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So let me tell you all a little ditty.
about 3/4 weeks ago, I met Michael John Copeland online. On myspace to be exact (but I could've met him anywhere-people are crazy these days.) He seemed nice, we talked a few times, then talked online, talked on the phone etc.
I exclaimed that finding a job in Jacksonville is so fucking difficult and I'm so sick of searching for a position that I can be happy with and enjoy and make some sort of MONEY to pay my bills. He told me the "company" he works at could hire me (Cogent Communications) as a trainee for Inet Security. I thought COOL, I NEED A FUCKING JOB. Then he told me the hourly rate at which I'd be starting at ($20/HR), yes, even I thought yeah the fuck right! Well after a week of haggling with the "HR" department-not me personally, but HE was supposedly talking to the "HR" dept., I took a little trip downtown to make sure this place was ligit and actually exsisted. Well-IT DID. It was located @ 200 W. Forsyth street.
That made me feel better...
so, after a week of the HR thing and "calling my employers"-I finally started studying LINUX operations and logging into the "company's servers" to log the time I'm online and studying to get paid.
Mmmhmm.. that was ligit too. I was logging in and it was logging my hours worked.
To Friday rolls around (payday) and that's the day I should get paid. I logged my hours myself too to add them as I went to see what a paycheck would look like (47.something hrs). Oh, and I also get TIME AND A HALF FOR OVER 40 HOURS. so anyway, I totally get the run around in regards to getting paid.
With the "HR Dept" I supposedly couldn't be hired on yet because I have a suspended license and can't "drive" to work. That's fine.. "they" said when I paid the ticket I could get on payroll. Okay, fine with me. So Michael Copeland's big idea is to pay me out of pocket for the first week and pay the ticket and get on "payroll" the next friday to where a check would be cut for me from the business I was employed at. Okay, little weird, but whatever.
So I FINALLY got this check lastnight. $927.00. Okay great.. the creepy part: it's a PERSONAL check from his "boss." He was farting around in the car before he got out for a few minutes which was a little fishy. So I thought lastnight: I should call these people in the morning to make sure this is okay (meaning, the check is correct and ligit.) Well I had forgotten about that great idea today and went to the bank. Luckily my checking accnt with Vystar was closed because it was negative for so long. I called Matt, and he said "fuck vystar go to bank of america and open a new account with them, blah blah blah.." I told him I wanted to go to the bank that the check came from and wanted to cash it there that way I would have CASH in my HAND and wouldn't have to wait 5 days for it to be processed (the whole idea was to pay my ticket ASAP.) Since my checking accnt was closed, I was going to put the $ for the ticket into Matt's account and he could pay it for me tonight.. yeah, didn't work out.
I went to the bank the check came from. I told the nice little lady I wanted to cash it. She said she'd come right back.. she didn't come back for like 10 min. finally she comes back and says she needs to get "approval" for the check amt.
....... <--- that's my response
I thought, okay, whatever, it IS alot of money and all.
So I wait.. and wait and wait. Finally some OTHER lady comes out and asks me to come into another area to talk. I was like, uh.. okay. So we go in there and "talk."
She tells me the checking account that check goes to is closed, and the signature is a FRAUD. And there I am, trying to cash it. She said it wasn't my fault because I didn't know...didn't know what you say? Didn't know that Michael John Copeland is a con-artist and has stolen over 5K from his parents-in-law. When him and his wife were living with the parents, he had stolen their checks and started forging them and depositing them into his WIFE's account. Little does she know he really wasn't working, he was stealing the money from her OWN parents saying that that's his paycheck.
Finally they closed the account in March. Well, he wrote me this enormous check amount perhaps thinking that the account was still open, but it wasn't. So there I stood, with a check in someone else's handwriting who's been arrested and put on some sort of "easy probation" because he's an idiot. I technically would've been arrested, but I clearly had NO fucking idea WHAT was happening and WHY.
The bank lady knew I had nothing to do with it, and all I had to do was write a statement. So I filled it out, and went on my way (an hour and a half later) home. So I'm here, jobless, YET AGAIN and my ticket's STILL not paid.
I did a little research today when I got home, and called Cogent Communications HR.
they never heard of Michael John Copeland and he's never been employed with the company.
I've been had, and feel awesome about it.
If anyone wants to speak to him, or EMAIL him (no potty mouth, there's an investigation going on against him because of his idiotcy), you can contact him in these ways:
his email address is: michael.copeland@gmail.com
and myspace address: http://www.myspace.com/michael_copeland
he IS married, and DOES have a baby.. that's the ONLY truth I know of him-other than his name, because I met the baby and her grandparents today when they showed up at the bank to confront me.
about 3/4 weeks ago, I met Michael John Copeland online. On myspace to be exact (but I could've met him anywhere-people are crazy these days.) He seemed nice, we talked a few times, then talked online, talked on the phone etc.
