Re:Why you should never use Upwork
by akio on Sunday October 23, 2016 @03:05PM
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Your clients are not your bosses though, they are your clients. In your traditional office environment, for example, it would be unusual for the business's clients to require visibility of the business's computers.
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In my particular area of work (programmer to hire by hour) the differences between a boss and a client are neglible.
Does your boss stand behind your back every moment of your work day?
No, but for example in my last office job the 3 company founders tended to be walking along the main hallway of the office a lot for various reasons, and my desk was behind a glass wall along that hallway, and in one gig i was in an open plan office where people were moving around me and everyone else all the time.
You are very accepting of severe authority and surveillance
Working in an open-plan office where people expect that it looks like you are working is "very accepting of surveillance"?
Welcome to Germany.
On a more serious note: No, i am not. Only in my work life.
I'm from Germany too and as far as I can tell this isn't the truth for every company here. When I find clients/employers behave like that, I warn them and then I quit. This is what everyone should do. If you accept such horrendous conditions it's your fault people begin to think this is "normal".
You're quite privileged.
Maybe, I don't know.
But, I lived in these conditions the past. One day I said to myself, I don't want this anymore, and quit.
What is preventing you to change your life for the better? :)
As i said in my post, i don't mind having upwork's program send 6 screenshots an hour from my work machine while i'm working, because it keeps me from being hassled by nontechnical clients who're otherwise fine people to work with.
So i guess the only thing keeping me from making things even better than they already are is finding technical clients with Perl work that pay on the level of ~100$/h.
Hm okay, if it works for you. It's just sad that it perpetuates the idea that this kind of stuff is okay.
I had problems with non-technical clients as well. What helped me was calling them 2-5 times a week, depending on how insecure they feel.
That would be utterly horrible to me and i couldn't stand it at all.