We worked for Tiffany & Tim Mathison who are the on-site
managers at Las Casitas Mobile Home Park in Casa Grande, Arizona. Discover
Properties LLC are the property management company and the owner Stuart is
somewhere in California, we never dealt with neither of them, only the on-site
managers.
We accepted the offer to work
for a mobile home park that is in major renovation. Jerry was supposed to be
doing piece work in renovating the mobile homes, while I was supposed to work
in the office with some other projects, but things did not work out. The
managers are newbies to this lifestyle and need to take some classes to get
better skills in managing so, unfortunately, we were only there a few weeks
when we left for several reasons…
There was disorganization in
every aspect of the job, nothing was ever completed on time due to lack of
leadership. Management was unprofessional regarding the “Peyton Place”
atmosphere. If you were not in the office, they were gossiping about you, but
when you walked in, conversation would cease, and they would be all smiles and
phony, very back stabbing attitudes. The language that spewed from their mouths
constantly was improper in the office environment. Taking all business calls over the
speaker for all to hear, including calls with their attorney about current
litigations, calls with tenants having difficulty paying or complaining about
the shoddy work that they did on their trailers, and/or never completed. During
several conversations it was brought to our attention by the manager that
anyone who lived there was “trailer trash” and then she referred to us as
“white trash” …we took offense. We are full time travelers that do it in an
older rig, but to say those words directly to us casually in conversation and
think it’s okay is beyond our comprehension.
She never took the time to
begin to train me, several times I was told a time to come in and I would show,
and she would forget or have some other excuse to not be in the office. She had
someone working in the office who the boss told her to fire, but she never did
so she continued to have her work because as she said, she just didn’t have the
time to train me. It was annoying showing up just to sit and listen to the
gossip, I charged her for all those hours, and she didn’t want to pay me, but
if you tell me a time and I show and you don’t give me any work, that’s on you.
Jerry’s was constantly redoing
their errors, given incorrect paint colors several times insisting it was the
right color, only to have to repaint again and again. Being pulled from his
piece work due to tenants move in deadlines not being ready and him having to
jump in and help. It was annoying but we wanted to give them the benefit of the
doubt since they were newbies.
Our site was a dump, broken
glass everywhere and not at all level, beyond anything we have ever seen. A
huge hole dug up next to the water and sewer connections that we had to fix
ourselves before we could have any water or sewer. None of that time was ever
paid to us.
The final straw was when our
payday passed without a check and excuses and finger pointing in every
direction but their own. We got bad vibes because we witnessed several
conversations about declined company charge cards and the boss telling them
they were way over budget. We went through hell pushing to get our check and we
felt that it would only get worse and we are not willing to work for free. Once
we finally got our check, we went to the bank and cashed it with some
hesitation from the bank, but once we finally had cash in hand, we let them
know we were leaving and left.
There were hours Jerry worked
that were not included in our last paycheck, so I sent her an email, and this
was the response.
Wow, how petty, especially
knowing he did this work! No wonder why they can’t hold onto any help and that
they are getting sued by several people. The good thing we now know is we did
do the right thing by leaving and what goes around will come around and they
will get theirs from their own karma. We are good with us and how we handled
it, they, well not so much.
It’s all about accepting the
outcome of the choices you make, we choose to see the light.
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