How City Career Fair Exploits The Diverse Workers They Purport to Help!

A Detailed Chronicle of Neal Morrison and Ashley Morrison's Swindling Of An Undercover Journalist!

Who knows how many workers "Diversity Pimps" Neal William Morrison and Ashley Morrison, co-owners of the contemptible City Career Fair in California, have exploited before our journalist went undercover to whistle blow their systemic corruption of employment laws?

Here's the detailed story of how an employment rights activist, Profit, infiltrated City Career Fair, worked undercover, and endured exploitative conditions to expose this diversity racket to the masses. Diversity Pimp Life Overview City Career Fair, owned by Los Angeles “Diversity Pimps”, Neal William Morrison and Ashley Morrison, have a PhD in the exploitation of disenfranchised diverse workers. The Morrisons pretend to help the plight of the “diverse” jobseeker, when in reality they are “Culture Vultures”, who profit off cheating said diverse employees out of travel overtime, fair wages, and lunch breaks. What is City Career Fair? City Career Fair (CCF) purports to “provide recruiters access to the United States’ largest pool of ethnically varied, diverse, and qualified professionals”, per their website. CCF hosts 30 job fairs nationwide and market to candidates from historically marginalized communities (People of Color, LGBTQIA+, Disabled, etc.) to populate their job fairs. Then, CCF sells table space to recruiters on the premise they can “provide an opportunity for nationally recognized and top local employers to meet and interview qualified candidates from the ethnically varied and diverse communities of their city.” Sounds great at face value, but Neal and Ashley Morrison exploit their diverse work staff to fund their luxurious lifestyle - that includes owning 3 houses (Downey, Palm Springs, & Cabo San Lucas) - and a freaking horse!   Undercover Employment Journalist Gets The Real Inside Scoop However, a source who worked 4 events as a “Travel Show Coordinator” for the deplorable Morrison duo, by the pseudonym of Profit, went undercover to unearth their diabolical diversity racket with first-hand accounts of working there!

Neal Morrison was caught on a legal recording trying to scam his LGBTQIA+ employee out of overtime.

Profit’s Story - Undercover Source I know City Career Fair is just another straight up scam designed to exploit diversity recruiting and DEI efforts - because I allowed them to exploit me! Initially, I allowed Neal and Ashley Morrison to exploit me out of necessity, because my unemployment benefits ran out and I wanted to protect the savings that were buoying me in this financially fallow time. Simply put…a brother needs to eat…and fund a rare opportunity to compete in an entrepreneurial game show! However, instead of bouncing immediately after the first trip - where I was shorted a full 17 hours of overtime pay and not given a lunch break - or going street justice upside Neal Morrison's punk ass on sight; I decided to work a few more trips to see how deep the rabbit hole went City Career Fair chicanery went to expose all their diversity-related misdeeds.

Thus, I became a willing participant to work the low-paying, onerous, and woefully inconvenient job as “Travel Show Coordinator” for City Career Fair as an undercover whistleblower.

What is a Travel Show Coordinator? City Career Fair’s “Travel Show Coordinator” is a job where one travels with co-owner Neal William Morrison as a glorified assistant and pack mule for overnight trips. Tasks include shuffling their cheap event wares to various U.S. cities in primarily "blue" or "purple" states to stage low-end job fairs - allegedly to help candidates from “diverse” backgrounds find employment. These are low-end job fairs dressed up as “career fairs” despite the typical purveyors of dubious opportunities, such as Primerica, Aflac, or local radio stations looking for “street team interns”. Expect copious amounts of evergreen, but difficult civil service local city and county jobs with , such as police officer or part-time bus driver, to be on the menu.

Neal William Morrison loves to channel his "inner Joy Reid" and take aim at Republican anti-DEI policies for City Career Fair's lack of success in attracting enough employers to stage diversity job fairs in more conservative leaning states.

