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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.

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Disregarding everything else pointed out in this thread, there's also the part where the website for the older name of the company, 1for.one, still lists Penny Kim as the Marketing Director: http://web.1for.one/digital-press-kit/

And, just in case they now decide to remove that, I also saved it to the wayback machine, available here: https://web.archive.org/web/20160829104022/http://web.1for.o...

So good try, scumbag.

On their new site, the screenshot under the "HOW IT WRKS" section still references their old company name;"1for.one": http://www.wrkriot.com/#tour-section

https://angel.co/tess-stevens

One of their employees now lists "JobSonic" as their employer. Ironically, searching for "Job Sonic" results in the Jobs page for Sonic, the fast food chain. Bunch of rocket scientists over there.

The Google shorten urls in the profile still works...

goo.gl/FxH2KB -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaacchae1981

Then on Isaac Choi's profile, click the "1for.one Corporation" link listed in his experience.... which takes you to the Job Sonic linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/7587861?trk=prof-exp-compan...

On that page, you have a list of employees who are the same cast of characters in the previous incarnations of the companies.

That might mean Penny actually meant JobSonic when she called the company name "anti SEO". Amazing they replaced it with one that's almost as bad (1for.one). At least the new one (WrkRiot) is googleable...

What is funny, is that Tess Stevens, that chick who were working at Wrkiot and was taking credit from Kim's work may have deleted her twitter account, but she didn't with her SoundCloud and band camp accounts https://www.vingle.net/TessStevens https://tessstevens.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/tessstevens

> 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?

Or that mentions JobSonic (at Ikea, buying office stuff)?

http://web.1for.one/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/1-2.jpg

There you go, don't think he could change this picture into a bulldog.

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.

Head of marketing is " a 23 year-old writer, musician and actress currently based in the Bay Area." Well,...

"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?

Doesn't really matter, the internet never forgets... http://imgur.com/a/3XLIw

> Rui Bi | VP of Technology

Do you think he uses Ruby?

This makes me think this is WrkRiot's CEO posting making me think he's even sleazier then the post said

>> Plus we didn't have anyone matching any of the descriptions in this article.

That's just outright lying

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 appear to be 9 people with Chinese names and pictures, which matches the article.

Home page - https://archive.is/E3EYc Team page - https://archive.is/zeTL1 Blog page - https://archive.is/Wua5D

I took a screenshot of the page for when (not if) it is changed

New account (10 minutes old right now) with no email? Seems shifty to me.

This is so transparent (pun intended) and clumsy that it's hilarious. You would think someone supposedly having several million in net worth could do better.

Too bad this was down-voted, it's by far the most revealing post in the thread. (and most entertaining too)

I believe everybody was expecting this comment, also everybody was expecting the down-votes, so they have already scrolled down and found it.. :)

At-least, this was my thinking.

Also the ceo isaac choi seems to be claiming he was a JP Morgan analyst on his crunchbase profile: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/isaac-choi-2#/entity

Did anyone else notice that he started at JP Morgan in 2007 and left in 2002? Similarly messed up dates for T&W :P

Probably want to post some meme's too, that'll avoid the association with the article.

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

They don't have SEO problems anymore.

That is DEFINITELY the company

can you upload some photoshopped pay stubs? will go well with the photoshopped wire transfers. :)

> I've got many weeks of paid on time pay stubs sitting right here

lol

Stupid or liar.

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