Comments on: Personnel Concepts’ marketing: Out of compliance?

By: guest1

guest1 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:18:00 +0000

I don’t even own a company or have my own business and I still received a letter from Personnel Concepts. Just a regular hard working citizen. PCI = POS.

By: dmelomo

dmelomo — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:52:00 +0000

I agree! I’m manage a small business and struggle to keep our heads abouve the water. I’ve been getting these for a few years, not really understanding why we’re getting these notices. I’m so glad I took the time to finally read what has been going on. Thank you, reviewers! I still don’t understand how they are getting away with this. Seems to me the powers that be are not doing their job.

By: sha_g

sha_g — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:39:00 +0000

yeah right, maybe you are the manager, stop trying to justify theivery. we are not against someone sending a marketing letter, just be honest about it, the letter I got scared my wife and I knew it was a con, and studied it for a minute and figured it out. Thats what put bad taste in my mouth, had they been more honest and not feined a givernment notice, and been upfront i might have considered buying a poster or two, not same day maybe but at least down the road, this really pissed me off as we are struggling to survive in this economy and dont need any more needless mentallly depressing notices.

By: sha_g

sha_g — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:37:00 +0000

Personell Concepts should be ashmed of themselves for sending scary looking out of compliance letters to business owners, I have no idea how you people are still in business despite your deceptive business practice, I say you should bring yourselves into compliance before asking people to dish out money for some posters, by sending people official looking letters from the Dept of Compliance. I wish I could see someone from PC face to face so I could really let them know how I feel, with a knuckle sandwich. Shame on your company, shame on the people who work for you and especially shame on the owners.

By: sha_g

sha_g — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:27:00 +0000

they are sleazy scumbags who should be put out of business, if this is not fraud i dont know what is…

By: CD

CD — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:28:00 +0000

Thank you Mr. Budget. You guys saved me a lot of time and hassle.

By: Deb

Deb — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:48:00 +0000

This is my 2nd notice from these opportunistic weasels. The
mailing appears official but I work for a non-profit and we’re scrupulous about
labor laws and have a lawyer to insure we do not misstep. I don’t know how they
found me—I’m a children’s librarian and have nothing to do with compliance but
this scary-sounding crap really, really ticks me off.

By: Mr. Budget

Mr. Budget — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:35:00 +0000

I wanted to send you all this link to let you know that the NLRB has issues a new posting requirement for employers. Sometimes you get ads from companies wanting to charge you for the new posters, but they are all available free from the government. Here is the link for the new poster. http://www.nlrb.gov/poster It goes into effect January 31, 2012.

By: fed up

fed up — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:33:00 +0000

I work for a small non profit in MA and Personnel Concepts badgers us on a weekly basis. They have been extremely rude and condescending on the phone and are selling posters that WE DO NOT NEED TO POST. All you have to do is go to the government’s website and look for what is required to post. 70 dollars?? We were sold a package of posters for $250.00!! And the majority of them we didn’t even need! 70 dollars IS a lot when the “threat” of a fine is bogus because you do not need to post them OR can get them for FREE off the government website. It is just not right and I do not agree at all with Personnel Concepts tactics and as someone personally on the other end of the weekly sales calls/scare tactics I am fed up completely with them.

By: Fiercereader

Fiercereader — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:44:00 +0000

I just started working for Personnel Concepts. I had no clue about these marketing practices until someone in training asked a manager about it. The manager seemed touchy about the subject & I could tell it’s something not to be discussed. I need a job. I’ve been unemployed almost two years. I dont like this company’s tactics, but my baby has to eat. Businesses can print posters off the Internet but they are responsible for keeping them up to date of face penalties IF caught. By buying a poster, Personnel Concepts will continually contact clients to update them about compliance changes. For a out $70 to avoid up to $17,000 in fines is nor highway Robert.