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Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by mgkimsal on Sunday August 28, 2016 @11:27PM (#12379817)
jobsonic.com = expired squarespace site...
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by lemonghost on Sunday August 28, 2016 @11:29PM (#12379822)
On crunchbase they are now wrkriot: http://www.wrkriot.com/team-1/
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by seibelj on Sunday August 28, 2016 @11:59PM (#12379933)
Landing page:

> WrkRiot pulls signals from your resume and matches them to job posts. That's right, we do the searching for you. We'll be updating this section with videos, walk thru's and more.

"walk thru's"? This website looks like garbage

Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by pyre on Monday August 29, 2016 @12:35AM (#12380030)
Just look at the blog too. I'm not sure who thought that a blog post entitled "10 WAYS TO SURVIVE AT WORK WITHOUT SLEEP" would be a hit with job seekers. (Not to mention that 100% of their blog content -- 7 posts -- was posted 3 days ago)
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by adkshirsagar on Monday August 29, 2016 @09:17AM (#12381623)
10 WAYS TO SURVIVE AT WORK WITHOUT SLEEP: www.wrkriot.com/blog/2016/8/26/10-ways-to-survive-at-work-without-sleep

Guess employees are the target audience for this post.

Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by st3v3r on Monday August 29, 2016 @01:35PM (#12383571)
Yeah, but shouldn't all 10 steps be "find a new job"?
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by 0xmohit on Monday August 29, 2016 @10:00AM (#12381874)
Guess this company needs to work on robots.

Replace employees with robots and write a blog post: HOW WE WORK 24x7

Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by kajecounterhack on Monday August 29, 2016 @03:34AM (#12380574)
The content to it was horrendous. Just scanned the 10 points out of morbid curiosity, and the last one is "see a doctor."
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by minusSeven on Monday August 29, 2016 @09:43AM (#12381760)
Seems like they think its normal to work tirelessly through out the day and night.
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by joekrie on Monday August 29, 2016 @04:16PM (#12384937)
I'm blocked by a sign in page. Did they take down the blog in the last day?
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by danso on Monday August 29, 2016 @06:43PM (#12386048)
It's too bad no one archived that blog post about how to get by without sleeping. It was very personal, and very stupid. If anything, it was evidence that this company didn't have a clue and was letting its social media person fill the blog with crap (which was unread by the executives) just so that it looked like the company was doing stuff.
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by chrisper on Monday August 29, 2016 @05:20PM (#12385446)
It was up a couple of hours ago. Seems like they went full retard and nuked a lot of things, including their websites, tweets, etc.
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by jmkni on Monday August 29, 2016 @09:26AM (#12381668)
All of their blog posts seem to have been posted on the same day...
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by misnamed on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @02:19AM (#12387897)
it's all behind a password wall now though you can find some pages via google cache
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by planteen on Sunday August 28, 2016 @11:46PM (#12379883)
Yep. Just looked at the Wrkriot Facebook page. Previous posts have the old name... and the Spongebob memes
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by bArray on Monday August 29, 2016 @12:32AM (#12380023)
Almost all the reviews are from people working there which I'm sure you're not supposed to do. It's dishonest at the very least.
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by bArray on Monday August 29, 2016 @12:22AM (#12380000)
"Isaac Choi" - I'm starting to imagine the lie was that he had a Chinese company scrub his name and he's not called Isaac or Michael. Having other people pay the cheques saves giving his name away too.
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by dimitar9 on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @09:05PM (#12395177)
this is a South Korean name. And the author of this article is also Korean. That's why she mentions they use "second language" to mimic Chinese employees
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Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by bArray on Monday August 29, 2016 @01:04AM (#12380114)
At this rate I wouldn't be surprised if it was "Mr Bean".
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by mugejin on Monday August 29, 2016 @01:10AM (#12380135)
How can you tell that this is probably his real name?
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by bronson on Monday August 29, 2016 @03:28AM (#12380559)
Phonetically similar. It's one way to choose an English name.
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Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by dang on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @10:18PM (#12395497)
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by chenster on Monday August 29, 2016 @09:43PM (#12386843)
The page now requires a password. The page cached by Google: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cMRXCID...
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by hackaflocka on Monday August 29, 2016 @04:19AM (#12380681)
wrkriot.com is a current squarespace site.