Reviews Of Freelancers

John Zagurasky
www.onlydesigns.net
onlydesigns@gmail.com

If you need to confirm his phone number, you can e-mail me.

Here we go again. I guess until I find a mature professional who knows how to design well & follow simple instructions, I will continue to post my experiences.

John responded to our hiring ad, but didn’t give us everything we asked for, he only gave us our keywords, & he seemed so sincere saying they were down to earth, great at customer service, etc., so I sincerely told him it’s too bad he didn’t give us all we asked for. I wasn’t being sarcastic, I was simple stating my disappointment.

The next thing I know, I’m getting arrogance & ego about how I’m missing out on great work because of the questions.

So I responded back, how great could you possibly be if you can’t communicate well. I even forget that he went on & on about how great they were with communication.

For me communication online deals with the person responding to every single question you ask, & making comments to the most important comments the writer made. This isn’t offline telephone or in person communication, this is online written communication, & if a person can’t read or write English very well & not miss key parts of an ad or e-mail, they were not able to work for us online.

So, John’s attitude next was to say how great there portfolio is because they have had jobs from Harley Davidson & General Motors & this next sentence pissed me off “But I guess tunnel.   minds with their set ideals can not be changes.”

John, we DON’T look at portfolios if you can’t even respond properly to a hiring ad.

I wrote him back, & spoke my mind & told him NOT to contact us again.

Once again I feel like I’m dealing with a child.

Not only did he have to try & prove he was right & I was wrong therefore not taking responsibility for his mistakes, he never ONCE apologized for the mistakes he did make.

I don’t deal with these types of people, we are ONLY seeking people who admit when they are wrong, & mature enough to apologize & correct the mistake(s).

Blaming others is a C level worker’s way of doing things. An A+ worker never blames others for their mistakes because they man or woman up.

Mittie Stephens-Lewis
Business Support by Mittie

If you need to confirm her number, please feel free to contact me.

http://businesssupportbymittie.net
http://seanswebworld.net
mittiestephens@businesssupportbymittie.net

Mittie responded to our ad for an assistant to the Office Manager & President.

At first I thought things were okay until she filled out the application & I noticed a mistake or two.

She didn’t check off the position she was responding to, claiming it wasn’t listed.

I said yes it was.

Finally when she went to go look, she saw that is was listed & she had been responding to soooo many jobs, she had forgotten. She did apologize.

She also put the name of the job at the bottom of all her answers, not at the top where 99.9% of all other people put it if it isn’t listed in the drop down menu.

I told her that I’ll have to think about it, because we only hire people who pay attention to detail.

She said she understood & wasn’t perfect, but she’s a hard worker.

I’m not sure she should have been admitting she wasn’t perfect.

That’s code for “I make a lot of mistakes, but I’m a hard worker.”

After that I forgot about her until today when I got some spammed e-mail from her announcing some message board.

I wasn’t angry angry, but I do get irked by people who don’t know what they are doing online, & she seemed to be one of them.

Her e-mail background is a green colour which is a no no when running a business.

Then she added me to her mailing list which is against the Can Spam laws.

So I just told her that she broke the law because unless I buy something from her, or sign up for her list on my own, she can not add me to her list without my permission. Maybe I wasn’t as sweet & nice as she wanted me to be about it, but I truly felt I was educating her on this subject because if she does this to me, she must do it to a lot of other companies too.

The next thing I know, she starts criticizing me saying I’m nasty. Of course this pissed me off.

She seemed very much like a little girl who doesn’t understand how the net works, & then she has the nerve to call me names when I’ve been nothing but professional to her? It’s clear she wouldn’t have been cut out for our company anyway because we don’t tolerate people who blame others for their actions.

She claimed the reason I was on her list is because she was e-mailing with me.

Ummm, so?

See here’s another point.

You DON’T go around putting everyone you e-mail with on your personal or business mailing list. That just shows how uneducated a person is if they do that.

So after her calling me a name, I told her she is going on my blog.

