So, finally I paid a visit to odesk's headquarter - redwood city, california, a very small town full of seniors. Before that, I was like other international providers in some other country so that I couldn't do anything while being bullied by odesk staff.
All the trouble makers are only from this so called Market Quality department. The new leader is a russian female, and after she greet me, as if she couldn't make any decisions at this department, she asked her other lower level managers - Crystal (female asian pacific islander) and Katy (female Chinese who can read speak write chinese) to talk with me. As if I'm begging these two people to set me free, these 2 managers talked like everyone's boss. "If you wanna use our site, you have to...." "now listen to me...." "we need to know where the money goes" They think they are IRS because they need to know where the money goes. And of course, there is payment verification at odesk the first time you got your payout, so what do they mean they need to know where the money goes, as if they didn't verify payment information?
After busy finding all excuses for suspending me, they finally happily justified their bullying behavior by claiming I "spamed" all my clients by sending my clients messages explaining what was going on at odesk. They said they could offer me alternate identity verification (while I'm physically sitting in front of them) through facebook or linkedin. I almost believed their conscience, and after I showed them my facebook account, the asian pacific islander said only after 4 hours a link had to be sent to my email when I can start the verification and I need to pass a test provided by odesk to be successfully verified and I need to have lots of facebook friends, and job history, if I have linkedin, they need to access my connections.
Here you go, once again odesk wants to pry into your privacy!
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