Hey all you cable dogs out there.Watch out for a guy named Lee Laxton (Cable Associates)...He will tell you your work is great and keep you working,and when the job starts to wind down,the PAYCHECKS stop coming !!!!!! It's never his fault,(he'll tell you) it always something like.....we were working under an expired P.O.,then next week it's the P.O. was approved but the person who cuts the checks is out on vacation,then it's "you guys had a map listed twice on an invoice(like they can't look at the maps to see that it was A,B,C and D and not A,B,C,and C), then 1 time it was ,"one of the maps is missing"(six weeks after the map was passed in for invoice)......meanwhile your still handing in production....then the job is complete and he sends us too a new location,to join another job already in progress,for another contractor.Now five weeks later and still no check !!
Now after being on this new job (in his name)for three weeks,
with him never going to this site,(we did everything for him ,including running up a $900 phone bill while training and coordinating all the mappers he sent to this job)were told that our work in KY ( five months prior)was sub-standard and that were NOT GOING TO GET PAID for all the work we've done in the last 6 weeks !(for work that was done and paid 5 months prior)Now first of all,anybody that knows us ,knows that our work is not Sub-standard,and that we make very accurate/clean maps,and that we stand behind our work.Like any reputable mapper/contractor ,we fix our own mistakes for free..And second of all ,the work that he said was sub-standard was not even our work !!!! There were other mappers on this particular job (Paintville,KY)that were working for another LESS REPUTABLE contractor(Tony F./FCC Inc)and it was there work that would'nt pass muster....But Lee is holding us responsible for there work,saying that we were responsible for them,even thou they did,nt work for us ??? How is that right ????????? By the way, Tony himself was kicked off that job because his own personal maps were so bad they could'nt pass..(his people were allowed to stay).....So we're being told that all the monies that we are owed($16,795.00) are being forfieted to pay for having to have maps re-done,without EVER showing us that the maps in question were ours.. (or letting us do our own clean-up if any) Keep in mind we've been working for this guy now for 6 months and 3 locals....you'de think that if our work is so bad, he would,nt want us still working for him..Right..??? No ,this guy has the nerve to tell us that he would put us back to work as soon as he had some !!! Does that sound like we do bad work???? Anyway, this letter is much longer than I intended already, so I'll sumerize...LEE if your reading this,know that we're not done with this issue and that I WILL PURSUE YOU until you do the right thing...Either show us that the work was really as bad as you say it was(and that it was even our work) or pony up the dough that you owe us($ 16,795 + $900 for the phone bill)...At least Tony F. pays his debts (never on time ,but eventually). Lee ,do yourself a favor and do the right thing,before this has to go to litigation !!!!Because you will not win this...Anyway, all you cable dogs consider yourselves warned !!!!!
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Member #: 9243
Registered: 1996-2001
Posted:
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Name:
Michael Litz
Name:
Michael Litz
Company:
K.M.L. Comm. Inc.
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