The Shopping Bag/ Rochester Advertiser-Peter Stahlbrodt review: Hostile Work Environment 4

I strongly recommend that anyone responding to Peter Stahlbrodt's employment advertising in his black & white flyer to avoid him. Peter has all of the diagnostic traits of a sociopath: callous disregard for the rights of others, pervasiveness, apathy, manipulative lying, superficiality, grandiosity, and inability to act consciously.
I responded to his ad a few months ago. He has about 16 cubicles in his small building in East Rochester. There are only 3-4 full-time salespeople. The business has existed for over 30 years. His product is a black-and-white advertiser/flyer that goes directly into residential mailboxes every week. The front and back covers usually are the only places with colored ads. The flyer has been getting thinner and thinner as prospects move toward online, radio, and other media for their advertising needs.
However, Peter's reluctancy in resolving his performance problems has been poor. Peter's conduct as a boss is grotesque; he profanely abuses his remaining agents with chronic profanity, shouting bouts of rage and his fists pounding on his desk. This behavior was constantly observed during my brief time there as an inside sales agent.
Peter also engages in crude, vulgar, and discriminatory bashing against previous agents who no longer work there. One particular agent was named Christina who may have moved to a competitor such as Clippers Magazine. I quote him during one of his many explosions when he said, "THAT F------ING N----------R!" If you approach him about his comments, then he will smile and brush it off. Peter literally lacks a conscience. During my 29 days there, Peter violated several labor laws which should be reported. Such laws are: Title VII, Fair Labor Standards Act, and the NYS Tort of Emotional Distress. The HR person basically turns her head whenever Peter committs his devious behaviors. Peter's favorite words include: f$#%, F------ING, and S^&%. The ---ING one is most commonly used every 4 minutes when he walks through the aisle and during his morning meetings. Yes, at 9 am this man cannot grasp a higher vocabulary than a truckdriver can. I am afraid to see him under alcoholic influence.
Peter really believes that his cheaply printed advertiser will generate more leads for contractors than media sources. This explains his grandiosity. His printed lists of prospects are 85% useless because they are mostly businesses that no longer exist, previous contacts that worked with previous Advertiser agents who also quit or got fired, and accounts with no phone numbers. Peter will scream about not making enough calls or not rebutting rejections or not pitching the right programs. However, Peter fails to realize that his product is part of an old way of avertising. He is metaphorically trying to squeeze juice from a lemon with a dull set of pliers, and then boasting about results that are improbable to happen.
Peter also profanely cusses at his small staff. He refuses to listen to their feedback and disregards their concerns, unless their comments have some relevant interest to him. Do not fall for his smiles or weak promises of a high income. He said that I would earn $35, 000 my first year in. He was very convincing, though his work environment said a different story. Please do not work for this man!
To further my proof of his callousness, look at a court case online in which Peter was the plaintiff and appellant. The defendant was the NYS Tax Agency. Peter tried to sue for unfair taxation on his product, alleging that the Shopping Bag was also a newspaper too and subject to tax exemption. The Supreme and Appellate Courts confirmed the dismissal of his complaints. Basically, Peter tried to evade paying taxes on his flyer services. The courts won through the 90% rule. Read at Cornell University's website or Google the search under "Peter Stahlbrodt court case". The actual document and case number is printed online and available to the public. STAY AWAY FROM THIS GUY!
And, the two good people I worked with there should have better treatment. Please offer them the chance to be employed somewhere else if they get the shaft too!