Hello, I would like to share my experience with a work at home company called ACD Direct (www.acddirect.com). I found this company on a work at home job website. A few days after I submitted my resume, I was informed I would have an interview. I called the company for the interview and spoke with a lady named Glynnis, who I immediately noticed had a lousy attitude and was exceptionally rude. Despite this, I got the job and then paid my $30 background fee via Paypal. After the payment was not applied so I could sign up for training and no one returned my e-mails, I called Glynnis up and she became extremely rude to me about calling her. I stood up to her and told her, well I had no other number to call. I was just blown away by how rude Glynnis was. So I started the online training and had a lady named Melissa Houghton as my trainer. She kinda struck me as the last person who should be a trainer there, because she was so impatient and was so rude to people. Trainers, as everyone reading this knows, need to have patience and be nice with people. On my second day of training, Melissa did test calls with everyone where the trainees would be the agent and she would be the caller. This was done in front of everyone. When it was my turn, Melissa blatantly sexually harassed me by acting TOTALLY INAPPROPRIATE toward me. It's 2008 and if a guy trainer had done this to a female, he would have been fired on the spot. So she knew I was uncomfortable with this. She remarked she was glad I was in the class (I was the only guy) so she could do something like this. After she could sense my discomfort level, she soon removed me from training (I had made a 93 and a 100 on our two tests). She then told me to go to a different training class. She claimed I struggled on a script call, even though I had the hardest one and others in the class equally struggled. She is a trainer and is supposed to teach us the system. There was a black girl in the class who could not complete her script call, and yet she wasn't removed like me. I obviously was removed because I let her know my discomfort over her sexually harassing me. About 2 hours later, Melissa got this weirdo old trainer Dave to call me on the phone and he cowardly blocked his number. He wouldn't respond to me on the phone and I could hear him breathing. He obviously was harassing me because of what happened between Melissa and I. I was in the same training room as Dave and he could have talked with me on the computer or via IM-he DID NOT need to call me. So I then was told by this quality control manager Dianne Treadwell, that I was now inactive and did not have this job. Although I work full time and just thought this would be a neat part time job, I just didn't appreciate how someone who was sexually harassed lost his job. I have spoken with an investigator with the US Employment Equal Opportunity Commission and have file an federal complaint against Melissa and the company. I have all of the contact numbers for their customers (St Jude Hospital is their main one) and will be sharing my horrific experience with them. Just because I am a male, I WILL NOT BE SEXUALLY HARRASSED BY ANYONE!!! Everyone check out this also-how another male employee was treated there-http://usacomplaints.com/reports/0/312/RipOff0312568.htm
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