Neal Morrison Should Replace Joy Reid on MSNBC Neal suffers from an extreme case of Trump Derangement Syndrome and blames the lack of employers interested in his diversity racket from red states on their supposed aversion to diversity recruiting or pushback to DEI policies. Though Neal is heavy on his biased and fake progressive rhetoric, he offered no evidence to support these claims for CCF's non-existent footprint in red states. Oblivious to the discomfort he creates in colleagues, contractors, and to even others who dislike President Trump, Neal prattles on about his political persuasion ad nauseum. Even those of us who are not MAGA fanboys, still don't want to be bombarded with Neal's redundant personal politics on the clock.

City Career Fair Profits By Cheating It’s Diverse Workers

Married City Career Fair co-owners, Neal William Morrison and Ashley Morrison, initially present well, as they appear genuinely concerned about the state of diversity recruiting and DEI efforts for historically marginalized communities.

Sadly, the purported concern of Neal William Morrison and Ashley Morrison is a fake progressive smokescreen, as they are just as ruthless as any greedy, Fortune 500 archetype movie villain one detests working for.

How many horses has Ashley Morrison purchased by cheating her unsuspecting diverse travel workers out of their deserved wages?

Below Are 12 Ways I Was Exploited By City Career Fair - by Profit

1. Ashley Morrison Negotiates Your Initial Deal In Bad Faith. Ashley signed me up to work 2, 8-hour days with a “varying bonus” that allegedly depends on distance traveled from their home base of Downey, CA - knowing full well that Day 2 of these trips is nearly a 16-hour day in itself! How does Ashley know? She’s worked these events and is a company co-owner for 25 years. 

   Yet, Ashley intentionally scammed me out of at least 8 additional hours of pay on EVERY trip - at time and a half or double time - because Ashley knows few jobseekers understand the nuances of CA employment regulations regarding overnight travel jobs. How is Day 2 of these overnight events about 16 hours? Typically, the Travel Show Coordinator meets Neal at about 7am in the morning to set up the event, which starts at 11am. The event runs to 3pm, with a breakdown taking to 4 or 4:30pm. Next, you hustle 5 huge bags of assorted crap to the airport, check the bags in, wait for your flight for another hour-and-a-half to 2 hours, and fly back to LA. Upon landing, we have to retrieve the bags and load them in the Morrison family SUV, typically around 11pm that same day.
   

2. Ashley Morrison Says “They Don’t DO Overtime” And Tries To Misdirect You. When I inquired about overtime, as the airline industry is notoriously very unreliable, Ashley pointedly told me, “They don’t DO overtime, but pay bonuses instead.” That sounded fishy, but when I initially calculated my hourly wage with the bonus offered, it almost sounded like I wouldn’t be shorted by a lot. Besides, I needed to work, so 80% of getting something is better than getting 100% of nothing. However, Ashley still knew she was screwing me out of pay and taking advantage of her knowledge of CA travel labor laws vs. my lack of knowledge in this realm. More on that later.

   
   

3. Neal William Morrison Manipulates You To Not Take A Full Lunch Break.

   During our nearly 40-minute long prep call before my first trip with CCF to Seattle, I asked Neal about our lunch break schedule, and he coolly replied, “We don’t take lunch breaks until AFTER the event. Sometimes, we don’t eat until we check in (for our return flight) at the airport.” I paused in disbelief that a recruiting company was trying to blatantly violate CA lunch break laws so flagrantly! This mofo expected me to work nearly 12 straight hours without eating? Neal must have felt my discomfort during my long pause and followed up with, “Of course, we’re not doing slave labor, so you can take a bite when you need to.” Neal knows the people he hires are down on their luck in the first place to agree to do this tedious job, so he wickedly manipulates them into working through lunch by capitalizing off their desperation; without extra compensation of course. Sure, buddy.

