Urgent Call for Leadership Change at ProPhase Labs

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The little people that are still at this company or surprised that it’s still alive. Jason should not be in any position or any new position given how bad their numbers are they aren’t testing and they have no management and no communication skills and that goes for all executives. Elizabeth Payne should have been terminated a long time ago. There have been so many complaints about her and it’s been brought up to executives but since she kisses Jason‘s behind, he covers her. Elizabeth and Jason have no background in laboratory works he gives her any title she wants and they both get great bonuses as everyone else who tries to make the company stand get nothing. There’s no respect here for the anyone or women. Jason and Ted both have their tantrums have thrown objects throughout the c-suite yelling, and cursing at employees and this place is toxic beyond belief. They have lawsuits and DOH complaints and I hope others file too. Prophase and Nebula is soon going to get shut down and I know a lot of people can’t wait.
 


Folks, let’s get this straight—the board member, the young lady who Ted brought in, she’s gone. She’s not here anymore. Now, why is that? We all know she wasn’t exactly qualified for the role, and it seemed like Ted picked her just so he could call the shots. Maybe she figured out what was really going on and decided to jump ship, or maybe she got pushed out. Either way, she’s out.

But the real question is—why isn’t anyone talking about the bonuses and paychecks Ted and Jason are pocketing? Where’s the transparency? Why isn’t this stuff being disclosed as a public company? They’re making bank while the rest of us are kept in the dark.

And let me tell you, if Ted’s even thinking about putting his son, Jason, in charge more than what he already is, he’s in for a rude awakening. That kid’s not ready to run anything. If Ted goes down that road, he’s going to regret it, because Jason will drive this place straight into the ground.

On top of that, I’m hearing they’ve brought in some washed-up marketing guy who’s supposed to turn things around. But come on, folks, he’s just the latest shiny object. Give it a little time, and they’ll turn on him too, just like they always do. And don’t be surprised when they start pulling the same old tricks—gutting departments, making everyone report directly to them. They did the exact same thing with the lab side, tearing everything apart, and now they’re following that same, predictable playbook.

And one more thing—has anyone else noticed the rest of the board is just made up of Ted’s family and his childhood buddies? How is that supposed to be a real, functioning board? It’s like they’ve got their own little club, and the rest of us are just along for the ride.
 


Well now, have y’all caught wind of these latest press releases? It’s like a comedy show, only less funny and more tragic. The new website – good lord, it’s like someone slapped a fresh coat of paint on a barn and called it a mansion. Ugly? That’s putting it kindly. Looks like it was designed last century and dragged back from the grave for an encore. And the so-called “marketing genius” they hired – what exactly was he aiming for here? Expertise? If he’s got any, it’s hiding behind a thick layer of mediocrity.

And don’t get me started on young Jason – I’d wager he played a role in picking those colors, though I will give him credit for staying inside the lines for once. A small mercy, but mercy all the same. Frankly, this whole venture’s turned into a circus – an expensive, chaotic, and decidedly uninspiring circus.

The company’s limping along, folks. It’s high time someone called it what it is. I’ll be watching with bated breath for their quarterly report – it’ll be about as predictable as a storm cloud. And did y’all hear about the website and portal going down? Quite the show of competence, if that’s what they were aiming for.

Still got vendors ringing me up for payments, too. I mean, I haven’t worked there in over a year! Who’s minding the store over there? Where’s the new lab director? And Ted? Seems he’s been laying low – maybe he saw the writing on the wall.

As for me, I’m settling in with a bag of popcorn, waiting to see what’ll happen next. Should we start a betting pool on their demise? I’d even sign up for a up a website just for that – place your bets on how fast this train’s gonna crash.
 






Let me be clear: With Jed stepping into a new role as CEO elsewhere, there’s a pressing question on everyone’s mind—who’s steering the ship? One thing’s for sure, folks—it sure as hell isn’t Jason.
 




Ted Karkus sucks an Jason even worse. They let go of everybody worth anything at that company. Fired the whole lab, fired people in IT, finance, and anywhere else they “think” they don’t need. Like who even made these clowns qualified to know who to keep or not? Jason ain’t nowhere to be found—he shows up for a few hours then dips. Ted does the same. Jed? He ain’t been in for weeks. Sergio? Gone.

