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For some background history whitehat jr has been accused of running misleading ads and shady marketing and also sueuing individuals for millions of dollars to keep their mouth shut.

To get more context please google "pradeep poonia whitehat" and you will get all the gory details, whatsapp chats, etc.



Yes, there's far more to this story. This isn't your typical story of employees going remote for COVID and then being asked to return. There's a lot more wrapped up in this, including failure to adjust salaries and employees who can't relocate on short notice:

> One of the employees who resigned told the website that a month’s time was not enough for relocation. “Some have kids, some have aged and sick parents, while others have other responsibilities. It is not right to call back employees in such a short period of time,” the former WhiteHat Jr employee said.

> Another employee said salaries also factored in the decision to not return to the office. At the time of hiring, employees were told about their job location – WhiteHat Jr has offices in Gurugram, Mumbai and Bengaluru. However, after working from home for two years, employees believed that their salaries should be revised to reflect the cost of living in expensive cities.

This looks like more of an engineered layoff from a company that is already in a death spiral:

> “This was a well-planned and managed layoff that WhiteHat Jr did,” a former employee remarked.


Haven't heard from Pradeep in a while. Do you know how all those cases progressed?


Last news I saw was that Whitehat Jr withdrew their case


Uhm.... if you call yourself "whitehat jr"... I auto dont trust you.


My brain keeps parsing that as a mashup of "Whitecastle" and "Carls, Jr."


Ah the ever elusive causation shell game.




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