{"id":2735,"date":"2013-09-05T18:30:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T23:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/?p=2735"},"modified":"2013-12-30T15:07:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T21:07:24","slug":"freelancing-heck-part-deux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/?p=2735","title":{"rendered":"Freelancing Heck, Part Deux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have editorial and design spots opened up in late September and all of October, if anyone wants &#8217;em. I&#8217;ll even knock 10% off if they&#8217;re booked before Monday. Check the Freelancing&#8211;>Schedule, then use the contact form if you&#8217;re interested.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSince the freelancing site I&#8217;ve been using has decided to repeatedly send the same &#8220;We can&#8217;t help without more information&#8221; despite my explanations and more information&#8230; AND apparently the cancellation will sit there until I can log in (I&#8217;m going to try logging in through the library) I&#8217;m past frustrated and I&#8217;ve headed straight into outright anger.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not the only person that this has happened to, apparently. I&#8217;ve talked to a few people who worked on small contracts and when they finally land a bigger one, suddenly they can&#8217;t log in. Nothing so drastic as the pages not even loading as I&#8217;m experiencing, but similar. The one thing we all have in common, is that we are free members, rather than paid members.<\/p>\n<p>So if a site like this treats free members the way it does, why in the hell would we bust out $20+ a month (or more, depending on package choice) to &#8220;supposedly&#8221; get better access, better contracts, etc.? I mean, what&#8217;s to stop them from letting it all flow well until six months down the road (again) and I land a big contract, only to be locked out again.<\/p>\n<p>Would I have to pay up to get a better account, to get better access?<\/p>\n<p>Bait and freaking switch. And there&#8217;s a client out there who is really pissed right now and I can&#8217;t blame him. I can&#8217;t even contact him because I don&#8217;t have a name to search with &#8211; just a user name. He has my name, and access to my user profile (which has info on it, that I think he can see), so if he sees this, rr please use the contact form to get in touch with me. I can&#8217;t even log on to release the contract, and I&#8217;ve asked the support desk, but they&#8217;re being less than helpful. I hope they&#8217;ve processed that part of my request anyway, and just didn&#8217;t mention it.<\/p>\n<p>This does make me think twice about ever using that site again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>*sigh*<\/p>\n<p>JL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have editorial and design spots opened up in late September and all of October, if anyone wants &#8217;em. I&#8217;ll even knock 10% off if they&#8217;re booked before Monday. Check the Freelancing&#8211;>Schedule, then use the contact form if you&#8217;re interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[871,1707,1,870,799,2,8],"tags":[1537,1525,1293,1535,1534,1536],"class_list":["post-2735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-freelance-2","category-general-pondering-on-writing","category-headline","category-miscellania","category-projects-news","category-snark","tag-client-in-limbo","tag-elance","tag-freelancing","tag-support-useless","tag-trouble","tag-unable-to-log-in"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3124,"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions\/3124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}