Stay far, far away. - Anonymous employee Pure Romance Employee Review

1.0
4 Sept 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Downtown, cool idea for a company (if executed correctly) free plates, forks and spoons for lunch.

Cons

It hurts to see all these Consultants coming to this company's defense. It should be illegal for businesses like this to exist. The founder, President and (most except for the CFO) executives are incredibly oppressive, abusive and degrading. I'm not sure who has it worse, the Corporate employees who are treated terribly to their faces or the Consultants who are smiled at and praised in person, but then trampled all over behind the scenes. The company has lost over 40% of its employees in the past year, this is a huge indication that something is terribly wrong. Just recently, two employees quit on the same day. The following day there was a staff meeting in which the President asked what he can do to make people happy. Someone suggested recognition. He laughed in their face and remarked 'What, like a certificate? Get real.' It was so bizarre to watch him refuse and laugh at our suggestions. He does not care that he is driving the company into the ground by disrespecting everyone that works for him. The bartenders-turned-executives have been promoted to the level of incompetence (particularly those in the creative department) and have no business being in the position they are in, but will will not and can not ever leave because outside of this company, they have no real skill set and would never find anything comparable. The company is quickly falling apart.

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2.0
7 July 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great compensation and top notch products

Cons

Where to start: 2020 was a record breaking year and our CEO took an extremely profitable company full of loyal consultants who adored him to a complete failure. Ruined his mother’s legacy. Very sad for Patty. He did some very unethical things with a few of the larger teams in 2021 that started to have me second guessing how great this company really was. Screwed a few people over big time. Took away all of our teams. Many of us spent YEARS building our teams and team culture and relied heavily on the team compensation model to feed our families. He just yanked that away from all of us. After all that I was still doing parties and doing online sales and still hyping up the company. Now he has decided to cut out all consultants entirely. So many women who were loyal to Chris and Patty to the end that they don’t mind screwing over. I was with this company for 13 years.

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