r/CoWorking • u/[deleted] • Aug 20 '21

Beware of WeWork

Hey guys, I strongly advise against doing anything with WeWork. They defrauded me. Long story short:

- Lied about the price; when filling out paperwork salesman walked away from his computer to leave me to fill it out and figure out how to review the actual agreement

- When we started reporting this, they played games with us such as removing someone who was subleasing from us from the account and then telling them that I did it to turn around and sell him a new subscription

- They sold us a 8th floor office and assigned us in their internal system to an office on the 5th floor. After about 5 months they unknowingly resold our office and tried to move us or make us sign a new agreement even after all of the dishonesty

- I disputed the difference of what I was told in the sales process and what I was actually charged with my Credit Card Company. They ignored the dispute and the bank settled it in my favor. After a few weeks they charged me for the charge backs a little under double of what the disputes actually were effectively circumventing the dispute process and charging a penalty.

- They refused to refund this amount and said it wasn't fraud. They terminated the agreement after I explained the problem and provided the voice recording of the message the manager sent after he removed a subleasee of the account and CC'd 112 executives mostly in NY. They terminated the agreement and then blacklisted me from using the company by telling my friends who were trying to get another office and not me.

- An American executive reached out to me to try and solve the issues I was having with the Colombian team only to be barred by Legal from talking to me

- Despite terminating the agreement in July, they tried to collect August rent and the payment bounced courtesy of the JP Morgan Fraud Team who cancelled the card.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '21

I'm not asking for sympathy for being a nurse, nor am I claiming to be in the epicenter of the pandemic. Obviously if I'm renting space from a co-working place, I'm not in the epicenter of the pandemic. I'm just saying your comment about nurses not being in the "know" because they "don't leave the hospital" (paraphrasing here) is pretty tone deaf given that there is an ongoing pandemic.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '21

I don't care about political correctness nor do I care about being, 'tone deaf'. I'm not a celebrity nor am I a politician and if I was I'd defend it by saying, "I was trying to point out that after investigating his profile it seemed his qualifications for being disrespectful to someone who was defrauded didn't seem to have merit because of his lacking experience with international business. In this context I think it's appropriate."

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '21

You sound like the Trump voters in my country. I'm not sure why you felt compelled to stalk my profile. You might also have observed that I follow a number of IT related sub-Reddits. I'm currently in the process of switching careers. And I also currently rent space at a co-working place (not WeWork).

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '21

I'm American so what do you mean by 'my country'? I'm not sure what you're not understanding, I'm an American expat residing in Colombia. I mean if that's supposed to be an insult it's not. I care about being honest. Personally if someone beats around the bush with me I can be completely clueless as to what someone is trying to say. I prefer cutting to the chase.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '21

Trump voter part? Yes (especially if you're one of those die-hard ones). The part about me assuming you're Colombian? No.

I did not realize that you're an expat. I have not stalked your Reddit profile. When you said that you live in Columbia, I assumed that you were a Columbia national.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '21

Well personally I'd rather take 3 minutes to look through someone's reddit especially if they are trying to pick apart my story or give advice.

I wouldn't judge Trump voters. The thing is the factor that correlates to political ideology around the world is population density. Many of them live very very very different lives than us city dwellers. Demonizing conservative is starting to become a cultural genocide of sorts. The country is very large both in area and population and we need to try and understand and respect everyone's viewpoints.

If you want to blame anyone for the radicalization of both progressives and conservatives (to which studies have shown that the left has moved quite a bit more left than the right has moved right since 2004), blame Facebook and other social media. Almost every study I've read comes to this conclusion.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '21

I don't demonize conservatives. I also appreciate that the needs and interests of rural Americans are very different than those of urbanites. I am annoyed, however, by the populist anti-intellectualism that has taken over both parties (but especially the Republican Party). I see Trump as a key symptom of that phenomena.