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Sparkhound lays off another 9 employees
Posted on 5/4/17 at 11:33 am
Posted on 5/4/17 at 11:33 am
Yet another round of layoffs in the local tech market. Lot's of good people out there blindsided today. Godspeed to all those guys now looking for work. 
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Posted on 5/4/17 at 11:36 am to LSU_postman
Whats going on with Sparkhound? I worked there a few years back and it was a great company to work for and on the rise.
Posted on 5/4/17 at 11:38 am to Hat Tricks
I don't know, they were the bomb.com back in the day. Wish someone in the know could explain what happened.
Posted on 5/4/17 at 11:51 am to LSU_postman
Glad I didn't go work there a few years back.
Posted on 5/4/17 at 12:46 pm to ColdDuck
If I'm not mistaken, they used to pay their employees 1099. Then they'd have them wear Sparkhound shirts, answer the phones and report to job sites as Sparkhound employees, etc.
If I'm recalling the same company correctly, they were misclassifying all of those workers and getting around paying their payroll taxes by doing that.
If I'm recalling the same company correctly, they were misclassifying all of those workers and getting around paying their payroll taxes by doing that.
Posted on 5/4/17 at 2:33 pm to Hat Tricks
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Whats going on with Sparkhound?
lots of retarded decisions made by management over there over the last several years
Posted on 5/5/17 at 10:22 am to LSU_postman
Aren't they dependent on contracts? Maybe they didn't get a couple recently
Posted on 5/5/17 at 11:26 pm to LSU_postman
Envoc is the new Sparkhound
Posted on 5/5/17 at 11:26 pm to ColdDuck
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Glad I didn't go work there a few years back
+1
Posted on 5/6/17 at 6:47 am to LSU_postman
What's sparkhound?
Posted on 5/6/17 at 9:22 am to LSU_postman
I know Geocent has done some reshuffling recently as well.
ETA: everyone keeps calling it the silicon bayou and tons of startups in the tech industry but I'm just not seeing it.
ETA: everyone keeps calling it the silicon bayou and tons of startups in the tech industry but I'm just not seeing it.
This post was edited on 5/6/17 at 9:23 am
Posted on 5/6/17 at 8:56 pm to TigerRagAndrew
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Envoc is the new Sparkhound
I've heard questionable decisions have been made there recently too.
Speaking of Sparkhound, didnt the founder suddenly leave several years back to do mission work?
This post was edited on 5/6/17 at 8:57 pm
Posted on 5/6/17 at 10:51 pm to LSU_postman
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Sparkhound
They are no Initech although they also have too many TPS reports with the additional 27b Stroke 6 form.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 7:44 am to jdd48
Yes, one of the founders left for mission work or church related stuff.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 11:11 am to TigerRagAndrew
Envoc is the new Envoc. Definitely not like Sparkhound.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 11:41 am to nedfasullo
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Envoc is the new Envoc. Definitely not like Sparkhound
Found the Envoc employee
Posted on 5/8/17 at 11:49 am to jdd48
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I've heard questionable decisions have been made there recently too.
Got any more details here....we are considering doing some work with Envoc on a custom solution where we are resource constrained in house.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 12:58 pm to mctiger1985
Posted on 5/8/17 at 1:26 pm to ColdDuck
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Ya think!
That goes to show that sometimes even strategy executives aren't as smart as they think they are
Posted on 5/8/17 at 2:04 pm to ColdDuck
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nedfasullo
Biggest Douchnozzle in BR
And NO, I have not ever worked for him. He screwed over a few people close to me during his time at Global Data and Transformyx
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