I exclaimed that finding a job in Jacksonville is so fucking difficult and I'm so sick of searching for a position that I can be happy with and enjoy and make some sort of MONEY to pay my bills. He told me the "company" he works at could hire me (Cogent Communications) as a trainee for Inet Security. I thought COOL, I NEED A FUCKING JOB. Then he told me the hourly rate at which I'd be starting at ($20/HR), yes, even I thought yeah the fuck right! Well after a week of haggling with the "HR" department-not me personally, but HE was supposedly talking to the "HR" dept., I took a little trip downtown to make sure this place was ligit and actually exsisted. Well-IT DID. It was located @ 200 W. Forsyth street.
That made me feel better...
so, after a week of the HR thing and "calling my employers"-I finally started studying LINUX operations and logging into the "company's servers" to log the time I'm online and studying to get paid.
Mmmhmm.. that was ligit too. I was logging in and it was logging my hours worked.
To Friday rolls around (payday) and that's the day I should get paid. I logged my hours myself too to add them as I went to see what a paycheck would look like (47.something hrs). Oh, and I also get TIME AND A HALF FOR OVER 40 HOURS. so anyway, I totally get the run around in regards to getting paid.
With the "HR Dept" I supposedly couldn't be hired on yet because I have a suspended license and can't "drive" to work. That's fine.. "they" said when I paid the ticket I could get on payroll. Okay, fine with me. So Michael Copeland's big idea is to pay me out of pocket for the first week and pay the ticket and get on "payroll" the next friday to where a check would be cut for me from the business I was employed at. Okay, little weird, but whatever.
So I FINALLY got this check lastnight. $927.00. Okay great.. the creepy part: it's a PERSONAL check from his "boss." He was farting around in the car before he got out for a few minutes which was a little fishy. So I thought lastnight: I should call these people in the morning to make sure this is okay (meaning, the check is correct and ligit.) Well I had forgotten about that great idea today and went to the bank. Luckily my checking accnt with Vystar was closed because it was negative for so long. I called Matt, and he said "fuck vystar go to bank of america and open a new account with them, blah blah blah.." I told him I wanted to go to the bank that the check came from and wanted to cash it there that way I would have CASH in my HAND and wouldn't have to wait 5 days for it to be processed (the whole idea was to pay my ticket ASAP.) Since my checking accnt was closed, I was going to put the $ for the ticket into Matt's account and he could pay it for me tonight.. yeah, didn't work out.
I went to the bank the check came from. I told the nice little lady I wanted to cash it. She said she'd come right back.. she didn't come back for like 10 min. finally she comes back and says she needs to get "approval" for the check amt.
....... <--- that's my response
I thought, okay, whatever, it IS alot of money and all.
So I wait.. and wait and wait. Finally some OTHER lady comes out and asks me to come into another area to talk. I was like, uh.. okay. So we go in there and "talk."
She tells me the checking account that check goes to is closed, and the signature is a FRAUD. And there I am, trying to cash it. She said it wasn't my fault because I didn't know...didn't know what you say? Didn't know that Michael John Copeland is a con-artist and has stolen over 5K from his parents-in-law. When him and his wife were living with the parents, he had stolen their checks and started forging them and depositing them into his WIFE's account. Little does she know he really wasn't working, he was stealing the money from her OWN parents saying that that's his paycheck.
Finally they closed the account in March. Well, he wrote me this enormous check amount perhaps thinking that the account was still open, but it wasn't. So there I stood, with a check in someone else's handwriting who's been arrested and put on some sort of "easy probation" because he's an idiot. I technically would've been arrested, but I clearly had NO fucking idea WHAT was happening and WHY.
The bank lady knew I had nothing to do with it, and all I had to do was write a statement. So I filled it out, and went on my way (an hour and a half later) home. So I'm here, jobless, YET AGAIN and my ticket's STILL not paid.
I did a little research today when I got home, and called Cogent Communications HR.
they never heard of Michael John Copeland and he's never been employed with the company.
I've been had, and feel awesome about it.
If anyone wants to speak to him, or EMAIL him (no potty mouth, there's an investigation going on against him because of his idiotcy), you can contact him in these ways:
his email address is: michael.copeland@gmail.com
and myspace address: http://www.myspace.com/michael_copeland
he IS married, and DOES have a baby.. that's the ONLY truth I know of him-other than his name, because I met the baby and her grandparents today when they showed up at the bank to confront me.