corruptionfighter
Seattle,#2General Comment
Wed, October 06, 2010
This editorial document reflects our opinions: RE: Emerald City Pizza LLCEmerald City Pizza Hut,12121 Harbour Reach Drive # 200
Mukilteo,
WA
98275-5314. We've read your report with great interest and consider this behavior on the part of Emerald City Pizza (Hut) to be a significantly watered-down version of their typical behavior. This company only came into the Seattle area a few years ago and since has cultivated a fairly putrid reputation in a short time. You have the "owner", a guy named Terry Hopkins, who apparently considers himself quite the lady's man and who cavorts daily in the office environment in unbottoned shirts with medallions hanging down his abundantly hairy chest (can anyone say 1975 DISCO?)(we'll pay for a picture of this idiocy). That pretty-well, to us, sums up the level of professionalism of this company and its very character from the top down. His underlings are, in our view, grades below that on the evolutionary scale. We have only become interested in this company and its shenannigans in the past few months, as we've continued to receive reports of skulduggerous activities that have caused this outfit to repeatedly come up on our radar. Their treatment of employees in many cases is documentably poor. Regarding your hesitation to name names in your report, the First Amendment allows this (we keep a 1st Amendment Attorney on retainer), up to but usually not including the public dissemination of social security numbers. Most anything else is fair game, legally. However, RipoffReports may restrict the dissemination of data which is otherwise completely legal, and they're within their right to do that if they have so stated these restrictions in their TOS. In any case, our suggestion is to continue to record and document your experiences. We do not believe that Emerald City Pizza is above breaking the law to serve its own ends (whatever they may be). That they are willing to treat people with a shocking degree of shoddiness is absolutely documented. We have just now begun the process of investigation this outfit fully; it could take 6 to 12 months to complete that. We have statements from employees regarding the foul-mouth antics of certain area supervisors, the screaming insults that pour forth from those supervisors, the hitting on gay boys in restaurants by those supervisors, the throwing of dishes and equipment inside the restaurants by those supervisors, and much more. Favoritism seems to be rampant in this company, based on the reports coming to us. We suggest that you contact an attorney and keep them apprised of the situation. If you feel laws have been broken, by all means begin a dialogue with the King County Sheriff. Send all mail by registered mail. Record all verbal conversations. Videotape everything where possible. Keep excruciatingly detailed records. Log EVERYTHING, no matter how seemingly insignificant at the moment. We will be posting a formal public website detailing our findings. By Googling "Emerald City Pizza Sucks", or some such phrase, you'll locate our website in time. We feel that this company treats people, especially its employees, so shoddily that we really have no choice but to expose them for the greater good. This takes time, money, and legal expertise. Fortunately we have all three.