The Design Company, Outsider Perspectives

I appreciate hearing outsider perspectives. Two former employees of the interior design company who were not members of the cult have commented here and on reddit. Their observations are spot-on...

According to vast_bug_2143:

I used to work for one of their businesses. I picked up their cult activities after noticing some craaazy stuff that went on.  I was a young 21yo that just moved to LA and started working at Design One. I started to notice many of the employees had the same last name (Firestone). They were all married to each other but sleeping with different people. If they had children, they wouldn’t raise them. They’d hand their kids off to be raised by other cult members. They had a hierarchy system with the cult. Robert Firestone was the CEO but was NEVER there…if he would walk into the office, he’d be surrounded by a lot of young women…they treated him like a god, a movie star!  It was the craziest experience of my life. 

According to catg2424:

I worked at one of their Design firms for a short time. It was the weirdest experience. Half of us were not in the cult but when he would come into the office his cult group employees all knew he was coming in. They would all stand outside of their offices and greet him like their master.