   
   

   Thus, Neal expected me to set up the damn job fair, do 4 straight hours of customer service, break down the job fair, commute at a snail's pace to the airport in PM rush hour traffic, check these bags in, and fight our way through TSA - ALL BEFORE I EAT!!! If I am lucky, I can scarf down a few bites during a lull, with no breaks? F you, Neal!

   
   

4. Neal William Morrison Will Pressure You Not To Take Lunch Because Of His Penny Pinching.

   For our Chicago job fair, there was no temporary staff to help us, so it was just Neal and I running the whole show. I told Neal, “I am thinking about going to lunch around 1pm, can you cover the front?” Neal responded, “Just grab a bite and come back in 10 minutes.” I stood my ground and calmly stated, “I need my full 30 minute break.” Neal paused before reluctantly telling me to “go to lunch now.”

   Neal correctly figured this was an OBVIOUS labor law violation, especially since I was insistent on it. Damn, I actually had to INSIST on getting a 30-minute lunch break, which is something I NEVER had to do in my 30-year career before…EVER!

   
   

5. Neal William Morrison Will Never Suggest A Lunch Breakout Schedule.

   At the 4 job fairs I worked, Neal never once initiated a lunch breakout schedule for day staff. In my first trip in Seattle, I wanted to see how lunch would play out, as I felt Neal was weirdly shady about giving full lunch breaks. Though it was 3 other workers (all of us minorities by the way) from a local staffing company, myself, and Neal to adequately cover the job fair - we did not get an official lunch break. When the foot traffic slowed down, my day-colleagues and I chomped down on left over snack bags, stale breakfast fare, or personal leftovers - before we were inevitably interrupted by the next wave of jobseekers.
   

   

   Neal William Morrison never met a lunch break that he didn't try to suppress!

6. If Travel Delays Occur, Ashley Morrison Will Not Legally Compensate You. CA is a very worker friendly state, even when it comes to overnight travel employment regulations. First, CA employment law dictates you must get paid upon meeting with your employer at the airport in your departure city - all the way until you check-in to your hotel at the arrival city; especially if you are working in a travel assistant capacity like I was. Through a morass of Alaska and American Airline incompetence combined with dreadful luck, our 2.5 departure flight to Seattle, ended up being a 13-hour boondoggle - that included a Las Vegas stop mid-trip to prolong our odyssey.

   Neal was super impressed that I did not walk off the job for the horrible inconvenience. Well, I errantly assumed that a company that purports to champion disfranchised diverse jobseekers would pay me for all the legitimate hours I put in, and reward me enduring ridiculous travel conditions with a smile. How naïve I was! Neal even remarked about my patience, adaptability, and classy attitude in handling this whole ordeal. Apparently Neal was not THAT impressed because I didn’t get a bonus. Worse, I didn’t even get what I was LEGALLY OWED under CA state law for this mess! I was only paid for 8 hours of work for that 16 hour day for that travel nightmare!

   
   

7. Neal William & Ashley Morrison Will String You Along With Promises Of Additional Work. When I inquired about more regular work, Neal made all sorts of promises of a marketing leads campaign - among other projects. The other projects never were spoken of again and my marketing leads campaign follow up text was soundly ignored. I wonder if Neal ignored that text because he knew he was serving me a ghost job to keep me on the interested in their sham company?
   

   Ashley tried to keep me on the hook with feelers to see if I would house-sit for them when they visited their Cabo San Lucas home - in exchange for "under the table cash", course. This, like all their other proposed projects, was merely a pitch to keep a worker like me in their orbit by alluding that more greener pastures await.
   

   In reality, Ashley was trying to sense how desperate I was and using my paltry financial situation as leverage for her cynical tactics.
   

