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Re: Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup

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Post by kennell »

How on earth does a shady, newly founded company with a handful of people manage to hire 8(!) H-1B workers from China?

I really feel bad for those workers. Essentially they are obeying coding slaves for the company until they eventually get their green card. They can not risk being fired, they will not ask for a raise, they can not easily switch to another job etc. etc.

A native worker like the author is less likely to put up with this kind of BS for very long.

This is unfair for both the foreign workers and native workers. Cases like this really show that the H-1B system is a total joke.

Re: Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup

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Post by pluma »

bvanslyke wrote: post #13
lemonghost wrote: post #7

https://www.linkedin.com/company/jobsonic ?

Yep. Looks like it's now called "1for.one". Their CEO has a stock photo on LinkedIn and owned a mining corp.

*WrkRiot. 1forOne's twitter and facebook profiles are gone and WrkRiot matches the description perfectly (including the doggy avatar and a large number of Asian employees).

It's actually dangerously obvious who some of the people mentioned in the story are, just from the descriptions. It might be a good idea to anonymize characters further by changing ethnicity/nationality and gender.

Re: Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup

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Post by praptak »

programmer_guy wrote: post #41

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.

Nice try. FYI, this HN story is now the first search result on WrkRiot.

Re: Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup

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Post by pjc50 »

GuiA wrote: post #120
GuiA wrote: post #14

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…

Outside of the edit window for my comment, but wanted to add: the H1B situation sounds fishy as hell. 8 H1Bs costs a lot of money, which the company does not seem to abound with. 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 expl…

The easiest solution is that they've simply lied to the 'H1Bs' and immigration officials as well - brought them in on tourist visas or some other arrangement.

Re: Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup

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Post by StavrosK »

pluma wrote: post #162
bvanslyke wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. Looks like it's now called "1for.one". Their CEO has a stock photo on LinkedIn and owned a mining corp.

*WrkRiot. 1forOne's twitter and facebook profiles are gone and WrkRiot matches the description perfectly (including the doggy avatar and a large number of Asian employees). It's actually dangerously obvious who some of the people mentioned in the story are, just from the descriptions. It might be a good idea to anonymize characters further by changing ethnicity/nationality and gender.

Why? Shouldn't we be encouraging people who out bad actors?

Re: Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup

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Post by 35bge57dtjku »

paulcole wrote: post #53
programmer_guy wrote: post #41

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.

"The last time I checked the team page on the site, Michael changed his profile picture to a bulldog" http://www.wrkriot.com/team-1/ Coincidence?

> Rui Bi | VP of Technology

Do you think he uses Ruby?

Re: Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup

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Post by pluma »

programmer_guy wrote: post #41

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.

In case this isn't a troll or someone takes it serious:

* WrkRiot's CEO has a dog as profile picture and stock photo on LinkedIn

* Team page is mostly Asians (names were identified as Chinese and Korean by others here)

* Company went through several iterations and was previously called "1for.one", which is as "anti SEO" as a name can get

* Facebook page has old posts with Spongebob memes

* Head of marketing is a woman called "Tess" who blogs about "gonzo journalism"

* JobSonic/1for.one CTO left the company earlier this month

There's probably more.

Re: Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup

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Post by aioprisan »

aaron695 wrote: post #152
choiwisely wrote: post #91

> Employees and investors absolutely need the right to know about the people doing this "Michael" the CEO: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaacchae1981 "Charlie" the CTO: https://www.linkedin.com/in/albrown "Jessica" the CMO: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tess-stevens-28bb9138 Company: http://www.wrkriot.com/ + https://www.linkedin.com/company/7587861

Witch hunting. You don't know the real story, especially just how 'evil' Jessica is.

Fraud is the real story and she's doing future victims a favor by dropping just enough hints for others to find out who they are and avoid them. She should have sent the fake wire notices to the local DA as well, but in lieu of it, this should suffice.
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