<story><title>Eight hundred employees resign after WhiteHat Jr asks them to work from office</title><url>https://inc42.com/buzz/exclusive-over-800-whitehat-jr-employees-resign-as-edtech-giant-asks-to-report-to-office/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SmartestUnknown</author><text>God! I hope both WhiteHat Jr. and their parent company Byju&amp;#x27;s crash and burn. They are crap companies which make poor and gullible parents enroll their kids in one of their programs for extortionate amount of money. If the parents cannot afford to pay all at once, they give a &amp;quot;loan&amp;quot; to the parents and collect a part of it each month even if the kids aren&amp;#x27;t satisfied with the education that is being provided. Note that none of the kids in India use these apps as the only way to study. They attend regular schools and use these apps as an additional source. Byju&amp;#x27;s employs 1000s of people whose only job is to go visit as many houses as they can and trick the parents into subscribing for their services by falsely claiming that the only way their kids can succeed is when their education is supplemented by these apps. Many innocent people who want to do all they can to make their kids&amp;#x27; lives better fall into the trap and then keep paying the &amp;quot;loan&amp;quot; amount back which could be a substantial part of their monthly income.&lt;p&gt;Meta and Disney invested a lot of money into these companies and they use it to bully anyone who tries to bring these issues up by shutting down their YouTube channels and filing defamation law suits [1,2]. The entire online education industry is unregulated and resort to shitty antics to extort money. I don&amp;#x27;t understand why these companies need to exist when we have other free and amazing resources online like Khan Academy which teach all topics to all ages of people.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;thepost.co.in&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;633&amp;#x2F;whitehat-jr-lawsuit-pradeep-poonia-interview-and-unethical-tactics&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;thepost.co.in&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;633&amp;#x2F;whitehat-jr-lawsuit-pradeep-p...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;india&amp;#x2F;search?q=pradeep+poonia&amp;amp;restrict_sr=on&amp;amp;include_over_18=on&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;india&amp;#x2F;search?q=pradeep+poonia&amp;amp;restr...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Eight hundred employees resign after WhiteHat Jr asks them to work from office</title><url>https://inc42.com/buzz/exclusive-over-800-whitehat-jr-employees-resign-as-edtech-giant-asks-to-report-to-office/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ghoomketu</author><text>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.&lt;p&gt;To get more context please google &amp;quot;pradeep poonia whitehat&amp;quot; and you will get all the gory details, whatsapp chats, etc.</text></comment>