Reviews Of Freelancers

Nancy Birnbaum
Pompano Beach, Florida
cruisingeditor@gmail.com

Nancy responded to our hiring ad on LinkedIn seeking an excellent editor.

When asked to fill out our simple application, she already made a mistake saying she found our hiring ad on Craig’s List, not on LinkedIn.

The minute people make stupid mistakes (very simple ones) during the screening process, we know this isn’t going to work out, so we always tell the applicants we can’t continue.

Nancy didn’t like it when I told her she was no longer going to be in the running. In fact she didn’t even understand that she was out. I had to state it 2 times in 2 different ways.

She also didn’t apologize for her mistake & you’ll find out why in a minute. In my opinion, Nancy is your classic C level worker. The one who blames others for their mistakes or doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with making mistakes.

While I agree everyone is human & makes mistakes the odd time, we are looking for people who are A+ workers & who rarely make mistakes. I’m that way & so is my assistant. We are lucky if we make 4-8 mistakes a year.

This girl Nancy is supposed to be an editor which means SHE should have even MORE attention to detail than the rest of us, but I guess that’s not what Nancy thinks an editor should have as a skillset.

I had told Nancy I was sick, but Nancy just couldn’t accept that we didn’t want to continue screening her as a potential editor, so she had to put me down by commenting on my wording when clearly I’m not feeling well which means my brain isn’t working 100%…

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“If you are expecting perfection, don’t hold your breath. Personally, I’d be weary of anyone who claimed they were perfect or didn’t show you that they are human, after all. But now I can see why you are in need of an editor. English isn’t your first language, is it?

“I turned sick yesterday & still am.”

Why don’t you save yourself any future concerns and just go ahead and pull me out of the pool.

Life is too short to waste anyone’s time, especially mine!

Good luck, anyway.

-Nancy (already an accomplished writer and Edider!!) ”

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I guess she also didn’t read in the hiring ad…

“If you are emotionally dysfunctional, please do NOT respond. We are looking for people who are easy to work with & happy & friendly.”

Nancy had been pulled from the pool 2-3 e-mails prior & clearly in my opinion she isn’t emotionally well & able to accept that she made a mistake.

I find that people who make a lot of mistakes always use the excuse… “I’m human”. They never admit they made the mistake, NEVER apologize, never try to convince the manager or boss they will do better, give me another chance, they just avoid taking any responsibility at all.

Even if Nancy hadn’t made that mistake, I’m sure by the time she got to our next level of screening she would have run away since we make it VERY clear we only hire mature people who take responsibility for their actions.

Michelle

Kimberly Hunsaker
khunsaker@comcast.net
Arlington Heights, Illinois

Yahoo IM – kimby0501

http://www.linkedin.com/in/khunsaker

So Kimberly responded to our hiring ad on Elance looking for a bookkeeper.

At first I thought things were fine with her, but after reading her answers to our pre-screening questions, I knew right away she wasn’t suited for our company. We require new team members to invest 5 hours of their time to prove to us they can work with us, be professional, & are really skilled at their job. She refused.

We don’t pay for e-mail conversations & I think she had a problem with that too.

There was one other question she was asked that proved to me that she wants to get every penny out of the company & she doesn’t feel she should only get paid for work done. We only pay for work done.

I told her nicely via IM that I didn’t feel she was suited for our company, she was pleasant about it & I thought that was the end of it until out of the blue the following night in the wee hours of the morning she IMed me this…

“You prefer a different style … what the style where people work for you for free?  You are so unprofessional.  I see no good karma coming your way.”

I had declined her on Elance, & I guess she didn’t like that I picked one of Elance’s generic “prefer another style” decline options. I felt that was a safe option to pick & I was trying to be nice, but I guess being nice to Kimberly doesn’t work.

Kimberly, I don’t think you quite know what Karma means. I’m a spiritually conscious person & you have not used it in the right context. To claim we are unprofessional when I was very respectful to you the entire time is clearly a lie, but I understand that you feel you need to lash out at me because you can’t handle rejection.

What you just said is actually a positive thing for me. It proves to me that our screening process works. It saved me a lot of time making a mistake in hiring you.

I feel your words & actions to be immature & very disrespectful.

I wish you would have just let it go, you can’t go around talking to bosses like that just because you don’t see them face to face. You were warned that abusing anyone at this company means you will go on this blog & you clearly couldn’t contain yourself.

Being nasty won’t get you what you want in life Kimberly. I hope one day you learn that.

Michelle