Reviews Of Freelancers

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