My husband plowed snow for SAL's this past winter because Stephen Lopez (the company's owner) was a business contact of his and offered him the extra work. We were expecting our first child and my husband took the job because he knew Steve and we needed the extra money.

Steve was an extremely volatile man on the job, and all the workers knew to not get on his bad side - which was apparently very easy to do. Once the work was done, Steve never contacted my husband to give him his pay. It took much longer than the 30 days he promised my husband (as well as the several men whom Steve had my husband recruit for work) for Steve to actually pay, and that was after my husband had to call him several times. He also conveniently short-changed my husband by several hundred dollars. My husband let that slide because at the time he wanted to be able to work with Steve more in the future and did not want him to be annoyed with him. Steve also promised my husband that he would be paid from the time he arrived on the site to the time he left, but later contacted the friends my husband had recruited and claimed that they were only being paid for the time they got to plow - which totalled only a couple hours, even though he made these men sit in an office for over 20 hours waiting for a plow to be free.

When the time had long since passed for Steve to pay my husband, he intentionally avoided my husband. When my husband did manage to get a hold of Steve, Steve would swear at him and tell him "this isn't a priority for me." It was as though he thought my husband did the work for him because he just loved him so much and wasn't actually expecting to get paid for it.

Eventually, Steve told my husband to meet him at his house so he could pay him. My husband went by, rang the doorbell, and Steve threw the door open and started swearing and threatening my husband for ringing his doorbell - even though he had told him an hour earlier on the phone to meet him at his house. He threw a check at my husband and told him that he was gonna "put a bullet in his head" if he heard from him again.

Since that time, Steve has contacted my husband about 3 times out of the blue, slandering and threatening him. He has even left messages for my husband saying derogatory things about me and our 4 month old son. I've never even met or talked to the guy. He's attacked our religious beliefs on numerous occasions as well - whatever he can get a hold of. Steve no longer comes to the meetings that several business in the area hold on a weekly basis - I would assume because he is embarrassed. He's practically had to cut ties with several business contacts in the area because he is too ashamed to be in the same room as my husband. And yet he still continues to send my husband abusive messages and phone calls. If you are considering using this man for snow plowing or excavating, I would warn you that he is an extremely abusive and hot-tempered man, and he does not make good on promises. I would not recommend anyone ever work for this man. My husband and I are most likely going to have to take out a restraining order against him because it's gotten to the point where I am afraid he will try to come by our home.