I'm losing my mind. Another rant/moral question for you (about freelancers this time)
I'm also posting this because this presents an issue which has been bugging me for over a year now, and someone needs to call on it.
So, here's what happened:
I posted a job on a freelance site.
I hired what appeared to be the best man for the job. He was very confident, and more than suitably skilled, with lots of good feedback.
The job was literally a 2 hr job for a script rework, and was $50 for completion.
So, to cut a long story short, the guy spends the next 5 days emailing me back and forth, asking me to test the script to see if it works like I want it to.
Each time, it didn't work anything like I wanted it to.
I've spent over a week emailing, skyping and trying to explain what he's doing wrong, and what I want (despite this being in the job description.)
Today, we finally reached something that resembles what I asked for.
He then says...
"I've spent much longer on this than I'm getting paid for. Don't worry though, I'm commited to providing excellent support which is why my clients give me 4.5 out of 5 or more every time"
OK, I smiled... that's not good. So what if you give good support? I didn't hire you because you spend weeks fixing problems, and I won't be giving you good feedback based on the fact that you spent so long "fixing" your problems.
(I didn't say this to him, I bit my tongue instead...)
Then he said...
"I hope you give me good feedack for all my effort, and maybe a nice bonus reward for all my hard work over this..."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
This time, I didn't bite my tongue. I replied...
"You are joking, right? The only reason it took you a week to do a 2hr job is because you took this job on without understanding it, and didn't create the script to my specifications."
So my question/rant is...
Should we be scared to provide honest feedback to our freelancers/sellers etc?
If you saw my other recent thread, you'll see I have also been threatened with libel for posting an honest review on Amazon.
And now, this guy expects me to give him a great feedback score despite his incompetencies. In fact, I am angry that I've wasted my time with him, and I want others to know what experience I had.
This is not an isolated incident either. I've worked with many freeelancers on freelance sites who EXPECT a positive feedback regardless of their work... and if you don't provide it, they say "why did you give me less than 5 stars? I provided you with support and made changes as you requested...?"
They're missing the point aren't they?
I provide feedback on more than just your service and communication. I provide feedback on the overall experience. And if that experience happens to require me spending hours explaining the job, sending back revisions due to poor work, or generally not getting what I paid for, then I'm sorry... but you're gonna get a review that reflects that.
I think if this trend continues, then reviews and profiles will become redundant in these marketplaces, as they stand for nothing and only exist through social compliance, and in some cases like my own, through direct bullying and intimidation.
P.S - It's not just Amazon and freelance sites either. The same thing is rife in marketing forums and in the IM community. Luckily, the Warrior Review Forum doesn't suffer such dictation... yet.
What do you think?
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