Comments on: Roto-Rooter Employees Arrested In Connecticut

By: EX-RR Employee

EX-RR Employee — Sat, 08 May 2010 22:24:19 +0000

No Kidding Cyril!

I got sucked into working for Roto-Rooter as a drain cleaner…

I had to buy a van and tools….

Then they sent me to a 6 week plumbing course and they start sending me to plumbing jobs!

It’s tough when you are paid on a commission basis and they are sending you to jobs that you don’t have a license to do. Do you break the law or, starve…

Something needs to be done arresting the employees isn’t the right answer.

These guys got sucked into the Roto Rooter Scam!

By: Canadian Contractor

Canadian Contractor — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:25:16 +0000

No different than here. All it does is make the honest law-abiding people more cynical. Just wait and see what your new president comes up with in the way of “profit centers.” Unfortunatly you ain’t seen nothing yet my friend. I wish your country well.

By: Licensing is Joke

Licensing is Joke — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:40:20 +0000

The state is mis-leading consumers on a regular basis, and profiting from it. Most contractors in the state are not tested for compentency, those are the home improvement contractors. The state simply checks for felons and then takes the $160. fee to become a “registered” contractor, which then morphs to licensed. Not the same thing, if you are warm, breathing, and have $160. you too can be a contractor. I have been a HIC for 25 years, and I encourage testing to weed out the deadbeats, but when I nailed down a BO that was on a comittee to standardize testing, they determined it was too difficult to determine how to test all the people in the business, so they did nothing. To add insult to injury, when they collect the fees, they pay out any victims, which is not often since anyone victimized by an unregistered contractor is not eligible for a settlement, then they take the left over fees and add it the general fund, and start the process all over again. There’s the profit center for the state.

Then every once in a while they make an example of someone as noted in the article, so consumers in the state are mislead into thinking that CT DCP is actually doing their job. The leading source of consumer complaints is home improvement, and it has been for years. If the DCP was really paying attention to real licensing our industry would have a better reputation, and consumers would have TRUE professionals.

By: cyril masse

cyril masse — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:21:27 +0000

Will Jerry Farrell go after Roto-rooter for
encouraging employees to violate State Law?

By: cyril masse

cyril masse — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:41:23 +0000

Employees of RotoRooter? How about the Parent Corporation that
promotes this action? Is Rotorooter to big to fail? or to big
to face arrest of violations?

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