Dr. Dot International Massage + Chiropractic team |
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Consumer reviews about Dr. Dot International Massage + Chiropractic team |
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JROd2003
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Jan 3, 2012
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Applicant mind games
she's not even a licensed massage therapist. She's a groupie for peeps sake. I highly doubt she went through any training program. Idk how she gets away with this complete and total unprofessionalism. I love rock music, but she's making it look like ppl in rock are a complete psychopath
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JROd2003
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Jan 8, 2012
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Applicant mind games
but idk if that is true if shes a groupie nad not licensed, thats what i have been told
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LMT19
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Jan 13, 2012
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Applicant mind games
I’m glad I checked this. I signed my contract and she sent it back to me because I didn’t initial each page. I have not yet sent my $40 initial fee or ordered the dr.dot shirt. I was going to ask her about the 1099, but assumed that she had to send that to all her independent contractors. Each massage practice that I have worked for has issued a 1099. So if she doesn’t give you a 1099, how does she do her own taxes.
I had a similar experience as IrishCarBomb.
I made an apt with a tester. He clearly didn’t want to do it and only did one gig himself. He was very nice to my face and I liked the guy. He said so what are we doing, I said “I assume a practical. I brought my sheets.” He just sat down with me and was saying the $1/minute. I said, that’s not what was posted on her add for $120. So I said I wanted to call Dr.Dot.
I called her and she said that the tester said that I showed up late and my nails were way too long and he was way too chatty. I said and I should have shut him up. I wrote back, “you must have me confused with somebody else, because I showed up 20 minutes early, I had my sheets and told him that I was ready for a hands on. He just wanted to chat in his waiting room.”
She got mad at him and said she was taking him off the list (he’s still there). So she had me see another therapist who was a friend of hers. Her comments were that I didn’t wear a holster. I haven’t worn one since school, but told her that I would use one. She liked my drive and tenacity and hired me. I wonder if a lot of therapists stop before this point because she is quite aggressive and curt and they don’t like all the steps. Perhaps she is hiring me because, through 2 negative experiences, I was still pushing to get hired, which makes me think she’s not maintaining a lot of therapists. She says she has close to 500 people. How does she do that without issuing 1099s.
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carter76
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Jan 25, 2012
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Applicant mind games
This Dr Dot woman is a complete bleep! I paid her the initiation fee, bought her t-shirts & paid to have her flyers mailed to me (all of which was roughly $80). I haven't worked a single gig since I was hired. She is so incredibly rude & if you don't follow her long & exhaustive list of instructions, then she treats you like an idiot. She constantly complains about everyone making mistakes & doing the wrong thing. She is never pleasant & mostly a PITA. AVOID THIS WOMAN & HER COMPANY LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!
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BurningBright
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Mar 15, 2012
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Applicant mind games
Yep same here! I saw red flags when after applying they asked if I did "deep tissue work, " which considering the modalities I had listed, it was clear that I did. Then it took a total of 16 days to get any information about the job and set up a "audition.". I wrote a polite email saying I didn't think the company appeared to be run very well and I wasn't interested. Dot immediately responded saying how they needed people in my area and to please try out. When the reviewer said I needed to bring my sheets and a table to the tryout (where there was already going to be a table) I called boundary. Also said a copy of my licensee was required on the spot. I said scheduling was too tight for a table (because the requirement struck me as ludicrous) and my license was actually online.
I got a 9 out of 10 on the review and rated an "awesome." and said I was best massage she'd ever had. The reviewer (was very nice and it was a great albeit free treatment) and Dot showered me was abusive emails that night because she couldn't figure out to check my license online (it required typing in my last name... that's it... really) and apparently not bringing a table rated among a 7 deadly sins in freak out and blow things out of proportion land.
After the 5th or 6th illogically rude and abusive email I wrote her.
"No thanks on the job, I am very careful who I work for and it appears we are not a fit."
And she responded.
"You are correct. We only hire people who follow instructions."
