Complaint Review: Content Equals Money

I also worked at Content Equals Money. I worked in good faith for a month and was never paid a cent! I am still owed $2500. 

I did not learn that Amie Marse hadn't paid her staff for months at a time until the first payday rolled around and I got an excuse that the funds hadn't been released by the bank. I did a little research and found out that this was Marse's go-to tactic to avoid payroll. I have compared notes with former coworkers and they were all treated the same way. She owes multiple writers and editors tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid compensation. 

At that point, I realized that I had been hired to replace the editors who'd quit due to nonpayment and that Marse hired me with the intent of never paying me for my work! She takes advantage of the remote nature of the business--the entire staff worked from home and were scattered across the country. As a result, employees can't communicate with each other as a group and call her out on her behavior until it is too late.

Apparently this is the third version of her company in about ten years. The first was in Florida, the second in Kentucky, and the third in Nebraska. Her M.O. seems to be to operate for a while then get into financial trouble, stop paying her employees, close the company, and move on to another state before she can be held accountable for her actions.

I really do not care what kind of sob story comes in rebuttal to this report. The simple fact is Amie Marse hired me to do a job, which I did in good faith, and never paid me for it. This is called wage theft. I estimate there are at least a few dozen people she recently has done this to, easily putting the total amount of unpaid wages into the felony theft range. The bottom line is that I and most, if not all, of her former employees feel that Amie Marse is a thief and needs to go to prison for a very real crime that impacted all of our lives.