8. Neal William Morrison Plays Diverse Workers Against Each Other To Build Favor. To build rapport while complimenting me, Neal compared me favorably to the previous Travel Show Coordinator, “Elijah”. Neal claimed “Elijah” was overweight and had to fire him for falling asleep and snoring in their office on multiple occasions. Per Neal, "Elijah" ended up getting a Hollywood job. BTW, Elijah is also a person of color as well, so why is the CEO of a diversity recruiting company bashing someone who could be their target jobseeker customer?

   https://www.linkedin.com/in/elijahwashington98/
   

9. Neal William Morrison Intentionally Works Diverse Workers Overtime, Without Paying Overtime Compensation.

   I decided to bide my time and work a few more trips until we were in a “one party recording state” to record Neal’s response when I finally confronted him on back pay that I was entitled to - for the Seattle trip departure flight debacle. Also,

   I wanted to inquire if I was going to get paid for the 2.5 hours I worked overtime on night 1 of our NYC trip, which was the LITERALLY the day before! Neal fell right into my trap and played stupid.
   

   

   If the diverse workers City Career Fair pretends to serve, knew how Neal Morrison and Ashley Morrison routinely flout CA state employment laws, they would be up-in-arms at being screwed out of their rightful wages!

10. Neal William Morrison Plays Dumb When Diverse Workers Demand To Be Fairly Compensated for Overtime Worked. Neal played dumb and said, “Talk to Ashley. I don’t deal with finance. I don’t know what agreement you have with Ashley. That’s her department. That’s between you and her.” I persisted, “Your wife and you are the co-owners of this company. I don’t believe you have no idea what I make.” Neal is a man who once scrutinized me and called me during my lunch break to ensure that I was not eating a leftover, unused box lunch that was untouched by one of the recruiters! Therefore, I don’t buy Neal doesn’t know I am only supposed to work 8 hours a day. Neal is just used to taking advantage of people who don't know or won't assert their employment rights out of fear or desperation. Therefore, Neal never had to worry about working someone into overtime, because as Ashley previously said, "They don't DO overtime!" Yet, Neal has no problem working me 10+ hours, but gets selective amnesia when I question if I will be compensated fairly according to CA travel employment law? Spare me, you unrepentant wage thief! Remember, City Career Fair is a SUPER small company husband & wife enterprise. They might employ 2, maybe 3 full-time employees; with other sales people earning a living solely off commission. I sincerely doubt Neal and Ashley don’t communicate about employee wages, especially when I regularly overheard Ashley and Neal communicate regularly about the most mundane and minute details of their job fairs.

    
    

11. Ashley Morrison Ignores Diverse Workers When They Demand To Be Fairly Compensated.

    I emailed Ashley a detailed breakdown of what I was owed per CA state travel law for the 33 hours I worked at the appropriate time-and-a-half AND double time overtime rates for the Seattle trip. This was in stark contrast to the 16 hours she originally paid me with her nominal bonus that barely keeps this job from being totally indentured servitude.
    

    I also included the 26.5 hours I worked for the NYC trip, again not the 16 hours Ashley’s farcical accounting determined I worked. My response from Ashley was a resounding crickets and tumbleweeds. To add insult to injury, I still completed my job with dutiful bag-handling when we touched down in LAX. I didn’t want to give the Morrisons any foothold to further deprive me of my duly owed wages. For the temerity of questioning Neal about my wages, Neal made up an excuse that Ashley was stuck in traffic, so I should take the shuttle to my car - instead of them taking me to where my car was parked - like the previous 3 trips.
    

