Complaint Review: Progressive LTD. A National Comcast Contractor - Wheeling,lake Zurich Illinois
- Progressive LTD. A National Comcast Contractor Wheeling,lake Zurich, Illinois U.S.A.
- Phone: 828-275-0853
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Progressive - A National Comcast Contractor National Comcast Contractor Ripping off New Reps and deceiving customers! Wheeling,lake Zurich Illinois - indiana - california - michigan
*UPDATE EX-employee responds: Dale Critzer
*UPDATE Employee: Re Update
*General Comment: Update on Progressive/Comcast?
*UPDATE Employee: Progressive LTD. A National Comcast Contractor in Michigan
*Author of original report: "green in pasture stories" have hidden meaning..
*UPDATE Employee: Progressive LTD. A National Comcast Contractor Michigan
*UPDATE Employee: Progressive LTD. A National Comcast Contractor in Michigan
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Recently, i was working as an independant contractor for a company called Progressive LTD. Progressive does sales for Comcast in California, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois. I was hired on about four weeks ago and told that we would get paid for training. A guy by the name of Dale Critzer who is supposed to be their National sales manager, told myself and other new recruits that we would get the training money or any compensation from the deals/contracts that we wrote. He also told us that we would get paid in three weeks but could take advances since this is a commission only job.
After my first week the story began to change. Now all of a sudden some new people were being brought on board and being told different things. One of them was that they would be paid money (100.00) per day for training. Dale never told them about the 100.00 actually being a draw. I knew it was and told the new recruits this.
Eventually they quit because of the incongruencies in stories. I guess i hung in there because i didn't think comcast would let somebody sell their products and give them a bad reputation in the market. The truth is we were taught to lie to customers and tell them that comcast was doing work in the area and that we were just there to tell them that. Bullshit, we were there to sell them period. I was uncomfortable with this approach and after i got through my third week i told my manager that i could not do this anymore. He told me to take some time off and clear my head and that he would call me with my paycheck the next monday. The call never came and when i called Dale he never returned my calls. That was until today (7-8-09). He emailed me to tell me that per my contract i was not entitled to my money. That i would have to have written 15 deals per week. Nobody was able to write 15 deals per week and even my manager could not produce that. Dale who was supposed to be the national manager was out writing deals to and he never got 15 per week. Now they are telling me i won't get my money. That might be true but i'm hoping that somebody reads this and will not fall for the trap that i fell for. They are a "chop shop" using new recruits to make money for the higher ups and then not paying them for the work that they do.
I hope you read this before you go and work for them.
Expecttheunexpected
bartlett, Illinois
U.S.A.
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#7 UPDATE EX-employee responds
Dale Critzer
AUTHOR: xfinity.mike - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Looks like he is at it again. Biggest scam on earth. He rips off everyone. He is down here in California Ripping off more people. Then he will probably move to another state and start ripping off more people there and change his company name once again. Someone needs to stop this guy!
#6 UPDATE Employee
Re Update
AUTHOR: sparky - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Friday, February 05, 2010
Hi,
#5 General Comment
Update on Progressive/Comcast?
AUTHOR: shrewd - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Friday, February 05, 2010
Frank,
About six weeks since your last post. How's it going?
Shrewd
#4 UPDATE Employee
Progressive LTD. A National Comcast Contractor in Michigan
AUTHOR: sparky - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Hi Erl,
#3 Author of original report
"green in pasture stories" have hidden meaning..
AUTHOR: Expecttheunexpected - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Monday, December 21, 2009
Frank,
I have to wonder if you are so happy why you would even be looking in rip off report for negative remarks about the company. I can only speculate that you are not really Frank but one of the companies personnel trying to counter my negative experience by submitting "the grass is so green on my side" story. Its a form of marketing...
The truth is yes we could all learn to read contracts better and not sign anything until we take it to our lawyers. But unsuspecting people like myself want to believe that the company will do what they say they will do. The question is: why would a company put in place a policy like that anyway? Answer: they know that if they tell people they are affiliated with Comcast that most people will not think Comcast would allow them to do this. By the way, i talked to someone who was the right hand Man for Progressive's National Director and they said that Comcast Let him go do to all the problems they had with him and progressive.
For anyone who doesn't believe this let them read this and contact Comcast directly and ask if Dale and Progressive still have a contract in Illinois with Comcast.
"the truth will set you free"
ERL
#2 UPDATE Employee
Progressive LTD. A National Comcast Contractor Michigan
AUTHOR: sparky - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Sunday, December 20, 2009
Hi,
#1 UPDATE Employee
Progressive LTD. A National Comcast Contractor in Michigan
AUTHOR: sparky - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Sunday, December 20, 2009
Hi,
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