Cox usi

[locomike]

Does anybody know how good of a company cox usi is?

[Hurricane9]

Never heard of them

Sorry.

[sprayandpray]

Cox Utility Services, Incorporated is on the Internet . I found it thru Google. Sorry, I don't know how to post the Internet address.

[bareclaw]

I know the guy that owns this company, he is a nice guy but can't say how he is to work for. Some people will be cool as hell until you go to work from them. The home office is in matthews, NC but he does a lot of work in myrtle beach, SC

[locomike]

thank you every1 for all your help.

[CoxHaters]

What Avoid said below.

[beyond help]

That's what happened to Mark. I regards to DTE (Detroit Edison), They countersued him. There was a quality clause in their contract. Needless to say. Many of his employees took it up the @$$. Mark has absolutely no leg to stand on with DTE. They do have 2 smaller contracts still in MI. The work occasionally gets done. Almost every employee he ever had that I have spoken with wants to beat the hell out of him.

[ifinditunderground]

GOod luck to all of those guys just trying to make a living.

[AvoidDisaster]

www.unionconcrod.org will take you to the Union county, North Carolina Registrar of deeds. Acknowledge the disclaimer and proceed from there to search for person Mark Konwerski. The deed and auction at the Monroe, NC court house steps of the deed on July 17th 2008 will be viewable. This is public record and available to all interested parties for viewing.

[sprayandpray]

My advice is this. Take it or leave it.

If you are working the worst possible job on earth that you can think of, for the lowest pay you can imagine. With no possibility of advancement or a raise in your lifetime. If you are surrounded by toxic waste and have no protective clothing and no medical insurance. You would be better off staying where you are than taking a job at any company Mark Konwerski is associated with.

Mark Konwerski is a big talker that flashes shiny new things and the promise of unlimited opportunities to impress potentially new techs. But he delivers on nothing. That includes your pay. He is out of shape, dresses like a leftover 80's geek, likes to think of himself as a hard worker but rarely does anything but mess things up, and lies so well that satan takes notes every time he opens his mouth. And those are his good attributes. No joke. Salvage your livelihood, your family,, your bank account and your sanity. Stay away from Mark Konwerski unless you are suing him!!


I can't believe ya'll would talk about the Sic1 like that!:not_ripe:

[beyond help]

I can't believe ya'll would talk about the Sic1 like that!:not_ripe:Now thats a low blow.

[Empty Can]

Sounds like a former employee that wants to sit and whittle some wood with his ex boss. I have never seen someone so obsessed with a former employer and I have been in this business for 8 years and have seen locators get screwed and screw over. I used to work for imark in western NC and OH. Maybe I wasn’t there long enough to suffer when things went bad. Anyway I never had a problem with the guy but the guy that’s whining sounds like he wants his bosses pry bar in his man hole.:cry:

[beyond help]

Sounds like a former employee that wants to sit and whittle some wood with his ex boss. I have never seen someone so obsessed with a former employer and I have been in this business for 8 years and have seen locators get screwed and screw over. I used to work for imark in western NC and OH. Maybe I wasn’t there long enough to suffer when things went bad. Anyway I never had a problem with the guy but the guy that’s whining sounds like he wants his bosses pry bar in his man hole.:cry:I never worked for the prick. But what he did to his employees was utter :censored:.

[AvoidDisaster]

The record speaks for itself.

[CoxHaters]

Amen to that!

At least I still have my house. And the only "emptycan" I know of is the konwerski house on Shalford Ln.

In my opinion, anyone that works for this guy is an idiot. But the decision is yours to make. Why take advice from a perfect stranger?

