Sean BReview ofCountywide mechanical systems,...
I feel that you can judge a lot about a company by...
I feel that you can judge a lot about a company by the value instilled in its employees. What do you get with the employees of Countywide?? Thieves. Plain and simple.
We are another contractor that has been working on the Sycuan Casino, along with Countywide. My techs had noticed a ladder that looked to be one or ours, but it was covered with "Countywide Mechanical" stickers, and those stickers happened to be in all of the places where we had marked our company name on the ladder(s). My guys had walked over to the ladder and pulled off the stickers only to find that sure enough, they had stolen our ladder, and simply put their company stickers over where we had marked the ladder to be our company property. The GC had notified Countywide, but Countywide didn't feel the need to reach out to my company to apologize or perhaps even do anything to reprimand their responsible employee.
I have nothing but respect for the employees in my company and trust them explicitly. I despise dishonesty and feel that it has the tendency to spread like wildfire in a company when you have those on your staff whom feel it is OK to lie cheat and steal. If you have employees that feel it is OK to steal from other trades, then they will also have no qualms about misrepresenting the hours worked, materials used on a project, workplace injuries and more. The cost of those things end up as additional overhead that will end up being added in to the cost that they charge their customers. I would be VERY concerned if I had this company doing work for me, since their employees have zero concerns about stealing from other trades, I am 100% certain that they would also have zer concerns about a whole laundry list of other shady practices that they would also do to line the pockets of the field workers, and the office will ultimately need to pass those costs along to the end users.
If you value honesty and integrity in work that you are looking to have performed, I'd HIGHLY recommend to steer clear of companies that would outright steal from anyone. Next it could be you.
(The picture is the backside of their sticker. After we peaked it off, it pulled off the ink with it, where my guys had marked our ladder as our company property).

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