Complaint Review: George S. May International Company - Park Ridge Illinois

Bruce I have recieved your e-mail and am eager to speak with you. Call me anytime at [DELETED].

Jolene,

For a specific reason I have not included any telephone or contact information with the report. If you will give me a telephone number and a time to call you I will be delighted to touch base with you.

Bruce

About the same time that Bruce engaged George S. May I was being recruited by them. I was signed up for a 10-day training class at a hotel in Chicago. The schedule implied that classes went well into the evenings and through the weekend.

I was told to have bags packed as I would be leaving directly from class on the last day, Sunday, for my first assignment. We were to be trained on how to perform the $350 study Bruce referred to, and to produce proposals for the follow-on work -- such as the $40K audit.

We would travel to two clients per week and were expected to close half of them. As I read the sales plan it was clear that this was a very low paying position until you put in at least 6 months to a year. I got the impression that the company resembled a pyramid scheme, with the company expecting that most recruits will burn out within a year and be replaced by a fresh crop of new hires at the low end of the commission plan.

I also did some checking and found out from someone that they are a "churn and burn" operation. Finally, when I decided to cancel out of the Chicago class, I got a phone call on a Saturday from a manager at George S. May who was very adamant that I attend. He used high pressure tactics and did not sound at all like a consulting manager. I refused to attend the class and two months later was hired by a big 5 consulting firm as a manager.

Given their recruiting tactics I am surprised that I have not seen more reports from unhappy clients or employees. Bruce's report seems consistent with my impression of the company. I also think that their recruiting tactics and sales plan drive away good consultants.

I am not implying that you need to pay big 5 prices to get big 5 talent. I started my own IT services company 18 months ago and was able to recruit many highly talented consultants to work as independent contractors. They get the bulk of the billings, and the result is that they and the clients are very happy. Check references and try a Google search on the company giving you the proposal. I hope you get your refund!

These people are big crooks. I think that when they give you garbage work, and charge you cadillac prices, they deserve to be dealt with.

You two should talk, exchange your telephone numbers, compare the content of your projects to see if you both got, by chance, the same boilerplate.

And then you can fight these crooks!...They steal from their clients and from their employees!

Thanks RipOff Report for the exposure these George S. May International/GSMIC crooks are getting
!

Your company had this wolf at the door.

How can anyone contact you if you do not give your company name? Jolene Ogden, Utah needs to talk to you call.