Complaint Review: MADELINES DANCE CENTER

This company is a total ripoff! I was the office manager for this hole! The owner is a fake and she does not know how to manage money for beans. DO NOT GIVE THIS COMPANY YOUR PAYMENT INFO. I quit this company because I could not take the lies and fraud! When I worked there debt collectors called their all the time for payments on her vehicle, payments for advertisements, payments for rent, and Central Hudson came there to cut off the electricity while we had students there! She lies and tells the customers that the air conditioner is broke when it is not! She can't afford to pay the bill!

She did not pay her teachers on time because most the of the times the money was not there. She takes the payments from customers and spend it on other things. She took all the payments from customers for their costumes and did not use the money to purchase constumes and at the last minute she maxed out a credit card just to order the costumes at the last minute. There were times when the bank called because her checks were bouncing, She took private payment information from her customers and was going to switch companies for auto-debit and forge the clients names on the required paperwork for the new auto-debit company! She was going to switch companies without even telling her clients, not only that, it was a bogus company that she did not do any background checks at all!

She keeps private checks and credit card numbers in a filing cabinet that was not locked most of the times. She had me teaching classes and taking the money from the clients that payed for my services and was using it to pay her other teachers and not me! DO NOT GIVE HER YOUR ACCOUNT INFO OR SIGN UP FOR AUTO-DEBIT! She allows clicks in the studio and give special attention to the popular kids and ignore and make nasty remarks about kids that are less talented.

She asked me on several occassions to put charges on customers credit cards without their permission, she will tell you that she will pay you a certain amount of money per hour to get you hired and then will never pay you the amount. Every office manager that she gets quit. She owes me $1,500 in back wages and refuse to pay me and yet calls herself a christian.

I have reported her to the local police, newstations and the New York Dept of Labor. She is currently under investigation and we will be having a court date soon. DO NOT SEND YOUR KIDS TO THIS STUDIO! IT IS HIGHLY UNORGANIZED! She tells you that you are paying for a certain amount of classes per season and when you add them up she is not giving you the amount of classes that she claims and her prices per class really do not add up to what she has, it is a total disgusting place and she does not do background checks on her teachers.

There was a teacher there that solicited email addresses from young boys. I brought this to her attention and she ignored it. DO NOT TRUST YOUR KIDS OR PERSONAL BANK INFO AT THIS STUDIO!

Anonymous
New York, New York
U.S.A.