Complaint Review: Stanley Barber & Associates

In October 1999, I went to the BrassRing career fair in San Francisco and submitted a resume to Stanley, Barber & Associates (SBA). The next day I got a call asking me to come via BART to the office for counseling. To make a story short, I paid them about three grands for a three-year contract, thinking that they will gurantee me a job.

Now I realize that SBA doesn't have career counselors in the technical field you want to go into. They had a bunch of other unemployed clients like me and were told to network among ourselves as well as to a list of working clients. After about a year going thru the "counseling process", they closed down the San Francisco office (455 Market Street, Suite 1920) without informing me.

I tried to write letters to them asking for a refund and they never did response. I even filed a report with www.BBB.org and they couldn't do anything. SBA had the BBB.org membership seal on its old website but it didn't matter much after reading a report about BBB.org on www.ripoffreport.com.

If your were a client of Stanley, Barber & Associates, please let the world know that SBA is hurting those trying to find a job financially.

Employees of SBA:

Joel T. Slack
Senior Associate

Michael D. Pope
Career Counselor

Offices of SBA:

455 Market Street, Suite 1920
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415)777-4888

1066 Saratoga Ave. Suite 220
San Jose 95129
(408)725-1440

Pete
Oakland, California
U.S.A.