Ampa Events
Ampa Events Overview
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Ampa Events has a 3.0 star rating from 2 reviews and mixed sentiment; consumers note strong customer service variations and recent recommendations saying stay away.
Key Takeaways for Future Customers
- Check Ampa Events reviews and confirm pricing in writing before booking.
- Expect variable customer service and verify equipment availability ahead of events.
Negative Feedback / Risk Areas
- Frequent customer complaints about overcharging and billing disputes.
- Reports of rude owner behavior and staff turnover affecting service consistency.
Positive Feedback
Several customers praised event setup quality, decor, and some professional on-site staff who helped successful events.
The generated data is based on reviews and questionnaires provided by PissedConsumer.com users.
Ampa Events has a 3.0 star rating from 2 reviews and mixed sentiment; consumers note strong customer service variations and recent recommendations saying stay away.
Key Takeaways for Future Customers
- Check Ampa Events reviews and confirm pricing in writing before booking.
- Expect variable customer service and verify equipment availability ahead of events.
Negative Feedback / Risk Areas
- Frequent customer complaints about overcharging and billing disputes.
- Reports of rude owner behavior and staff turnover affecting service consistency.
Positive Feedback
Several customers praised event setup quality, decor, and some professional on-site staff who helped successful events.
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Terrible company
- - Operations are disorganized.
- - Job description is bait-and-switch; tasks exceed the role.
- - Boss is rude, belittling, and demands long hours.
This is the worst job I have ever worked. There is a good reason why there are so many job postings from this place.
Nobody wants to stay. And I'm pretty lenient in how I usually perceive former jobs but this company is purely unreasonable to the employees. Early after just starting I started having a bad feeling about how things were operating when I saw how disorganized and inconsistent things were. The job description is a bait and switch.
A lot of things in the job description were not part of what the boss expects from you. You are basically expected to do a little bit of everything and more instead of your job position alone and if anything doesn't go right it's your fault.
The boss is very rude and will take advantage of everyone. He expects you to work very long hours and often time adds more demands later in the day taking up your entire day.
"We work to live." He says this a lot as a sort of justification for being so demanding. It's more like 'live to work' in his world.
He's never wrong, you're wrong. And he treats people with disrespect and is very impatient all the time and belittles people constantly. I think he enjoys putting people down to give him a power trip. I've never seen someone yell at people for standing for more than 10 seconds all the time.
The longer you talk to Ted, the more things he will pile onto you and even expects you to do things after work hours. If he says this event setup is going to take no more than 6 hours, he really means 14 hours. This is not an exaggeration. Facing this so frequently forced me to change my evening plans and infuriated me.
Even when I resigned the boss told me to come back and said I would eventually like the job. He didn't show any concern about what went wrong with me because he's never wrong apparently.
User's recommendation: Stay away
Stay Away From Them
- - I applied to Ampa Events years ago after a layoff.
- - The art director Cyril Suaris was unprofessional on a phone interview and blamed the job post.
I applied to Ampa Events many years ago as I got laid off of my last tech job. My ex-coworkers my former employer at the time (whose name I won't mention out of respect) talked all sorts of trash about them.
Well, with the interview that I had along with what they said, they were correct. When I did the over the phone interview with their art director, Cyril Suaris, the guy wasn't a gentleman. He was very unprofessional in asking me certain questions and in general. For example, when he asked me how to make sure that a frame is square (even), I told him many different ways to check.
Then he said that there are more ways and to ask my former boss (before I got laid off) and to give him a call back. Then he gave me a nasty attitude about the position that I applied for making it look like it was my fault that the job post didn't get taken off of www.backstagejobs.com. After the interview, he called me offering a different position and I simply declined. I know the difference between a stress interview and someone with a social problem.
If Cyril Suaris mistreated me during an over the phone interview, I can only imagine what the rest of the staff is like.
If I really wanted to work with people that were fried in the brain, I'd apply to be a corrections officer or for a position in an insane asylum. Not an event company.
Warrenton, Virginia
Misogynist *** of an owner
- - The owner Ted Rubis is described as misogynistic and egotistical.
- - The only positive review is by his office manager.
Every negative comment that has ever been said about the misogynistic, out-dated, egotistical owner of Ampa Events, Ted Rubis, are the truest things you can read on the internet. The only positive review you can read here was coincidentally written by his own office manager.
He is happy to take advantage of people while claiming to be a Christian man.
His most loyal employees are treated to the highest levels of disrespect. It is unfortunate that Ted Rubis continues to do business.
- Owner
I didn't stick around the company for long after seeing so many red flags all over the company. I'm glad to see I dodged a bullet and everyone that left off was in fact true according to reviews like this.
