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> Jessica would ignore my best practices recommendations (...) and promote her “gonzo style” writings that were often filled with typos and grammatical errors. > I don’t when or how the money became an issue Typos happen.
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"Sunshine is the best disinfectant." This might be counterproductive in some instances, but if something doesn't smell right, I'll try to blow it up and make all the dealings very public. I mean, there are no personal feelings involved. You are paying me to be a worker. No pay? No work.
Scumbag Startup: "We fired Screwed Employee for cause."
Screwed Employee: "No you didn't! It was retaliation."
Scumbag Startup: "Sure we did. Look at what he/she posted publicly after leaving the company. Screwed Employee behaved similarly around the office and was negatively impacting the work environment."
Hey guys, just wanted to clear the air on some of the speculation: I'm actually with WrkRiot and can guarantee you we're not the company in question: I've got many weeks of paid on time pay stubs sitting right here. Plus we didn't have anyone matching any of the descriptions in this article. Interesting article though, it's really shitty some have bad experiences like this.
> Plus we didn't have anyone matching any of the descriptions in this article. So you don't have a CEO whose headshot in the Team page is a bulldog? Or a Facebook page full of SpongeBob memes for that matter?
Welcome to the club. It's pretty much a rite of passage here to spend some time with a psychopath VC, a completely self absorbed CTO with a rich investor dad that fuels his fantasies, or an idiotic CEO with an ego problem, and to pay the price for it (just time if you're lucky, time+money if you're not). I've encountered this myself several times (down to the CEO using hire fast fire fast as a mantra), and judging fr…
Agreed. Startups are incredibly hard, and this can bring out the best in people... or the worst. Just like you, I'm early on in my career. I appreciate the incredibly valuable and lifelong lessons that I've learned from them. I feel that in the long run I'll be better off for them since I know exactly what to look for to identify bad situations before I'm in them, and how to protect myself if I do end up in one. Most…
I'm 42 and at the other end of the scale. To me the line now that "it's a good learning experience" and "I'll know better in the future" are just ways of saying "I'm making mistakes".
From someone who has been there and done that, best not to make the mistakes in the first place. I had strong ethics to begin with and compromised them many times because I thought that's what you had to do to get on. I was wrong.
Learn from listening to experience and watching others fail or succeed, much smarter.
You can never have enough advice before making decisions. Find successful people you trust and listen to them.
Much easier than having to go through your own hassles.
You'll be happier.
How did a company with 17 employees manage to get 9 H1Bs?
This stood out as well. I'd wager that those 9 Chinese employees might be misled about their legal status.
Hey guys, just wanted to clear the air on some of the speculation: I'm actually with WrkRiot and can guarantee you we're not the company in question: I've got many weeks of paid on time pay stubs sitting right here. Plus we didn't have anyone matching any of the descriptions in this article. Interesting article though, it's really shitty some have bad experiences like this.
How did a company with 17 employees manage to get 9 H1Bs?
This stood out as well. I'd wager that those 9 Chinese employees might be misled about their legal status.
Now, given everything else here I wouldn't be surprised if there was fraud involved in getting the H1B visas issued, but that's separate from the question of whether people who think they have H1B visas actually have H1B visas.
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This stood out as well. I'd wager that those 9 Chinese employees might be misled about their legal status.
Wouldn't that get caught at the airport? I mean, when someone arrives and says they have an H1B visa, USCIS does check, right? Now, given everything else here I wouldn't be surprised if there was fraud involved in getting the H1B visas issued, but that's separate from the question of whether people who think they have H1B visas actually have H1B visas.
However, if the founders are willing to forge money transfer receipts, and given all the other hijinks in the post, I wouldn't put it beyond them to bring over engineers on a tourist visa, instruct them to not tell immigration they're coming to work for some BS reason, and then mislead them by telling them that their H1B is being processed when in fact it isn't. Or something along those lines.
I really feel bad for them, along with the author of the article.
Hey guys, just wanted to clear the air on some of the speculation: I'm actually with WrkRiot and can guarantee you we're not the company in question: I've got many weeks of paid on time pay stubs sitting right here. Plus we didn't have anyone matching any of the descriptions in this article. Interesting article though, it's really shitty some have bad experiences like this.
You do have someone matching the description in the article. Here's a description from the article: "The last time I checked the team page on the site, Michael changed his profile picture to a bulldog." On your staff page, your CEO is using a picture of a bulldog: http://www.wrkriot.com/team-1/ In case they change it, it's also this image: https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/563942218440798208/hmNB... There also app…
Welcome to the club. It's pretty much a rite of passage here to spend some time with a psychopath VC, a completely self absorbed CTO with a rich investor dad that fuels his fantasies, or an idiotic CEO with an ego problem, and to pay the price for it (just time if you're lucky, time+money if you're not). I've encountered this myself several times (down to the CEO using hire fast fire fast as a mantra), and judging fr…
It seems like something weird might be going on here - if the founders are willing to forge receipts and lie about the company, it might not be beyond them to hold on to passports or some such for "immigration reasons", which would then explained the unwavering loyalty. If something like that is going on, I hope the devs get out of it unburned.