Jim Carroll - CEO
Frisco,#2REBUTTAL Owner of company
Tue, April 02, 2013
I can understand the frustration that this employee must have gone through. As the CEO it is important that all of my employees are treated with dignity and fairness. While their were certainly some misunderstanding regarding this situation, the management staff should have used better discretion. We have thousands of employees and it is important that they are always treated with respect. As I remember, we started a short term campaign of starting officers and one rate and then giving them a raise after a 30 day probation period. We shortly terminated that program because it caused so much trouble. We have never had a program that trained at one rate and then started pay at another rate. I'm guessing that was the misunderstanding. Regardless if we want to keep the employee or not, a promise is a promise. If he was told $9.00 per hour, then he should have been given that raise. The ex-guard says that five other officers had the same problem. If that were the case, we would be out of business and be reported to the wage and hourly people for a lot of fines. This appears the be an isolated case, but it still needs to be handled. Should the employee that wrote this report want to contact me, I can handle this. We are a Christian based firm that tries to treat every employee right. Sometimes misunderstanding happen.
Joe
Austin,#3Consumer Suggestion
Sun, December 21, 2008
Texas has a LAW against employers cheating their employees. Go to your local Texas Employment Commission which I think may be the Workforce Center now and contact the PAYDAY LAW people and tell them what you posted here. THEY WILL FREEZE THE ASSETS OF THESE CROOKS UNTIL THEY PAY YOU WHAT THEY OWE YOU! THEY HAVE COMMITTED THEFT OF SERVICES! That's against the law in Texas and you can complain about that to your local District Attorney's office. You also need to report these crooks to the Texas Department of Public Safety Bureau of Private Security in Austin,Texas! Tell them what they did to you. YOU ALSO NEED TO CALL THEM AND MAKE SURE THESE PEOPLE ARE EVEN LICENSED TO DO BUSINESS IN TEXAS. THEY SHOULD KNOW BETTER THAN TO DO THIS. You also need to call SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION AND MAKE SURE THEY DID NOT KEEP THE SOCIAL SECURITY THAT THEY TOOK OUT OF YOUR CHECK. I looked up the company on the board's website and I found out that it is based in Richardson,Texas and your general manager is named JAMES CARROLL . They are licensed to practice in Texas and they have a Class B or a guard service license. Their address is: 1616 GATEWAY RICHARDSON, TX 75080 I looked up a Michael Carrillo who works there but the Board data did not specify in which branch office he works and I looked up a KASSANDRA GRANT who works there and she is listed as being a current employee. While I was on the website, I looked for a SAM WILLIAMS that works for this company but I couldn't find anyone by that name listed. It DOES appear that there have been a LOT of people who have come and gone with that company, however. That is not to say that they couldn't have hired someone and his registration hasn't come back yet. OR it MIGHT have been someone giving a fake name. If there is a Sam Williams in that office who is NOT licensed by DPS as a manager or as an administrator, you probably have another offense and that it that they are staffing their office with unlicensed personnel, another violation of Board rules and regulations. I think you better contact the Criminal Investigation Service of IRS and tell them that they are claiming to pay $9 and hour but are only paying $8 an hour! That is a whole dollar difference and when you multiply it by the number of employees that they appear to have --we are talking a LOT OF MONEY HERE. THIS IS WHAT AS KNOWN AS SKIMMING EMPLOYEE PAYCHECKS -- assuming that IS the case since all I know here is what I am reading. I AM NOT ACCUSING THESE PEOPLE OF DOING THIS -- JUST SAYING THAT IT MIGHT BE POSSIBLE and it is certainly NOT UNHEARD of in the Private Security Contracting business. YOU BETTER START MAKING SOME PHONE CALLS,MY FRIEND AND TELL ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS THAT THEY HAD BETTER START LOOKING FOR ANOTHER JOB! It doesn't appear that the people you are working for are going to give you the money you earned without you reporting them! GOOD LUCK! I HOPE YOU LEARNED NEVER TO WORK FOR A PRIVATE SECURITY GUARD CONTRACTING SERVICE AGAIN!