Reviews Of Freelancers

Rachel Dillin
racheldillin@yahoo.com
Stillwater, Oklahoma

We were about to hire Rachel after spending a lot of time interviewing her, giving her a 2nd chance when she screwed up on the pre-screen files (she didn’t complete the 2nd page), etc.

Now I find out she never even read all the paperwork prior to being interviewed because had she read it, she would have known that our interviews aren’t 5 minutes. She is now complaining about the long (1 1/2-2 hour) interview even though it clearly stated that’s how long our interviews are. Then she had the nerve to say the interview isn’t being paid for LOL, who in the WORLD pays someone for an interview???

If she can’t even read & understand simple paperwork, she would NEVER have been a good editor, or book compiler.

Prior to the interview I had felt her communication skills were a bit off, as she said she would be available on the Saturday after 2 pm. At 4 pm she wasn’t anywhere around, & at 6 pm she suddenly appeared saying she was going for dinner. I couldn’t put my finger on what was bothering me, but I went ahead & interviewed her anyway. My mistake, there were starting to be a few signs she isn’t the type of person we hire at our company.

During the initial 15 minutes of the interview, she said she had absolutely NO PROBLEM being tested to see if she could work with us (we require everyone work for 5 free hours before we will establish if they are skilled in what they said they were skilled in, & are able to communicate, can follow instructions etc. We do this because of all the problems we’ve had with people like Rachel. We no longer feel that hiring someone online is just like hiring someone offline, you gamble a lot because of the loony types of people who are online.).

When the interview was done, she stated she wanted the job, She had also agreed to being paid $8/hr. long before the interview even, in fact I stated this when she was first given the hiring ad for the book compiler position. Now she is trying to make it seem like we are in the wrong because SHE doesn’t like our hourly rate & it’s beneath her, so she clearly lied from the getgo, as her original hourly rate to edit our scipt was only $10/hr.

When the interview was done, she even went so far as to sign ALL of our required paperwork, when all of a sudden this morning she sends me a very unprofessional accusatory e-mail. She almost sounded like a little child accusing me of not being able to pay for work, wanting her to work for free, me not wanting to go through oDesk, & then it turns out the ONLY reason she wanted the job was to get a presence on oDesk, NOT because the position sounded interesting, she liked the company, etc.

We feel she is one of those freelancers, we RUN FROM. Ones who doesn’t understand what is going on, one that puts words in other people’s mouths, one that doesn’t know what she wants & fliters back & forth. Perhaps I shouldn’t have given her a chance because she hasn’t worked in a while since she had been pregnant, but I tend to not want to judge women just because they were pregnant.

She now just wasted about 3 hours of our time, but this is good, better to waste the time now than to hire her & find out later she’s got emotional issues we can’t deal with.

Mohammad Ahshan Razib

phppro121@yahoo.com.au
ahsan_razib@yahoo.com

If you need to confirm his address, just e-mail me.

This guy just wasted about 2 hours of my precious time.

First he responds to the W3C website coder position & the URLs he gave us weren’t even valid. His excuse was that non of his clients wanted to waste time on that.

Then his English was sooooo poor, I couldn’t really understand him. At one point he made it seem like his clients did everything for him, provided him with the graphics, CSS, html, etc. So what did he do, nothing?

When I asked him about that, he ignored my question, another example of poor communication skills.

He also didn’t explain why his URLs weren’t valid, I had to ask him why he even bothered wasting my time responding to the hiring ad. His excuse is that he doesn’t speak much.

So I told him I didn’t feel it was going to work out.

Then the next thing I know, he starts telling me that the URLs he sent me were to showcase his PHP, & EVERYONE knows you can’t see quality PHP through a website URL, so I point blank stated this.

Now he was wasting my time & confusing me, was he really a programmer & not a website coder?

So then he says he wants to apply for the PHP programmer position & I told him I didn’t think his communication skills were going to be good enough, but I gave him the hiring ad to review.

The next thing I know, the guy e-mails me back saying I don’t work for adult companies even though in EVERY hiring ad we clearly state what type of company we are.

So not only did he frustrate me to no end, he wasted my valuable time because he couldn’t even read & understand the English that was there in the hiring ad even though he somehow managed to give us the 3 things we asked for.

Geeze, what a waste

Major Ron Payne
paynelessdesigns@gmail.com
admin@paynelessdesigns.com
http://paynelessdesigns.com/
Biloxi, Mississippi

So in my opinion, this Ron guy turns out to be a nasty individual.

He responds to our hiring ad for a website coder who knows W3C valid coding, & instead of just answering all the questions, the first thing that comes out of his mouth is…

“Not going to beg for the job.  Just emailing you to let you know I am a stickler for proper web coding and require all pages to be pass validation for the HTML and CSS coding.”

