Scam employer
Scam employer - Invest your trust and money in someone who pays their employees and is honest with them. Only then will the team be motivated to deliver their best work and produce the best results for your business.
Avoid this person—or anyone like him—who assigns responsibilities to his employees under the guise of a “project-based” setup, withholds salaries until a client officially signs on, and expects employees to work without salary or compensation if the deal falls through. Worse, he acts as if the employees are being unreasonable for asking about compensation or even just the actual start date stated in the contract along with the promised salary.
His gimmick is sending a job offer with a salary higher than the market rate, giving a tentative start date set almost a month after the offer (even if you told him you wanted to start immediately), then slowly assigning tasks and responsibilities beforehand. When the “tentative start date” comes, that’s when you find out there’s no actual work—because there are no clients. And then it turns out the employees are the ones expected to find clients themselves.
This isn’t something that happened only to me but to the rest of the team he built. I’m so sick of this kind of behavior from startup companies that hold back employees from exploring real opportunities just to use them unpaid—manipulating them into thinking there’s a legitimate, well-paying job waiting for them. Out of everything I’ve experienced in life, this was the biggest waste of my time.
