As a ex employee of Summitt Energy I'm gonna tell you what they did to us and how they will do it to you.
First off they claim your a 'independent contractor' however the laws follow, you are not a independent Contractor when:
1. The company drives the employee (s) to and from the job location.
2. When they tell you, you have to work 5 days a week and if u miss one day u have to make it up on the weekend.
3. They give you a weekly salary or like they put it a 'draw'
I was working for summitt Energy for about 3 months. I really liked it there. They were nice people and we had alots of fun. However in the bottom of my heart I knew they were giving us faulse information to give to the customers. Ray Richer and Mike Scofield would makes us sell our pitch in front of the class. They gave us ways to muniplate the customers in signing what they call a 'call back form' However many times I would go to a house and only to find a customer that was very upset. Customers in the Ottawa area said they signed the 'call back form' but they never got a call back and they were on the plan with higher Hydro and Gas bills then they ever had before.
There was one family that I really felt bad for. They were from India and had 5 kids. They were not making very much money and one of the agents for Summitt Energy said to them ' don't worry will call you back, there is no committment today we just want you to think about your options'. The family belived them and before they knew it there hyro and gas bills were almost at double of what they were before and they felt realyl cheated and used. This was one example of many that I have incountered.
Summitt Energy is not a good company because they lie to there customers and employee (s) and they also don't pay us what they said they would pay which is $450 a week tax free.
Myself and thirteen other ex employees were left behind while two car groups left to go to work. Ray Richer brought each of us in his office one by one giving us excuses why he would not pay us. Mr. Richer told me that 'he was being charged administration fees and could not pay us the $450 for the last week we worked' he also said that myself and the thirteen of us were now all on commisson and he will not pay us the last week we worked. Mr. Richer owes us 4 weeks of pay which includes 3 weeks of training that they never payed us for and the last week we were cheated out of which comes to $1900.00. I feel so used and abused that it makes me sick to my stomach that a company would post job posting on www.jobbank.ca then only screw us out of money.
When I was booted out of his office I grabbed my contract for one of the secretaries. I later came back into the office to tell Ray how i felt about what he just did. I was then approched by Brandi Stewart whom was Ray Richers ex fling. She asked me in a very rude way 'Do you have an appointment'? I said I was here since 11:30 and waited 6 hours to be brought into ray Richers office. She was like 'this is my office and I'm gonna ask u to leave and call and make an appointment' This is the way they treat people.
The other articles about Summitt Energy is true. They will take advantage of you and will not give you the money that u are owed. Also they make so many promisses to only have them break them. Please if you are offered a job for this company do not take it. Do your research and be cautious because they will screw you over. P.S Ray Richer is NOT a millionaire his dad is, he gets all of his money from his daddy.
Now if Mr. Ray Richer or Mike Scofield is reading this. Myself and everyone else u screwed over have came togather to fight for what we are owed. We have gone to the Labourer board and we will get what you owe us. Please do the right thing and be a man and give us what we are owed.
Live for nothing or die for something
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
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