Ron E.

A recent story reported on the news concerning the fleecing of toll fees by the states toll collection system inspired me to write a review of how and what this corrupt state does to people along with the many lawyer firms in both Pierce and King counties that refuse to help a citizen with a legitimate legal issue because the citizen cannot first come up with $20,000 dollars in order to get justice.
I'm a former Pierce and King County employee that first worked at Chambers Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant as a utility worker until conditions at the plant made me sick. I had to open a workplace illness claim and that got me targeted, then railroaded. Seeing the "writing on the wall" I began studying for my Level 1 Plant Operators license, which I obtained successfully in order to find a new job.
The Level 1 Operators License landed me a job at West Point Treatment Plant in King County where conditions were strangely and shockingly unsafe due in part to an aging infrastructure inside the treatment plant, but also because of a dangerous culture that existed within the plant due to the hiring of felons by what was described to me as a "secret program" run by the Washington State Department of Ecology to employ felons. I found out about the program due to a verbal slip up from another employee. The odd part of this is that criminal records are public information that can be looked up, which I did. Turned out I was working next to a man that murdered a woman in cold blood. A bit shocking, right?
Doesn't matter you say, right, because they've served their time. I agree, but disagree with it needing to be secret program that King County lied about in presenting hiring criteria that stated drug screen/background checks because felons are not hired... What I witnessed was a culture and attitude among these people that was carefree and dangerous. The pencil pushing of important maintenance duties on the part of many that was a regular occurrence and later proven to be the case after the plant was destroyed in a flood, due in part to faulty float switches that had been improperly maintained for a long time and incompetence on the part of operators onsite at the time of the flood. King County was extremely lucky no one died in that flood!
I was not present for the flood event that destroyed the plant and left millions of gallons of untreated wastewater flowing into the Puget Sound. I wasn't there for the flood event because I quit due to unsafe conditions, one of which I reported openly to Washington State Labor & Industries. I happened to be on duty the day important work was completed on the plants wastewater disinfection system, which treats water before its discharged out into the Puget Sound. As the disinfection system was being brought back online to work, one of the sodium hypochlorite pumps was in air-lock and not working, which is critical.
I was given a directive to loosen the union connection on the pump in air-lock in order to bleed the air out and get the sodium hypochlorite flowing. I should not have been asked to do this very dangerous task. The operators were not trained to open live pressurized pipes containing deadly sodium hypochlorite that can burn you, blind you etc. I go ahead and loosen the union to the pump and almost immediately the sodium hypochlorite begins to flow, "with pressure". The toxic chemical begins to spill out with pressure gaining by the second. With one last burst of strength I was able to turn the union joint enough to slow the leak way down, hand tools accomplished the final torque. This is a situation that NEVER should have occurred. Several days after that event, a section of 10" steel pipe that had been bolted shut with sewage sludge still inside of it when it was sealed, exploded. Biological activities go on inside sludge where methane gas builds up. It's common knowledge in the wastewater industry, but yet somehow these people lost that important fact from their brains when bolting a steel cap onto that sludge pipe. WOW!
That was the final straw. I could no longer work in such a dangerous place, so I quit due to unsafe conditions and took my case up with Labor & Industries as well as Unemployment Department. I applied for and began receiving unemployment payments. King County disputed that, which led to an "Administrative Court" date done by phone, with a judge and all parties. Unfortunately at the time of this Administrative hearing I didn't yet have the results back from Labor & Industries investigation concerning the safety violations. I explained that to the judge during the phone hearing, asking for more time in order to receive it, that I believed it would clear me of any wrong doing. The judge denied me that extra time to receive the report from Labor & Industries for whatever reason. The judge sided with King County, which ended my unemployment payments and left me with a bill to pay back of what I had received to that point. About a month after that I received the final results from Labor & Industries. Their investigation showed that the plant operators are not trained to open up sodium hypochlorite pumps, and that it was the plant mechanics who were supposed to perform that task as trained for. Once I received this report I sent it to the Unemployment Department with a letter to dispute the previous ruling. After about another month I logged in to check unemployment and was shocked to see the bill disappeared, but then why wasn't I able to have my payments restored? The form they send to you when you apply for and get unemployment gives you a dollar amount figure that you've "earned" through years of work that will be available for you to receive. Mine was in the $30,000 dollar range. Before they cut my payments I had received a little over $3,000 in help. Why didn't I get the rest of my unemployment? Because this state is the most corrupt in the country. Why isn't the Federal Government addressing crap like this? Because they're also corrupt!
I was seriously wronged by both Pierce & King Counties, have the documentation to prove it all, yet because I couldn't come up with $20,000 dollars, you get no justice. My life was totally destroyed by both Pierce & King Counties and yet no lawyer in either Pierce or King County would even look at any of my documentation or proof. Made it through an illness caused by the treatment plant at Pierce County that took months to get over, which required an excess amount of CT scans to my head (sinus infections) to see if the illness was improving. They were found to be liable in the end because I had never suffered from chronic sinus infections. They had to cover my required sinus surgery and missed time from work. That success gets you railroaded from your job with no recourse unless you have an extra $20,000 laying around to get justice. So shocking, the lack of justice in this country. Can't be a great country when you kick the honest, hard working people to the curb, and then deny justice in an obviously corrupt situation involving the workplace where we make our lives happen. That's not America or American, so all you slimy attorneys out there that think in your shallow brains that you're serving some great purpose, or great country, or the "justice" system in your non-justice serving occupation, then you're just not thinking clearly. You don't serve any kind of justice, you only serve greed and disparity. Don't know how you slime ball attorney's live with yourselves, honestly. You do and are doing a great "injustice" to all of us people and also to democracy.

