Charlie Sheen). Then in a day or two it goes away, then he goes out to a company event, his birthday, etc, and it comes back. He has company drinking events weekly where there's some very strong beliefs of cocaine use, and inappropriate sexual conduct. I know many women that worked there said Jeremy creeped them out, and I totally see why. Many of them quit, so all his management is male. I'm sure he'll respond to this as an opinion, but he won't answer why the entire management team there are males that party and are under 35.
7. Pointless Policies to help his lie: Everybody has to wear suits to the office every morning, then change into Direct TV shirts when we get to our stores, then go back to the office every night. I always wonder why all the extra trips. There's Fax machines for the daily sales (scams) and we're all coming back the next day anyway. He'll say its for security, but in reality we have them on our person on the trip there anyway. What the suit thing does is makes Blackstone look like a real, professional, consulting firm to the other tennants at his location, for tricking new employees, to impress chicks he wants to pick up, etc.
8. Things he's said: Jeremy tells people that he was a football star and was recruited to schools like Ohio State on a full ride. He's about 5'8" and 160lbs, so that's bullshit. He said he was doing investments with Denny Hecker and Tom Petters, i certainly hope someone investigates this. I could totally see Jeremy doing crooked investments. Why would anyone brag about being associated with guys in prison for fraud if it wasn't true. He says he hates "resellers", but that's exactly what him, and his company are. The list goes on and on, we laugh at him and call his lies "jeremyisms".
I'm sure Jeremy will respond to this with a wordy response, all big words, his thesaurs in hand. He'll accuse me of just being disgruntal and expressing my personal opinions. I'm not angry, i'm not lying, i just don't want anybody else to be tricked like we did. I know i was lied to,and so were many others. Also read the postings about Blackstone & Jeremy from the other poster on here and other sites. They are all saying similar things. Jeremy always responds with the same response too, but never answers the tough questions bluntly. He side steps them like a coward.
Ok, so this is my opinion. Blackstone is a scam for all reasons listed above. Jeremy is an egomaniac that will do anything to look cool. He'll never pass up a chance to tell anybody how cool he thinks he is, how much money he has, etc. He's your typical doushe you'd like to punch, times 10. I hope somebody sues him, because i'm sure there's pleanty of people with reasons. He is a creep, he's rude, he's talks over people, and worst of all he compulsively lies. I hope him and his pyramid scheme take a hike, someone runs him out of town, or puts him in jail where he belongs. He assumes that he is better than everyone, he once accused me of being jealous of him because of his success. What he doesn't know is I am in a higher tax bracket than him, i actually have a college degree, if you google me there's not endless pages calling me a d**k, and i'm confident enough not to lie and scam my way through life.
2 Updates & Rebuttals
Night Watchman
Creve Coeur,Missouri,
United States of America
Sketchy Business Practices Carry Over To Saint Louis Office
#3UPDATE EX-employee responds
Fri, November 09, 2012
This description of Jeremy sounds just like Joe Nelson of the Saint Louis office. He loves to brag about everything from allegedly being an All American Lacrosse player in college, to how much money he spends. He regularly lies to employees and clients alike, has unprofessional habits, doesn't follow the pay structure, and acts inappropriately with female employees.
1.) Lying- he lies during the interview process. There's enough about that in all the other posts. He also tells employees and customers alike that one of the benefits of AT&T U-Verse is that they don't do contracts. Funny, his second in command just signed up for Charter because she "didn't want to get locked into a one year contract" with U-Verse. Neither of them ever told us about the contract (they told us there wasn't one), so we unintentionally lied to customers. The duped leading the duped.
2.) Unprofessional habits- There are so many, I'll just list them. Talking about politics, religion, and money in the office (more in 2.1); regularly threatening jobs, then asking why his employees are looking elsewhere for employment/ not dedicated to blackstone; swearing in the office, but chastising others who swear (even fining them and keeping the money); talking negatively about employees behind their backs; making people chauffeur an under-qualified 18 year old employee with no car around; the list goes on and on.
2.1) He regularly talks about God and being a Christian, which is bizarre considering that he scams people for his own financial gain. Whatever. He talks constantly about politics in the office, and even has made racist remarks about "lazy Saint Louis blacks" while at social events. He makes employees turn in reports of how much money they spend, then makes jokes about how little money they have. He tells them how to manage money so they can be rich like him, although he has said before he still has debt. He tells them they don't make enough to have bad habits like drinking. He also expects them to show up to the weekly company social at a bar. Other times, he will text saying asking you to go out or "Come drink and play video games."
3.) Pay structure lies- In the new hire paper, it clearly states that there is a $250 draw to protect new employees from not making any money on the 100% commission pay structure. This is a lie; he has never paid a draw of more than $100. The new hire papers also say that, because paychecks are delayed two weeks, you are still entitled to receive payment after you are finished working. This is a lie too. Several of us quit two weeks ago and are yet to receive a paycheck (any of us). He has said things like "all three of your sales from that week got canceled." Not to mention that the average rep makes way less than he claims during interviews.
4.) Inappropriate conduct with female employees- This might be the most disgusting. He has a romantic (sexual) relationship with one of his direct employees. Beyond that, he regularly flirts and makes unwelcome physical contact with most female employees while at socials. This includes invading personal space (for example backing them into a corner while talking to them), touching on the arm, and even butt grabbing. I have limited photographic evidence of his behavior due to his employees' photo uploads on Facebook. I'm choosing not to upload it out of pity for the female employee, who is mostly innocent.
I don't think that this is entirely Joe's fault; you manage how you were managed unless you know better, and he simply sold his sol in order to climb to the top of Jeremy's pyramid scheme. The worst thing about Blackstone is that this is exactly the type of behavior the corporate structure (if you can call it that) promotes.
If anyone is going to put up a fake threat saying I'll get sued for defamation, good luck with that. I hope you learn from having your last bluff called, and get a real lawyer; you're probably going to need one soon anyways.
Blackstone Consulting Inc
Minnetonka,Minnesota,
United States of America
Update: Statement from my attorney
#3REBUTTAL Owner of company
Fri, February 10, 2012
Statement from my attorney (I chose to not use the person's name):
On January 27, 2012, Blackstone Consulting, Inc. and Jeremy Reboulet, its owner
and President, commenced civil litigation against the defendant, a former employee of Blackstone, in the Hennepin County (Minnesota) District Court. The Complaint alleges that the defendant defamed Blackstone and Reboulet by publishing false statements to an internet website and elsewhere which harmed Blackstones and Reboulets professional, business and personal reputations. The Complaint seeks compensatory damages, together with a declaratory judgment declaring that the defendants published statements concerning Blackstone and Reboulet constitute defamation per se under applicable laws.
The Complaint also seeks a temporary and permanent injunction commanding the defendant to remove the previously-published defamatory statements, to publish a retraction of such statements, and to take all appropriate actions to cause the delisting of the defamatory content and removal of the content from the internet. The
lawsuit was commenced when the defendant failed to comply with Blackstones and
Reboulets demand that the defendant withdraw and retract the defamatory statements.