How they all fall apart cuz they blind as hell and listen to dumbass people. How long Lance got left? Where’s Kamal? And why the hell that unqualified chick Elizabeth still there? HR director? MIA for months. Then Hansen, their little flavor of the month, was just in the lab two weeks ago, talkin trash bout how he’s the only one bringin in business. Straight calling Jason a dumbass kid to whoever would listen. Dude even still runnin his mouth bout how he’s the one runnin the company now an these other fools are idiots.
 


Man this place is something!
Get rid of Elizabeth Payne- she is literally her last name! She knows nothing about being a manager or an “Director of laboratory services” she sucks up to Jason with her mouth wide open. Knows nothing about running a lab. Ted pays her $130k to do what? Sit in her room and play games on her phone. She’s just as useless as Jed who is part time and working elsewhere. Instead of Denise doing her job and writing Liz up for all the complaints she received over the years Liz files a EEOC as being the only black person at prophase and for that is attacked with complaints Please! It shows that she’s a horrible person. Jason is just a child that daddy got a job and ran it into the floor!!!! Lance doesn’t know his head to his fat toe but Ted pays his schooling! Hansen thinks he’s big and running the place but talks shit about all C suite. All vendors and employees that did anything for this company saw how not to run a company and prophase is a shitshow as they are trying to file bankruptcy or save the little bit they have left
 


KARMA... Both Jason and Ted messed with a lot of peoples livelihood. No remorse... Ted gave Jason credit for everything and hes a complete moron. Any dumbass could make money during Covid. When it came to trying to build a real business after Covid Jason failed. Jason failed miserably. He wasted 30 million dollars. Ted was trying to help Jason through daddy issues. If a young man needs to be coddled so much and have his ego pumped hes not a man. Jason is not a man/not a business man/not a leader, maybe a good golfer. Ted is not a CEO. Ted thinks he's a CEO and may have played one on TV or slept at a Holiday Inn. But not a CEO. How do you make mistake after mistake blow 30 million, take money from investors and still dont realize your an idiot/not a good business man/not a CEO. The they blame everyone else for their mistakes. Shameful at best. As far as Liz she is just a puppet. She got to where she is by doing some good ass kissing and other "things" Many good people worked at Prophase. Give them credit. Last point the stock is at 50 cents for a reason. Time for a change at the helm. Where is the board?
 


Jason Karkus is a fucking joke of a human being and an even bigger joke of a so-called ‘leader.’ This guy will set up meetings with clients—people we’re supposed to impress—and then he won’t even fucking show up. Imagine that: you’re a client, and the guy who set the meeting can’t even be bothered to dial his lazy ass into the meeting. But if you dare miss one of his meetings? Oh, he’ll lose his shit. He’ll act like you’ve committed some unforgivable sin, ranting and raving about how no one respects him. Well, guess what, Jason? Respect is earned, and you’ve done jack shit to deserve it.

And his complete disrespect for other people’s time? Fucking infuriating. Jason will fire off meeting invites without checking anyone’s schedule, assuming the whole world revolves around him. He wastes hours of everyone’s life because he doesn’t give a damn about anyone but himself. This guy doesn’t plan, doesn’t prepare, and doesn’t think twice before screwing over his own team. His ego is so big it could blot out the sun, and his work ethic? Nonexistent.

Oh, and let’s not forget their guard dog, Fiona. What a fucking waste of space. Fiona sits in meetings with her stupid little notebook, pretending to take notes like she’s doing something useful, but she’s just as fucking worthless as Jason and Ted. All she does is send out follow-up emails full of empty platitudes and zero action. Problems? She doesn’t solve them. Accountability? She dodges it like it’s her full-time job. Fiona is a professional bullshit artist—just another puppet for the Karkus family to prop up their dumpster fire of a business. She’s there to stroke Jason’s fragile ego and make it look like they’ve got their shit together, but it’s all smoke and mirrors. Funny thing is that they hated her until recently. I give her credit tho. She’s learned to play the game and survive.

And don’t even get me started on Ted Karkus. That guy is just as delusional as his baby boy. Jason Karkus is a fucking failure who tanked in real estate because he doesn’t have the skills or the balls to make it in the real world. So what did Daddy Ted do? He bailed him out, gave him a cushy job at ProPhase, and let him run the company into the ground. Jason didn’t build a goddamn thing at ProPhase. He just showed up, whined, and threw temper tantrums when people didn’t bow down to him. Meanwhile, Ted walks around spouting bullshit about how Jason is some kind of genius. It’s pathetic. They’re both a couple of entitled assholes who wouldn’t know real work if it smacked them in the face.

