Did you encounter problems with Microworkers Employer?

Switzerland
July 11, 2009 12:47pm CST
Who are the employers I am talking to? They are those people or individual who gives a worker a task to be done in certain minutes. I am not really a new member and I have experienced many weird things with employers who display their tasks. Some tasks are not detailed and not clearly explained on what to do. Some tasks looks very easy but later on, you will be marked as usatisfied. That is the reason why I write this post because I wanted to know whether you also experienced the same. I was first marked by a red x which is unsatisfied by an employer who asked me to Digg his post in a particular website. He asked me to digg two post in that website. I successfully finished the task and I can say, I made it really perfect. Only one minute, he rated me not satisfied my my work. His comment was written in the email saying that I forgot to digg the second article. I immediately checked the article he is saying and I even leave a comment. I was a long time member to that website is saying so there is no point that I will see and checked if I have done his task as successful or not. I can say that I really made the task successful because the digg was changed to dugg. It means, I already clicked the button he is asking me click. Therefore, it was really successful. I immediately send a message to the admin of microworkers why I was marked with unsatisfied while I am 100 sure, I finished the task. They send me back a reply after few hours and they told me that the employer is apologizing for mistake. He really made mistake to marked me with unsatisfied. Therefore, he is asking microworkers to pay me on his behalf. Only, I can get that small ten cents from the company once I can make a payout and I have to make a note that I must get that ten cents from a mistake by employer. I thought that was the last and I will never experience it again. Just today, I have seen few task and I immediately accept the job because there were limited spots left before the task will be stop by the admin. I am 100 sure that I made the task successful. However, because I was marked with unsatisfied again, I report to the admin and ask why I was marked unsuccessful. I said all my explanation with the employers comment. I am still waiting for the response from the admin. To make a task needs only few minutes but to be dedicated to your work earning small income like online jobs is not as easy as what other people think. We earn small amount from here because we want to have enough to pay our bills. We want to have something that we can say, we worked hard for it. Anyways, did anyone of you experienced the same situation, or is there any situation that happened to you wherein who are also marked as unsatisfied?Or did you get any red flag? I have not gained any red flag. Thank you for readinf this post. have a nice day. happy mylotting Keep posting. Jeff
1 response
@echomonster (2226)
• Greenwood, Mississippi
11 Jul 09
I haven't had any work marked unsatisfied on Microworkers yet, but I have had a few HITs rejected unjustifiably on Mechanical Turk, a similar site. I've always thought those employers were trying to cheat me, and I think this may be what is happening to you also. A few cents may not seem like a lot on the surface, but if the employers reject many people they can save a lot of money. Obviously, you did the right thing in this instance and I guess it worked out OK (I don't know why you have to wait till you reach payout for the ten cents, though...couldn't he have just set up another task for you and paid you that way?).