Burned by Burn your to do list- beware!

[ahnalia]

Hello everyone,

I am so sorry that I have to come in and give anyone bad news about a company, but I wanted to make sure no other WAHM have to go through the hell I have gone through the last month at my now former job at Burn Your To Do List.

I started working at BYTDL 10 months ago for a very small amount of money (2.00 per article), and within a few months I was promoted to support staff, and subsequently promoted 2 more times to a management position.

As I became more and more involved in the inner workings of BYTDL, I started noticing dirty dealings being done on customers.
Joe implemented some policy's that I highly disagreed with, and it was becoming apparent to me that BYTDL's new owner scams customers out of money by trapping them into subscriptions.
This was not sitting well with me at all as I was raised to be an honest woman.

I stayed with BYTDL because it was up for sale and I thought maybe a new owner would turn things around as the former owner, Rachel Rofe, wanted to move on to other things.
BYTDL sold in mid-Sept, and I am sorry to say that the new owner, Joe Harkins, is well, not a nice person to deal with.

Over the past 3 weeks I have seen him:

1.Change terms of service without notifying any customers. He sent out an email with no previous warnings and changed the subscription terms and rates of older clients. He did not even have the nerve to sign it with a name, but instead signed it a generic "the BYTDL support team"

2. Has logged into his employees accounts (including mine) and pretended to be them and replied to clients and providers.

3. Called several employees (who have now all quit)and belittled them, (and in some cases flat out lied about them), and borderlines on being verbally abusive.

I handed in my resignation after he called me and spent over 2 hours telling me basically what a crappy manager i am.
I was approached by the former owner, Rachel and she (very nicely) asked me to stay and train a new manager they hired.
I agreed and spent the last week training her and doing my usual work.
I have 4 days worth of skype conversations to prove that I was on all day and made training videos for her.
This was along side doing my normal work, and putting in 9-10 hour days all week.

When Sunday rolled around, (which is payday), I was to train the new lady on how to do payroll. She never showed up. I waited for 10 hours for her to log on to skype.
Several of my friends and co-workers can verify this as they were on all day with me waiting and keeping me company.

When it became apparent that she was not going to log on, I did payroll and sent the files to Rachel (who had been acting as a mediator with me and the new owner).
Payroll subsequently did get done and my friends who work there did get paid.
I, however did not get paid.
They now owe me 600.00 for my last week of work which I doubt I will ever see.

I did not come here to whine, I can and will survive without that 600.00 but my main concern is for anyone else who might be considering working for this company.

I am sorry that it had to come to this, I have always been more of a lurker than a poster, but I felt in this case, everyone needs to know what type of business BYTDL (Burn your to do list) has become.
I had defended them in the past, but they are not worth working for anymore, and it is very sad because it was a great place to work at one time.

Again, I am sorry for this post, but I could not let anyone be put through the same situation as I was.

[WendyNC]

I am so sorry this happened to you. Sounds like that company is a bunch of jerks.
I do hope you get your money, but definitely think you are better off without them.

Would it be okay if I copied your story on my blog? If you don't want me to, I will understand. I respect your privacy.

[deannatroupe]

Thank you for posting this! I was considering applying for them.

[ahnalia]

Feel free to post it anywhere you want. I have nothing to hide.
WHAM's have to stick together.
I doubt I will see my pay, but that is OK, I believe that the good Lord will guide me to better more honest places.
I was actually sort of afraid the rest of our staff who also quit were not going to get paid either. I know some of them did, but not sure about everyone else.

[Lihem]

ahnalia,

Is it your website? The gallery and the music is so beautiful.

Keep it up.

[ahnalia]

Thank you
I need to revamp it a bit but not sure what to do with it, I am open to suggestions if you have any!

[ahnalia]

Just thought I would send a quick update that other providers have contacted me since this post went up, and have said that they were not paid either

[WendyNC]

Ugh! So sorry to hear that, Ahnalia. Scammers suck!
Thank you, I will re-post on my blog to help warn others.

[SusanCody]

I'm so sorry about this - but you must have some recourse - can you take them to small claims court? If they don't show up, you win - plain and simple.

If all this is done over the internet, I'm not sure of the protocol for court but there has to be a way to do this. $600 is a lot of money!

I have never heard of this company but thank you for the heads up. I hope you get a new job soon and also get the money owed to you,.
Susan

[Helena1]

so sorry to hear this. Do what you need to do, I would definitely send them an "official" type letter/email that you are entitled to your remaining pay. Don't stop spreading the word about bad companies, if they can't get anyone to work there, they will have to operate legitamately. In the meantime keep moving forward, better and brighter things are awaiting you.