Funny stories during your time as a freelancer

taffy Level 1

April 1, 2017, 6:34 pm

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Funny stories during your time as a freelancer

I have been writing for several years now. I have encountered many different people that have been my clients. My funniest story ever was when I was hired by a guy from India to do 10 articles for him. After I sent him the first 3, he responded back, asking to cancel my order. He said I did not sound native. I have lived in the US all my life and English is my only language. Yet when he responded, his English was very broken up. How could someone with broken English determine what a true US native sounds like? It just struck me as odd. I told him we could cancel, however, he would still owe me for the 3 articles. He did pay me for them, and in the end we parted ways. He must have found someone else that sounded more native then me.

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centurion

centurion

Hello Taffy
Have a wonderful day.

I live near to India. State-Joy Bangla. Country-Bangladesh. The Indian guy native language is hindi. Its really funny that he had insulted native USA citizen about native language. I have been working with huge USA client for the last 15 years-small or big budget project- no body had said me that I am not understanding your language. You know English is not native language for me and I shall do some mistake and I know you are not a Bangla citizen and you will get some trouble and I have to solve those. Its a matter of freelancing professionalism. May be that Indian guy was not professional. So do not get hurt about that guy behavior. Wish you all the best.

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Centurion

8 years ago

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Judas2018

Judas2018

My funniest stories of being a freelancer would be when I get orders from people or messages from people who ask me to do things that aren't listed as part of the services I offer. I could have 6 or 7 services listed on freelancing sites, but always like twice a week I get messages from people who want jobs completed that aren't anywhere close to the tasks I offer to complete. I always politely decline their requests.

7 years ago

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Corzhens

Corzhens

I don’t know if this can be considered funny. In one forum that I had been going for a long time, I received a private message from an admin. The message is about the rules of posting that I should mind the length and quality. That confused me because for all I know, my posts are all quality and even appreciated by the owner. After a few hours, I received another message and this time it is from the forum owner. He apologized for the mistake of his admin. Oh well? I didn’t know if I would laugh or what.

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jaymish3

jaymish3

I'm shocked you were paid, because at first your story sounded like you were being scammed. I've also had the same happen to me. People find the weirdest reasons ever, to reject you. My guess would be that you were expensive and he found someone willing to write the articles on the cheap. I f you had offered to write them all for a dollar, he would have certified you native,even if your articles had broken English. Lol!

7 years ago

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Kakashi2020

Kakashi2020

Early this year there's this Russian who wanted me to write some articles on his site. I did 8 short Articles and in broken English he told me that, in his own words:

"English not good, articles not understand, pay sent some, stop write."

It seems the fella didn't understand the articles I've written and wants me to stop writing and posting. I got paid for only 4 of the 8 articles. I thought that it was okay since they're all short ones about 200 words per article at $3 per article. Then I started goofing around and edited all articles according to the pattern of his writing so it looks like this..."night come, feel cold air, yearning love, missing you." He liked it and said "very good English" and he paid for all edited articles and ordered 10 more. I think I laugh for 10 minutes when I received his message.

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Kakashi2020

Kakashi2020

Early I'm my freelancing career I was doing jobs for two sites and sometimes I get confused and would email one site thinking it was the other site. And of course addressing the admin of the wrong site, the admin would reply asking me if I was okay. And I would simply reply back with a stressed out emoji and he would reply with a laughing emoji. I was doing 12-16 hour freelancing work then and I was really well confused at that time.

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Kakashi2020

Kakashi2020

One time I was doing two jobs and both where articles I have to submit on the same night. I was running out of time, nearing deadline and suddenly no internet, in desperation I yelled "What else could go wrong?" Then came the power outage. I just nodded my head and laugh.

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