Beware of Audcomp Computer Systems in Ancaster

 I came across an add by Audcomp  Computer Systems in Ancaster for the Marketing co-ordinator ( Media Marketing Designer) position that is posted right now January 27^th 2012 on Job Bank.

I got hired here along with another girl for about 3 weeks before we were let go and told that it wasn’t working out. 

For 3 weeks these guys had us staying till 10pm every night to prepare  for an IT Conference building a website and over all execution of the conference. I remember the other girl who got hired with me. This girl was supposed to make designs for the site and whatever this poor girl came up with, Gary said that it wasn’t’ good enough (after she got fired, they used her designs anyways) I was there putting together not ONE, but TWO sites for these guys. 

They bought a site developer program for about $80 and wanted me to make their site look like HP. A site that probably spent close to a million dollars Gary Sohal (Owner) wanted me to make it look like HP.  I worked my butt off for 3 weeks, I would stay at the office until 10pm, then come home and continue. As a guy who was trying to prove himself, I got very little sleep those 3 weeks.

They made an impossible amount of work that needed to be done, this way you work as hard as possible and they also have an easy way of firing you.

Gary Sohal wanted me to build 2 websites, call wineries to get free wine for the conference, make a video, write up articles and update their website. This of course is designed for a team, not ONE person.

I also spent my own gas money going to the Niagara District School Board to look the part of an “expert” marketer so they can sell their conference. Of course I wasn’t reimbursed for my gas like promised.

These 3 weeks was the worst job experience of my life and I’ve worked at Dofasco in the coke ovens.

After the girl had been fired I had this weird feeling that this job wasn’t going to end so well.

As I came to the completion of the two sites, the very same day that I completed the second site, I was asked to come into the office and told that “this wasn’t working out” and of course both my sites were used for their IT Conference. The funny part is that Gary brought his wife and kids into work that day. 

I guess he wanted to show his kids how to fire people and make them feel worthless. 

What these guys do by the looks of it, is that they hire a young and upcoming Marketing employee who wants to prove him/herself and then use and abuse them until they get what they want or  just quit. Either way history shows that it’s not going to end well for the employee.

I see that the Marketing Co-ordinator position is being posted again and I’m going to assume to help with their bogus IT CONFERENCE or some other project that needs to be done in the next couple of months ( in a hurry).

I also would like to thank them as well because I ended up with the most amazing job I can dream of and it was them firing me that lead me to it.

 I have nothing bad to say about any of my past employers in the last 15 years I have ever worked for, but BEWARE of AUDCOMP COMPUTER SYSTEMS in Ancaster. 

Every person hired or interviewed by these guys should know what you’re getting yourself into.

If they think they can just mess with people’s lives, then they should also know that eventually people will start talking about it.

I remember one day Gary called me into his office and started screaming at me because of my "horrible" writing; I would like him to critique this piece. 

This is my experience and I can only hope to save some other young person out there who is trying to make it and will be chewed up and spit out by Audcomp.