Re:Munchery swindled a group of women and minority owned com...
by tareqak on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @01:31AM
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Direct quote from the article: In a particularly damning missive, one person claiming to be a former employee wrote in to describe the systematic refusal to pay small, women-owned businesses as they had fewer resources to fight back.
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Re:Munchery swindled a group of women and minority owned com...
by luckylion on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @04:07AM
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So anonymous hear-say is all there is?
And is the company even small? "Some of our bigger customers purchase up to $15,000/week with us" sounds like they make > $100k revenue/week regularly, baking thousands and thousands of cakes every week. I don't know SF standards of small, but that sounds like a solid operation to me - one that definitely has the resources to go after a corporate client that doesn't pay.
I still find it weird to focus on gender/sex and ethnicity, and I have my doubts that Munchery invested a lot of time & money into finding out who is behind the companies they don't pay and what the owners' gender is.
Re:Munchery swindled a group of women and minority owned com...
by zorpner on Thursday January 31, 2019 @01:45AM
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Yes, it's clear that you don't believe the woman whose business was impacted, and choose to side with the VC-funded company that stiffed their vendors. You could just say that, rather than pretend to have a bunch of concerns about discourse, and save us all a lot of time.