Jason’s favorite line—‘No one listens to me because I don’t sign their paychecks’—says it all. He’s a smug, arrogant prick who thinks respect comes from a title and a paycheck, not from actual leadership. Newsflash, Jason: No one respects you because you’re a useless, whining, tit-sucking little bitch who couldn’t lead a pack of ants to a picnic.

I’ve been in the lab world for decades, and I’ve seen some dysfunctional shit, but nothing compares to the disaster that is Jason and Ted Karkus. They don’t care about their employees, their clients, or the business. They care about their egos and their bank accounts, and they’ll step on anyone who gets in their way. I’ve learned my lesson—never again would I work for a family-run business where Daddy swoops in to save his spoiled, incompetent brat. Jason Karkus, Ted Karkus, and their useless little sidekicks can all go fuck themselves.
 


Reading these comments only serve to validate what I knew for a very long time. These two so called business leaders are from the Trump University School of Bidness. They are of the Dumb & Dumber, Borat & Azamat Bagatov, George Bush & Dan Quayle business mold. Jason is the epitome of being born on 3rd base and thinking you hit a triple. Ted is an enabling snake oil, used car salesman. Besides having the Covid pandemic fall on their lap they got everything else wrong. As it is clearly evidenced by this thread they have mismanaged, mistreated, and misinterpreted their way to a now .65 cent stock. Moreover, towards the end of the pandemic they stiffed most of their vendors out of millions of dollars. If the board has any teeth or sense they would act immediately.
 


Just to add to my previous post I believe that these two have spearheaded massive shareholder fraud. With all the talk of substantial cash reserves which have inexplicably disappeared and these two running a publicly traded company with the highest degree of informality, we as shareholders are being subject to blatant fraud. The US attorney at EDNY would have a field day if they would look at this. Where did all the reserves go? My guess......diverted to the pockets of the Father-Son fraud team.
 


anonymous said:
Just to add to my previous post I believe that these two have spearheaded massive shareholder fraud. With all the talk of substantial cash reserves which have inexplicably disappeared and these two running a publicly traded company with the highest degree of informality, we as shareholders are being subject to blatant fraud. The US attorney at EDNY would have a field day if they would look at this. Where did all the reserves go? My guess......diverted to the pockets of the Father-Son fraud team.
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So why don't they? Why hasn't anyone contacted the US Attny about it? What does that entail?
 




Lets all take a look at the history. 8-9 C Level people left. Covid was easy money. Any jackass could have made money during Covid. You buy Nebula and run it to the ground. Who was or is in charge HMM...... You decide to expand into the clinical lab business with out any knowledge, any in network insurances, spend millions on equipment and construction. Then cant pay your bills so the equipment is sitting idle and your paying the bills for nothing. Millions wasted. Who was in charge or is in charge.... HMMM... You buy a company that specializes in Esophageal Cancer. You tell everyone its unique. Its NOT. There are others out there. The company is not FDA approved or has a CPT code. Millions wasted. Who is in charge or was in charge... FDA approval is long process and will take time. HMMM... Bad choices. You have a lozenge company that can explode in business. But dont know how to manage it. Who is or was in charge. TED KARKUS JASON KARKUS. Their egos will get in the way of any sale and will blow up the lozenge company sale. Look at the issues here. Father and son blame everyone else. The buck stops with those two morons. You put a 26 year old asshole in charge of running a multi million dollar business and what you have is a failed experiment. Entitled jackass who walks around bullying people. His big accomplishment is the website. The site looks like a 2 year old built it. You put a wall street trader in charge; and what you have is a man with a bad ego takes zero responsibility for his miscues, and mismanagement. Hell Biden could have done better. Again another bully who uses his legal team to pull his weight. Millions wasted. Do you all see who is in charge. You see the history. Why is the board not doing anything. Big question of the day. Ted and Jason for the sake of the company step down; for the sake of the investors step down. The board, for the sake of everyone resign. Get someone in there that knows what they are doing.
 


Hey Stu welcome to the C Level club at Prophase. You too will soon be a casualty of the Karakus disorganization. You too will find out how bad it is to work for someone who has zero integrity, zero knowledge, zero class, zero ethics and most of all zero respect. Are you reporting to the 27 year old know it all of nothing. It took Jed 3 months and he ran. I think Jason told Jed that he kissing his dads ass. Hysterical. Only kiss as is the Liz lady The over/ under is 6 months for you. The stock traded at $12-14 per share now down to 24 cents. No movement after the sale of the only good asset Prophase had in its portfolio. When will the investors awaken from their hiding spots. Ted and his d bag son need to go. The company is in a downward spiral. The trash needs to be thrown out. Oh did you not pay the garbage pick up as well. Best of luck
 




Oh, the stories I could tell. So many—some good, most bad.

