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Irving,#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Mon, August 10, 2009
Peppe forgot to mention the questionable working conditions at any of the locations that any of his Maestro/MyStar employees have worked. You would think that a call center that was open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week would have something like a security card used to enter and exit the building or that the backdoor would at least be locked. You would be wrong. For a little while, you couldn't unlock the back door. Then, you couldn't lock it. Then, he drilled a hole in the door and installed the cheapest lock he could find. But, it's okay, because now the call center is safe. Forget that there is one person working there at 3 AM in the morning with no one else in any adjacent building in the strip. What about the front door? It's okay, though, right? Yup, the front door is great. It looks just fine. The front door leading into his call center where his employees are uses a cheap battery operated thumbprint recognition system. It looks really cool. It doesn't do a thing for protection. It's just a bolt lock that uses a thumb print. When the battery dies, anyone can get in anyway. When he first moved into this newest building, the place wasn't ready yet. But, he had to get out of the other place or face the property managers. So, they all arrived before final approval had been made by the building inspectors for Carrolton. Instead of telling his staff to stay home for two days, he had a lookout set up to see when the inspector came. When the inspector was on his way, Adam had his employees log out of their work stations and run outside and along the side of the building to stay out of the inspectors line of sight. Did I mention one of his employees was a woman on a walker and it was the middle of the Texas summer? The bathrooms weren't done either, and there was construction material all over the ground for weeks after the employees moved in. For a while, there was no handicapped stall. Nothing in his office is really handicapped accessible now except for the bathroom stalls. His father is in charge of cleaning because Adam is too cheap to pay for a professional service. Adam subleases a portion of building to another company. For almost two weeks, someone had defecated in one of the bathroom stalls and smeared it all over the toilet. No one bothered to clean it up on the cleaning crew. In fact, the bathrooms are disgusting because nothing gets cleaned. Adam actually wired most of the office himself. He's not a real electrician. Aside from the fact her zapped himself on numerous occasions while rigging the place up, the wiring left an electrical buzzing sound for months when the lights were off. I haven't been there in a couple of months, and I'm amazed everyday that I stayed as long as I did. There are some people who lasted a lot longer than I did before, and some people are still there. It's not really about employee safety at Maestro. It's about how many corners Adam can save before someone files an grievance about the unsafe working conditions at his place. When they do, I'm sure Adam will have something great to say to explain everything away. He always does.