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The fake wire transfer receipt is fraud. That's a criminal offense. Have a talk with the local DA. California has a large prison system, with cell space available. I've never heard of a startup going that far.
Why was the company not named? Everyone needs to be warned against working with these scumbags, both employees and clients. I hope the state prosecutes the hell out of them, and the founders are left living under a bridge.
Witch-hunting. Our legal standard is "innocent until proven guilty", and the author already filed a legal complaint, so the best thing for her to do is tell her story in general terms and let the legal system sort it out. Vigilante justice of any kind (including an internet lynch mob) doesn't help.
The company needs to be named and shamed, otherwise they will keep getting away with this trash. People will still sign up to work for them, not knowing what is happening. By putting the name of the company out there, those people can be informed, and make a better decision.
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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…
here how it happens: a company, that is not really a company, keeps applying for tons of h1b. they usually have some title like consulting. they get the h1b and don't even bring the programmers from India. they become "visa holders" companies. the h1b's then start to look for work on their own, or the holder. and once the programmer is hired, the visa holder company gets paid, take 70% (or 60% if the programmer found…
"About a month in, our interim leader returned to Korea, and a woman was brought in who had worked at several video game companies. She used to know our CEO’s in college. She was kind, thoughtful, and attentive. I knew the company would eat her alive. After our boss departed, I took over a few of his duties. One of them was “viral marketer.” I was now creating ad campaigns on Facebook in an attempt to bring monthly a…
Looks like she's still at it: https://instagram.com/p/BJi8IpgDaPg/
linkedin, indeed and monster are "not helping anyone but themselves". really? that's really how you are pitching (internally or externally)? that's how you view linkedin? only helping themselves? There's many criticisms you can level at LI, indeed and others, but they do help many people beyond themselves. This shows an incredible naïveté about the business world, imo, or maybe just an incredible "rah rah - let's just keep repeating stuff" mindset.
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> You can invoice the company. It's not a big deal. Nonononono. You're hired as an employee. There is a legal and ethical agreement for them to pay you at the intervals agreed upon in your contract. There are no ifs or buts about it, no invoicing them, no excuses for 'just started'. Payroll is NOT hard.
"Nonononono. You're hired as an employee. There is a legal and ethical agreement for them to pay you at the intervals agreed upon in your contract. There are no ifs or buts about it, no invoicing them, no excuses for 'just started'. Payroll is NOT hard." No - you are completely wrong. There is absolutely nothing wrong - or even remotely immoral - about paying using invoicing while a company gets going. It's common an…
If you are an employee, the company is required by law to withhold taxes and pay you regularly. Every state in the U.S. has an agency that will take and prosecute wage claims. People have gone to jail for messing with witholding taxes.
If you just invoice, you are effectively an independant contract, they might not pay you, and you are on the hook for paying your taxes. A big difference.
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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.
It was done in an afternoon according to its creator: https://mobile.twitter.com/WrkRiot/status/769357556762324992 https://mobile.twitter.com/tessstevens/status/76935690644803...
[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/kellykruschel/status/770306809924...
"Jessica"'s point of view: https://tessfstevens.com/2016/06/10/the-new-mission-liking-y...
Changed for the worse.
I think the title should be changed back. The author glosses over the single, real biggest red flag: She never received any paystubs and the company was late on payroll as of before she was hired I have never, ever been paid without either a paystub (as an employee) or generating an invoice which the business then paid (as a freelancer). The outright refusal to share how they arrived at the figure on her cashier's ch…
This is not a huge flag. When a company starts up, it's difficult for them to get the money operating as per regular. He got paid - that's what matters. The paystub is a minor thing/
You are NOT entitled to people working for you for free, under deceptive pretenses.
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Ah, you misunderstood. When I said blow things up and make things public, I meant make all my communications with management and the company very out in the open, CC everybody. That way, if they do fire you for cause, you have a paper trail, and you tend to keep a lid on their worst tendencies because then they have to justify their words/actions to their own employees. No, you never escalate publicly, not to people…
Even doing this with unrelated parties inside the company is dangerous. The best thing to do is just CC your own lawyer. It's sad, but you potentially open yourself up to liability by warning your co-workers. If you do want to warn them, the best way would be through a quiet, short conversation in a private place away from the company. Possibly your lawyer's office.
This is before anything is really bad, but you are getting suspicious.
If you hire a lawyer, you're instantly at DEFCON 1. CCing all your teammates has plausible deniability, especially if they're in the same boat you are.
You're not trying to warn anybody here. You're raising a gigantic red flag saying "Hey this is happening to me. If this is happening to you too, let people know instead of just suffering in silence."