It's crazy to think the job description for the position I applied for was supposed to be Monday to Friday usually office hours but after coming on board I'm expected to work every other Saturday too. And these were LONG Saturdays. They really ruined my plans. Working with him on the field was horrible.
What was supposed to be half a day ends up being more than a fully day of work and he nags at everybody for standing around more than 10 seconds. He's often talking about how he should have fired this/that person long ago or saying if this doesn't get done it's your fault. Or complaining about client requests. Talk about negative.
Also the office/warehouse itself is horribly disorganized. The other employees there also look unhappy and just follow everything the boss says.
Chantilly, Virginia
WORST COMPANY
- - The reviewer says Ampa Events lies to recruit staff.
- - The owner is described as screaming, lying, and verbally abusive.
If you are thinking about working for Ampa Events, think again. They lie to get you in the door, then flip the tables on you.
The owner screams, lies, verbally abuses his employees. I have no clue how they stay in business. I ruined my contacts by working there because NO VENDOR wanted to do business there. The place has the worst reputation, but he owner has the biggest ego, and ego that makes NO ONE want to work for him, with him or around him.
The constant verbal abuse of the employees, vendors and clients is unreal. I have never seen a company run this way.
Completely agree. The job position I applied for was a bait and switch.
After I signed on, the things I was supposed to do in the description were suddenly back burner things. The software they wanted someone qualified in was something they didn't have and weren't going to get any time soon. And I was expected to do a whole bunch of things that weren't in the title position. The guy I was shadowing was doing WAY too many things and working crazy hours.
He seemed like a total yes man to the boss. I wasn't going to stick around to become like him. It didn't help that the owner treats everyone like they are lazy teenagers. I saw him yell at someone for taking a drink of water because something needed to be done right now even though it didn't matter.
He just likes to yell at people for any reason. I got out of there pretty quick and after reading all the other things online, I was right about my suspicions about him.
Ampa Events did an amazing job
- - Ampa delivered service, products, lighting, and pricing.
- - The owner and staff were nice and helped us; setup staff arrived next morning to take down.
I'm leaving a review because I read the other negative reviews about Ampa Events and I totally disagree. They did an amazing job helping me with a party.
They gave me great customer service, design, products, lighting, installation, and pricing. The owner and staff were so nice. They worked with us to make sure that we got everything we wanted. The set up staff were professional and made sure we were all set once they were done.
They arrived again the next morning, right on time, to take everything down. Everyone loved the decor and lighting.
We had a wonderful time. Thank you Ampa for making our party a success.
Overcharges clients and lying
- - Overcharges clients for unperformed services.
- - Labor costs are overestimated; equipment is junk.
- - Owner treats employees and clients poorly.
This is th most unethical company I have ever been involved with. AMPA CHARGES clients for things that are not even done.
LABOR cost are way over estimated and the equipment is junk and the owner treats employees and clients like dogs. Stay far far away from this company they will overcharge and sulley your event. If you are a state funded school or university it is standard practice to charge extra. Thank you ampa for screwing th tax payers of Virginia for your own gain.
The owner is a complete know it all and should not be in business period. Use any other event company.
AMPA events has AWFUL service!
- - Booked Ampa Events six months for our son's Bar Mitzvah.
- - The decorations arrived different from what we ordered, and the owner overcharged us.
We booked Ampa Events, Richmond Virginia, about six month's in advance of our son's Bar Mitzvah. As we entered the party, about an hour before the start time, we discovered that the company decided to send completely different decorations than those we ordered.
The on-site planner was fabulous, but didn't know that the company didn't even own the equipment that was sold to us months before by a salesperson who had left the company.
It was too late to hire another company. The owner of the company refused to answer any of our phone calls or emails then overcharged us!
I could only stand being at that company a short time. It's also sad that someone wants to micromange that business so poorly.
The lights circuit breaker blew during a "father/daughter" dance during a Wedding Re-vow reception. Poor decisions.
He refused advice and lost 2k in revenue because he ignored a lighting tech's advice. I feel sorry for anyone still working there...
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I apologize if I offended you. I really am.
My interviews are very casual and not formal. I do that primarily to help the candidate relax. I am sorry if the interview did not go well for you. If I called you back to offer you another position that was available it meant, I was making the effort to offer a job you would succeed at the company and then grow into the position that you applied.
It was my approach of a foot-in-the door.
I was trying to be kind. I did not have to do that.
After reading your comment, I can see how perspectives can be different and can only learn form this.
I respect your comment.
Nevertheless, I will always have this approach to go out of my way if I can help.
I wish you all the best for your future.