CABL Forum - George Hernandez

BEWARE: George Hernandez, His father and Crew, worked for ADELPHIA in El Centro. Got laid off or Fired don't know which, Hired them on Dec. 21,2005 to do DirecTv Installs. They did 1 install on the 22nd and 2 installs on the 23rd. Told me to schedule them 6-8 jobs starting on the 26th. Scheduled them 6 installs on that Monday, they no showed and no call. Scheduled them 4 installs on Tuesday, 11am George shows up and says that they quit.

Issued them materials to do the installs to be payroll deducted, ie. 1 roll of dual RG-6, 2 bags of PPC Compression fittings, and 10 Quad Ground Blocks.

They demanded that I pay them for the installs that they did, $300.00. Told them that the pay would be on the 18th of Jan. which is the next pay period. They said if I didn't pay them by next Tuesday Jan. 3rd, that they would disconnect the customers that they installed.

I have no problems paying my techs, but I'm a small company and pay when I get paid, which is every 2 weeks. With them quitting the way they did I got charged back for missing the installs that they were scheduled to do, and lost the money in materials that were issued them. I will pay them the monies owed to them minus the materials on the 18th as stated.

Just wanted to post this because they said that they were hired by another company somewhere in Southern California, So anyone out there if you know this name and his crew, Be warned.

Am I wrong for not paying them before the installs were paid by the retailer? If I fired them, I would have had a check for them that day. But they were a no show for 2 days and Quit. I'm interested in hearing anyones thoughts about this.

I hate posting bad things about any company or persons, But I don't like being threatened to pay for work done.

Again, Please post your thoughts on this subject.

Thanks, Cablewolf

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