First of all I am a current employee, last friday I was heading out to cash my check when a former employee handed me a piece of paper that stated:
SDP EMPLOYESS PLEASE READ THIS!
Special Data Processing is a highly successful company that makes tens of millions of dollars in profits every year. SDP is now partcially owned by a money hungry Chicago firm (Willis & Stein) that doesnt care one iota about the well being of any SDP employee. The average SDP employee lasts only 42 days. SDP terminates about 100 employees per week and then they deny unemployment benefits to anyone who applies for them even hard-working, long-term employees who they have burned out.
The cost of the company's health care plan is higher than some paychecks and SDP's contribution is negligible. This forces many loyal employees and their families to live without medical coverage. Management's abuse of employees is rampant.
Supervisors issue a never-ending cascade of termination threats. An average of one employee is wheeled out of the building on a strecher. Employees have even died on the premises. Last year they cut the "call work" time between calls from 60 to 30 seconds to increase their profits and your unhealthy stress. When the flu gets into the building hundreds of employees fall very ill. Does SPD ever clean a workstation or even a doornob? Many of SPD's computers, phones, desks and chairs are in need of repair. The restrooms are usually filthy. Several criminal incidents have occured on SDP property recently. Because they fire so many people the HR Department is poorly run and exceedingly callous and unresponsive to employees issues and complaints.
SDP has been diligently cutting the pay in every department for several years now. If you miss 30minutes of work the day before or after a holiday they will confiscate your holiday pay. NICE GUYS! The paychecks require an accountant to figure them out. Why does SDP refuse to let you copy your Monday morning payroll sheet. How come the many errors are always in the company's favor? How many times have a few hundred dollars vanished from your paycheck without a satisfactory answer from anyone in management. Do we smell RICO payroll racketeering conspiracy here? Maybe you should question them a bit more vigorously the next time your check is short. SDP also engages in shameless, illegal and on-going union-busting activities. Call the National Labor Relations Board (813-228-2693) if you want to file a complaint.
SDP is under indictment in 9 states at last count. NICE GUYS! Their deceitful SECOND NOTICE mailing deliberatly misleads many elderly and minority citizens into thinking that they have won or will win the sweepstakes if they buy magazines. If the caller tells the SSR they have a bank debit card the Verifier never knows it. SDP was fraudulently accessing callers bank debit cards up to 6 months causing severe financial hardship for these many vulnerale Americans. NICE GUYS! SDP keeps changing the way that they process bank debit cards to stay one step ahead of the Federal Trade Commision. Call (877-382-4357) to file an FTC report. SDP asks callers for their phone numbers to call them in case they win. Then they sell the numbers to the highest bidder. They didn't even bother to call the first selected winner last January. They sent the poor soul a letter that went unanswered. His laywer would love to know about that!
Today the mood in America is rapidly swinging against companies that abuse their employees and the public in general. Many top executives are going to prison. Yet SDP brazenly continues to treat its employees as if they were third world throwaway labor. Enough is enough.
To tell the truth I was fooled. When I started working at this place, a lot of what this former employee said is very true. Some of it I have no clue about. But one thing I do have to say is. I am sorry for anyone who has been screwed by the company. I have been screwed too. OUT OF MY PAY! And I have b*tched and got nowhere. I understand your frustration with the National Magazine Exhange (SDP) but I know for a fact that the one rebuttl that we use A LOT is: there is never a purchase or payment to enter or win any of the sweepstakes we offer.
Tatianna
St. Petersburg, Florida
U.S.A.
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