If you have ever had your car parked by Avia Luxor Valet and Limo, I suggest never doing it again.
I worked for Dana for the last 7 weeks, at first 4 days a week then two. I would drive to downtown Birmingham each one of these days to get to work. It was a long drive, but I was told the pay would be decent so it wasn't terrible. After working for a little over a month, I requested my first pay check (I was told whenever we wanted, he would meet us with the check). No response that day, and later on says he can meet later the next week. For three weeks straight, he dodges my request for a check. This man owes me around $400.
Yesterday, at work, he stops by to pay a different employee. I ask him for my check, and he tells me he will write me one. He then asks where my company shirt is (One that I was never given) and I tell him he never gave me one. He says he will go out to his car and grab me one. He gets in his car, and leaves without paying me. I text him asking why I wasn't paid, and was essentially told I will not be paid for 7 weeks of work because I wasn't wearing a company shirt (One I was never provided).
At best, Dana is unethical in his business practices, but I also wonder what kind of state or federal laws he is not complying with. (Like perhaps hiring an employee with a suspended drivers license to valet cars, or not taking federal and state taxes out of the employees paychecks who actually got paid). I even attempted to go to his office address provided on his business card to collect my check and it is the address for a nail salon in Lee Branch.
I have spoken with several former and present employees of Dana Patillo, and I am not the only employee with these experiences. If you look at his Yelp, it has posts from other former employees about him not paying them.
He is paid to provide valet services for both Sky Castle, and Amore. Yet he cannot afford to pay his own employees. This man's integrity is worth nothing.
I am not going to let him get away with scamming people. And for future employees he preys on, research before you work for him. For future businesses considering doing business with Mr. Patillo, I would also ask you to research if this is the type of person or business you want your establishment to be associated with. read more