Odesk Minimum Wage now 3.00/hr contracts

[loyolabenson]

https://support.odesk.com/entries/23144628


Workarounds:

1. pre-existing contracts are grand-fathered in.
2. Fixed-Price Jobs (keep in mind screenshots wont be available)
3. Get the hell off odesk. Anyone have suggestions?

I'm all for paying skilled employees. But not all jobs require skills.

 

[tangy]

https://support.odesk.com/entries/23144628


Workarounds:

1. pre-existing contracts are grand-fathered in.
2. Fixed-Price Jobs (keep in mind screenshots wont be available)
3. Get the hell off odesk. Anyone have suggestions?

I'm all for paying skilled employees. But not all jobs require skills.

You've been on here since May 2007 and you can't afford to pay your task workers $3 an hour?

Shit.

 

[KennyPowers]

You've been on here since May 2007 and you can't afford to pay your task workers $3 an hour?

Shit.

That's not the problem. The problem is that there's a lot of work that should be done for less. For example: data entry jobs. It doesn't take a genius to enter data. Not a big deal for someone that hires a guy every once in awhile, but if you have a team of 100 people, your employee expense just went up a lot.

 

[loyolabenson]

You've been on here since May 2007 and you can't afford to pay your task workers $3 an hour?

!@#$%^&*.

You've been here since 2008 and can't fucking read?

 

[loyolabenson]

That's not the problem. The problem is that there's a lot of work that should be done for less. For example: data entry jobs. It doesn't take a genius to enter data. Not a big deal for someone that hires a guy every once in awhile, but if you have a team of 100 people, your employee expense just went up a lot.

Kenny Powers gets it.

 

[acidie]

You've been here since 2008 and can't fucking read?

No dog in this fight, but...

Just wondering why you censored the word shit but wrote the word fuck?

 

[loyolabenson]

No dog in this fight, but...

Just wondering why you censored the word !@#$%^&* but wrote the word !@#$%^&*?

I have a 2 kids. My browser has a swear filter. But my personal typing is unfiltered.

 

[acidie]

I have a 2 kids. My browser has a swear filter. But my personal typing is unfiltered.

Fuck, that would get fucking annoying and fucking make it fucking hard to fucking read shit on fucking wickedfire then.

Especially since it doesn't distinguish between shit and fuck, they both censor to !@#$%^&*

 

[mpbiz]

I just had to cut half of my workforce and won't be able to take the jet to Cancun for xmas anymore.

 

[WickedCool]

The should stay out of it. However more of a reason to go fix rate on everything .

 

[SirKonstantine]

Their only raising prices cuz they get a 10% cut. Fuckers.

 

[acidie]

Their only raising prices cuz they get a 10% cut. Fuckers.

It wouldn't surprise me if the majority of their revenue comes from low per hour rates. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc.

 

[Kiopa_Matt]

I just had to cut half of my workforce and won't be able to take the jet to Cancun for xmas anymore.

Thanks for the pink slip, asshole.

 

[contract]

Fiver $0.50 increase.

Odesk $3/hr minimum.

 

[King.]

Why even bother working through odesk/elance and pay extra fees? Use those sites only to find freelancers. Once you've found someone good you can skip the sites and ask the freelancer to give you an invoice monthly/weekly for the hours worked and then you can directly paypal/wire them the money.

 

[golan]

This thread delivers. Fucking shit.


:1orglaugh:


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[JarredLv]

Thank Christ net neutrality is coming so we can stop this madness.

 

[xdemi]

Fiver $0.50 increase.

Odesk $3/hr minimum.

inb4 Philippines riot and get minimum wage increase...

also lol @ tag, I think you got the wrong thread!

 

[intent]

I think Odesk has lot of Indian companies or you can say Asian companies which can get things done more cheaply then which can be done in US, UK Australia etc.

Dem insightz.

 

[KennyPowers]

I just had to cut half of my workforce and won't be able to take the jet to Cancun for xmas anymore.

I feel you man - I'm currently in a similar situation. Had to cut half the workforce, which meant that I also had to cut half my spending. Hence I went from double layered toilet paper to single layered toilet paper. Now every time I take a shit, I sit there with the fear that my next wipe might be the wipe that makes the toilet paper rip, exposing me to direct contact between hand and shit. An all around shitty situation.