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New details emerge in a story by the New York Times including an interview with Choi and questions about his background and allegations of not fulfilling advertising contracts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/technology/a-silicon-valle...
Another follow-up by Tess Townsend of Inc.
A couple highlights:
"...I'm not happy that all these names and faces are out there." -- Penny Kim
Kim has received 10-20 invitations to apply for marketing positions in SV and Texas.
Kim received a cease and desist order via email prior to the now deleted threat of legal action posted to Facebook.
http://www.inc.com/tess-townsend/medium-post-wrkriot-viral-w...
Inexperience leads to ignorance (in the classic meaning of the word). The CMO discussed in the story is 23.
I actually feel sorry for the poor girl. She's very, very young and she's suddenly been thrust in a circumstance where she has to decide whether to be loyal or bail. And she's probably getting paid (according to other stories posted).
So here's this kid faced with the choice of basically being homeless or becoming WrkRiot's version of the Minister of Information.
And then the deluge of hate and venom spewed at her direction not just her role at her company, but personally as well. She not only protected her personal Twitter but has now changed it trying to hide.
Yeah, I feel sorry for her. She's a kid who got in over her head and now she's reaping the consequences of those choices.
Yes, the name to which I've referred is the pseudonym Jessica though her real name is not a matter of record, though powers-that-be consider discussion of her on this forum now to be a witch hunt and off-topic.
TechCrunch article on them trying to disappear from the Internet https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/30/wrkriot-vanishes-after-sca...
That there was apparently not NDA required on her exit more than anything just how amateur this Choi is. All he had to do was give her an extra grand specifically as compared consideration for an NDA and nothing but the government complaints would be said. Obviously you can't prohibit the reporting of a crime but she already did that anyway.
Which makes me wonder, why isn't she under an NDA already? Every one I've signed prohibit discussing practices even after termination for cause.
Thank you!
This is probably just Tess on her own thinking she's being proactive and in charge of corporate image.
Someone should tell her that accusing someone of extortion without proof is likewise libelous.
Shaka, and the walls fell.
It looks like the rats are fleeing the ship:
https://medium.com/@dtunkelang/lesson-learned-ab0dc6723b8c#....
I've looked at a bunch of things and you're correct. the 1for.one precedes jobsonic. Basically just this summer it's had 3 separate names.
Not disputing you, but why is WrkRiot so repellent? It's unique and recognizable. I'll admit that "Riot" is just weird, but is that the main reason?
(not trolling, I'm serious)
You also are unable to avail yourself of worker's compensation if you get hurt and unemployment compensation when you are laid off.
It astonishes me that anyone could be so ignorant as to say there is nothing wrong with making people invoice you. As you've correctly stated, it's a completely different relationship. Even the liability is different.
If you're a contractor and the guy who signs your checks says "nice ass! Now shut up and do your work" He's pretty much just pissed you off and as a self-employed contractor, you're free to decline and move on to another "client". If that same person is your employer, he's broken several civil laws and in most jurisdictions, committed an actual crime.
We could both go on for hours on the differences which is why this whole thing amazes me.
I agree with all of these sentiments but I would add a few from our own experience (not particularly terminal illness, but that's likely coming soon with my wife's mass in her lung that we still can't get diagnosed) but with the medical machine in general. We have several special and medical needs children so we're constantly dealing with doctors and hospitals.
I think it's important to do your own research on different treatments and therapies. But the reason we do so is not to get our hopes up but to inquire of our doctors about the treatments. We have two questions. "What about _____?" which is usually followed by "why not?" And once in a while we get the response of "I don't know, let me look into that" and end up trying something that they hadn't considered. It helps us knowing that no stone goes unturned and maybe it'll help the doctor even by learning about (always accepted, not alternative) techniques he/she hadn't really looked into yet.
While we generally trust all of our doctors, in two cases we've found physicians that were barely competent by this method. In both cases, they arrogantly attempted to dismiss concerns or questions but when pressed they made up answers simply to dismiss us. (we say "made up" because we were given responses that directly contradict research and even the monograph put out by the drug company. But fortunately, this is the exception and not the rule.
As for alternative cures, the only way (in my opinion) those can be believed is if you put on your tinfoil hat and believe that the medical establishment is evil, every last man. If alternative cures worked, they wouldn't be alternatives. My son is severely autistic. If only I'd spend more time listening to the Internet I could use these alternative cures and he'd end up being a heart surgeon, I'm sure.
I often wonder why people do that? Sometimes it's the patients (or parents of patients if minor) but it seems to me that it's almost always friends or relatives that try to hook you up with pipe dreams and fantasies. Why is it so difficult for people to accept our realities?