12. City Career Fair Ignored Me When I Brought Up My Unpaid Wage Discrepancies.

    To leverage NY's friendly recording "one-party recording" laws, I wanted to record Neal's response when I confronted him on City Career Fair's unlawful dealings. On the way to JFK International Airport, I took our shuttle bus ride as my opportunity to catch Neal's crookedness for posterity. Instead of showing genuine concern for perhaps "accidentally" bilking an employee out of unpaid wages, as an honest employer would do, Neal's attitude reflected the polar opposite. It reflected the man who was caught red-handed. Neal decided to shirk accountability and deflected responsibility to his wife (what a husband!). I explained the hours I worked the day before, sent me into overtime by 2.5 hours. Neal, without skipping a beat, wouldn't even acknowledge that much - even when I was working with hotel support staff who witnessed my work - under Neal's very own direction. When I complained I was not paid fully for our Seattle trip, Neal's response was, "Why didn't you mention this sooner? That was 3 months ago!" I retorted, "I am a bringing it up now because I recently discovered you guys didn't pay me properly according to CA employment law." Next, Neal tried to grandstand and act indignant by feigning concern for the other passengers, who were mostly asleep, listening to entertainment via their air pods, or couldn't care less. Neal barked, "These people don't want to hear this. Lower your voice." I was stern, but not loud, "Nobody on this bus cares. Moreover, I don't care what they think, they don't owe me money. You do." Neal decided to impersonate Helen Keller and went mute, dumb, and blind on me by shutting down the conversation - as if my allotted time with the king had elapsed!
    

    

    Neal William Morrison and Ashley Morrison's City Career Fair diversity hustle have afforded them a luxurious life comprising of homes in Downey, CA; Palm Springs, CA; and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Not to mention, they own a horse. How much of this largesse was off the backs they schemed out of their rightful wages?

    City Career Fair Is Being Actively Investigated by BOTH the EEOC and CA state of Department of Industrial Relations for Employees Rights Abuses & Wage Fraud. The proof is in the pudding - and City Career Fair's pudding is full of excriment! A) City Career Fair’s cumulative employee reviews on Indeed are pathetic 2.8.

    Profit was forced to filed official complaints with for unpaid overtime wages, working through lunch and rest breaks without premium pay, record keeping violations, misclassification of status, and unfair retaliation with the following CA employment agencies to recoup his back pay and to hold City Career Fair accountable for their numerous brash labor law violations. B) Presently, City Career Fair is under investigation with the...

    Bureau of Field Enforcement - Illegal Labor Law Violations Case #: CM1110786
    

    Division of Labor Standards Enforcement - Unpaid Wages and Labor Law Violations Case #: WC-CM-1112205 Labor Commissioner - Illegal Employer Retaliation Case#: RCI-CM-1112426 Labor Enforcement Task Force (LETF)- Bad Actors in the Underground Economy Case: LETF does not provide a complaint or case number. However, City Career Fair's most recent complaint was on 7/23/25. Better Business Bureau - Deceptive Advertising Practices Case #: 23612594 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Possible Racial or Ethnic Discrimination Inquiry #: 480-2025-05330 Neal simply can't pressure me into not taking lunch. Furthermore, I should be paid according to CA state employment law for all my services rendered. Legal action may be forthcoming as well. This is definitely no joke or hoax. Neal and Ashley Morrison will have to explain themselves to CA state employment officials for their skullduggery.

Neal Morrison and Ashley Morrison are classic "Culture Vultures" that profit from the pretense of helping historically marginalized demographics, when in reality they scam their own diverse workers out of wages and ignore employee lunch breaks to suit their job fair foot traffic.

Conclusion - City Career Fair are CULTURE VULTURES

Neal and Ashley Morrison, profit off the diverse, marginalized community they purport to help by negotiating bad faith deals, pressuring travel show coordinators to work through lunch, duping desperate employees into working for free by not paying overtime, and playing dumb when called out on their financial malfeasance.

As evidenced, it’s sad and disgusting to see Neal and Ashley Morrison build their wealth on the backs of diverse jobseekers by taking advantage of their intimate knowledge of CA state travel employment regulations from 25 years of exploiting them - and banking on their desperate workers ignorance on such laws to maintain their profitability. This time though, the hunters will become the hunted - when Neal Morrison and Ashley Morrison will be forced to defend their treacherous business model in open court - and hopefully pay for their fraudulent ways to those they have wronged!

Ashley Morrison will have to answer to CA state employment investigators, as at least 5 complaints have been filed against City Career Fair for their nefarious tactics, unethical business practices, and wanton illegal accounting practices.