Meeting with Odesk

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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Be careful of a thief - oDesk (Nov 9, 2012)

Just like a dog won't give up chasing his bones,oDesk won't give up my ID - oDesk once again suspended me in order to force me to submit my ID, and on their web, they claimed that ID verification is "optional". I don't understand why the heck oDesk is so much obsessed with my privacy.

If my hard work and profile is my private property, then oDesk simply transpass over and over whenever they want - oDesk is locking my door to force me to turn in my ID to them. Sounds familiar? Yes, as seen in those movies, gangsters point their guns to your head to force you to turn in your money.

I really think oDesk is actually a business from North Korea or Mexico !

When oDesk once again tried to manipulate its providers, it successfully turned itself from a Platform into a Pimp. Odesk probably has a motto that they are nothing but slave owner, dog owner, pimp, bummer, blood sucker.

Just to give you a quick recap. oDesk once suspended me for 7 months, with an excuse to verify my NAME by forcing me to provide photo ID, address, date of birth. Far earlier than that, my profile sometimes was secretely burried from search, job invitations secretly went directly to archives, messages never arrived at personal email. etc.

Due to my fight with oDesk, it set me free a few months ago without any compensation to my loss of time and income. It also means, during my suspension, someone else was getting something. As if it is not unfair enough, oDesk changed its ranking system to something called "dynamic" which made all my previous rankings become nothing, and I was top xx provider before that !

Now what excuse did oDesk use this time? "inconsistent IP", and I told oDesk a million times that I was travelling but those bums at oDesk probably never travel nor believe any providers should travel.

As a senior victim fucked by oDesk, let me tell you the traps set by oDesk:

1. If you submit your ID, you can only work at one location, otherwise, oDesk will suspend you for "inconsistent IP". You can't work during travel.

2. If you submit your ID, some unethical bum out of nowhere will get that information and you will be a victim of identity theft.

3. If you submit your ID, oDesk patchs a hole in your wallet. Remember they check every of your single message of work, and they know your online payment information.

4. If you submit your ID, this doesn't have anything to do with solution to inconsistent IP !! In a word, oDesk just wants to simply either suspend you or get your privacy.

5. If you submit your ID, last but not least,oDesk have all your privacy.In some pathetic country, provdiers there have only 1 type of ID for everthing.
More and more theft reported in news. Someone's bank was withrawed from abroad.

But, if you are not famous, not in someone's way, you don't have to worry for a while, because I was suspended by oDesk each time when my business boomed and I got lots of projects !  I not only was forced to drop future projects, but the current ongoing projects!


I'm not the only person who had bad experiences with oDesk. There are buyers as well as providers fucked by oDesk. If you are a lawyer or reporter who is interested in our pathetic case with oDesk, please contact me. :)

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