[Cliffie]

Call the Better Business Bureau and the State Attorney General's office. This is inexcusable.

[doubtful dan]

These people called me the other day telling me that they got my resume off line. I am currently an unemployed auto worker and am looking for work. I was convinced to take an interview tomorrow (Saturday)??, and after reading your remarks I am having serius doubts, in fact, I think I am going to cancel.
Good luck to you

Originally Posted by happytwenty

Hi there,
My husband and I moved out here for me to go to law school and we'd been banking on him finding a job quickly (he's a former engineer). Well weeks go by and nothing. Finally, out of desperation, he takes a job with a company called "universal gas and electric." The gist of what they do is go door to door "informing" people about deregulation of natural gas etc. At this point, he has been working for them for about a month and they still have yet to pay him. We can't go on like this but I fear that we are stuck. They continue to maintain the position that they will pay him when they get everything "set up." I was wondering if anyone out there had a common experience with this company and if so what did you do? We are from Washington and I'm not entirely sure what the laws are around here about this sort of thing. Any info would be great thanks!

[mk4turbo]

hey cliffie? feel free to check with the BBB. they are located two floors beneath us

[Bydand]

Originally Posted by mk4turbo

hey cliffie? feel free to check with the BBB. they are located two floors beneath us

Location does not attribute honesty to any operation.

[merit1sje]

This kinda looks like Enron. A wholesale distributor! Check out the website happytwenty.Universal Gas&Electric>Welcome This isn't competition, this is "middle man" opportunity! Your husband should run away as fast as he can.

[heathsgal18]

also, if the dte is in my husband's name and i'm the one that they have on their acct - can that legally get me out of it??

[briandir1]

Universal gas hires people the same way that they get people to sign up for there service, with half truths and misdirection. I went to an "interview" w/ 30 or so other "applicants" and the jist of this snowballing event was that the position does not involve sales at all. What you supposedly do is like meter reading they say, except instead of reading a meter, you are talking w/ someone who already has a gas supplier, your just making sure that they are happy with their choice. Of couse if you don't sell them on signing up w/ Universal, you don't get paid. (but "it's not a sales position"....yeah right) Also, they don't tell you exactly what you will be doing, where, for how long, and for how much pay before they say... "congratulations, your hired". Unfortunately at this point, some sad souls will have put there notice in with their current employer or given up some other means of income to "start right away". They tell their ptential customers that they only pay (for example) $1.04/ month. One dollar and four cents per month, how could you go wrong. Well, I'll tell you. Most people are not as acclimated w/ their consumers bill as they should be, myself included. Because what they don't tell you is that they charge , for example, $1.04 times X, which is a specified unit which adds up quickly. So, when they say that you "only" pay such and such per month, this is not the whole truth, they should be showing you an example visa vi your current billing statement. Oh and I forgot to mention, they wanted me to work 66 hours per week, 10AM to 9PM Mon.- Sat.. Goodbye wife, son, friends, life....welcome to the new America, where spending your life making the uber rich uber richer does not work so well, as most can now see. We should take a few tips from the U.K., they seem happy there.
P.S. I don't know why your not getting paid, they claim to be growing exponentially. The fact that gas bills are outrageous and they are doing really well tells you right off that theres something rotten in Denmark, no offense to Denmark. Join the lawsuit, I did!

[jdmcmt]

Still trying to b done with them after 3 years, i just got a collection call... I pais them 125 of the 250 they said i owed and for 3 years i dont hear anything.... Now they say i still owe 250. What should i do?