Comment on CEOs of crashed tech upstart Bitwise accused of swindling $100M from investors - Duo paid themselves $600K salaries as the cupboard was emptying

mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Usul_00_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What do you want to share using the anonymity of this platform?

  I don’t know enough to even ask a good question.

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  • mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thats the neat trick, never assume anonymity. Def in a case like this one. I treat people with respect even here.

    But I guess if I had to share, im still really pissed that our 401ks are still locked and I cant access it from John Handcock. I maxed out my 401k the entire time I was there. Plus some people got 2 paychecks taken instead of just the last one. We had to cancel our old bank account because bitwise post Jake/Irma tried to come after past checks from multiple people. And they did nto talk to us this entire time after we were furloughed. After 3 weeks of being furloughed, we were still technically employed and had ex-bitwisers try to tell us not to talk to the media, to trust the system. I am still angry about how it all went down.

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• HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  …what do people actually do in places like this?

  Having never worked in an office at all, I wonder what happens in those that have no obvious way of doing anything really

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  • mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We would get a large amount of client projects, create an app that solves their problem, deploy it on their infrastructure. Rinse and repeat. I was specifically on the software development and later devops side. My job was a huge amount more profitable than the rest of the org.

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    • Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Basically subcontracting

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      • mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yep.

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Dumbest thing you saw/ heard while working there?

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  • mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There was a DJ over there for weeks on end. Like every day, DJ was out in the parking lot. It was surreal coming into the job and wondering why the were paying for a DJ to come to a mostly empty parking lot/building.

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    • saddlebag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sounds like you worked at Entertainment 720

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    • Uglyhead@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nero playing music as Rome was burning kinda thing.

      That’s surreal for sure.

      Sounds like something right out of Mike Judge’s Silicon Valley series.

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    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There was a DJ over there for weeks on end. Like every day, DJ was out in the parking lot. It was surreal coming into the job and wondering why the were paying for a DJ to come to a mostly empty parking lot/building.

      I mean, wut? But like ok. But also wut.

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      • grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Boardroom:

        • people will like coming into the office if we create a fun atmosphere
        • like a party!
        • we can’t have an actual party
        • ok, how about a DJ

        HR, legal, and so on: they can go in the parking lot.

        Weeks later an admin is told to book a DJ, I don’t care what it costs but they have to work in the parking lot.

        DJ has to be set up in the parking lot but will only do it if they can be there all day otherwise too much set up and take down.

        Ok, if they have to be here I want them playing all the time. Otherwise, we are wasting money.

        Contract shows up with “daily, renewed every month unless 30 days written notice.”

        And so on.

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• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How much did you pay yourself?

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  • mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I wasnt part of the leadership, but I was a software developer for over 10+ years. I made 6 figures, but that isn’t unheard of in this industry.

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Was it obvious they were indulging while they could or did it seem like they were trying to make it work? Just curious.

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  • mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Its a little of both. Like most orgs there were some who did their job and did it well. The org was in existence for a little over 10 years. There were parts that were very profitable, just not the building and how top heavy it got at the end. Both CEOs would take month long vacations and leave us to do…whatever it was they did.

    The unlimited vacation was a kind of red flag to me. Most orgs who do that really just want you working 24/7 and not take any real time off. Also 401k took 3 years to vest but no partial vesting period. It was all or nothing.

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