That of course put my back up & I took that as a sign that he really doesn’t want the job anyway, & his immature ego self was giving me the finger & trying to show off about what he knows/does.

So that coupled with the fact that he didn’t answer the other 2 questions asked of him, I said it’s clear to me you don’t want the job, so we will pass.

His response was: “Didn’t say I didn’t want it, but if you pass, you pass.  You’re just going to miss out on the best coder around.

Thanks for letting me know.

By the way, your postings on GeekstoGo.com, where I am a Tech Staff member, was pulled.

Ron”

So the way he writes what he wrote, it sounded like he got our hiring ad pulled, so that’s what I initially thought, but then later on he claims it was because it wasn’t supposed to be posted on that board. Ron, learn how to communicate better.

Bottom line is, we don’t hire mean spirited people, we want people who are nice, friendly & also have the skills, communication, are reliable, etc.

Seika Groves
gypsyseika@gmail.com
Hamilton, Ontario

If you need to confirm her phone number, please just e-mail me.

So Seika turned out to be a nasty person to us.

She applied to our position to be an interviewer, & eventually she was asked to fill out our company application just like every single person is asked to do.

Instead of reading the application & following the instructions, she just ignored it & only filled out what she wanted to, or what was easy to.

When I then told her she wouldn’t be suitable for this company because she didn’t do as she was asked, she proceeded to lie to me & tell me…

“Sorry, I DID read all the instructions, but i DON’T give out that much information over the net (secure page or not). If you need to have that information that is something that is to be asked during the interview process. Good Luck in your search…”

Her arrogant attitude about our companies procedures (she has no right to tell us how to run our business) & the fact that she was lying straight out about reading the entire application page pissed me off. I said you refuse to tell us the hours you work, how many clients you are currently working for, & what you look for in a company?

In my mind I was thinking, WOW, that must be TOP SECRET information, so if this got out, it would get her into deeeeeep trouble.

The next thing I know, she’s ran to tattle (immature behavior) to oDesk & lied by saying we are promoting an escort service instead of what we are doing, which was hiring for our company which writes books & provides other products & services for the escort industry.

She knew this of course, because she responded to our hiring ad which clearly states that plain as day.

So, I had no intentions of putting her on this blog, until this happened, now I feel others should know what she did to us, because we don’t want the same thing happening to you.

We ONLY hire A+ workers, who are mature, ethical, professional, & admit when they make mistakes, instead of blaming others or lying.

Here is some more about her…

She is a graduate of Ryerson in Toronto for Television and Radio Broadcasting,
Humber College Toronto, Radio Dj
Have worked at CFGM Country Music Radio- Hosted Entertainment show
CFRB- Radio Commercial Voice Overs
weather and traffic
Telephone systems, voicemail etc..
Many commerciasl for televison and radio for clients such as:
Motor Company Canada
Dairy Board
Hudsons Bay Company
Reebok
Tylenol

Marty
smarty44@hotmail.com
From Windsor, Ontario

So I put an ad out looking for some computer help, someone who knows both software & hardware. This was for my personal computer.

The next thing I know, I get this Marty guy who starts accusing me of trying to get free information him which was a joke. If I wanted to do that, I’d just go to a message board.

This all started because I was trying to screen him. I asked him which virus protection program & other programs he uses hoping he’d give me some names of Virus & Spyware/Adware programs that are used by real geeks, none of this mainstream stuff because people don’t know the first thing about computers.

He starts asking me what this has to do with him fixing computers.

Unfortunately it turned into a total flame fest because Marty clearly thinks the entire world is out to get something free from him, & in my opinion he has trust issues. I don’t deal with people who live in fear & constantly think everyone is a nasty person, I don’t care if one comes to him by way of the Internet. If he can’t handle doing business online, he shouldn’t be on the Internet doing business.

Marty also felt I should tell him exactly what I am doing. I don’t have to tell him I’m screening him, that defeats the purpose in my opinion.

I had an ad out, I had already discussed his prices, it should have been very clear that I was a serious client. It wasn’t like I was spending tons of hours talking to him, I asked him 2 questions.

Anyway, he called me unprofessional, an amateur, & in the end he was nasty to me. Yes I mocked him back because it was so clear he had serious emotional issues, but I was in deep shock as to how I was being treated. I NEVER treat potential clients this way, I always answer their one or two questions when they ask. That’s called servicing potential clients because you want their business.

Then he starts mocking my e-mail address which he doesn’t know the first thing about. He said…

“Toll free numbers and voicemail?  Like I want a telemarketing job.”

Thank god he showed his true colours before I wasted time giving him my hard earned money, & he charges a lot more than other techies I’ve hired in the past.