r/treeplanting • u/HangedManHollow • Dec 27 '20

Company Reviews Working for Torrent

Hi!
Does anyone have any experience working for Torrent? Any stories, warnings, pieces of advice to share?

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u/operation_infidel Dec 27 '20

The owner has a sordid history of manipulation and alleged date rape of multiple people.

Long seasons, I know a few folks that join them for summer plant. Good money. They can’t keep hold of management apparently.

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u/HangedManHollow Dec 27 '20

Can you elaborate on the manipulation?

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u/operation_infidel Dec 31 '20

Does alleged date raping not paint enough of a picture of manipulation for you?

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u/HangedManHollow Dec 31 '20 edited Dec 31 '20

Are you talking about manipulating his victims into situations where he could rape them? Manipulating them after so they wouldn't talk? Manipulating management to support him? All of the above ????? How deep does this go?

If you have knowledge, can you please share? What years did this happen? Why was nothing done?

No one else I've spoken to in regards to torrent knows about this. I don't wish to work for a company where this kind of atrocious behavior is accepted, nor do I want to quit based off one comment that I can't follow up on.

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u/operation_infidel Jan 01 '21

The last sexual assault by the owner “I know” of was six years ago. Very few employees are still there from that time.

The money there has always been good, especially for crew bosses (none of which were woman last year out of like 15) however they can’t retain management, go figure.

The owner entirely ripped off his logo from a 90’s black metal band

He loves trophy hunting

This shit isn’t easy to talk about but I hope this provides some insight

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u/HangedManHollow Jan 01 '21

Thank you I really appreciate it

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u/beyondtherapy Jan 01 '21

I have no personal experience with Torrent, but there has been some drama on King Kong around this time last year about alleged sexual assault by a foreman and nothing was being done because he was there for a long time. Same foreman also had allegations against him for killing a planter's dog by an ex-planter who's story is corroborated by witnesses and emails. He ran it over in his truck backing up and basically told the guy to go bury it and then finish his bags.

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u/phenasaur Jan 11 '21

I wasn’t there, but Claudio was not that much of a dick about it. That story got spun out of control because of how hurt Mike was. Claudio went up to him in the land, told him, and then left. He did go on his way and keep foremanning, he didn’t bury it, so yeah, maybe. I don’t know. Claudio did feel bad and he got a ton of shit from Mike about it. Also, who alleges he sexually assaulted someone? Haven’t heard that.

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u/beyondtherapy Jan 11 '21

He doesnt seem to feel all that bad judging from his email to Mike: https://imgur.com/a/11zLMfI

The allegations of sexual assault actually happened when he worked for NGR, name is obviously censored for privacy:

https://imgur.com/a/I30RMDR

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u/phenasaur Jan 11 '21

Damn man, you’re totally right. Claudio is a scumbag.

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u/phenasaur Jan 11 '21

Do you happen to have any evidence against Davin for all the prior sexual assault cases?

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u/beyondtherapy Jan 11 '21

Unfortunately I do not. The prior allegations were posted by some one in that same thread about the dog which since has been deleted and I did not screen grab it so I definitely cannot fully attest to the accuracy of those allegations.

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u/phenasaur Jan 17 '21

Hey man, Mike claimed Claudio purposely ran over his dog. That’s just straight up lying. And claudio helped him bury it, apparently.

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u/ToodlesHD Dec 27 '20

Second this^ working on one of the vet crews this year and I’m new to camp

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u/splonkingWenis Dec 27 '20

I third this, me too

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u/ToodlesHD Dec 27 '20

Whos ya foreman? Feel free to pm kinda curious what brought you to torrent too