Complaint Review: Nixon Electric

Where to start with this slander?  



This is a slander perpetrated by an ex business partner's current office assistant.  (I know. It is twisted.)  Aside from being full of bad grammar and incoherent thoughts, the original report is a bunch of lies and deception.  Why is she pretending to be one of my customers?  She has never hired Nixon Electric, she is trying to slander me because she wants to make her current boss happy, and impress him with her internet skills.



Where is your proof?  Post a PDF of the contract that we had.  You can't, because you made it up.



Did I perform a contract for you, or was I a project manager, were you my boss, or are you the owner of a restaurant?  I am not quite sure what it is that you are trying to pretend to be. 



I do know however that you are a liar and you are trying to decieve people who are looking me up online for references and you are providing false testimony.  You should be ashamed that you are doing this, and you should question any employer who would allow you to do this in his name and for his cause.  Question the integrity of someone that would allow you to slander a family man (father of 7) that you have never met and spread lies about him that would impact his ability to put food on his table for his children to eat. 





To my loyal customers, 



  I am sorry that you all had to read this attack of my person and reputation,  and I apologize that I have to stoop so low to defend myself.   The only reason I am doing so is because a good friend of mine in the business told me he had to defend my reputation to a good friend of his when he looked me up on google. 



Here is my california contractors liscense number (License # 796802) and here is the link that will take you to my CSLB report.  I have had my contractors liscense since 2001 and I have 0 dings on my liscense.  My reputation is clean.  Check for yourself.  Please.  https://www2.cslb.ca.gov/OnlineServices/CheckLicenseII/LicenseDetail.aspx?LicNum=796802





The rest of this is just drama.  Read forward if you like soap operas.



Now for my long awaited rebuttal to this nonsense and other countless attacks that I have tried to take the high road on.  I have seriously tried to forget my time at this other shop and put it behind me, but it is like a cockaroach and it doesn't want to die.  Due to this persistence is dirtiness I am forced to display personal details for everyone in cyberspace to read about and judge.  I need to count on the fact that the truth will set me free.



This post is from a receptionist who works at the old shop that I helped one of my long time employees and friend open.   He worked for me back in 2002,2003,2004 and I saw in him a desire to have his own business.  I encouraged him to go for it and I even gave him some of my customers.   I was his mentor and I showed him how to be successfull and I shared with him wisdom that cost me dearly.  His business grew and mine had a major set back and I had to close my doors for a couple of years because of the dissolution of my marriage which rocked my finances and depleted my capital.  He gave me a chance to get back on my feet when I got divorced 6 years ago and allowed me to use his capital to contract using my client base that I built up over the years.  Although my shop was suspended my reputation was sterling.  The idea was for me to use my connections to obtain jobs that I would run, and finance.  We were supposed to be partners.   When we teamed up he promised to share profit with me on all of the jobs I sold and performed under his liscense. 



Because of our combined effort we took his shop from the volume of $250,000 to over $1,000,000.  I had a better reputation and I was getting the lionshare of the work.  Due to my reputation I was able to get jobs without bidding them so low that the shop lost money.  His reputation was so poor that he had to low ball jobs just to get them.  So at the time, he was managing less than 1/3rd of the volume and I was managing the rest. 



I left because when it came time for me to get my due compensation, there was always an excuse, but I noticed that his lifestyle got flashier and flashier.  I would run into him on the weekends and would notice he was wearing hundred dollar designer jeans, and always seemed to be sharing with me all the restaurants he would dine out at.  When he moved into country club drive at the slowest time of year and he never quite recovered financially I realised that I was not going to get my compensation any time soon.



Although I was never privy to where the profit was spent, I kept spreadsheets on all of the costs on my job and I know how much money I made for his company.   When I left he took it much harder than I did.  He got used to me making money for him and became very upset.  Again, the reason I left was I was not being paid money that he owed me in back pay and bonuses.



