Atlanta Cap Reviews

The environment at Atlanta Cap Company was extremely tense due to the owner/boss, Richard Segars. His reign was cruel and abusive. It will take me months or possibly years to unlearn the mental outlook Richard Segars has imposed on me. Throughout the past two years at Atlanta Cap, I have lived in fear along with my fellow colleagues. The best way to describe the relationship Richard has with all of his employees is to look up ‘workplace abuse.’ He has successfully employed all of these tactics in addition to lying at every turn against nearly everyone in his life, he is the definition of a manipulator. Lying to customers isn’t the only thing he is great at, he lies about his employees to others, he lies about his life and he brags about beating his son in law senseless and cheating on his wife. Don’t even bring up race, Richard Segars is obviously from a ‘different’ time, but his discrimination extends to nearly anyone who isn’t white. Actually, it even extends to white people since my parents are both German immigrants. He would frequently make comments about wanting to hire my mother, but then would complain that he probably couldn’t have her dealing with customers since nobody can understand her due to her ‘thick’ accent. Even though she has been living in the US for over 3 decades, was a professor for the past decade before deciding to retire, it seems like everyone besides Richard can understand her just fine. I vividly recall Richard even commenting about my own mother noting he knew she was walking almost every day by his house (they live in the same neighborhood), but that my mom will only lose weight by changing what she is eating and he wanted to get her a weight loss book. Mind you, my mother was walking for the health benefits, she is not out of shape or overweight, and certainly not looking to starve herself or do “1,000” crunches and pushups every day as Richard does. I made my hardest effort to never bring up my personal life, even if he asked me, I learned quickly that he will use it against you, judge you or tell you you are doing something wrong no matter what you bring up. As for the work, it is doable, so long as he is not involved. Once Richard Segars gets involved, you might as well give up on the order. He will tell you to lie to the customers about how quickly we can get their caps produced and shipped to get an order from them and you will then be left with dealing with an upset customer and a boss who lacks any empathy with the fact that he was the one who caused the situation. He will frequently attempt to have you organize orders or requests so that he can try to keep up with them, but this is futile. He will forget these orders anyways since he was born in 1942, is already 80 at the time of writing this and has undiagnosed dementia. Part of which causes very disruptive angry outbursts, primarily at any males that work for Atlanta Cap, but also displays itself as blaming employees for things Richard may not have the mental wherewithal to follow along with. 

It is difficult to describe just how abusive this employer has been, primarily since it doesn’t just happen in a day, it is repetitive, occurs over a duration, and most certainly escalates. Initially, he is as kind as could be, allowing you to leave early occasionally, buying you food/coffee and giving you free samples. Additionally, it is isolating. I have never felt so helpless. Mainly because of how difficult it is to convey the abuse that takes place, small petty comments and actions taken throughout the time he is at the office. One example, he would only throw away trash in my trashcan at my desk, when he had a perfectly fine trash can by his desk and there was one in the bathroom. If you are a woman, I can only hope a customer doesn’t walk in and compliment you doing your job. I had a lady come in and tell Richard I was doing great as a sales person. Richard proceeds to lie and say I am not his employee, but rather his girlfriend, and then he gave me a side hug, and smile. It was extremely uncomfortable and inappropriate, I should have left that day, but I was naïve and had nowhere else to go. Please don’t let yourself get stuck here as I have, the depression, anxiety and self-loathing I gained from this man has driven me to very difficult places and I can only hope that one day I will heal.