There was no reason for that other then to be mean for the sake of being mean... NO THANK YOU
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Squishy Tomato
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Mar 16, 2012
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Applicant mind games
She's no nicer if you're an actual client wanting a massage. I was working abroad and needed a massage for a chronic sciatica problem; her company was recommended by a client of my massage therapist in my home country. I went to the website and picked a therapist who lived nearby, and filled in the online form to request an appointment. I didn't hear anything back for 3 days, then finally I got an email from Dr Dot asking if it was ok to be seen by a male therapist. I don't care if a therapist is male/female/an alien as long as they can do their job well. So I said that was fine. Over the next 24 hours, I got put in contact with a different therapist from the one I had requested (who in the end turned out to be female) and booked an appointment. My regular therapist in my home country had offered to send on my medical records to the dr dot therapist so that I could get the best treatment for my condition, and so once the appointment was booked, I gave my old therapist the email address of the new one. The next morning, I had a very angry email from dr dot (cc'd to my regular massage therapist) that I was not allowed to pass on the contact details of her therapists. Furthermore, the dr dot therapist had complained to dr dot, on receiving an email from my regular therapist, that she wasn't medically qualified to deal with my problem, and recommended another therapist. So dr dot cancelled my appointment, and told me I must make an appointment with a 3rd therapist, and I was not allowed under any circumstances to pass on her email address to anyone else (apparently she was only sharing the email address with me "to be nice and save everyone some time"). I didn't like the rudeness of her email, and the fact that she'd been rude to my regular therapist, who is very nice and competent. Furthermore, I was actually in a lot of pain at this point, and was unimpressed at being passed between 3 therapists over 5 days. But most importantly, I was no longer confident that I could trust her therapists with my body since a) some of them appeared not to be medically trained and b) she was more obsessed with protected her therapists' contact details than ensuring that I got the best and safest treatment for my medical condition. I also cc'd her on an email to my regular therapist, apologising for the whole episode, and explaining that I didn't know it was a policy of dr dot that I wasn't allowed to pass on the email addresses of therapists. dr dot wrote back another angry email to me saying "How rude!!!" and that it should be HER i was apologising to for "spreading her contacts", and not my regular massage therapist. I wrote back "I am not psychic! Other therapists do not have such a policy about passing on contacts". She wrote back "Our therapists are not like "other therapists". Clients are lady gaga, rolling stones, etc. Stop contacting us". So apparently, if you're less than an A-list celebrity, you don't matter. Needless to say, I was very upset about the whole episode... I certainly don't advise anyone with a serious pain condition to book an appointment with this company...and I would question the competency, medical safety and ethics of anyone who works for it.
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Squishy Tomato
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Mar 16, 2012
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Applicant mind games
p.s. i apologise for the strange formatting issues in the last post - apparently my computer does not like apostrophes
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unBOTtled
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May 10, 2013
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Payback's A D...
The woman behind Dr. Dot, an international massage enterprise, is a brilliant marketing mind and an equally inept people-person. She saves the charm for her celebrity clientele and is meanwhile an abusive cyber-screamer to the minions who do her hard labor. You as the "independent contractor" are the invisible hands that perform the massage and therefore inflate her "massage therapist to the stars" rep and build her business. Just check out her site:
A member of her "team" is known as a "Dot Bot". The password to her Dr Dot employee site is "BEHAVE". The entire Dr. Dot environment is made to make her workers feel like non-entities who need to tow the line before you can access her spectacular stable of celebrity clientele. A massage therapist looking to make some extra money and meet some big name musicians and artists is dazzled by the initial premise of Dr. Dot's beckoning business.
If you choose to work for her, here's some anatomy you need to have: A) Thick skin B) A backbone, and self-respect.
She will take every opportunity to berate you for not following her confusing instructions, or reading and knowing her muddled code of conduct. Or replying unnecessarily to her texts. Or not replying unnecessarily to her texts. If you attach the wrong photo to your gig contact e-mails. Or asking stupid questions. Or asking ANY questions. Or if you don't send her percentage of the massage gig fee in the time frame SHE wants it (forget that you have three days in which to do it).
If you have booked and completed a gig and have gotten good feedback, you have started to prove yourself valuable. That is where the backbone comes in. You need to call her out. Communicate that you don't respond well to cyber screaming and give you a break. You're doing your best. You'll be surprised. She doesn't have too many people that stand up to her and call her out. The more her MT's do that, the more likely something will shift. Because right now the people that work for her endure her negative, toxic environment and don't enforce boundaries about being talked out of money they were promised at the beginning of a gig; or gigs that they were once booked for being yanked out from under them.
Until then, it seems like it's only a matter of time before an angry mob of ex-Dot Bots reports Dr. Dot's illegal, unlicensed use of the Red Cross logo on her brochures, t-shirts and website to the Red Cross, which fully prosecutes illegal use of its iconic logo. Also, reporting to any Office of Finance in any city where Dot books massage therapists for gigs and earns a percentage of those gigs, the fact that she pays NO TAX ON ANY of those massage/chiropractic gigs.
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