Bill Zinke finally responds and is spewing more of his BS! This guy never stops! Note how he doesn't actually offer a rebuttal to any of the accusations against him.
If you take the time to read the other reports, everyone pretty much nails it. Bill Zinke is a deplorable human being and the dichotomy of the HR professional he claims to be. He gives new meaning to each word someone has used to describe him. Belittling? Yes. Abusive? Cannot even begin to describe. Unethical.inpatient. Offensive.insulting. Demeaning. Narcissistic. Sexist. Racist. Accusatory. Unforgiving. Monopolizer of employees personal time, lunch, etc. And yes, his gas/flatulence problem can bring water to your eyes.
He operates under the guise of The Center for Productive Longevity, a "nonprofit, " that in the few years it has been active has done very little in terms of making a difference. He is an 85-year-old man who wants people to masturbate his ego. You are not hired to think, you are hired to do. You are hired to question him at anytime, it is best to not say much of anything. You receive a paycheck in exchange for being his slave available for floggings whenever he doesn't get his way in the world. If you drop your boundaries, he will destroy your self-esteem.
Someone posted something about a list with over 100 employees, it's true. The list exists. He's done everything from firing someone with cancer (and telling her that she could continue to be on the insurance, only to drop her a week later) to making someone move closer (or else she'd lose her job) and then fired her two days before Christmas (even after she had moved!). Every person who has ever tried to file an unemployment claim, he has fought them. He misrepresents what the job is. You will not do research, you will not work with Fortune 1000 companies, you will not do anything other than type his emails, which he DOES write out in his cryptic longhand. Then, on average, you will revise each email 3-7 times. Sometimes the revision is simply a comma. You will go through almost a ream of paper a week. "Why, " you ask, "If they're emails?" Because you have to print out each email and each revision that is made. If the Pony Express still existed, Bill Zinke would have more faith in that system, than the employee operating the computer at his/her desk.
Every warning that has been made is not exaggerated. He'll pay you well. He'll promise you bonuses (then ask for them back or accuse you of stealing them). He'll do just enough to keep you chained to your desk and this man will make you nuts. His senility, which he is in full denial of, seeps into everything that you will do. He will accuse you of not doing your job, because he forgot that you actually did it. He misplaces letters, emails, reports, etc, but then blames you because he can't find it. The way he talks to you, it is not nice, it is not even ambivalent. 90% of the time he is talking to you with pure spite in his voice. The way he looks at you is as if you are the dumbest person on Earth. And sometimes you'll say something that you are positive of and he'll ask, "Are you sure?" as if to say, "How could you possibly know! I went to Amherst and Columbia!" But this is the same man who does NOT know how to use a computer, REALLY, that is why YOU will have the privilege of typing his emails.
He will expect you to work overtime without ever paying you for it. (You will work 45-50 hours/week). He will ask you to take a "short lunch" everyday (average lunch is 20-30 minutes), but then he'll go out for 2 hour lunches and yell at you when he gets back because he's so far behind, AND THEN want you to work overtime to get more of his emails out. He'll summons you to his office (with an intercom system), then you'll stand in his doorway for 5-20 minutes (maybe even longer!) while he revises his emails. No, you're not doing anything else, but standing there waiting. He'll explain revisions to you like you are a child, he reads things out loud to you that you really could read/figure out on your own. He'll ask you for your opinion, then belittle you for it. You'll give great ideas, he'll disregard them, a couple of hours later he'll adopt the ideas as his own. Trust me, you'll never get due respect or credit. EVER.
This is a description of a day with Bill Zinke: Print out emails, stamp them received, give them to Bill, wait for him to give you his handwritten response to emails, type the responses, print them out, stamp them DRAFT, give them back to Bill. Usually around this point he'll need to yell at someone, most likely it will be you. It could be any random thing, so be prepared, 99% chance it is something he screwed up but will blame you. Go back to typing emails.intercom rings, you will be summoned to his office and it will smell like a dead corn in there (hold your breath). Repeat this process about 10 times throughout the day and that is your day until 6:00 or so, or whenever he undoes the padlock on the door and allows you to leave.
I post this to back-up the other reports about this man. Avoid working for him or dealing with him. Do not collaborate. Do not give him money. Do not attend his meetings, you will live to regret it.
I cannot stress it enough: DO NOT, DO NOT, DO NOT (x 1000!) get involved with William K. Zinke, Center for Productive Longevity, or Human Resource Services Inc.in Boulder Co. Your sanity will thank you.
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