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  • Report:  #1188861

Complaint Review: StaffScheduleCare - Richmond Hill Ontario

Reported By:
MarthaB - Richmond Hill, Nova Scotia,
Submitted:
Updated:

StaffScheduleCare
13025 Yonge St. Suite 103 Richmond Hill, L4E 1A1 Ontario, Canada
Phone:
1-888-758-5810
Web:
www.staffschedulecare.com
Categories:
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Save yourself some time, and avoid this company.

StaffScheduleCare or IDT (International Data Technologies) is dishonest in its practices and fails to deliver on its promises. SSC used shady techniques to lure me in to a product demo which lasted over 3.5 hours, if you're in the LTC field you will understand this is time we don't have to waste being aggressively sold to. They initially cold called me offering to support our facility in assessing our compliance risk free of charge. As soon as they get you with this they try to assure you that they're not sales people and are only here to consultant. Once they've established what systems you are currently running for Scheduling , Time & Attendance, Human Resources and Payroll they will push you into a demo of their Workforce Management solution.

They claim to be the fastest growing workforce management company in Canada, they claim to have over 25% of LTC facilities running on their system, they claim to have 100% customer retention. ALL OF THIS IS FALSE! It only took a few calls to their hosted LTC facilities in BC, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to establish that they had lied to us and wasted our time. During our demo the gentleman named Bill Allen was very pushy, quiet unprofessional at times and claims to be the Director of Client Services, after looking in to this I learnt that he is in fact the Owner of StaffScheduleCare. I'm left wondering why the owner of the so called 'Fastest Growing Workforce Management Company in Canada' would need to sit in on a demo with a small chain (2 homes) demo out of Nova Scotia.

If you are reading this and have been approached by StaffScheduleCare I would strongly advice that you do your homework and speak to their many disgruntled current clients and save yourself some time and just say ‘no thank you’.



1 Updates & Rebuttals

Bill Allen

Richmond Hill,
Ontario,
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#2REBUTTAL Individual responds

Fri, January 02, 2015

There is no "MarthaB".

There is no such town in Nova Scotia with the name of "Richmond Hill".

Our company is located in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada and Providence RI.

StaffScheduleCare is a very real company that has served the Canadian and US Skilled Care and Senior Care market space for over 28 years. Our reputation is of the utmost importance to our people and our firm. 

The cost to even attempt to remove this "report" is a $2,000 charge for removal through their "Set The Record Straight-Arbitration Program".

Ripoff Report states .... "the process begins when you provide Ripoff Report with three things"...... the third thing is ...."and 3) a cheque for the $2,000 arbitration fee. No arbitration matter will begin until we receive all of these things".

Sad to see our people, who work so hard to satisfy and support our clients, see a "report" such as this on the web. 

Managing Dir. Client Care / President

StaffScheduleCare

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