Let’s get right to it: ProPhase Labs is a case study in bad leadership, poor decision-making, and outright incompetence. If you ever wanted a lesson in how to mismanage a company, Ted and Jason Karkus have given us a masterclass.

Leadership: A Disaster from Top to Bottom

Ted Karkus is the kind of guy who calls himself a leader but has no idea what leadership actually means. He loves the title, the power, and the attention, but when it comes to making tough calls, treating employees with respect, or delivering results, he’s nowhere to be found. No one likes him, and for good reason. He’s burned every bridge, stabbed every back, and still walks around pretending he’s got everything under control. Spoiler: He doesn’t.

His right-hand man, Stu, is somehow even worse. This guy has found a way to triple-dip payments, slap together the worst ad campaigns imaginable, and profit off a failing “women-only” social media platform that nobody uses. Every conversation with him is a desperate attempt to remind people that he once worked at Barstool and WWE. Well, if he was that good, why isn’t he still there? Because he’s useless. A true executive fraud.

And somehow, it gets worse—every single person Stu brings in as a consultant or hire is just as bad as he is. These people walk in, take a paycheck, contribute absolutely nothing, and make things even worse. Yet, instead of pointing the finger at the guy who brought them in, leadership scrambles to find someone else to blame. Every failure is deflected. Every mistake gets pinned on someone who had nothing to do with it. Meanwhile, Stu keeps bringing in one incompetent idiot after another, and the cycle continues.

Financial Disaster: Nothing Left to Generate Revenue

Let’s talk about the biggest blunder of all—selling Pharmaloz. The one division that was actually generating revenue? Gone. Sold off. And what happened next? The entire company went to shit.

There is nothing left making money. Nothing.

They keep hyping up TK Supplements, but that’s a joke. It’s a failure, and everyone knows it. Now, they think launching another supplement brand is the answer? Give me a break. These guys have proven, time and time again, that they only know how to kill businesses, not grow them.

Look at Nebula. They took a thriving brand, a business with real potential, and ran it straight into the ground. That’s their track record—taking something valuable and driving it to zero. They don’t build. They don’t innovate. They don’t lead. They find good products, buy them, mismanage them, kill them, and then move on.


Jason: The Most Overrated “Hard Worker” in Business

Now, let’s talk about Jason Karkus—the guy who thinks he’s working harder than anyone but is really just playing golf and hanging out with his equally incompetent friends. Jason loves to tell people he’s working “nonstop.” Maybe if you count “working” as micromanaging, dodging accountability, and making clueless decisions, then sure. He was probably bullied in school, and now he’s got a power complex, taking it out on everyone who works under him. Ego bigger than his results.

And here’s the kicker: during COVID, an angry client threatened to come to the office and beat Jason up. What did Jason do? Did he face the problem? No. He ran home and told the office to call the cops and get security for a week. That’s the level of “leadership” we’re dealing with.

The Collapse Has Already Started

They’ve slashed employee salaries while keeping their own padded. Everyone else suffers, but they’re still taking home big checks. Classic case of “leadership” that looks out for itself first and leaves the real workers to fend for themselves.

Meanwhile, the company is on the brink of collapse—less than 10 employees left, everyone else either fired, quit, or forced out. They just got an eviction notice for their office. Read that again—they ran this company so badly they can’t even pay rent.

They’ve alienated everyone. Employees hate them. Clients hate them. Former partners hate them. The company could have been something great, but they put a 24/25-year-old kid in charge who probably still can’t even wipe properly. That’s the decision-making we’re dealing with.

The Reckoning Is Coming

Here’s the reality: their time is coming. You can only burn so many bridges before there’s nowhere left to go. Everyone knows who they are. Everyone sees what they’ve done. And sooner or later, all those bad decisions, all that arrogance, all that mismanagement—it all catches up.

That day isn’t far off.

They’re going to lose everything. And when they do, they’ll have no one to blame but themselves.
 


@Jed: Why don't you get the back to to work on your own penny stock company you clown? Look at how the stock has gone up by over 100% since it was announced you're leaving. Anyone with 2 brain cells will realize that you were casually omitted from the last 20k word post while you had been the COO. Coincidence? Probably not.
 


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