Be very careful when it comes to these sites like WiX that help you set up your own website. I had a descent multipage website on WiX for a number of years until we got hacked. What was shocking was that we received no help whatsoever from any of their various customer service departments. They are difficult to get a hold of anyway, let alone needing to reach them for help in what we felt was a serious issue. We couldn't get any representative from their security department to even email us. My opinion, which goes along with my ridiculous experience now is that so much of our personal information is out there that these slimy companies that specialize in the exploitation of people can use that information to know our financial status. When they know your financial status and that you can't afford "justice" because justice in this lame country now costs a lot money to hire lame lawyers that are all about "money" not justice, well we're just up the creek without a paddle! Seriously, be very careful if you're planning on using a site like WiX or GoDaddy to make a website, especially for a business because they do not provide legitimate security. Oh, and by the way, google was absolutely no help either. Totally ridiculous treatment of average people trying to make progress in life. Don't patronize bad businesses!

Have been an ebay member for over 20 years as both a buyer and a seller. Recently wanted to sell again, but could not get help in resolving what I believed to be a simple issue. They're very good at setting up your credit card for "payments" very quickly, but when it comes to setting up a bank account in order to "receive payments", well that's just not something they are concerned about in any legitimate way. I called in many times, each time trying to make the question as simple as possible, but still no help, just circle talk, silly questions not pertaining to what my simple issue was. I finally gave up and decided to just go ahead and delete the account, 20 plus years of feedback and all, just flush it. But oh wait, turns out they have to like and approve "my choice" on that, so I'm feeling fairly comfortable in saying that of course they won't close the account that is mine, right? With my personal account info, payment info, banking info etc. Just another rich persons greedy business that specializes in the manipulation and exploitation of the average ordinary everyday person. I'm done with this slimy auction site, regardless whether they approve of my choice to close it or not. That is something they should be sued for like "yesterday", not closing an account when a customer chooses! Ridiculous!

We ordered windows in August of 2021 and still don't have all the windows. You definitely should not order anything from this company. Windows that arrived had major defects that were very visible to the eye, which begs the question of why a company would knowingly send out defective products to customers that have paid and are waiting for their windows to complete a project. You'd think the company would put extra emphasis on the remaking of a defective window that missed its original delivery date by two months. I think the Washington State attorney general should be looking into a company with such poor quality products that not only can't deliver, but sends out windows with obvious damage with the intent and hope the customer who's in a bind with time will just accept a defective product, or hope a contractor will push it onto a client that doesn't know about the defective window. This company looks like its going out of business, and if I could push it the rest of the way out the door... I would. They've completely screwed our project. Never again with ply gem!

I'm a tmobile customer with a prepaid account that called 611 customer service with a simple question that wasn't understood by the customer service representative. I then asked for a manager at which point I was hung up on. I tried to call back several times, but the call kept being disconnected before connecting. I tried to make other calls to different numbers, but calls still would not go through. I decided to try voicemail and it did connect to my inbox, but was now in Spanish, which I do not speak. I had to do a factory reset on the phone to get it back. Once I had the phone back online it was fine, but still didn't have my simple question answered by customer care. I now understand the difference between a prepaid account, which they will not provide true customer service for, but also conduct malicious actions to the phone if they don't like or understand your simple questions. I'm seriously shocked that a customer service representative is able to disable a phone without a legitimate cause. People should beware of these things and demand better customer service from an extremely greedy company that doesn't care anything about its customers, or the service they provide. As far as they're employees, they just need a job and don't care what types of things that they help inflict on people that affect paying customers accounts. It's totally time to start moving away from these greedy, foul cell phone companies that specialize in exploitation of people. Fact! Tmobile is corrupt and unfortunately the dollar is king in this racist imperial country, so there's no remedy, no organization like the FCC that will do anything about these companies because they are all increasingly irrelevant in providing any remedy or leadership for what's actually right and proper within their businesses. When will the people of this country begin to move away from all these greedy companies that are more a part of the huge problems in this country rather than a tiny bit of solution and relief for customers that they have the ability to provide, but choose not to do as it would lessen "profit margins". Very bad and scary experience! Did not choose tmobile for cellular services!