I had enough wasting my time with this one.

That’s when she threatened me with her lawyer.

Mittie this is my story about what took place with you. You can go ahead & call your lawyer, have him write to me.

Kayvon Afroozi
kayvon@afroozidesign.com
www.afroozidesign.com

Kayvon applied to our graphic web designer position & we liked his portfolio, but he didn’t answer one question that is asked in the hiring ad, so I wrote to him asking him why he didn’t answer it.

His answer made no sense at all…

“I apologize for not following through with your requirements. I normally let my work speak for me as well as my reputation I have with my current and past clients and employers.”

His design work had nothing to do with the question asked which is “what are your strengths & weaknesses”, so I told him we don’t read minds, & when we hire, we aren’t just looking for skills, we want to know what type of person we are hiring.

I mean this is a given for any professional company hiring, they don’t just want anyone.

The response I got back was demented. First he refuses to fill out our online application which is a warning sign, as why in the world would anyone looking for a job REFUSE to fill out a job application?

Then he starts telling me about his private life which wasn’t the point, we don’t care about his age, his wife, girlfriend, amount of kids etc., this wasn’t a personal’s ad, it was a HIRING AD for a position with our company.

Here is his response back repeating what I said to him which is very immature.

“I believe you are thinking I can read your mind, and I cant. There is no way you could know what kind of person I am via an email and the form in which you wish me to fill out surely cannot do that either. If you would like to have a working relationship with me as a designer, I look forward to your reply as we can discuss your projects and negotiate a rate at which we are both satisfied. I have an extremely good relationship with my past employers and still do business with many of them as an independent contractor.

So, his communication skills are terrible in my opinion, he refuses to act like a professional making it hard to deal with him, & his personality is typical of what I wrote in my blog about how graphic designers act.

Arrogant, confused, can’t communicate well, he resisted doing the simplest of things, & he doesn’t care about the company’s policies & procedures.

Sam Mussabir
http://www.phoenixreaction.com

Was about to hire him to do a small task of designing a signup box, when he refused to fill out our simple application form.

Another egotistical unprofessional independent contractor who is a graphic web designer.

After running a business online since 2002, I would have to say beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there are only a few positions where the people who have these skills are very very difficult to work with.

I already posted my experiences with website copywriters, & the second position is graphic web designers (no code, so this is just creating PSDs so our website coder can create the web page).

Not only do we find them very hard to work with, their attitude is terrible, and here’s why.

1. Their insecure ego is terrible. Most of them refuse to fill out a job application, as if they are better then everyone else, & shouldn’t have to go through the screening procedure everyone else goes through.I even had one who did a few things for me, & then when I was ready to get him to do more work (bigger tasks), I sent him some files with rules of the company, NDA, etc., he then refused to sign anything knowing full well this would cost him the job.
2. A good 95% of them don’t read the hiring ad which is in plain clear English, so they get tossed almost immediately.
3. I’ve had some refuse to be paid the way the company pays then telling me that if I don’t pay them via Pay Pal, they won’t take the job, so they would rather lose work, then be paid some other way which is perfectly fine.
4. One just lost the job because she didn’t return my e-mail saying that she should IM me from Yahoo when she is ready for the interview. When I wrote her again, she was all flustered saying she can’t sit around at the computer all day waiting for work.Who says she had to do that? The application clearly stated that the interview is done via IM, so once again, she didn’t understand a word that was written on the application, but somehow she was smart enough to actually give me the keywords, answers to the questions etc.She wasn’t very good, but I was willing to give her a try, but once again, here is an example of someone who doesn’t care about the company & it’s procedures, or even the job.
5. A lot of them disappear never to be seen again.
6. A lot steal other people’s work claiming it is theirs.

I don’t get why these graphic web designers are soooo difficult to deal with. They are unprofessional, they act like little children where if they don’t get their way, they run away, or they charge a fortune for simple work.

If you know of anyone who understands English (written), is really good at their job, & is reasonably priced, please send them my way.

Thank you