If you can avoid working for Ralph of the Mirror Lounge Collective or the Black Misfits Society do so.
He does events, and hires on event planning and logistics around it.
He hired me and some others to do an event for him called The Viola Awards in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Ralph often got back to people after 2 weeks; this was standard for him, and so was generally wasting people's time. For example, he'd say “let's have a meeting tomorrow” and have you waiting all day for him. No text, no heads up, and no apology for wasting an entire 12+ hrs of time waiting around for him. Night would come, and he would make up an obvious lie of an all-day meeting and be unapologetic about his careless unprofessionalism of wasting your entire day and some of your night too. He did this to me twice, and he did it to another former employee way more. Again, no heads-up message, no change of plans – nothing. Just getting back to you at 9 pm onwards, after wasting your entire day saying all day meeting and no apology either. He has done this to a couple of us as far as I know.
The way the event was being planned was the most disorganized and chaotic event planning I've ever seen in my life. It was two weeks until the event, and there were a lot of things not nailed down that should've been done at least a month prior. Ralph kept getting these big ideas that he would try to implement in very short times – not being realistic that it takes a while for people to get back to you, and never mentioning paying people or a budget.
For example, Ralph wanted to be in drag for this event. Doing hair, make-up, and styling costs money; these are jobs. He never mentioned what budget he had for those things, which struck me as odd. Another big idea Ralph wanted to do was to have beauty professionals do a land acknowledgement from coast to coast. He got this idea 10 days away from the event. Ralph wanted a video of everyone edited together, which would take some miracles because it takes that long for some people to get back to others. So these kinds of things indicated to me he wasn't realistic or grounded in reality with the expectations he had. He was also emotionally immature in that if you told him your hesitations about him wanting big things in such a very short time and never mentioning pay for them, he took it very badly like feedback could only be good and never what hesitations or concerns were for bad outcomes you could see coming and avoid, such as planning an awards event in 2 weeks.
Anyway, all of this should've clued me into him being a scammer and a fraud, but it didn't. Ralph cancelled this event planned for July 23rd on July 14th. He sold tickets to this thing for for $100-200 a person. I'm not sure if he refunded those ticket purchasers, but he hasn't paid 3 of his employees which I'm one of. Don't work for him or any of his businesses- not even a one-day gig! He's a scammer, and he'll cheat you out of time and money.
I & another co-worker who wasn't paid for her work tried to hold him to a pay deadline. Ralph wasn't responding to our emails or texts – except for at the last minute. He claims he will pay us once he has money coming in, but I'm doubtful at this point. Since Ralph hasn't paid us by the deadline we've set, I'm going ahead and exposing him as a scammer online.