OneUp Innovations, Liberator.com Not a good place to work. Not a good product to buy. Atlanta Georgia

Yup, I worked at One Up for a couple of years until I could take no more of it. The depiction of Louis as a crazed tyrant was spot on. Many of the hourly workers are undocumented, so they were treated REALLY badly, but mostly by the trusted few underlings. Professional staff were mostly abused in private, but a couple of us had the good sense to go into these sessions wearing a wire. I witnessed on of the advertisement shoots that were seemingly run for the persoanl pleasure of Louis, and become sick when I think of the girls involved. On that note, time to close this. The positive comment herein obviously came from one of the few trusted minions - don't believe it. 

This report is completely false.  I'm guessing this person got fired for doing a poor job and was agitated and hostile about it.  The original report makes a lot of references to Louis attacking people's personal lives; I've never seen even the smallest instance of that after working for over 2 years.  There are a over 100 people employed at Oneup all of different backgrounds, cultures, ethnicities and he seems to be appreciative of anyone's hard work regardless of who they are in their personal life.  I haven't heard much complaining about wages, and it's usually the opposite.  I just met a new warehouse employee a few weeks ago who expressed his joy to me that he's now making $5 more per hour than at his previous job.  This report is over 5 years old, if any of this was true, things have definitely changed.     

This company is a one man band in every aspect. The owner has a need to make ALL decisions himself and on top of that the decisions are not even morally or ethically driven... in fact they are the total opposite from it. Then, when they turn out to be bad he blames everyone who works for him for his own failure. Your work never makes it to completion since Louis always shoots it down to make it "his idea". He treats every one as a "factory" employee. Working for the creative department is a joke, if your looking here save yourself a lot of angst and disappointment.



Compensation is very low, and company-provided insurance was never in the business plan. Speaking of business plan, there is none. All decisions are based on how Louis feels in the morning when he gets up. There will never be a protocol that sticks since he changes his mind multiple times and usually towards the end of the due date.





I couldn't have said it better "Louis seeks to degrade and humiliate his employees in what I believe are his efforts to diminish his employees' sense of self-worth. Over time, the employee begins to believe he isn't good enough to go anywhere else. He not only seeks to belittle his employees professionally, but he will use whatever weaknesses a person has in his or her personal life to degrade said person." He would rather spend money on flying in a model for a shoot than flying in a prospective employee. He gets his rocks off by watching the model pose nude. He makes rude and inappropriate comments to the models also. I have never met a model yet that wasn't been weirded out by his nature.





This job is definitely not worth the money, although you do learn how NOT to do everything in business. I am still wondering how he has run the business this long.



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Atlanta, Georgia