This post is still up and it's protected.
Yep, his post is pretty unprofessional.
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2025
389 points (99.2% liked)
Work Reform
10205 readers
871 users here now
A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
Our Philosophies:
- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
- Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
- We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.
Our Goals
- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
- Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
- Better and fewer working hours.
- Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
- Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
The "unprofessional conduct" that he's alerting us to is his own behavior, right?
I read that and thought, "Whatever is coming is probably a huge breach of business etiquette." And I was right.
Edited to add: If the candidate's behavior in the interview was so egregious, why would you even waste your time with follow-up calls? It sounds like they wanted to hire the guy, but he wasn't interested in working for them after the interview. Sour grapes, anyone?
I would guess the "money-driven mindset" had a lot to do with it. The interview went well, he was a good fit, but they didn't offer him enough. With some back and forth on compensation souring communications enough to make the owner butt hurt enough to post this.
Not sure what they offered him but they probably handed him a settlement
Soft attempt at blacklisting.
Key word "soft". What a little bitch.
He might have wanted to run this by an HR person before posting. Asshat is definitely getting sued for this.
The company looks to be from India so he most probably isn't getting sued, sadly.
CEO's location is listed as "The Greater Chicago Area"
All 3 companies he has “founded” are only 7 months old. Prior to that he has been mostly a scrum master and business analyst. He has no people management experience, no experience in establishing and executing strategies, and this post illustrates all of these short comings.
This isn’t about this company, but this post just gave me PTSD from a recent interview process.
“Soo, we can’t offer you a salary even though our job listing said we would. But you’ll get 5% stake in our startup, which I’m sure will do great even though I’m using my parents money and have zero business experience! Also no vacation, 60 hour work weeks, oh and no health insurance either. We’re a small business trying to make it work!”
Legitimately had this experience after a fucking 5-stage interview process for some small startup, promising a “competitive compensation package”. I guess I should’ve been more assertive in asking their salary range when they kept giving me vague hints at a bullshit compensation.
Waste of fucking time and money. I could tell they were annoyed that I didn’t treat them as if they were Gods offering me a place in eternal bliss. I said “So you guys can’t offer me an actual salary?” and they had the audacity to come back with “well not everything is about money”…says the dude whose parents gave him $1.5 million seed money to start his own little “marketing” company.
When I declined the offer, they quipped with “Thank you for taking 8 hours of our valuable time to get to learn about the company and drink our coffee”. They also said they would reimburse my parking (city parking) to make the interviews. That never happened. Down about $150 and 8 hours. Did they expect me to fall for some sort of sunk-cost fallacy?
The ego and audacity some of these people have astonishes me. They must be so fucking miserable on the inside.
This is exactly the kind of behavior that modern capitaliam produces: money, power, and growth at any cost. Other humans are no longer people or equals, they are tools. Morals and ethics must be left behind to "succeed".
What is a scrum master? Like a rugby coach?
Scrum is an Agile project management methodology. Basically it centers around iterated short term "sprints" of about two weeks where team members have relative autonomy, and after which there are meetings to consider any emergent issues before committing to the next sprint. It's supposed to be more flexible and responsive than traditional "waterfall" project management, where an entire project is planned out in advance in a linear progression. Funnily enough it actually was named after the rugby term
It's very popular in software development in particular, since oftentimes development can be broken into modular tasks that can be worked on in parallel. Many argue that it's a fad that's been shoehorned into applications where it isn't useful, or that some practitioners focus so much on the structure that they bog down the process with endless meetings.
A scrum master is a specialist who helps an organization implement scrum.
A scrum master is a fancy project manager. But legally you have to call them scrum masters or else their arms fall off
Unsure if a joke or not, but in the event of a serious question:
scrum masters are heads of scrum teams, their main purpose is facilitating good work conditions for the workers in the team. This generally means arranging and leading typical scrum meetings, helping workers do their job and shielding them from the Production Owner (the guy that decides what they are to make/deliver during a sprint . (sprints are 2-3 weeks long, where work is done according to a selection done at the start of the sprint and interruptions are kept low during that time.)
I don't want to say that it's an easy roles, but it's more a management type of role than a worker role. In my team the scrum master is also doing development work, since scrum master tasks alone aren't that huge with the way we do things.
Since it seems you are unaware of the origin of the term:
Thanks, I figured I was missing some connection.
Probably not even a real doctor either.
It is all suspect. He got his degree in 2016, Masters in 2015, Phd in 2020. The Yatiken he associates himself with on his linked in was started in 2014 so he is not the founder of that Yatiken. There is another Yatiken company registered in 2020 that lists him but amusingly has him no longer being a manager in 2021.
Sounds like someone who got lowballed, said "no thank you", and a CEO with a chip on their shoulder got butthurt.
"What do you mean you don't want to base your livelihood on my bullshit hobby "business" that will completely fall apart within the next two years?"
doxing them is insane
One might even call it "unprofessional."
Well he did include a disclaimer about his unprofessional behaviour he's posting.
Not surprising for entitled CEOs, though.
load more comments
(10 replies)
"CEO"
On his companies website his email is a Gmail account and he couldn't even get his own name as the email address.
Sounds like all of those MLM ladies putting titles like that on their LinkedIn.
Small fish in a puddle.
Pretty sure this is tortious interference.
Indubitably.
A CEO accusing someone else of having a money driven mindset sure is something.
It's a job, not a fucking relationship, what other kind of mindset are you supposed to have?
These people are fucking delusional
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7282760585086169089/
Holy hell they're even astroturfing their thread. Report for harassment, it includes doxxing someone.
Looks like the post got removed. It says it cannot be displayed.
The link was working earlier as I used it to report the post for harassment :)
“Only connections can comment on this post.”
Yeah, they’re clearly butthurt from all the constructive criticism.
I reported for harassing, it's the closest things to doxxing I could find
It would only be more obvious if they used sock puppets, controlled by the CEO as he tries to use different voices for each one.
One of the bots even copy-pasted the CEO's words as if they were their own.
I can't think of a faster way to make me not want to work for you than for you to post details about my name, current work, and our interview.
I can't think of a faster way to make me not want to work for you than for you to post details about anyone's name, current work, and their interview.
Even from a pure selfish perspective, this is the more important issue. That interviewee (who's name I won't write, as to not increase the score of this post when people search it) already can't work there because he failed the interview (or because the interview failed him) and the damage was already done (his name got exposed), but anyone else who considers interviewing with Dr. Alok Kashyap of Yatiken Software should consider this a warning that if they do - their name may be exposed as well.
Big "you can't quit, because you're fired" energy.
I'm sure people will be lining up to work for you, now!
view more: next ›