Stamford, Connecticut based internet service provider Frontier Internet wants my hometown to know that if you sign up for their five-gig service you get a free $300 Visa gift card.  So excited are they to share the news that a representative of Frontier shouted it through my door last week, after I had refused to open it.    THE reverse ding-dong-ditch had me back at my desk in less time than my father would have needed to throw out a sales rep who came into the store withou

When paint manufacturer Kelly-Moore was shuttered during the Charles Gassenheimer affair the victims were spread across paint’s landscape, the vendors and employees of that company who had become incidental to Gassenheimer’s greed.   And amongst the employees was a special class of victims, ones who lost more than just their jobs when Kelly-Moore was exploded.   In the months leading up to Kelly’s demise field reps whose vehicles came off lease were instructed to acquire th

A week off  the Sherwin-Williams beat helped lower the temperature of the beef I was sharing with the trolls I've attracted on a sub-Reddit for Sherwin-Williams employees  since I began investigating wage theft at that company.    Though they're still serving it well-done.     In an effort to find cost reductions Sherwin-Williams is piloting a new position in the field, that of a Multi-Store Manager who as the name suggests will, “oversee the operations of multiple stores wi

There’s more you can do to affront an Italian than just speaking to them in English and ordering a cappuccino in the afternoon , though both of those would do the trick.   You can eat your spaghetti with a spoon or take too long to give way to a Beemer serpentining the Autostrade , either of which might garner a hand gesture from the offended native.  One you won’t need Tony Soprano to translate .   But breach protocol for food and you risk more than a side eye or hand gestu

One of my trolls on the sub-Reddit for Sherwin-Williams employees believes I’m a shill for the competition, only investigating wage...

On Monday Pittsburgh Paints eliminated operations managers from their paint stores division costing 75 people their job.  Predictable...

It seems likely that in the three weeks since Sherwin-Williams chief executive Heidi Petz announced that her company would no longer match their employee’s 401(k) contributions that I have spoken to more Sherwin employees than the company’s chief executive.   But if she wants to know what they’re saying, she can read about it here.   Since that news broke I have been contacted by several hundred employees at Sherwin-Williams with titles ranging from Vice-Presidents in Cleve

Ranked by economic impact wage theft is the costliest crime in the United States totaling more than $50 billion in 2019, the most recent...

Last week Sherwin-Williams chief executive Heidi Petz  emailed her more than 60,000 employees to let them know that their company would...