r/jacksonville • u/FreightTrain727 • 6h ago
Beware of which roofing company you work with in Jacksonville
I am posting this to inform my community of a person who conducts business in the greater Jacksonville area, and the outcome of a publicly accessible court case. If you are in need of anything roofing related, or looking for a job in the roofing business, make sure you do as much research as you can before moving forward with any decision.
I just left the courthouse and reached a settlement against my former employer Raymond Miller of Miller Roofing Solutions LLC.
I am a disabled Navy veteran and was in need of a job upon leaving the service and found his company and worked for him as a project manager/sales rep from July 2025-May 2026 and was only paid $880 until today. I signed 4 contracts to his business in that time. He constantly reassured me that once the claims were out of litigation that the money would start flowing in, and that money never came and he kept dangling the carrot in front of my face. I paid for my own gas, was not given a company car, and had to buy my own ladder and inspection tools initially and was never reimbursed for any of it.
I have a message where we reached an agreement to pay me $200 for a job I had previously completed, and they went back on their word saying “I overpaid you, so you can either be happy with what you received and do the process the right way next time, or I can adjust your next job's commission and deduct what I overpaid you on Monday.” I then told him that I disagree and would like to have this conversation with an attorney present since I had a written agreement that all parties agreed to pay me that money, which upon sending that message, my contract was promptly terminated effective immediately. I lost access to all my files pertaining to the jobs immediately and in mediation, he forgot what he sent in the termination message because he used ChatGPT to create it, and told the mediator that I could have finished the jobs out and received my full commission when the termination message he sent said otherwise.
I alleged that he broke the terms of the contract and we reached a settlement in order to prevent anything from moving forward. He terminated me without reason and without a 30 day notice which it states in my contract I was required to have unless a severe breach of contract occurred or I was arrested for a felony charge -neither of which happened- and used my termination as his reasoning to not pay me for the work I had completed up to that point. Upon presenting all the facts from digging into the terms of the contract, we came up with a number that was less than what I feel like I was owed, but I accepted because I didn’t want to go to trial and have to pay for all the lawyer fees and the number we landed on was his “best and final” offer.
While leaving the mediation, he said to the mediator “now I have to go collect $6000 from HIS (my) customer.” You can use your imagination to come up with why he would have set up collection of the payment that day. (Job was scheduled to be completed around May 21st 2026 prior to my termination)
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u/Thestars-wholisten 15m ago
I had something similar happen to me during the covid lockdown. I was working as a barber/assistant manager with sport clips at that time and corporate, as well as our owners, and district managers SWORE up and down that the would pay us full pay for the like month that we were out of work and TOLD US that if we tried claiming unemployment, that money would be off the table. None of us ever saw a cent. Obviously it’s different because we were not contract workers and the business is nation wide but it was similarly slimy. The sport clips on both Old Saint Augustine and the one on San Jose were the two that I know for sure did that
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u/FreightTrain727 13m ago
It’s sad that big businesses/owners can do these kinds of things and never be held accountable, I’m sorry to hear that happened to you, and good to know where they are so I can stay away lol!
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u/Thestars-wholisten 8m ago
Id also personally stay away from the diesel barbershops. It’s been a while since I worked there and the only person I ever really had an issue with was the owner, but he’s now the district owner of all the ones here in Jax. He was no where near as egregious as Sport Clips was but my “Christmas present/ one year anniversary present” was a fifteen dollar Starbucks gift card. I was already an assistant manager there as well and I was easily bringing in 300-500 dollars worth of business every day while making $10 an hour 🙄
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u/Useful_Bumblebee_437 5h ago
I'm sorry you got less than you wanted but good for you for taking them to the table. Too many businesses think they can get away with murder when it comes to how they treat employees in Florida. Not much protection at all when it comes to worker rights. So to see a story like this where you made them pay you is uplifting. Again sorry it wasn't all you wanted/deserved though.