Omni Financial: The Website

Alright. My last post on Omni Financial has generated a ton of recent interest from all sorts of people. I've gotten email from employees in Florida, from employees in Colorado, from a new hire, from someone who has received a job offer, from the boyfriend of someone who has received a job offer, from former employees I know, and from former employees that I have never met or known.

I also discovered the MSN Group Page for the anti-Omni Financial group. It seems that they have a lot of recent activity over there as well. In all it seems that on many different levels there is a growing consensus that Omni Financial sucks.

However, I don't think that just saying, "Omni Financial sucks," is enough. I think that the best way to discourage people from working for or working with Omni is to tell them the truth. Let people know what the culture is like. Let people know the sorts of sketchy business practices employed. Let people know about the kinds of things you were forced to do in order to keep your job.

To that end, I've decided to create and host a new About Omni Financial website. Right now, there's nothing there and the template looks remarkably similar to this site's. What I want to post there is letters from former and current employees as well as former or current clients.

The rules are that I want you to write clear and professional opinions of your experiences. The anti-Omni Financial site is fun, but I think that it may be less than effective in some ways because there is lots of name-calling and inside jokes in the postings. This is perfect for ex-employees, but we need something more considered to sway a public searching for information about Omni Financial. Please email me your stories - funny or horrible, long or short - about your experiences with Omni. I will post the stories to the about Omni site. Before I post, I reserve the right to edit the post for clarity and grammar. I will approve any more substantial edits with the author before the post is made. Please let me know whether you wish to remain anonymous. If you wish to remain anonymous, please just let me know your relationship to Omni (current/former employee/client) and how long you were a client or employee. I will publish those details instead of a name or email address.

Feel free to also tell about or include the good or fun or funny things that you experienced with Omni. When I was there, many employees expressed enjoyment at working there because of the people (excluding management)we worked with. I think most of us are happier to see each other outside of the halls of Omni, but we must admit it wasn't always 100% awful.

Please help me get the word out about this site. The more letters and stories that we can get up there, the more convincing it is. Also, I am looking for ideas for the layout of the site. Should I change the colors? change the column layouts? add a banner? add a stats page? add comments? change the name? change the description? host a Christmas party (anybody have any good Omni Financial Christmas party stories?)? Let me know, and I'll try to figure out how to change the site.

The email address to use is aboutOmniFinancial@hotmail.com.

Jonathan 10/14/2004 12:44:00 PM