Reviews Of Freelancers

Doug Haines
Winona Lake, Indiana
dhaines@bluevisiongraphics.com
www.bluevisiongraphics.com
www.WebNutty.com

In my opinion, Doug is another one of those nasty graphic web designers that feels the COMPANY should bow down to him instead of him behaving like a mature adult who actually cares about the companies he works for.

He contacted us via our hiring ad on www.guru.com looking for a graphic web designer. We asked him to fill out our company application as is a normal practice with professional companies who screen ALL team members before contemplating whether to hire them.

Instead of Doug Haines reading it over & following the simple instructions, he just filled out the easiest part (a sign of laziness & disrespect).

Very nicely I told him we can no longer consider him because he didn’t read over the application & follow the instructions (all true of course) & I even wished him all the best.

Instead of apologizing to me & wishing me all the best, his very rude response that shows he DOESN’T take responsibility for his actions, instead he opted to blame me for his mistake was:

“Sorry. Your elaborate scheme isn’t worth the trouble. We are on a time
clock and little tricks like the one you are playing don’t work. We would
not have a 5* rating on GURU.com if we didn’t provide our clients with 100%
satisfaction on a timely basis. We have never had a dissatisfied customer.

We would probably not enjoy working with a group as anal retentive as yours
anyway.

Good luck. I’m sure you will find a developer that is just like yourself,
filled with miss-placed focus.”

So I guess according to Doug Haines online companies who behave like REAL companies is a low handed “scheme” & the people who decided to ask potential applicants to fill out an application are anal retentive.

He further puts other graphic web designers down who can actually read & follow instructions.

I went to go look at his reviews from Guru & found that while he had some really good ones, a lot of the companies who hired him gave him no feedback at all & I think a lot of the great feedback (or most of it) was from over a year ago.

Perhaps these companies didn’t want to receive the wrath of Doug Haines, because being upfront & honest doesn’t go over too well with Doug. My god, can you imagine if he actually worked for an offline company, I would be scared to be his manager, he would probably go postal if he was repremended for something he did wrong.