It's been 5 years since I worked for measurecomp and no surprise to hear the same stories of being ripped off and abused. The last one I read being almost exactly the same as mine. I also worked southwest New Jersey as well.
When Brian Luther was promoted and moved to Virginia in I was offered the New Jersey managers position... If I had known what I was in for with Pete Cancelmo I probably would have taken the position (or found another job). I had met Pete once before (Brian is an old friend of both of us) and wasn't too concerned, although we didn't say much to each other. And considering I was a good friend of Brians it didn't seem to me I would have had anywhere close to the trouble with Pete that I did.
For starters, three weeks after Pete had taken over fully (Brian was done training him) I called him with a minor problem. But I probably wouldn't have bothered if I wasn't concerned about not hearing anything from him yet (a recurring theme with him).
Next was the small amounts of money missing from my paychecks every week. At first I heard "I'll take care of it", then it was one excuse after the other. I don't believe I was purposely being ripped off. This was just the inaction of a lazy, uncaring individual.
And of course the scheduling problems (I became a full time employee to help Pete out with this when he first started). It is not practical to drive 10 miles one way and 20 miles another way in the same time frame (especially if I was covering some of someone elses stops) and then continue on trying to get to other stops on time.
Also, I was always hearing of this plan (mostly from Brian) that was being worked out to compensate for the cellphone costs, which apparently still never happened.
And yes, the computers we received in 2002 were undoubtedly inferior to the ones we originally had.
Over the period of the 3 and a half months I delt with Pete, the situation escalated to the point of having shouting matches on the phone. Measurecomp corporate was absolutely no help (and never were before) and Brian's hands were tied due to the mutual friendship. It finally came to an end on 9/20/02 (if I remember correctly) with me saying to Pete "if you don't get your act together, I'm going to have to find another job". I was told to hand in my computer and modem (which I mailed in due to the animosity).
When my final check arrived Pete refused to mail it to me. He wanted me to pick it up at his house in person. As I was leaving he said "I'm sorry it had to end this way" and shook my hand!!! The only thing I could do was laugh. Especially when I got home and opened the check. I was supposed to be charged for a charge back. But the brilliant people at measurecomp forgot to put the minus sign before it and paid me instead... It turned out to be close to the amount I was owed. After that I decided to cut my loses (I was still owed a little less than a hundred dollars) and put measurecomp behind me.
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