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Complaint Review: Gulf Pacific Inc Arthur Vanlandingham - Tempe Arizona
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2033 E. Warner Rd., Ste 111 Tempe, 85284 Arizona, U.S.A.
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Gulf Pacific Inc, Arthur Vanlandingham Continues to Rip Off Employees an arrogant and cavalier attitude Tempe Arizona
Arthur Vanlandingham is a snake that needs to be legally put out of business. He continues not to pay consultant employees what they are owed. He lies to them, telling them that he "changed their contracts and no longer has to pay them." There are no less than six consultants as of this date that are owed money (up to $7500) for compensation he is refusing to pay, as well as a key executive that he owes over $70,000 to.
He has an arrogant and cavalier attitude that he is "above the law" and the "law does not apply to him."
Additionally, he is refusing to pay his employees overtime, rather he thinks he can simply put them on salary and then expect them to work over time without due compensation. Additionally, he is refusing to pay vendors when they have contracted to do certain work for him...he continues to cheat everyone around...great business practices Arthur!
He has also recently, with his side kick, Dan Held, reduced the compensation to all consultants to $45 per hour, which now probably disqualified them as exempt employees and thus will owe them overtime very soon as well. This was an unprecedented $3-$10 per hour reduction in pay effectively.
He canceled health insurance for the entire company because he did not want to pay $200 per employee for the 15 or so employees who depended on the insurance.He even canceled the insurance for a key Vice President who was awaiting a liver transplant and was near death. How evil can you get?
It just goes from bad to worse over there at Gulf. There are even rumors which indicate the owner is involved in using drugs and therefore cannot remember from one day to the next what he says.
This is a den of inequity and injustice. Anyone who reads this should do everything they can to shut this dirty operation down completely so that it stops hurting its employees and clients through its dirty and deceitful practices.
Driving a $125,000 corvette is more important to Vanlandingham, than paying his employees what is owed to them...get the picture? This guy is a total loser, abusing his employees, his family and anyone who becomes close to him. These are not rumors, but first hand experiences from those who work directly with him and are afraid of retribution to come forward to say anything.
Gulf Pacific is coming to a sad end due to mis-mangagment, lack of ethics, and indecent actions of the ownership. If you want to learn how not to run a business, then just watch how Gulf Pacific is run. What they advocate to their clients, they refuse to implement themselves. What they advocate is a hoax on their clients without any belief in what they are doing.
Dan Held attempted a take over of the business from the original owner 10 years ago in concert with Vanlandingham. They finally got their way. The old owner could not sustain the business any longer and Valandingham stepped in and forced the old owner out through his own foul play and manipulation, and playing on his Christian background with the old owner. He smiles to your face, praises the Lord on Sunday, abuses his wife and staff the rest of the week and goes on screwing his staff and customers. Atta Boy, Vanlandingham. Why doesn't he even have the balls to face the people he is cheating and square up morally and legally with them? Your guess is as good as mine...more reports to follow as things deteriorate at Gulf Pacific. Watch back here for more in the near future!
Robert
Tempe, Arizona
U.S.A.
He has an arrogant and cavalier attitude that he is "above the law" and the "law does not apply to him."
Additionally, he is refusing to pay his employees overtime, rather he thinks he can simply put them on salary and then expect them to work over time without due compensation. Additionally, he is refusing to pay vendors when they have contracted to do certain work for him...he continues to cheat everyone around...great business practices Arthur!
He has also recently, with his side kick, Dan Held, reduced the compensation to all consultants to $45 per hour, which now probably disqualified them as exempt employees and thus will owe them overtime very soon as well. This was an unprecedented $3-$10 per hour reduction in pay effectively.
He canceled health insurance for the entire company because he did not want to pay $200 per employee for the 15 or so employees who depended on the insurance.He even canceled the insurance for a key Vice President who was awaiting a liver transplant and was near death. How evil can you get?
It just goes from bad to worse over there at Gulf. There are even rumors which indicate the owner is involved in using drugs and therefore cannot remember from one day to the next what he says.
This is a den of inequity and injustice. Anyone who reads this should do everything they can to shut this dirty operation down completely so that it stops hurting its employees and clients through its dirty and deceitful practices.
Driving a $125,000 corvette is more important to Vanlandingham, than paying his employees what is owed to them...get the picture? This guy is a total loser, abusing his employees, his family and anyone who becomes close to him. These are not rumors, but first hand experiences from those who work directly with him and are afraid of retribution to come forward to say anything.
Gulf Pacific is coming to a sad end due to mis-mangagment, lack of ethics, and indecent actions of the ownership. If you want to learn how not to run a business, then just watch how Gulf Pacific is run. What they advocate to their clients, they refuse to implement themselves. What they advocate is a hoax on their clients without any belief in what they are doing.
Dan Held attempted a take over of the business from the original owner 10 years ago in concert with Vanlandingham. They finally got their way. The old owner could not sustain the business any longer and Valandingham stepped in and forced the old owner out through his own foul play and manipulation, and playing on his Christian background with the old owner. He smiles to your face, praises the Lord on Sunday, abuses his wife and staff the rest of the week and goes on screwing his staff and customers. Atta Boy, Vanlandingham. Why doesn't he even have the balls to face the people he is cheating and square up morally and legally with them? Your guess is as good as mine...more reports to follow as things deteriorate at Gulf Pacific. Watch back here for more in the near future!
Robert
Tempe, Arizona
U.S.A.
1 Updates & Rebuttals
JimboVegas
Henderson,Nevada,
United States of America
This Report Not Completely Accurate
#2UPDATE Employee
Mon, May 23, 2016
This report is certainly true with regard to the end game behavior of Vanlandingham. When he started losing money on a weekly basis, he engaged in the larcehous practices described that pertain to the consultants and clients. However, the collective work of the consultants is not accurately portrayed in this article and should be retracted.
I was a consultant for Gulf Pacific and had a very successful run with my clients. My engagements were prroperly detailed at the outset and modified as the client requested in the course of the engagements. The clients paid at the end of every week and continued on until the work was done. All of my clients turned in performance evaluations and letters of satisfaction for the work that was done. I have the documentation.
You may not want to hear this but all of my projects went well. I was able to assist the clients with their business needs in the agreed upon time and with results that not only satisfied them but either met or exceeded their results for profitability, operational improvement and financial controls. One thing that Gulf Pacific did very well - better, in fact, than the other companies out there - was identify potential clients who were viable candidates for work. What does that mean? Business owners who required either specific or general assistance with their business operations. Businesses had the potential for a return to or a substantial improvement in profitability of a scale that made the fees very worthwhile. Owners who were intellectually capable of understanding the consulting work presented to them and were prepared to make the changes.
When a business engages the services of a consultant does not possess all of these characteristics, the consulting exercise is doomed to failure. Moreover, owners often fail to recongnize this and take out their anger in places like this. It is true that some of the consultants simply did not have the skills or the experience needed to do this work and started to fail in the clients' eyes. I personally was sent in as the seconed guy to do the engagement and ultimately complete it. Gulf gave necessary financial credit to these clients and I was appropriately rewarded for the "saves".
Anyone who writes about Gulf, or any of the other companies for that matter, must acknowledge what I have written here. The internet has certainly given the industry the black eye it deserves but has inaccurately portrayed consultants as a class. I personally know other consultants who have the same batting average as mine and who were doing it for a lot longer than me. So, let me tell all the pundits who care to opine about Gulf Pacific what I told all of my clients regarding their work: if you can't perform a process in a defect free manner, in a way that is as profitable and satisfying as it can be, then get out of that part of the business.