If it would do any good I would talk to him and tell him.  You should be ashamed of yourself.  If I was as bad as you want people to believe, why are you so mad that I up and left without being paid months worth of salary that I forgo to help you out of the economic crash and to keep your company afloat?  What did you expect me to do, be a slave to you  and your wife's poor spending habits?  No matter how much money I made for your shop you still couldn't balance your budget because your wife spends more than we both made combined.   If I was such a bad earner for your company, how is it that you moved from a house on the edge of town to a place on Country Club Drive?  I still live in the same modest house that I lived in when I first met you, when you worked for me and made good money,  and I helped you get your business started.   How is it that you eat out every night?  How is it that you enjoy a lifestyle of a successfull business man and yet you owe back pay to all of your employees.  Dude your own father in law quit.  That has got to say something about your treatment of your employees.



I understand that you are hurting because you have bad business practices, but trying to sling mud on me, that is ridiculous.  Grow up, and leave me be.  What do you expect to gain from this?  I helped you get your contractors liscense, gave you my smaller customers to get you started and you go and do this.   I appreciate you giving me the opportunity to keep my customers while going through my divorce, but I earned money for you and your wife, and got very little in return.   I managed $700,000+ worth of projects and got compensated 40k for it. 



I told you openly, warned you clearly, that if you did not pay me my bonuses or my back pay for the months between October '09 and Feb '10, that I was leaving with the customers I started with.  I told you that if you can not prove by spread sheet that my jobs were somehow in the red and I was undeserving of the bonus money that we agreed was my fair compensation then I was leaving. 



As far as my spread sheets show, even my less successful jobs made profit, which is more than I can say for your jobs (Tilly's, Jack in the Box, the Tenant Improvement on Wilshire, the only jobs you bid right were the panda's).   For a while there, you had such a bad string of projects I was the only source of income for your shop.  This is why you are mad at me.  Because when I left, you were left with a big hole in your books that you created and I with me gone there was a big hole in your income that you had to work to fullfill because you can't find anyone to do what I did for the money you paid me.  I left you in April '10 with 30 grand profit from my projects in accounts recievable, and you owing me thousands of dollars.  When we split you pretended to by cool with it, and told me you would pay me money as soon as the last payment in accounts recievable was paid to you.  I had my customer call me when they cut you that check and it didn't take a rocket scientist to realize that you were going to justify in your mind why I shouldn't get what was rightfully due me.



The fact that you are this bitter and jilted that I left goes to show that you are the one who lost more than I did by no longer having me as a business partner.   I am more than happy to do business on my own like I was when I first met you hopelessly unemployed, massively in debt, and wet behind the ears.  I no longer have employees crying to me that you haven't paid them in weeks, I no longer feel like my hard work is being used to pay for your wife's desire to look like she is the girl who has the most cake. 



It has been a year since I left, and you are still trying to make me responsible for your problems.  Grow up and leave me be. 



Stop writing me emails that are conflicted half apologies, half rants hoping that I will respond because I won't.  Stop giving letters to my kids at football practice, stop harrassing my kids at football practice, stop asking your employees to attack and slander me online, stop threatening members of the crew that I developed when I was under your roof, to keep them from doing moonlighting work for me (they haven't been paid in weeks and just need the cash) and stop spreading rumors around the community to try and make my life difficult. 



I know that you know, that I did nothing but support you since you met me, and I also know that Nicole (the housewife with no job, the cadillac, manicured nails and styled hair) would have had you press charges if I was a crook, attack my liscense if I was involved in poor business practices, or sue me if I had done anything unethical.  But I haven't,  so you can't.   So you have been reduced to online slander?  Class act dude, good luck with your business, stay out of mine please.



I left your name off of this site in hopes that this would be the end of it.  You don't need to defend yourself, the only person that knows our business is us, and it needs to end here.  You need to stop blaming me for the fact you married poorly and get on with learning how to be an honest business man.  I tought you to be honest and true, try that for a change, it is hard to do but things will get better.  I hope the best for you because if you are successfull I can look forward to not hearing from you or your misguided employees again.