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ATSI listed on new NonPayment MTSO List -- SM - Moderator

Posted: Aug 11, 2011

Unfortunately, after working with ATSI's CEO (David Shepherd), this MTSO still has not paid outstanding wages and/or contract debts to MTs and other MT-related staff.

Please note the new MTSO NonPayment List posted at the top of the Company board.

Posts discussing wage disputes with any MTSO that is currently on this list will not be removed.

If/when the wage debt(s) are satisified, the wage dispute guidelines for MTStars will be reinforced.

If you have any questions about posting your information, please feel free to contact the Moderator beforehand.

MTStars Team

Crooked - Robbed

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This company is absolutely crooked. They are planning to shut their doors at the end of August. They have turned over all pay concerns to the Florida DOL and their employees and ICs are only going to get paid minimum wage for an hourly figure the company came up with. So, not only are we not getting our full pay, but we are being cheated on hours we were logged into the system.

We were told several different reasons why we were not paid, except for the real reason. The company didn't pay their taxes for a year and the IRS froze their assets. This situation is not something they did not see coming and continued to lie to those working for them to get us to continue working for WEEKS with no pay. The Shepherds own several other MTSO companies as well and the employees were told by the Florida DOL that none of their companies are currently solvent. Collectively, we have considered hiring an attorney and filing a lawsuit. Unfortunately, with none of their companies being solvent, I'm not sure we would be able to collect anything and if we do go with a lawyer, we have to forfeit anything the DOL may be able to collect for us. So, it's accept about 1/4 of our rightful pay or go with the chance we will get nothing, which is the most likely case.

I sincerely hope there are laws, etc. in place to prevent these people from just closing their doors and opening another business where they can then rob hundreds of more people out of their hard-earned money. People have had their electricity turned off in higher than 100 degree heat. Not to mention lost cars and homes and these people DO NOT CARE! At the very least, their names should be blacklisted on this forum to make other MTs out there aware of their past behavior.

ATSI - D

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I am also a former employee of this rotten company. I emailed Dave (Shepherd, CEO) and was practically yelled at in my response like it was MY fault I haven't gotten paid yet. There has to be a special place in **** for people like this. Vent over. Thanks for listening.

What other companies do they own that might be affected? - me

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Someone said they were affiliated with Oracle - what other places of theirs will be compromised?

See message... - SP

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Does anyone know of a class action lawsuit against ATSI? I'm not holding my breath for back payment, but I was employed with them Sept '08 thru March '10 and figured I was shorted $700 (and that's being nice on my calculation). I filed a complaint with the Florida DOL and it did no good. They sided with ATSI. I do hope every MT past or present gets their fair wages and that ATSI gets what's coming to them. So glad I got out when I did. Averaging $4/hour with line counts was a JOKE!!!

If they ever do dish up their wages, they better send me a check. I gave a what-for to the CEO on my last day. Never heard a word back...bad, bad place to work.

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