Company: MOVIE GALLERY

Location: US

URL: http://www.moviegallery.com/

Category: Other

As a Movie Gallery employee of the last year-plus, I have witnessed a lot of underhanded schemes in an attempt for the company to cut corners and save their bacon prior to the restructuring.

They have eliminated all incentive programs (advance orders, special orders, discounts, free rental with points accrued, play on guarrantee, ) AND raised prices!

Their Discount Rental Cards machines routinely add on amounts to purchases, and continue to do so LONG after the problem has been reported multiple times.

The computers rarely EVER accept codes for discounts or credits or coupons; in some cases even adding cost onto a customer's existing total. Again; weeks and even MONTHS later the problems remain unfixed!

This entire past year, myself and several others who requested "EXEMPTION" from federal and local tax withholding did not have our wishes followed. Even though the appropriate federal documents were filled out and filed!

Movie Gallery was in posession of all those monies--presumably to earn some small amount on interest?--and then supposedly turned the money over to the government (we'll see) and is now "unable" to give back the money they wrongfully took!

I'm in contact with both the IRS and the Georgia Department of Revenue to find out my options.

But as Granny always said; for every one bad thing you KNOW someone has done, you can expect there's ten MORE things you don't know about.

Perhaps they should have staved off purchase of a company with millions in debt instead of putting screws to the little peopl with the nickel-and-diming.

Oh, and Movie Gallery makes SURE they only have people working 39 hours a week, so there is no possibility for overtime, health insurance, vacation time, sick leave, etc. Even once you have been trained for a Manager-On-Duty position, the potential raise is only .25cents. (from minimum wage.)