[AvoidDisaster]

When you are faced with possibly going to work for a small potato locating company like CoxUSI it your responsiblity to your family and yourself to investigate them in detail before making the decision. The decision made in haste can be devastating and have long felt consequences. You need to determine the financial stability of the company to insure payroll, gas, insurance and other short term responsiblities can be met. You need to know what the past history of the person running the company is so that you will not be part of a failure (as we are all creatures of habit and continue to do the same things over and over again) and you need to know if there is enough cash flow to see the company through increases in things like gas prices or construction downturns as the ticket volume will decline and with it revenue. If there is not adequate cash flow then there is probably not adequate funding to develop new business offer growth opportunities and compensation increases. This will all affect you as an employee directly and worse yet, your families.

[AvoidDisaster]

Lets keep it at the top! It is much more exciting that way!

[AvoidDisaster]

I was thinking CH. If I lost my house and had a horde of people looking for me but wanted to save face with my business associates in the industry that did not know I lost my house, I would probably do something like this.

Lets say (soley for the sake of examples) I had a $675,000 dollar house I was foreclosed on. I would find a bigger house nearby on a street named after a ... a... a... flower! Yes! That's what I would do. Of course, it would be a house the builder could not sell because of the real estate market or power lines or something similar. Lets say something in the $849,000 range. I would offer to lease purchase the house with terms something like, oh say $16,000 down (which I would get by not paying my employees and vendors) and 4,000 or so a month (to cover the builders construction loan for twelve or twenty four months) with a percentage of that for rent and a percentage towards the purchase, with the purpose of building equity over the term of our agreement. Knowing I would not be able to finance the house after that period because my credit would have been destroyed by the foreclosure for at least seven more years. But miracles do happen! It would be a good strategy to help me hide from creditors because nothing would appear on my credit or in the registrar of deeds for the lease/purchase (Making it difficult to be found) until I could find another means of screwing the next guy!

I would probably get a house something like this one which I found on the MLS today. It is a public site and viewable by anyone. No fees or anything to search. You should take a look. http://www.ihsrealty.com/NorthCarolina/Charlotte/769012

What do you think? Is this a good idea? *This is a fictional example and any similarities between the fictional story and real life individuals is purely coincidental*

[CoxHaters]

And you would not have a purely fictional flower in mind would you? Just for the sake of artistic creativity? If you do, please pm or eamil it to me. It would be appreciated by many.

[AULupstate]

AvoidDisaster, I like where your going with this. I too am on the 'vine' due to a company 'promising' all kinds of stuff with very little follow through. I've been here a year and three months after finding this outlet and telling the entire locating community here about what I and some others were going through with that company. Believe it or not this forum was VERY VERY effective in resolving the issues we had with that company. Soon after I put all the information out there (that was 100% true, no libel or slander) they stopped their operations ALL TOGETHER (at least on the level they were operating) and I haven't heard very much of them since. Also I made phone calls to my local Congressman's office and mentioned several other offices I would call if the problem wasn't resolved. My guys and I ended up very happy with the results.

If it is 100% true that CoxUSI is a shady company and hurts the people who actually do the work and makes the company money, USE THIS FORUM TO RUN THEM INTO THE GROUND! If you do it right and name names, facts and show evidence what ends up happening is you effectively cut off any future employee possibilities for that company. The more information that gets out the better, more 'former' employees get in touch with you and therefore more people for the cause. This industry is small enough that word travels and CoxUSI WILL feel the effects of your efforts. Obviously the owner knows about this (due to locatorjobs.com) and I am SURE he has heard about or has read your posts.

Think of this as the 'Locators Freedom of Information' Forum and let these shady companies and owners know that We DO KNOW what is going on and they will NOT get away with HIDING and screwing more hard working folks over.

[AvoidDisaster]

Amen!

[AULupstate]

Good for you guys! Keep up the fight and get satisfaction out of it!

Why is it SO hard for some of these people (who own companies) to understand Loyalty only goes as far as the check clearing at the end of the week? RULE number 1. Don't F**K with the paychecks. It doesn't take a business major to figure that out!

As I said, I feel for you ALL. It's a lesson that sucks to learn but it becomes so valuable down the road.

Good luck to you.